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o Our work on workload adaptive flow scheduling has been accepted at ACM CoNEXT 2018

o Our work on enabling multiple IoT stacks on a single radio has been accepted at ACM CoNEXT 2018

o Presented C-Saw at ACM SIGCOMM 2018 in Budapest, Hungary.

o Delighted to receive a Google Faculty Research Award for our work on making the Web faster in developing countries - (https://goo.gl/wsvr1b and https://goo.gl/XLBfsx)

o Delighted to receive a ACM SIGCOMM CCR best paper award for our work on Facebooks Free Basics platform. Our work will be presented at ACM SIGCOMM 2018 in Budapest, Hungary! (https://goo.gl/eJ7opL)

o Our work on incentivizing Internet censorship measurements has been accepted at ACM SIGCOMM 2018. Many congrats to the C-Saw team!

o Attended a mini-workshop and gave a talk on Mobile Web Performance at Google, Seattle, USA (April, 2018)

o Gave a research talk at University of Washington, Seattle, USA (April, 2018)

o Received a grant to establish a research lab on edge computing as part of the National Center in Big Data & Cloud Computing. Looking forward to working on exciting research with my colleagues (and Co-PIs): Dr. Hamad Alizai, Dr. Zafar Qazi, and Dr. Basit Shafiq.

o LUMS wins the bid to establish the first National Center in Big Data & Cloud Computing in Pakistan. The center will comprise 12 labs, hosted in 11 Universities across Pakistan. Looking forward towards making a long-term impact on the research and innovation ecosystem of Pakistan.

o Invited to serve in the TPC of ACM CoNEXT 2018

o Our work on the tradeoffs between ethics and effectiveness in censorship measurements will appear in NSDI 2018 (poster session)

o Our work on online advertising under Internet censorship has been accepted at ACM HotNets 2017!

o Gave a research talk at Netflix, Los Gatos, CA, USA (October, 2017)

o Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure!

o Our recent work on Facebook`s Free Basics program has been accepted in ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 2017

o Received a National ICT R&D (now Ignite) grant on failure resilient datacenters. Thanks Ignite!

o Our work on Facebook`s Free Basics service will appear in ACM SIGMETRICS 2017 (poster session)

o Gave a research talk at MIT, Cambridge, CA, USA (March, 2017)

o Gave a research talk at Harvard University, Cambridge, CA, USA (March, 2017)

o Gave a research talk at Facebook on Understanding Internet Access from the Developing World (March 21, 2017)

o ** We have multiple openings for PhD students interested in Mobile Web/Video, Cellular Networks, ICTD, Cloud Computing, and Online Privacy.

o Awarded a HEC NRPU grant. Thanks HEC!

o Our work on flow scheduling over asymmetric datacenter topologies will appear in NSDI 2017 (poster/demo) session

o Gave a research talk at University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA (Dec 12, 2016).

o Our work on failure resilient load balancing for datacenters has been accepted at IEEE INFOCOM 2017!

o Invited to serve in the TPC of APNet 2017 and APSys 2017

o Our work on redundancy aware network stack has been accepted at ACM HotNets 2016!

o Our paper on service differentiation in high-speed WiFi networks has been accepted at ACM CoNEXT 2016!

o Gave a research talk at CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Sept. 8, 2016). Details are here

o Attended the ACM CoNEXT TPC meeting at CMU, Pittsburgh, USA

o Our work on understanding mobile phone characteristics in developing regions has been accepted at ACM IMC 2016

o Attended the Dagstuhl Seminar on network latency control in datacenters in Germany

o Our work on a low latency transport for datacenters has been accepted in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

o Invited to serve in the TPC of ACM CoNEXT 2016

o Gave a research talk at Facebook, Menlo Park, CA, USA (Dec 11, 2015)

o Gave a research talk at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA (Dec 10, 2015)

o Gave a research talk at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA (Dec 9, 2015)

o Gave a research talk at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA (Nov 20, 2015)

o Attended ACM HotNets in Philadelphia, PA, USA (Nov, 2015)

o Attended ACM IMC 2015 in Tokyo and IEEE Globecom 2015 in San Diego, CA, USA

o Our work on Internet censorship has been accepted in ACM HotNets 2015!

o Attended ACM SIGCOMM 2015 and presented eSDN, an architecture for building smart hosts using SDN controllers

o I was a mentor in the Mentoring Moments at ACM SIGCOMM 2015

o Invited to serve in the TPC of COMSNET 2016

o HEC NRPU research grant on designing high performance cloud datacenters. Thanks HEC!

o Gave talks at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) [VIDEO], Rutgers (USA), Stony Brook (USA), and UPitt (USA)

o Our work on data center transports appeared in ACM SIGCOMM 2014-(First SIGCOMM paper for Pakistan)

o Our work on buffer management in datacenters has been accepted in the poster session of ACM SIGCOMM 2014

o Invited to serve on the TPC of IEEE ICNP 2014

o BLMon team wins the Lahore Startup Weekend 2014. Congratulations!! -- Press: [PASHA, Facebook]

o Our paper on wireless loss differentiation has been accepted in the IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Main Conference!