Muhammad Hamad Alizai
Assistant Professor of Computer Science @ LUMS
Research Interests: Systems and Networks - IoT, CPS, WSN, ICT4D
Contact: 9-G09A, Department of Computer Science
SBA School of Science and Engineering, LUMS.
DHA, 54792 , Lahore, Pakistan
hamad.alizai "at" lums edu pk, +92 42 3560-8479Recent News
- Our work on interleaving multiple wireless stacks on a single radio to appear at CoNEXT 2018
- Serving ACM/IEEE IPSN 2019 and ACM BuildSys 2018 as TPC member
- Co-chair of Demos at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2019
- Co-organizing CPSWEEK'18 tutorial on transiently powered computing
- People's Choice Award for Inverted HVAC at ACM BuildSys 2017
- Co-organizing doctoral school on Transiently Powered Computing, co-located with SenSys 2017
- Publicity co-chair of IPSN'18, consider submitting your best papers!
- Research grant titled "RelaxCom" accepted by HEC for funding until June 2019
- Our SysNet lab gets mentioned by ICTRDF as one of the few IoT initiatives in Pakistan
- Research grant proposal titled "iCompute" accepted by DAAD for three-years funding
Research Interests
In general, I research distributed systems. My current research focuses on providing energy efficient system and networking support for networked embedded systems to build novel IoT applications.Selected Recent Publications (Complete list, also available on Google Scholar with citation statistics)
Scylla: Interleaving Multiple IoT Stacks on a Single Radio (Acceptance Rate: 17%)
Iqbal H, Alizai M.H, Qazi I.A, Lansiedel O, Uzmi Z.A,
ACM CoNEXT, Heraklion, Greece, 2018Inverted HVAC: Greenifying Older Buildings, One Room at a Time
Abbas S, Bakar A, Chandio Y, Hafeez K, Ali A, Jadoon T, Alizai M.H.
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2018Networking Wireless Energy in Embedded Networks
Chandio Y, Bitsch J. A, Syed A, Alizai M.H.
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2018Inverting HVAC for Enegy Efficient Thermal Comfort in Populous Emerging Countries
(Acceptance Rate: 31%)
Hafeez K, Chandio Y, Bakar A, Ali A, Syed A, Jadoon T.M, Alizai M.H,
ACM BuildSys, Delft, The Netherlands, 2017. People's Choice AwardEnergy 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/IEEE 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/IEEE 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/IEEE 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/IEEE IPSN, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2008Teaching (Recent Courses)
CS 570 - Advanced Operating Systems (Spring 2017, 2018)
CS 677 - Internet of Things (Fall 2016, 2017, 2018)
Potential Students
Almost always I have open thesis topics 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.