Faculty Profile
Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Associate Professor
Department Of Computer Science
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi is a tenured Associate Professor and the current Chair of the Department of Computer Science at LUMS, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA in 2010 and the BSc. (Hons) degree from LUMS with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2005. He was a Visiting Research Scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, USA in 2017. Previously, he has held positions at BBN Technologies (Cambridge, USA) and the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (Melbourne, Australia). His research interests are in computer networks and distributed systems and span cloud computing and datacenters, mobile/wireless networks, ICT for developing regions, Internet censorship, and online privacy. His work has appeared in premier networking conferences, such as ACM SIGCOMM, and journals including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. His work was selected as a best ACM SIGCOMM CCR paper in 2018. He is a recipient of the Google Faculty Research Award and the Andrew Mellon Fellowship. His research has been sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), World Bank, Australian Research Council (ARC), HEC, and Ignite.
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Efficient load balancing over asymmetric datacenter topologies | Computer Communications | Irteza S.M., Bashir H.M., Anwar T., Qazi I.A., Dogar F.R. | 2018 |
| Incentivizing censorship measurements via circumvention | SIGCOMM 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication | Nisar A., Kashaf A., Qazi I.A., Uzmi Z.A. | 2018 |
| Online advertising under internet censorship | HotNets 2017 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks | Javaid H., Khalil H.K., Uzmi Z.A., Qazi I.A. | 2017 |
| Load balancing over symmetric virtual topologies | Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM | Irteza S.M., Bashir H.M., Anwar T., Qazi I.A., Dogar F.R. | 2017 |
| Inside the walled garden: Deconstructing Facebook's free basics program | Computer Communication Review | Sen R., Ahmad S., Phokeer A., Farooq Z.A., Qazi I.A., Choffnes D., Gummadi K.P. | 2017 |
| Receiver-driven flow scheduling for commodity datacenters | IEEE International Conference on Communications | Khan A.Z., Qazi I.A. | 2017 |
| An empirical analysis of facebook's free basics program | SIGMETRICS 2017 Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems | Singh S., Nanda V., Sen R., Ahmad S., Sengupta S., Phokeer A., Farooq Z.A., Khan T.A., Kumaraguru P., Qazi I.A., Choffnes D., Gummadi K.P. | 2017 |
| PASE: Synthesizing Existing Transport Strategies for Near-Optimal Data Center Transport | IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | Munir A., Baig G., Irteza S.M., Qazi I.A., Liu A.X., Dogar F.R. | 2017 |
| SlickFi: A service differentiation scheme for high-speed WLANs using dual radio APs | CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies | Nishat K., Javed F., Salman S., Yaseen N., Fida A., Qazi I.A. | 2016 |
| A view from the other side: Understanding mobile phone characteristics in the developing world | Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC | Ahmad S., Haamid A.L., Qazi Z.A., Zhou Z., Benson T., Qazi I.A. | 2016 |
| Towards a redundancy-aware network stack for data centers | HotNets 2016 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks | Iftikhar A.M., Dogar F.R., Qazi I.A. | 2016 |
| Low-Carb: A practical scheme for improving energy efficiency in cellular networks | Computer Communications | Ilyas M.S., Qazi I.A., Rassool B., Uzmi Z.A. | 2016 |
| A case for marrying censorship measurements with circumvention | Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-XIV 2015 | Nisar A., Kashaf A., Uzmi Z.A., Qazi I.A. | 2015 |
| eSDN: Rethinking datacenter transports using end-host SDN controllers | SIGCOMM 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication | Pirzada H.A., Mahboob M.R., Qazi I.A. | 2015 |
| Rethinking buffer management in data center networks | Computer Communication Review | Mushtaq A., Ismail A.K., Wasay A., Mahmood B., Qazi I.A., Uzmi Z.A. | 2015 |
| Friends, not foes - Synthesizing existing transport strategies for data center networks | Computer Communication Review | Munir A., Baig G., Irteza S.M., Qazi I.A., Liu A.X., Dogar F.R. | 2015 |
| Mitigating datacenter incast congestion using RTO randomization | 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2015 | Hafeez U.U., Kashaf A., Bajwa Q.-U.-A., Mushtaq A., Zaidi H., Qazi I.A., Uzmi Z.A. | 2015 |
| On the effectiveness of high-speed WLAN standards for long distance communication | Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM | Nishat K., Anwar R., Mehfooz A., Zaidi B., Choudhary H., Qazi I.A. | 2014 |
| Friends, not foes - Synthesizing existing transport strategies for data center networks | SIGCOMM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication | Munir A., Baig G., Irteza S.M., Qazi I.A., Liu A.X., Dogar F.R. | 2014 |
| Rethinking buffer management in data center networks | SIGCOMM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication | Mushtaq A., Ismail A.K., Wasay A., Mahmood B., Qazi I.A., Uzmi Z.A. | 2014 |
| On the coexistence of transport protocols in data centers | 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014 | Irteza S.M., Ahmed A., Farrukh S., Memon B.N., Qazi I.A. | 2014 |
| Loss differentiation: Moving onto high-speed wireless LANs | Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM | Anwar R., Nishat K., Ali M., Akhtar Z., Niaz H., Qazi I.A. | 2014 |
| Minimizing flow completion times in data centers | Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM | Munir A., Qazi I.A., Uzmi Z.A., Mushtaq A., Ismail S.N., Iqbal M.S., Khan B. | 2013 |
| SplitBuff: Improving the interaction of heterogeneous RTT flows on the Internet | IEEE International Conference on Communications | Jabeen S., Zafar M.B., Qazi I.A., Uzmi Z.A. | 2013 |
| Rate equilibria in WLANs with block ACKs | Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN | Nguyen S.H., Qazi I.A., Andrew L.L.H., Vu H.L. | 2013 |