Dr. Muhammad Hamad Alizai
Associate Professor
Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering
Dr. Alizai is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at LUMS. He brings years of experience as a faculty, researcher, software engineer, and technical lead both in industrial and academic settings. He has authored a book and book-chapters, and published more than 60 scientific papers while abroad and indigenously from Pakistan, several of them in top-flight ACM/IEEE journals and conferences (CoNEXT, SenSys, IPSN, BuildSys, LCTES, EWSN, TOSN, TECS, CCR). He regularly serves on the organizing and program committees of leading CS conferences such as MobiSys, SenSys, IPSN, BuildSys, SECON, IMWUT, and PerCom. He is a certified trainer for Instruction Skills Workshop and regularly conducts pedagogical workshops for faculty at LUMS.
Some of his recent awards/achievements include:
- Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, 2022
- Georg Forster Research Fellowship Award 2021-22
- Best paper award candidate at ACM EWSN 2020
- Best paper award candidate at ACM SenSys 2019
- Audience Choice Best Paper Award at ACM BuildSys 2017
- Summa cum laude (highest distinction) for Ph.D. thesis
- Best abstract award at ACM SenSys 2010
- Research grants as PI/CoPI totaling > $0.8+ mln
- Siemens AG scholarship for post-grad studies
For more information about his teaching and research, please visit his personal webpage
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Approxify: Automating Energy-Accuracy Trade-offs in Batteryless IoT Devices | IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Wcnc | Soomro M.A., Bhatti N.A., Alizai M.H., | 2025 |
| Usage-centered, efficient, and sustainable: An IoT-driven transformation of water heaters | Data Centric Engineering | Chaudhry H.H., Raja R.M., Zahid M.A., Zaffar N., Alizai M.H., Bhatti N.A., | 2024 |
| Investigating Domain Bias in NILM | Buildsys 2024 Proceedings of the 2024 11th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings Cities and Transportation | Breyer J., Jauhari S., Glebke R., Alizai M.H., Stroot M., Wehrle K., | 2024 |
| A Critical Review of Household Water Datasets | Buildsys 2024 Proceedings of the 2024 11th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings Cities and Transportation | Breyer J., Petri M., Alizai M.H., Wehrle K., | 2024 |
| The Internet of Batteryless Things | Communications of the ACM | Ahmed S., Islam B., Yildirim K.S., Zimmerling M., Pawelczak P., Alizai M.H., Lucia B., Mottola L., Sorber J., Hester J., | 2024 |
| Shepard: Dynamic Placement of??Microservices in??the??Edge-Cloud Continuum | Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Lnicst | Asghar F., Fatima T., Siddiqui J.H., Bhatti N.A., Alizai M.H., | 2024 |
| Poster: Bridging IoT Gaps in Developing Regions with LLMs | International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks | Saad M., Khan A.D.U., Intazar L.A., Shahzad A., Mohammad M.Z., Ahsan S., Bhatti N.A., Alizai M.H., | 2024 |
| Poster: Automating Approximations in Batteryless IoT Devices | International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks | Soomro A., Bhatti N.A., Alizai M.H., | 2024 |
| From Waste to Watts: A Self-Sustaining Water Heating System Powered by a Thermoelectric Generator | Buildsys 2023 Proceedings of The10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings Cities and Transportation | Chaudhry H.H., Raja R.M., Alizai M.H., Zaffar N., Bhatti N.A., | 2023 |
| Saving natural gas through smart water heating | Buildsys 2022 Proceedings of the 2022 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings Cities and Transportation | Zahid M.A., Zaffar N., Alizai M.H., | 2022 |
| ASHRAY: Enhancing Water-usage Comfort in Developing Regions using Data-driven IoT Retrofits | ACM Transactions on Cyber Physical Systems | Abbas S., Ehsan A., Ahmed S., Khan S.A., Jadoon T.M., Alizai M.H., | 2022 |
| A survey on program-state retention for transiently-powered systems | Journal of Systems Architecture | Ahmed S., Bhatti N.A., Brachmann M., Alizai M.H., | 2021 |
| Discovering the hidden anomalies of intermittent computing | International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks | Maioli A., Mottola L., Alizai M.H., Siddiqui J.H., | 2021 |
| Battery-less zero-maintenance embedded sensing at the mithr??um of circus maximus | Sensys 2020 Proceedings of the 2020 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems | Afanasov M., Bhatti N.A., Campagna D., Caslini G., Centonze F.M., Dolui K., Maioli A., Barone E., Alizai M.H., Siddiqui J.H., Mottola L., | 2020 |
| Fast and Energy-Efficient State Checkpointing for Intermittent Computing | ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems | Ahmed S., Bhatti N.A., Alizai M.H., Siddiqui J.H., Mottola L., | 2020 |
| Demystifying Energy Consumption Dynamics in Transiently powered Computers | ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems | Ahmed S., Nawaz M., Bakar A., Bhatti N.A., Alizai M.H., Siddiqui J.H., Mottola L., | 2020 |
| Welcome from the SECON Workshop Chairs | Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks Workshops | Alizai M.H., Lemic F., | 2020 |
| Intermittent Computing with Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling | International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks Ewsn 2020 Proceedings | Ahmed S., Ul Ain Q., Siddiqui J.H., Mottola L., Alizai M.H., | 2020 |
| No-frills water comfort for developing regions | Proceedings 2020 19th ACM IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks IPSN 2020 | Abbas S., Ehsan A., Ahmed S., Khan S.A., Jadoon T.M., Alizai M.H., | 2020 |
| Intermittent computing with dynamic voltage and frequency scaling | International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks | Ahmed S., Ain Q.U., Siddiqui J.H., Mottola L., Alizai M.H., | 2020 |
| Intermittent asynchronous peripheral operations | Sensys 2019 Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems | Branco A., Mottola L., Alizai M.H., Siddiqui J.H., | 2019 |
| The betrayal of constant power ?? time: Finding the missing joules of transiently-powered computers | Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems LCTES | Ahmed S., Alizai M.H., Bakar A., Siddiqui J.H., Bhatti N.A., Mottola L., | 2019 |
| Efficient intermittent computing with differential checkpointing | Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems LCTES | Ahmed S., Bhatti N.A., Alizai M.H., Siddiqui J.H., Mottola L., | 2019 |
| On intermittence bugs in the battery-less internet of things (WIP paper) | Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems LCTES | Maioli A., Alizai M.H., Mottola L., Siddiqui J.H., | 2019 |
| Scylla: Interleaving multiple IoT stacks on a single radio | Conext 2018 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies | Iqbal H., Alizai M.H., Qazi I.A., Landsiedel O., Uzmi Z.A., | 2018 |