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Faraz Ahmed
517 – 775 – 4898 (Cell)
[email protected]
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~farazah/
PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1226
Office: 3210 Engineering Building
Research Interests: Large Scale Data Analysis, Measurement, Modeling, and Optimization
EDUCATION
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Ph. D. Computer Science, Michigan State University, MI, USA
o Aug 2012 – Present
o Advisor: Alex X. Liu
o Courses: Computational Techniques for Large Scale Data Analysis, Data Mining, Stochastic Processes and
Applications, Detection and Estimation Theory, Artificial Intelligence
College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (EME), National University of Sciences and Technology
(NUST)
o BE Electrical Engineering (2005-2009) Gold Medalist
o Final Year Project: Implementation of FHSS (Frequency Hop Spread Spectrum) on Lyrtech SDR
(Software Defined Radio) platform with FSK as the basic modulation format.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
PUBLICATIONS
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Monitoring Quality-of-Experience for Operational Cellular Networks Using Machine-to-Machine Traffic
Faraz Ahmed, Jeffrey Erman, Zihui Ge, Alex X. Liu, Jia Wang, and He Yan.
36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017), Atlanta, Georgia.
Optimizing Internet Transit Routing for Content Delivery Networks.
Faraz Ahmed, M. Zubair Shafiq, Amir Khakpour, and Alex X. Liu.
24th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2016), Singapore.
Detecting and Localizing End-to-End Performance Degradation for Cellular Data Services.
Faraz Ahmed, Jeffrey Erman, Zihui Ge, Alex X. Liu, Jia Wang, and He Yan.
35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016), San Francisco, California.
Social Graph Publishing with Privacy Guarantees.
Faraz Ahmed, Alex X. Liu, and Rong Jin.
36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2016), Nara, Japan.
Measurement and Analysis of Online Adult Traffic.
Faraz Ahmed, M. Zubair Shafiq, and Alex X. Liu.
36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2016), Nara, Japan.
Detecting and Localizing End-to-End Performance Degradation for Cellular Data Services (Extended Abstract).
Faraz Ahmed, Jeffrey Erman, Zihui Ge, Alex X. Liu, Jia Wang, and He Yan.
ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2015), Portland,
Oregon.
Identification of Sybil Communities Generating Context-Aware Spam on Online Social Networks.
Faraz Ahmed and Muhammad Abulaish.
The 15th International Aisa-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2013), Sydney, Austraila.
An MCL-Based Approach for Spam Profile Detection in Online Social Networks.
Faraz Ahmed and Muhammad Abulaish.
11th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom
2012), Liverpool, UK.
A Data Mining Framework for Securing 3G Core Network from GTP Fuzzing Attacks.
Faraz Ahmed, M. Zubair Rafique, and Muhammad Abulaish.
The 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2011), India.
Using Computational Intelligence to Identify Performance Bottlenecks in a Computer System.
Faraz Ahmed, Farrukh Shahzad, and Muddassar Farooq.
The 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2010), Krakow, Poland.
Towards a Theory of Generalizing System Call Representation for In-Execution Malware Detection.
Bilal Mehdi, Faraz Ahmed, Syed Ali Khayyam, and Muddassar Farooq.
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010), Cape Town, South Africa.
Using Spatio-Temporal Information in API Calls with Machine Learning Algorithms for Malware Detection.
Faraz Ahmed, Haider Hameed , M. Zubair Shafiq, and Muddassar Farooq.
ACM CCS workshop on Security and Artificial Intelligence (AISec 2009), Chicago, Illinois.
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TEACHING
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Teaching assistant at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University (MSU), East
Lansing, Michigan.
Course: Object Oriented Software Development – CSE335, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall2016.
Responsible for designing and grading software design/development tasks and projects.
Course: Introduction to Programming II – CSE232, Spring 2014.
Responsible for managing and grading 2 laboratory sections on the C++ programming language and the
Standard Template Library (STL).
Course: Computing Concepts and Competencies – CSE101, Fall 2013.
Responsible for leading 3 laboratory sections and teaching core concepts in computing including
information storage, retrieval, management and representation.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Research Summer Intern at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (Summer 2015)
Research Intern at AT&T Labs – Research (Summer 2013) (Summer 2014)
Project: Improving User’s Quality of Experience on Cellular Data Network through Holistic Performance Monitoring
Project: Utilizing Machine-to-Machine devices for Service Quality Management of cellular networks.
Researcher at Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, KSA (Feb
2011 – July 2012).
Project: Internet Surveillance and Forensics
Research Engineer at Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGIN RC), FAST National University
of Sciences and Technology (FAST-NUCES), Islamabad, Pakistan (Aug 2009 – Aug 2010).
Project: Intelligent Secure Kernel for Mobile Computing Devices (ISKMCD)
Research Associate at Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGIN RC), FAST National University
of Sciences and Technology (FAST-NUCES), Islamabad, Pakistan (Jan 2008 - Jun 2009)
Project: Artificial Immune System based Intrusion Detection System (AISGPIDS)
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AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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Awarded 2017 Fitch H. Beach Award for Outstanding Graduate Research by the College of Engineering,
Michigan State University.
Awarded 2017 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Michigan State University.
Awarded Honorable Mention at the 2016 Engineering Graduate Research Symposium held at Michigan State
University with 47 research poster submissions from Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Awarded Honorable Mention at the 2014 Engineering Graduate Research Symposium held at Michigan State
University with 225 research poster submissions.
Awarded ACM SIGMETRICS 2013, 2015, INFOCOM 2016, and ICNP2016 student travel grants.
Awarded Gold medal by Nokia Siemens amongst 12 groups for the best Under Graduate Final Year Project of the
year 2009 in the category of Communication Systems
Won 1st prize in Application Utility Category at COMPPEC 2009 amongst 17 groups held at College of E&ME.
Won 2nd Runners up prize in Research Paper Competition at GIKI APEC 2008 (All Pakistan Engineering
Competition).
SKILLS/TOOLS
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Programming: C++, Java
Data Analysis: Python, MATLAB, Excel
Writing Editing: Latex/MikeTex
Miscellaneous: Bash scripting, Hadoop (Map-Reduce)
ACTIVITIES/SERVICES
• Peer Review: TDSC, INFOCOM 2017
• TPC member IEEE PerCom2017 Workshop on Data Analytics for Mobile Networking (DAMN!)
• Attended ACM CCS 2009, SIGMETRICS 2013, SIGCOMM 2014, SIGMETRICS 2015, INFOCOM 2016, ICNP
2016
EXTRACURRICULAR
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Senior Coordinator of Sports and Adventure Society (SAS), College of EME, NUST, 2008-2009
Head of the organizing team of Annual SAS-Trekking Competition 2009
Vice-President Pakistan Student Association at Michigan State University, Fall 2013.
Computer Games, Trekking, Camping, Skiing, Photography, Squash, Basketball