Muhammad Hamad Alizai
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the SBA School of Science and Engineering, LUMS. My research interests are in mobile applications, internet of things, sensor networks, and pervasive computing. I am particularly interested in applications, protocols, architectures, and evaluation tools for future pervasive computing systems and networks. I try to objectify my research interests at SysNet.
Contact:
9-G09A, Department of Computer Science
SBASSE, LUMS, DHA, 54792 Lahore
hamad.alizai "at" lums edu pk
+92 42 35608479, internal ext: 8479
News
- Research grant titled "RelaxCom" accepted by HEC for funding until June 2019
- Invited to the TPC of IEEE ICCCN
- Our SysNet lab gets mentioned by ICTRDF as one of the few IoT initiatives in Pakistan
- Poster on Intermittent Computing at SenSys 2016
- Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer... in collaboration with folks from Polimi accepted in prestigious ACM TOSN
- Simulating Intermittently Powered Embedded Networks accepted at ACM EWSN 2016
- Research grant proposal titled "iCompute" accepted by DAAD for three-years funding 2016
- Invited talk on Laser-WSN at COMSYS, RWTH Aachen University, 2015
- Sensor with Lasers accepted at ACM IPSN 2014
Research Projects - past and present (details here)
iCompute (2016 - ): Computing paradigms for transiently powered devices (details soon)
SODAC (2016 - ): Software defined air conditinoing in older buildings using legacy devices (deails soon)
RelaxCom: (2015 - ) Error-tolerant protocols for wireless networks
Lamp (2013 - ): Building a wireless power grid for IoTs
Wireless Links Diversity (2007 - 2012): Characterizing the behavior of low power wireless links
TinyWifi (2011 - 2013): Integrated protocol evaluation for multi-hop wireless networks
TimeTOSSIM (2006 - 2008): Time-accurate simulation of sensornet applications
Dynamic TinyOS (2008 - 2010): Modular and transparent incremental code updates for sensornets
Teaching (Recent Courses)
CS 570 - Advanced Operating Systems (Spring 2017)
CS 677 - Internet of Things (Fall 2016)
CS 200 - Computer Programming (Spring 2016)
CS 582 Distributed Systems (Fall 2015)
Potential Students
I always have thesis topics available for graduate and under graduate students. I prefer students who have participated in my lectures and labs. Please contact me in person for thesis, internships and PhD studies.
Selected Publications (Complete list also available on Google Scholar)
Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer in Sensor Network Applications: Concepts and Experiences
Bhatti N, Alizai M.H, Syed A, Mottola L
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2016Recycling Corrupt Packets over Multiple Hops (Acceptance Rate: 21.5%)
Alizai M.H, Khattak M.M, Han D, Gnawali O, Syed A
EWSN, Porto, Portugal, 2015Sensors with Lasers: Building a WSN PowerGrid (Acceptance Rate: 20%)
Bhatti N, Syed A, Alizai M.H
ACM IPSN, Berlin, Germany, 2014Probabilistic Addressing: Stable Addresses in Unstable Wireless Networks (Acceptance Rate: 17%)
Alizai M.H, Vaegs T, Landsiedel O, Goetz S, Bitsch Link JA, Wehrle K
ACM IPSN, Chicago, IL, 2011Refector: Heuristic Header Error Recovery for Error-Tolerant Transmissions (Acceptance Rate: 18%)
Schmidt F, Alizai M.H., Aktas I, Wehrle K
ACM CoNEXT, Tokyo, Japan, 2011KleeNet: Discovering Insidious Interaction Bugs in Wireless Sensor Networks Before Deployment (Acceptance Rate: 17%)
Sasnauskas R, Landsiedel O, Alizai M.H,Weise C, Kowalewski S, Wehrle K
ACM IPSN, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010Bursty Traffic over Bursty Links (Acceptance Rate: 17%)
Alizai M.H, Landsiedel O, Bitsch Link JA, Goetz S, Wehrle K
ACM Sensys , Berkeley, California, 2009When Timing Matters: Enabling Time Accurate and Scalable Simulation of Sensor Network Applications (Acceptance Rate: 23%)
Landsiedel O, Alizai M.H, Wehrle K
ACM IPSN, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2008