I am an associate professor in the
Faculty of Computer Science at
Dalhousie University, Halifax,
where, I lead Programmable and Intelligent Networking (PINet) research group.
PINet members specialize in developing cutting-edge, high-performance, secure, and dependable distributed and emerging networking systems, with a specific focus on Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G/6G technologies. I am also interested in applying data-driven approaches (AI/ML/RL) to solve practical and relevant problems.
I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Subsequently, I held an NSERC post-doctoral position at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, before joining Dalhousie University. I regularly get involved in the organizing committee of IEEE ICNP, IEEE CloudNet, IEEE NetSoft, and IFIP Networking. I served as an area editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and am currently an Editor of the Internet of Things Series of the IEEE Communications Magazine (ComMag). I won the ACM/IEEE N2Women Rising Star Award 2021 and Digital Nova Scotia's Thinking Forward Award 2022.
I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Subsequently, I held an NSERC post-doctoral position at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, before joining Dalhousie University. I regularly get involved in the organizing committee of IEEE ICNP, IEEE CloudNet, IEEE NetSoft, and IFIP Networking. I served as an area editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and am currently an Editor of the Internet of Things Series of the IEEE Communications Magazine (ComMag). I won the ACM/IEEE N2Women Rising Star Award 2021 and Digital Nova Scotia's Thinking Forward Award 2022.
News
- April 2024: "P4Hauler: an Accelerator-aware In-network Load Balancer for Applications Performance Boosting" is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (impact factor 6.5). Congratulations, Hesam and Ricardo.
- April 2024: "Calibration and Automation of a 5G Simulator for Realistic Evaluation and Data Generation" is accepted at IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization. Congratulations, Conrado, Papry, and Hasan.
- April 2024: "PoirIoT: Fingerprinting IoT Devices at Tbps Scale" is accepted at IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (impact factor 3.7). Congratulations, Carson.
- March 2024: I received the NSERC Discovery Grant for "FarmPro: programmable and intelligent edge-cloud systems for smart farming." Thank you NSERC.
- March 2024: Our proposal "Mitigating Security Threats in Industrial Cyber Physical Systems using Autonomous Agents" received the FQRNT-NSERC grant. Thank you NSERC and FQRNT.
- Dec 2023: "Learn to Compress (LtC): Efficient Learning-based Streaming Video Analytics" is accepted at IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2024). Congratulations, Mishkat.
- December 2023: I offered an invited talk at 10th International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS 2023).
- September 2023: I will give a keynote at IEEE Workshop on Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems (MINDS).
- June 2023: "Preventing Discriminatory Decision-Making in Evolving Data Streams" received the best paper award at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) (Best paper award). Congratulations, Zichong.
- May 2023: "Offloading Machine Learning to Programmable Data Planes: A Systematic Survey" is accepted at ACM Computing Survey (impact factor 14.3). Congratulations, Ricardo and Alberto.
- April 2023: "Fast Prototyping of Distributed Stream Processing Applications with stream2gym" is accepted at IEEE ICDCS (acceptance rate 18.9%). Congratulations, Monzurul and Miguel.
- April 2023: "On the (dis)Advantages of Programmable NICs for Network Security Services" is accepted at IFIP Networking (acceptance rate 27%). Congratulations, Miguel and Jack.
- Dec 2022: "A Deep Neural Network-based Communication Failure Prediction Scheme in 5G RAN" is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Congratulations, Arif and Hisham.
- Nov 2022: I am honored and delighted to receive the Thinking Forward Award from Nova Scotia tech forward award 2022.
- Oct 2022: "Adaptive Control for Security and Resilience of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems: Where Are We?" is accepted at IEEE TPS.
- Oct 2022: I am the Nova Scotia tech forward awards finalists in the Thinking Forward category.
- Sept 2022: I am going to give a keynote talk (Innovating in Computer Networks One Data-plane Program at a Time) at IEEE LatinCom 2022 .
- Aug 2022: “NetGVT: Offloading Global Virtual Time Computation to Programmable Switches" is accepted at ACM SOSR. Congratulations, Ricardo.
- Aug 2022: Our research proposal, "Making AI inference coordination fast and cheap using switching ASICs," is a finalist in the Network for AI Research competition from Meta.
- Aug 2022: “BlueTiSCH: A Multi-PHY Simulation of Low-Power 6TiSCH IoT Networks" is accepted at IEEE Globecom. Congratulations, Chloe and Lareina.
- June 2022: “Towards Portable End-to-End Network Performance Characterization of SmartNICs" is accepted at ACM APSys. Congratulations, Hesam and Tong.
- April 2022: “Accelerator-Aware In-Network Load Balancing for Improved Application Performance" is accepted at IEEE/IFIP Networking. Congratulations, Hesam and Ricardo.
- Feb 2022: Our research proposal, "Securing home IoT devices at the Terabits per second scale," won the Fast Forward Initiative competition from Intel Research. Thanks, Intel.
- Jan 2022: I am an Editor of the Internet of Things Series of the IEEE Communications Magazine (ComMag). Please submit your work.
- Dec 2021: “IoT Device Fingerprinting on Commodity Switches" is accepted at IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2022. Congratulations, Carson and Miguel.
- Dec 2021: I am in Dal news RISING STAR: AWARD‑WINNING DAL COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCHER FOCUSED ON IMPROVING OUR CONNECTIVITY.
- Nov 2021: I am happy to share that our proposed project, "EDRON: Edge-based object detection at sub-RTT scale," was one of the finalists in the Facebook's research competition.
- July 2021: I am in Dal news Meet the 2021 President’s Research Excellence Award Winners.
- June 2021: I am honored to receive the IEEE/ACM N2Women 2021 Rising Star award.
- June 2021: Another recognition!!!!! The President’s Research Excellence Awards for Emerging Investigators from Dalhousie University.
- May 2021: I received Dean's Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University.
Current Research Project
- I am currently engaged in three distinct sub-projects within my research domain. The first one involves network programmability, with a specific emphasis on creating robust, high-performance systems for cloud and edge computing in IoT applications (e.g., smart home). In the second sub-project, my focus is on developing distributed and networked systems for stream processing applications to meet the demands of mission-critical applications, such as those in maritime and first responder contexts. The final sub-project centers on 5G/6G, delving into root cause analysis, security considerations, and sustainability aspects within the Radio Access Network (RAN). For more detailed information, please refer to the Projects page.
Teaching
Recent Professional Service
Selected Recent Publications (Google Scholar)
- Fast Prototyping of Distributed Stream Processing Applications with stream2gym, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2023.
- On the (dis)Advantages of Programmable NICs for Network Security Services, IEEE/IFIP Networking Conference 2023.
- Preventing Discriminatory Decision-making in Evolving Data Streams, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2023 (best paper award).
- Offloading Machine Learning to Programmable Data Planes: A Systematic Survey, ACM Computing Surveys 2023.
- A Deep Neural Network-based Communication Failure Prediction Scheme in 5G RAN , IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2023.
- BlueTiSCH: A Multi-PHY Simulation of Low-Power 6TiSCH IoT Networks, IEEE GlobeCom 2022.
- NetGVT: Offloading Global Virtual Time Computation to Programmable Switches, ACM SOSR 2022.
- Towards portable end-to-end network performance characterization of SmartNICs, ACM APSys 2022.
- Accelerator-Aware In-Network Load Balancing for Improved Application Performance, IEEE/IFIP Networking 2022.
- IoT Device Fingerprinting on Commodity Switches, IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2022.
- Towards Network-accelerated ML-based Distributed Computer Vision Systems, IEEE ICPADS 2021.
- Characterizing Network Performance on Single-node Large-scale Container Deployments, IEEE CloudNet 2021.
- Development and Testing of an OFDM Physical Layer for the DESERT Simulator, IEEE OCEANS, 2021.
- SoftIoT: A resource-aware SDN/NFV-based IoT network, JNCA, 2021.
- Embedded vs. External Controller in Software-defined IoT Networks, IEEE NetSoft, 2021.
- SafeGuard: Congestion and Memory-aware Failure Recovery in SD-WAN, IFIP/IEEE CNSM, 2020.
- Deep Learning Models for Gesture-controlled Drone Operation, IFIP/IEEE CNSM, 2020.
- An Energy-Aware SDN/NFV Architecture for the Internet of Things, IFIP/IEEE Networking Conference, 2020.
- SD-FAST: A Packet Rerouting Architecture in SDN, IEEE CNSM, 2019.
- Cross-layer Design for Software-Defined Underwater Acoustic Networking, IEEE OCEANS, 2019.
- ReMon: A Resilient Flow Monitoring Framework, IFIP/IEEE Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, 2019.
- PIQoS: A Programmable and Intelligent QoS Framework, IEEE INFOCOM workshop on Network Intelligence, 2019.
- SDSense: An Agile and Flexible SDN based Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Dec 2018.
- Revive: A Reliable Software Defined Data Plane Failure Recovery Scheme, IEEE CNSM Nov, 2018.
- Experimental Evaluation of Two OpenFlow Controllers, IEEE ICNP 2017 Workshop PVE-SDN
- CTCV: Coordinated Transport of Correlated Videos in Smart Camera Networks, ICNP 2016 (best paper award).
- Wireless Software Defined Networks: A Survey and Taxonomy IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 2016
Current Members of PINet
- Khaleda Akter (PhD)
- Emmanuel Etti (PhD)
- Conrado Boeira (PhD)
- Monzurul Amin (PhD)
- Ricardo Parizotto (PhD, with Dr. Schaeffer-Filho, UFRGS, Brazil)
- Carson Kuzniar (PhD)
- Nazmus Sakib Akash (MSc)
- Ghazal Sobhani (MSc, with Dr. Tushar Sharma)
- Chengyan Jiang (MSc)
- Burhanuddin Murtaza Rangwala (MSc)
- Han Yang (MSc)
- Zhang Yue (BSc Honors)
- Gobind Singh (BSc Honors)
Past Members of PINet
- Miguel Neves (Samsung R&D)
- Hesam Tajbakhsh (Huawei R&D)
- Kazi Hasan (Ericsson)
- Mahdi Rabbani (Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity)
- M. Ariful Islam (Yuga)
- Hisham Siddique (IBM)
- Meysam Shojaee (IATA)
- Miheer Kulkarni (BMO)
- Dipon Saha (Cisco)
- Tahajjat Begum (Walmart)
- MA Moyeen (Faculty in Bangaldesh)
- Fangye Tang (SE in China)
- Udaya Lekhala (Google)
- Cindy Yan (IT consultant in China)
Undergraduate students - Pan Gong (Dalhousie University)
- Ava Powelson (Looking for a position)
- Ehssan Mousavipour (University of Calgary)
- Tasneem Hoque (Dalhousie ITS)
- Mirazul Islam (Dalhousie ITS)
- Callum MacNeil (Dalhousie University)
- Hassaan Asif (Dalhousie University)
- Weiye Liang (University of British Columbia)
- Lareina Yang (Dalhousie University)
- Chloe Bae (REDspace)
- Alice Liu (Nova Scotia Govt.)
- Pulkit Garg (Kaloom)
- Carson Kuzniar (Dalhousie University)
- Christophe Goulet-LeBlanc (Quest)
- Syed Babak Lopez (Amazon)
Visitors - Ioanis Nikolaidis (Visiting professor from University of Alberta)
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