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 work in the areas of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) focused on the performance, security, reliability, and sustainability aspects of networked and distributed systems. 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 am actively involved in the organizing committee of IEEE ICNP, IEEE CloudNet, IEEE CNSM, IEEE NetSoft, ACM CAN-CWiC, and IFIP Networking. Furthermore, 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 am actively involved in the organizing committee of IEEE ICNP, IEEE CloudNet, IEEE CNSM, IEEE NetSoft, ACM CAN-CWiC, and IFIP Networking. Furthermore, 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
- 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
- My current research falls into three sub-projects: network programmability, systems for AI and Big Data, and 5G/6G. These projects focus on developing appropriate high-performance, reliable, secure, or sustainable systems. In the first project, I focus on developing systems for emerging IoT applications (e.g., smart homes), whereas the second one develops distributed and networked systems targeting mission-critical applications (e.g., maritime, fast responder). The last project focuses on root cause analysis, security, and sustainability aspects in 5G/6G RAN. Please check Projects for further details.
Teaching
Recent Professional Service
Selected Recent Publications (Google Scholar)
- 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
- Kazi Hasan (Research Assistant - Ericsson)
- Khaleda Akter (PhD)
- Emmanuel Etti (PhD)
- Conrado Boeira (PhD)
- Monzurul Amin (PhD)
- Ricardo Parizotto (PhD, with Dr. Schaeffer-Filho, UFRGS, Brazil)
- Carson Kuzniar (PhD)
- Hesam Tajbakhsh (PhD)
- Ghazal Sobhani (MSc, with Dr. Tushar Sharma)
- Chengyan Jiang (MSc)
- Burhanuddin Murtaza Rangwala (MSc)
- Han Yang (MSc)
- Zhang Yue (BSc Honors)
- Pan Gong (BSc Honors)
Past Members of PINet
- Miguel Neves (Samsung R&D)
Graduate students - 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 - Ava Powelson
- Ehssan Mousavipour (University of Calgary)
- Tasneem Hoque (Looking for a position)
- Mirazul Islam (Looking for a position)
- 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)
- Shreya Gautam (BSc)
- Karmabir Chakraborty (BSc)
- Harsh Kaushik (BSc)