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Dr. Ihsan Ayyub QaziContactInformationSBASSE 9-114A Cell: +92 42 3560 8368Department of Computer Science Fax: +92 42 3589 8315Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) E-mail: ihsan.qazi@lums.edu.pk,iqazi@acm.orgD.H.A, Lahore Cantt, 54792, Lahore, Pakistan Webpage: http://web.lums.edu.pk/∼ihsanResearchInterestsMy research interests are in computer networking and distributed systems and span cloud computing anddata centers, wireless networks, network architectures, smart grids, and performance modeling.Education Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2010University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA⋄ Dissertation: “An Efficient Framework of Congestion Control for Next-Generation Networks”⋄ Committee: Craig Partridge, Daniel Mosse, Lachlan Andrew, Rami Melhem, Taieb ZnatiBSc (Honors), Double Major in Computer Science and Mathematics, June 2005Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), PakistanProfessionalExperienceAssistant Professor (October 2011 - Present)Department of Computer ScienceLahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, PakistanPost-doctoral Research Fellow (September 2010 - September 2011)Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA)Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, AustraliaNetwork Research Intern (June 2009 - September 2009)Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) Group, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA⋄ Hosts: Aaron Falk and Christopher Small⋄ Participated in the research and development of GENI, which is a virtual laboratory for exploring futureinternets at scale (link: www.geni.net).Course Instructor (August 2005 - August 2006)Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USATeachingExperienceLUMS⋄ Spring 2012, 2013, & 2014: CS 678 Topics in Internet Research (graduate-level)⋄ Spring 2012, 2013, & 2014: CS 202 Data Structures⋄ Fall 2011, 2012, & 2013: CS 501 Applied Probability (graduate-level)University of Pittsburgh⋄ Course Instructor (Aug 2006 - Dec 2006 & May 2006 - Aug 2006)⋄ CS 0131 Softwares for Personal Computing (taught in two semesters)⋄ Teaching Assistant (Aug 2005 - Apr 2006 & Jan 2007 - Apr 2007)⋄ CS 2520 Wide Area Networks (graduate-level)⋄ CS 0007 Introduction to Computer Programming⋄ CS 0445 Data Structures and Algorithms (taught in two semesters)

PublicationsJournal1) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew, and Taieb Znati. “Congestion control with multi-packetfeedback” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 20(6), pp. 1721-1733, December 2012.2) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati. “On the Design of Load Factor based Congestion ControlProtocols for Next-Generation Networks”. Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier, 55(1), pp. 45-60,2011.Conferences/Workshops1) Syed Mohammad Irteza, Adnan Ahmed, Sana Farrukh, Babar Naveed Memon, and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.“On the Coexistence of Transport Protocols in Data Centers”. in Proceedings of IEEE ICC2014, Sydney, Australia, June 2014 (to appear).2) Ruwaifa Anwar, Kamran Nishat, Mohsin Ali, Zahaib Akhtar, Haseeb Niaz, and Ihsan AyyubQazi. “LossDifferentiation: Moving onto High-Speed Wireless LANs”. in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM2014, Toronto, Canada, April-May 2014 (acceptance rate = 19% - to appear).3) Kamran Nishat, Ruwaifa Anwar, Ahmed Mehfooz, Bilal Zaidi, Haris Choudhary, and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.“On the Effectiveness of High-Speed WLAN Standards for Long Distance Communication”.in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April-May 2014 (poster paper).4) Suong H. Nguyen, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, and Hai Le Vu “Rate Equilibria inWLANs with Block ACKs”. in Proceedings of IEEE LCN 2013, Sydney, Australia, October 2013.5) Shahida Jabeen, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, and Zartash Afzal Uzmi “SplitBuff: Improvingthe Interaction of Heterogeneous RTT Flows on the Internet”. in Proceedings of ICC2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.6) Ali Munir, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, and S. Qaisar. “On Achieving Low Latency in Data Centers”. inProceedings of ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.7) Ali Munir, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Aisha Mushtaq, Saad Naveed Ismail, MuhammadSafdar Iqbal, and Basma Khan. “Minimizing Flow Completion Times in Data Centers”. inProceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, April 2013 (acceptance rate = 17%).8) Zahaib Akhtar, Kamran Nishat, Haseeb Niaz, Ruwaifa Anwar, Mohsin Ali, and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.“BLMon: A Loss Differentiation Scheme for 802.11n”. in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2013,Turin, Italy, April 2013 (poster paper).9) Muhammad Kumail Haider, Asad Khalid Ismail, and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi. “Markovian Models forElectrical Load Prediction in Smart Buildings”. in Proceedings of ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar,Nov 2012.10) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Taieb Znati, and Daniel Mosse. “Improving Performance of Router-AssistedTransport Protocols over Variable Capacity Links”. in Proceedings of ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada,June 2012.11) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Rami Melhem. “Using GENI to Evaluate Congestion Control Protocolsfor Next Generation Networks”. inProceedings of GENI Experimenters Workshop (GEW),PrincetonUniversity, NJ, June 2010.12) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew and Taieb Znati. “Incremental deployment of new ECNcompatiblecongestion control”. in Proceedings of PFLDNeT, Tokyo, Japan, May 2009.13) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew and Taieb Znati. “Congestion Control using Efficient ExplicitFeedback”. in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009 (acceptancerate = 19%).14) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew and Taieb Znati. “Two bits are enough”. in Proceedings of ACMSIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, August 2008 (extended abstract + poster).15) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati. “On the Design of Load Factor based Congestion ControlProtocols for Next-Generation Networks”. in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ,April 2008 (acceptance rate = 20%).

Ph.D. Dissertation16) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi. “An Efficient Framework of Congestion Control for Next-Generation Networks”.Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA, August 2010.Technical Reports/Other Articles17) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Daniel Mosse. “Insights into the Design of Congestion Control Protocolsfor Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks”. Tech. Report TR-09-164, University of Pittsburgh.18) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Pratik Gandhi. “Performance Evaluation of Wireless Network Codingunder Practical Settings”. Tech. Report TR-07-150, University of Pittsburgh.19) Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati. “Sizing of Router Buffers in the presence of Bi-directionalTraffic”. Tech. Report TR-07-149, University of Pittsburgh.Research Funding ⋄ World Bank Grant (Co-PI), “Provision of Technical Advisory and Research Services for Applications ofand Grants ICT and Big Datasets for Governance Reform in Punjab”, Jun 2013 - Sep 2014: PKR 19,857,063⋄ Faculty Startup Grant (PI), LUMS, 2011-2013: PKR 1,600,000⋄ Research Grant (PI), CS Department, LUMS, Nov 2011 - Jun 2012: PKR 240,000⋄ Research Grant (PI), CS Department, LUMS, Dec 2012 - Jun 2013: PKR 122,500⋄ LUMS Faculty Initiative Fund (FIF) Grant (PI), Jan 2013 - Jan 2014: PKR 450,000⋄ Research Grant (PI), CS Department, LUMS, Oct 2013 - Apr 2014: PKR 245,000Thesis CommitteeService⋄ Aadil Zia Khan (PhD, 2012-), Handling Multimedia Traffic in Content-Centric Networks, Department ofComputer Science, LUMS, Pakistan.⋄ Sharjeel Ahmed Qureshi (MS, 2013), Android Malware Analysis using Data Provenance Graphs, Departmentof Computer Science, LUMS, Pakistan.⋄ Ali Munir (MS, 2012), Improving Flow Completion Times in Data Centers, SEECS, National Universityof Sciences & Technology (NUST), Pakistan.⋄ [Co-Supervisor] Abubakar Mehmood (MS, 2013-), Meeting Minimum Bandwidth Guarantees in FailureproneMulti-tenant Cloud Data Centers, Department of Computer Science, LUMS, PakistanResearchSupervisionExperience⋄ Syed Mohammad Irteza. Ph.D. Advisee, LUMS (Data Centers/Software-Defined Networking)⋄ Kamran Nishat. Ph.D. Advisee, LUMS (High-Speed Wireless LANs)⋄ Haseeb Niaz. RA, LUMS (Wireless LANs - Now a Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University, USA)⋄ Kumail Haider. RA, LUMS (Smart Grids - Now a Ph.D. student at Rice University, USA)⋄ Asad Khalid Ismail. RA, LUMS (Smart Grids - Now a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Barbara, USA)⋄ Ali Munir. RA, LUMS (Data Centers - Now a Ph.D. student at Michigan State University, USA)⋄ Bilal Zafar. RA, LUMS (Router Buffer Sizing - Now a Ph.D. student at Max Planck, Germany)⋄ Zahaib Akhtar. RA, LUMS (Wireless LANs - Now a PhD student at Univ. of Southern California, USA)⋄ Muneeb-Ur Rehman. RA, LUMS (Smart Grids - Now a MS student at Utah State University, USA)⋄ Basma Khan. RA, LUMS (Data Centers - Now at Microsoft, Seattle)⋄ Ghufran Baig. RA, LUMS (Software-Defined Networking)⋄ Mohsin Ali. RA, LUMS (Wireless LANs)⋄ Muhammad Ruwaifa Anwar. RA, LUMS (Wireless LANs - Undergraduate Research Award (Runner up))⋄ Aisha Mushtaq. RA, LUMS (Data Centers - Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholar, 2013)⋄ Saad Naveed Ismail. RA, LUMS (Data Centers)⋄ Bilal Mahmood. RA, LUMS (Data Centers)⋄ Waleed Aslam. RA, LUMS (Smart Grids)⋄ Adnan Ahmed. RA, LUMS (Data Centers)

⋄ Mohsin Ali, Muhammad Ruwaifa Anwar, Aisha Mushtaq, Saad Naveed Ismail, Asad Khalid Ismail, AbdulWasay, Aroosa Ijaz, Usman Zaheer. Summer Research Interns, LUMS (Summer 2012).⋄ Ayan Azmat, Hassan Nawaz, Muhammad Ali Gulzar, Qurat-Ul-Ann Bajwa, Hasnain Ali Pirzada, BabarMemon, Muhammad Zaman, Sana Farrukh, Hasan Abbas, Uzair Mahmood, Adnan Ahmed, Haris Choudhary,Syed Muhammad Bilal Zaidi, Ahmed Mehfooz, Uneeb Yaqub Rathore, Waleed Farrukh. SummerResearch Interns, LUMS (Summer 2013).Senior ProjectsSupervisedDepartmental &UniversityServicesSelected TalksProfessionalActivities⋄ Ruwaifa Anwar, Mohsin Ali, and Saad Ismail (BS 2014, LUMS), Efficient and Resilient Data Centers⋄ Aisha Mushtaq, Abdul Wasay, and Ayan Azmat (BS 2014, LUMS), Transport Protocols Using SDN⋄ Luqman Ghani, Ali Raza, and Dilawar Khan (BS 2014, LUMS), Centralized WLAN Management⋄ Haseeb Niaz (BS 2013, LUMS), Long-Distance WiFi⋄ Hammad Malik (BS 2013, LUMS), Improving Wireless Network Performance using Sensor Hints⋄ Tanzeel ur Rehman and M. Haseeb-ul-Hassan Zahid (BS 2013, LUMS), Improving Mobile Battery Lifeusing Cloudlets⋄ Convener, Curriculum Committee (both undergraduate and graduate curriculum), CS Department, LUMS⋄ Member, Graduate Program Committee (GPC), CS Department, LUMS⋄ Conducted a review of the CS graduate program at LUMS. Identified challenges and proposed solutions⋄ Conducted a review of the CS qualifying exams. Helped in defining the syllabus for the qualifying exams⋄ Proposed an annual research competition for CS undergraduate and graduate students⋄ Patron, ACM Student Chapter, LUMS⋄ “SplitBuff: Improving the Interaction of Heterogeneous RTT Flows on the Internet”, Budapest, Hungary,June 2013⋄ “On Achieving Low Latency in Data Centers”, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013⋄ “Minimizing Flow Completion Times in Data Centers”, Turin, Italy, April 2013⋄ “Markovian Models for Electrical Load Prediction in Smart Buildings”, Doha, Qatar, Nov 2012⋄ “Enabling Router-Assisted Transport Protocols over 802.11 WLANs”, CAIA, Swinburne University ofTechnology, Melbourne, Australia, Sept 2011⋄ “An Efficient Framework of Congestion for Next- Generation Networks”, Carnegie Mellon University,Qatar, March 2011⋄ “Using GENI to Evaluate Congestion Control Protocols for Next Generation Networks”, Princeton University,NJ, USA, Nov 2010⋄ “PlanetLab GENI”, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 2009⋄ “Incremental deployment of new ECN-compatible congestion control”, Tokyo, Japan, May 2009⋄ “Congestion Control using Efficient Explicit Feedback”, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009⋄ “On the Design of Load Factor based Congestion Control Protocols for Next-Generation Networks”,Pheonix, AZ, USA, April 2008⋄ TPC Member: IEEE ICNP 2014, INMIC 2013⋄ Reviewer for the following Conferences/Journals: IEEE INFOCOM 2013, IEEE/ACM Transactions onNetworking, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ACMCCS 2010, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, IEEE Transactions on Communications, MobiQuitous2008, INCC 2008, Journal of Communications and Networks, Globecom 2009, RTNS 2009,IFIP Wireless Days 2010, International Journal of Communication Systems.⋄ Participant at the NSF Future Internet Architectures Summit, 12-15 October 2009, Arlington, VA, USA⋄ Participated in the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education’s (CIDDE) MentoringStudent Research Seminar, May 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Honors andAwardsSoftwareDistribution⋄ Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for the year 2009-2010: One of the two Ph.D. students inthe CS department to be awarded this prestigious fellowship. The fellowship provides a monthly stipendand a full tuition scholarship for one year.⋄ Best Graduate Student Research Award 2009: For Presenting the Best Student Research EntryAmong Computer Science Graduate Students, University of Pittsburgh (Award: $500).⋄ Best Poster Award 2009 (faculty choice): For Presenting The Best Poster By A Graduate StudentAt The 9th Annual Computer Science Day 2009, University of Pittsburgh (Award: $200).⋄ Outstanding Paper Award at Graduate Expo 2008: For Outstanding Presentation And ContributionTo The Arts And Sciences At The University of Pittsburgh (Award: $300).⋄ Graduate Student Research Award 2008: Runner-Up Student Research Entry Among ComputerScience Graduate Students, University of Pittsburgh.⋄ NSF Student Travel Grant: To attend 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation(NSDI’06), May 8-10, 2006 San Jose, CA, USA.⋄ Dean’s Honors List: Placed on the list for several quarters at LUMS.⋄ Class Representative: BSc 2005, LUMS.⋄ Roll of Honor (at the Lahore Grammar School, 2001): Highest award of the institution givenonce a year to a student who has shown excellence in academics and co-curricular activities.⋄ Best Student Award for Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry: Obtained more than 95% marksin all the subjects in the Advanced-Level examinations conducted by Cambridge University, UK, 2001.⋄ NS-2 Code (written in C++) for the Multi-Level Feedback Congestion Control Protocol (MLCP)⋄ NS-2 Code (written in C++) for the Binary Marking Congestion Control (BMCC) protocolComputer Skills ⋄ C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Tcl/OTcl, Awk, UNIXshell scripting, Matlab, Unix/Linux, Wireless Drivers(MadWifi, ath9k), XML, Virtualization Softwares: VirtualBox, VMware.⋄ Networking Tools: QualNet, ns-2, MiniNet, OPNET, and CSIM.