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.
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
- Co-organizing doctoral school on Transiently Powered Computing, co-located with SenSys 2017
- Publicity co-chair of IPSN'18, consider submitting your best papers!
- Our paper on Inverted HVAC for older buildings to appear in ACM BuildSys 2017
- 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
- Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer... in collaboration with folks from Polimi accepted in prestigious ACM TOSN
- Research grant proposal titled "iCompute" accepted by DAAD for three-years funding 2016
Research Projects - past and present (details here)
iCompute (2016 - ): Intermittent computing for transiently powered devices (details soon)
Inverted HVAC (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 Link 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): Incremental code updates for sensornets
Teaching (Recent Courses)
CS 570 - Advanced Operating Systems (Spring 2017)
CS 677 - Internet of Things (Fall 2016, 2017)
Potential Students
I always have thesis topics available for grad and undergrad 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)
Inverting HVAC for Enegy Efficient Thermal Comfort in Populous Emerging Countries
Hafeez K, Chandio Y, Bakar A, Ali A, Syed A, Jadoon T.M, Alizai M.H,
ACM BuildSys, Delft, The Netherlands, 2017Energy 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), 2016Sensors 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