Teaching
14 distinct undergraduate and graduate courses taught or coordinated across Pakistan and Europe.
See teaching highlightsTeaching, Funding & Service
Cultivating curiosity in the classroom while leading research initiatives and serving the broader systems community.
Academic leadership at a glance
A snapshot of the courses I teach, the projects I lead, and the communities I help shape around embedded systems, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things.
Research Funding
Rs. 24+ million in competitive funding to power sustainable IoT, cybersecurity, and human-centric computing.
Explore funded projectsRecognition
International fellowships and best-paper accolades celebrating impact in the embedded systems community.
View awardsMentoring
Guiding Ph.D., M.Sc., and undergraduate researchers toward resilient, human-centered technology solutions.
Meet the menteesTeaching
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2026, 2025 & 2024
Topics in IoT (CS-677) — Graduate seminar style course.
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2025, 2024 & 2023
Operating Systems (CS-370)
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2023
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2023
Computer Organization and Assembly Language (CS-223)
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2023, 2021 & 2020
Object Oriented Programming (CS-210)
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2022
Embedded Systems Security (CyS-367)
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2022
Critical Infrastructure Security (CyS-697)
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2022 & 2021
Research Methodology (CS-692)
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2021
Cyber Security Tool Development (CyS-353)
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2020
Embedded Systems (CS-602)
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2020
Drone and Autonomous Vehicle Security (CS-634)
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2019
Introduction to Computing (CS-156)
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2019
OOP and Data Structures (CS-200)
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2013 – 2011
Teaching Assistant — EE522 Advanced Embedded Systems, FAST-NUCES.
Funding
Cleanify: AI-Based Waste Management
Battery-less IoT for sustainable urban services.
SCYDES: Self Cyber Defense Evaluation System
Automation for cyber ranges and national preparedness.
ReCyP:HER
Human-centered cybersecurity capacity building for Pakistan.
Service to the Community
Peer review, editorial support, and program committee leadership across premier venues.
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2024-2025
Distinguished Reviewers, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIoT).
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2024
Technical Program Committee, ACM ENSsys 2024.
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2022
Reviewer, Elsevier Computers & Security.
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2021
Reviewer, ACM Computing Surveys.
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2020
Reviewer, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
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2019
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT).
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2019
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI).
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2019
TPC Member, IEEE ICPADS 2019.
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2019
TPC Member, Springer AlgoSensor 2019.
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2019
TPC Member, IEEE ISIOT 2019.
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2019
TPC Member, ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2019 Posters & Demos.
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2019 & 2018
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2019
Reviewer, Springer Swarm Intelligence.
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2019
Reviewer, IET Electronic Letters.
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2019, 2018 & 2016
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN).
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2015
Reviewer, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN).
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2015
Reviewer, ACM Internetware 2015.
Awards & Achievements
Recognitions for scholarship, leadership, and community impact.
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2022
Vice Chancellor Commendation Award, Air University — Best Faculty.
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2018
ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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2016
Best Ph.D. Forum Presentation, IPSN 2016.
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2014
Indigenous Ph.D. Scholarship, Politecnico di Milano.
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2013
Gold Medal, FAST-NUCES MSc Class of 2011.
Mentoring & Supervision
Coaching scholars to explore resilient, secure, and human-aware computing.
Ph.D. Researchers
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Muhammad Tahir — LUMS (2024 – 2028, in progress)
Thesis: Privacy-Preserving Smart Glasses
M.Sc. Graduates
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Asra Masood — Air University (2023)
Thesis: FireFlow: Firewall State Synchronization using BGP Flowspec
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Kashif Javed — Air University (2022)
Thesis: MOPTIC-SM: Sleep Mode-enabled Multi-optimized Intermittent Computing for Transiently Powered Systems
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Dragoș Perju — KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2019)
Thesis: Applying Memoization as an Approximation Technique for Transiently Powered Embedded Systems
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Erik Henricus Wouters — KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2019)
Thesis: Securing Intermittent Computing
Undergraduate Capstone Projects
2025
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Abdur-Rahman Ibrahim Sayyid-Ali — LUMS
2024
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Muhammad Abdullah Soomro — LUMS
Approxify: Automating Energy-Accuracy Trade-offs in Batteryless IoT Devices
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Ahmed Najeeb & Abdul Rafay — LUMS
Glitch in Time: Exploiting Temporal Misalignment of IMU for Eavesdropping
2022
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Abdullah Khalid — Air University
VOICE SABER: Attacking Virtual Voice Assistants using Laser
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Afeefa Ahmed & Asima Tahir — Air University
Responsify: PPID Spoofing and Automated Incident Response
2021
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Ans Nadeem & Rabeea Ahmed — Air University
Cleanify: Batteryless Waste Management System
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Arooba Sehar & Kanwal Naz — Air University
Etoile: IoT-based Sustainable Health Monitoring of Livestock
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Minahil Ejaz & Iqra Bibi — Air University
Sustainable Water Flow Monitoring: System Design
2020
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Aizaz Ali & Zubair Bin Hamid — Air University
Smart Parking System for Air University: Design & Deployment
Workshops & Talks
Sharing knowledge through tutorials, guest lectures, and maker-style engagements.
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2018
Tutorial on Transiently Powered Embedded Systems — IPSN 2018, Porto, Portugal.
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2017
Invited talk on Transiently Powered Embedded Systems — RISE-SICS, Stockholm, Sweden.
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2016
Internet of Things Workshop — ComSys Lab, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
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2015
Interactive lecture on Embedded Sensing — Politecnico di Milano (Campus Bovisa).
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2015
Aerial drone showcase — Polifactory, Politecnico di Milano.
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2013
Tutorial labs on TelosB, mbed, and MSP430 platforms — EE522 Advanced Embedded Systems, FAST-NUCES.
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2012
Workshop on Bro NIDS deployment — CS411 Network Security, FAST-NUCES.