Teaching, Funding & Service

Cultivating curiosity in the classroom while leading research initiatives and serving the broader systems community.

2024 Topics in IoT (CS-677)
2023 Operating Systems (CS-370)
2023 Algorithms (CS-310)
2023 Computer Organization and Assembly Language (CS-223)
2023, 2021 and 2020 Object Oriented Programming (CS-210)
2022 Embedded Systems Security (ESS) (CyS-367)
2022 Critical Infrastructure Security (CyS-697)
2022 and 2021 Research Methodolgy (CS-692)
2021 Cyber Security Tool Development (CyS-353)
2020 Embedded System (CS-602)
2020 Drone and Autonomous Vehicle Security (CS-634)
2019 Introduction to Computing (CS-156)
2019 OOP and Data Structures (CS-200)
2013, 2012 and 2011 Teacher Assistant for EE522(Advance Embedded System at FAST-NUCES)

"Cleanify: AI-Based Waste management system using Battery-less IoT devices" NRPU Research Fund. Rs. 9.5/- Million. Role:PI. Awarded: April 2024 - 2026. [Video]
"SCYDES - Self Cyber Defense Evaluation System" NCCS Research Fund. Rs. 14.972/- Million. Role:PI. Awarded: Feb 2021 - 2023. Successful Closure Ceritificate
"ReCyP:HER - Rethinking Cybersecurity in Pakistan Human factors' Essential Role" Erasmus+ Research Fund. Role:Research Associate. Awarded: 2021 -2024

2024 Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of ACM ENSsys 2024
2022 Reviewer Elsevier Computers and Security
2021 Reviewer ACM Computing Survey
2020 Reviewer Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
2019 Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
2019 Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI)
2019 Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of IEEE ICPADS'19 Conference
2019 Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of Springer AlgoSensor'19 Conference
2019 Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of IEEE ISIOT'19 Conference
2019 Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of ACM/IEEE IoTDI'19 Poster/Demo
2019 and 2018 Web and Social Chair of ACM/IEEE IPSN 19 and IPSN 18 conferences
2019 Reviewer Springer Swarm Intelligence
2019 Reviewer IET Electronic Letters
2019, 2018 and 2016 Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
2015 Reviewer International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN)
2015 Reviewer ACM Internetware'15 Conference

2022 Vice Chancellor (Air University) Commendation Award for best faculty
2018 Recipient of a 12 month ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Postdoc fellowship
2016 Best Ph.D. Forum Presentation award in International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2016)
2014 Recipient of a Indigenous Ph.D. Scholarship from the Politecnico di Milano
2013 Recipient of the Gold Medal of MSc graduating class of 2011 (at FAST-NUCES)

Muhammad Tahir (LUMS, Lahore) - In-progress (2024 - 2028)
Thesis title: Privacy-Preserving Smart Glasses

Asra Masood (Air University, Islamabad) - Completed (2023)
Thesis title: FireFlow: Firewall State Sychronization using BGP Flowspec
Kashif Javed (Air University, Islamabad) - Completed (2022)
Thesis title: MOPTIC-SM: Sleep mode-enabled multi-optimized intermittent computing for transiently powered systems
Dragoș Perju (KTH, Sweden) - Completed (2019)
Thesis title: Applying Memoizatition as an Approximation Technique for Transiently-powered Embedded Systems
Erik Henricus Wouters (KTH, Sweden) - Completed (2019)
Thesis title: Securing Intermittent Computing

Abdur-Rahman Ibrahim Sayyid-Ali (LUMS, Lahore) - Completed (2025)
Title: CheckMate: LLM-Powered Approximate Intermittent Computing.
2024
Muhammad Abdullah Soomro (LUMS, Lahore) - Completed (2024)
Title: Approxify: Automating Energy-Accuracy Trade-offs in Batteryless IoT Devices. Poster
Ahmed Najeeb and Abdul Rafay (LUMS, Lahore) - Completed (2024)
Title: Glitch in Time: Exploiting Temporal Misalignment of IMU For Eavesdropping.
2022
Abdullah Khalid (Air University, Islamabad) - Completed (2022)
Title: VOICE SABER: Attacking Virtual Voice Assistants Using laser. Video
Afeefa Ahmed and Asima Tahir (Air University, Islamabad) - Completed (2022)
Title: Investigation Parent Process ID (PPID) spoofing and devising an automated incident response. Poster Video
2021
Ans Nadeem and Rabeea Ahmed (Air University, Islamabad) - Completed (2021)
Title: Cleanify: Batteryless Waste Management System. Video
Arooba Sehar and Kanwal Naz (Air University, Islamabad) - Completed (2021)
Title: Etoile: IoT-based Sustainable Health Monitoring of Livestock. Video
Minahil Ejaz and Iqra Bibi (Air University, Islamabad) - Completed (2021)
Title: IoT-based Sustainable Water Flow Monitoring System. Video
2020
Aizaz Ali and Zubair Bin Hamid (Air University, Islamabad) - Completed (2020)
Title: Smart Parking System for Air University. Video

2018 Tutorial on Transiently-powered Embedded Systems (IPSN 2018, Porto, Portugal)
2017 Talk on Transiently-powered Embedded Systems (RISE-SICS, Stockholm, Sweden)
2016 Internet of things workshop (ComSys lab, RWTH Aachen, Germany)
2015 Interactive lecture on embedded sensing (Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa)
2015 Aerial drone showcase at Polifactory (Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa)
2013 Conducted tutorial labs for TelosB, Mbed and MSP430(Evaluation board) platforms for EE522 (Advance Embedded System at FAST-NUCES)
2012 Conducted workshop on installation and use of Bro NIDS for CS411 (Network Security at FAST-NUCES