Dr Ashiq Anjum

Faculty: Business, Computing and Law

School: School of Computing and Mathematics

Subject Area: Computing and IT

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Mathematics at the University. Before this I worked at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London as a Research Associate. I've been working on various collaborative projects with CERN Geneva Switzerland for the last nine years.

My areas of research include Concurrent, Distributed and Parallel Systems (including Grid and Cloud Computing), Distributed Operating Systems and scalable methods to mine large and complex datasets. I've worked on a number of research projects that have been funded by various European, American and Asian funding agencies.

I am an active researcher and have participated in numerous computing schools, meetings and conferences to present my research work. I have more than 55 peer reviewed publications to my credit. Before starting an academic career, I worked for various software multinational companies for around 7 years.

I have been part of the EC funded projects in Grid and distributed systems, Machine learning and data mining such as Health-e-Child (IP, FP6), neuGrid (STREP, FP7) and TRANSFORM (IP, FP7) where I have been dealing with resource management of large scale systems, performance monitoring and optimization, data mining and service orchestration. In addition to this, I recently won a two year project from Technology Strategy Board, UK which will capture video streams from live cameras and then using machine learning algorithms will process these images in a cloud environment for security and surveillance domains.

Please get in touch with me if you're interested in a research or development project in Cloud Computing or in another area of my research interests.

Teaching responsibilities

• Distributed Systems
• Peer to Peer Computing
• Computer Architecture
• Network Operating System
• Server Side development and Web Technologies

Professional interests

I am an active researcher and I am keen to build partnerships with colleagues from industry and academia. I am always looking for bright PhD and Master students who are keen to make a difference.

Research interests

My areas of interest include the following:

• Concurrent, Distributed and Parallel Systems
• Cloud and Grid Computing
• Autonomic Computing and Intelligent Systems
• Distributed Operating Systems and Virtualization Techniques
• Machine Learning and Distributed Data Mining Network Monitoring

Research Publications

Journal Publications

• "Federated Broker System for Pervasive Context Provisioning", Saad Kiani, Ashiq Anjum, Nick Antonopoulos, Nik Bessis. Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software, Available online 6 December 2012, ISSN 0164-1212, 10.1016/j.jss.2012.11.050.
• "Intelligent Grid Enabled Services for Neuroimaging Analysis", Richard McClathchey, Irfan Habib, Ashiq Anjum, Kamran Munir, Andrew Branson, Peter Bloodsworth, Saad Kiani, Elsevier NeuroComputing, ISSN: 0925-231, 2013 In Press
• "Adapting Scientific Workflow Structures Using Multi-Objective Optimisation Strategies", Irfan Habib, Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, Omer Rana, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), ISSN: 1556-4665, Volume 8, Number 1, 2012
• "CMS Workflow Execution using Intelligent Job Scheduling and Data Access Strategies", Khawar Hasham, Antonio Delgado Peris, Ashiq Anjum, Dave Evans, Dirk Hufnage, Eduardo Huedo, Jos� M. Hern�ndez, Richard McClatchey, Stephen Gowdy, Simon Metson, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (IEEE TNS), 2011, ISSN: 0018-9499.
• "Performance Simulation of a Context Provisioning Middleware based on Empirical Measurements", Eike Steffen Reetz, Michael Knappmeyer, Saad Liaquat Kiani, Ashiq Anjum, Nik Bessis, Ralf Tonjes, Elsevier Journal of Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, ISSN: 1569-190X , 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2012.03.002
• "Glueing Grids and Clouds together: A Service-oriented Approach", Ashiq Anjum, Richard Hill, Richard McClatchey, Nik Bessis, Andrew Branson, International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS), Vol. 8, No. 3, 2012
• "Data Intensive and Network Aware (DIANA) Grid Scheduling", Richard McClatchey, Ashiq Anjum, Heinz Stockinger, Arshad Ali, Ian Willers, Michael Thomas, Journal of Grid Computing, Springer Verlag, 5(1):43-64, 2007
• "Bulk Scheduling with DIANA Scheduler", Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, Arshad Ali, Ian Willers, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 53, issue 6, pp. 3818-3829
• "Context Parsing, Processing and Distribution in Clouds", Saad Liaquat Kiani, Ashiq Anjum, Nik Bessis, Richard Hill and Michael Knappmeyer, Mobile Information Systems (MIS) Journal, ISSN:574-017X, 2012 In press.
• "Use of Grid Tools to Support CMS Distributed Analysis", Andreeva, A. Anjum, T. Barrass, et al. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 52(4):884-890, Aug. 2005
• "Context-Aware Service Utilisation in the Clouds and Energy Conservation", Saad Kiani, Ashiq Anjum, Nick Antonopoulos, Michael Knappmeyer, Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing, 2012, ISSN: 1868-5137, DOI: 10.1007/s12652-012-0131-1,
• "Editorial on Intelligent techniques and architectures for autonomic clouds: introduction to the itaac special issue", Nick Antonopoulos, Ashiq Anjum and Lee Gillam, Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 2012, 1:18 doi:10.1186/2192-113X-1-18
• "Context Caches in the Clouds", Saad L Kiani, Ashiq Anjum, Nick Antonopoulos, Kamran Munir,, Richard McClatchey, Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 2012, 1:7 doi:10.1186/2192-113X-1-7
• "Dot-base62x: Building A Compact and User-friendly Text Representation Scheme of IPv6 Addresses for Cloud Computing", Zhenxing Liu, Lu Liu, James Hardy, Ashiq Anjum, Richard Hill, Nick Antonopoulos, Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 2012,1 :3 doi:10.1186/2192-113X-1-3
• "An Architecture for Integrated Intelligence in Urban Management using Cloud Computing", Zaheer Khan, David Ludlow, Richard McClatchey, Ashiq Anjum, Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 2012, 1:1 doi:10.1186/2192-113X-1-
• "A Fault Tolerant, dynamic and Low Latency BDII Architecture", Asif Osman, Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing (IJGDC), SERSC Publishers, 2010, ISSN: 2005-4262
• "Research Traceability using Provenance Services for Biomedical Analysis", Ashiq Anjum, Peter Bloodsworth, Andrew Branson, Irfan Habib, Richard McClatchey, Studies in Health Technology & Informatics, 2010, Vol 159, pp 88-99 ISBN 978-1-60750-027-8 IOS Press.
• "Grid-aware Planning and Optimisation of Neuroimaging Pipelines", Irfan Habib, Ashiq Anjum, Peter Bloodsworth, Richard McClatchey, Special issue on "Workflow Management in the Grid Era", International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Application , SERSC Publications 2009.
• "Grid infrastructures for computational neuroscience: the neuGRID example", Alberto Redolfi, Richard McClatchey, Ashiq Anjum, Alex Zijdenbos, David Manset, Frederik Barkhof, Christian Spenger, Yannik Legré, Lars-Olof Wahlund, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro & Giovanni B Frisoni, Journal of Future Neurology. November 2009, Vol. 4, No. 6, Pages 703-722 , DOI 10.2217/fnl.09.53. Future Science Group publishers, 2009.
• "Rule-Based Querying of Distributed, Heterogeneous Data", Tom Lansdale, Peter Bloodsworth, Ashiq Anjum, Irfan Habib, Yasir Mehmood, Richard McClatchey, IETE Tech Review Journal, 2009;26:363-8

Conference Publications

• "A Service Oriented Analysis Environment for Neuroimaging Studies", Ashiq Anjum, Nik Bessis, Richard McClatchey, Kamran Munir, Irfan Habib, Andrew Branson, and Jetendr Shamdasani. 2012. In Proceedings of the 2012 Sixth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS '12). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 29-36. DOI=10.1109/IMIS.2012.140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IMIS.2012.140
• "Improving Cloud Datacentre Scalability, Agility and Performance Using OpenFlow", Charlie Baker, Ashiq Anjum, Richard Hill, Nik Bessis, Saad Liaquat Kiani , 2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS),Bucharest, Romania. pp.20-27, 19-21 Sept. 2012, doi: 10.1109/iNCoS.2012.118
• "Large-Scale Context Provisioning: A Use-Case for Homogenous Cloud Federation", Saad Liaquat Kiani, Ashiq Anjum, Nik Bessis, and Richard Hill. 2012. In Proceedings of the 2012 Sixth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS) (CISIS '12). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 241-248. DOI=10.1109/CISIS.2012.161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CISIS.2012.161
• "Towards Context Caches in the Clouds", Saad Liaquat Kiani, Ashiq Anjum, Kamran Munir, Richard McClatchey, and Nick Antonopoulos. 2011. In Proceedings of the 2011 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC '11). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 403-408. DOI=10.1109/UCC.2011.67 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/UCC.2011.67
• "Dot-base62x: A Compact Textual Representation of IPv6 Address for Clouds", Zhenxing Liu, Lu Liu, James Hardy, Ashiq Anjum, Richard Hill, and Nick Antonopoulos. 2011. In Proceedings of the 2011 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC '11). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 427-432. DOI=10.1109/UCC.2011.70 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/UCC.2011.70
• "Gluing Grids and Clouds Together: A Service-Oriented Approach", Ashiq Anjum, Richard Hill, and Richard McClatchey. 2011. In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT '11). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 55-62. DOI=10.1109/EIDWT.2011.17 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EIDWT.2011.17
• "Context Parsing, Processing and Distribution in Clouds", Saad Liaquat Kiani, Ashiq Anjum, Nik Bessis, Richard Hill, and Michael Knappmeyer. 2011. In Proceedings of the 2011 Third International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCOS '11). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 141-148. DOI=10.1109/INCoS.2011.70 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INCoS.2011.70
• "An Architecture for Integrated Intelligence in Urban Management Using Cloud Computing", Zaheer Khan, David Ludlow, Richard McClatchey, and Ashiq Anjum. 2011. In Proceedings of the 2011 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC '11). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 415-420. DOI=10.1109/UCC.2011.69 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/UCC.2011.69
• "Provenance Management for Neuroimaging Workflows in neuGrid.", Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, Irfan Habib, Kamran Soomro, Peter Bloodsworth, Andrew Branson, Nik Bessis, Richard Hill, In Proceedings of the 2011 international Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and internet Computing (October 26 - 28, 2011), pp.67-74, Barcelona, Spain, 2011 DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/3PGCIC.2011.20
• "Neuroimaging Analysis using Grid Aware Planning and Optimization Techniques", Irfan Habib, Ashiq Anjum, Peter Bloodsworth, Richard McClatchey, 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 2009, Oxford, UK
• "A Middleware Agnostic Infrastructure for Neuro-Imaging Analysis", Yasir Mehmood, Irfan Habib, Peter Bloodsworth, Ashiq Anjum, Tom Lansdale, Richard McClatchey, Pages 1-4, 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems ( CBMS) 2009, Albuquerque, NM, USA doi: 10.1109/CBMS.2009.5255439
• "On the Pervasive Adoption of Grid Technologies: A Grid Operating System", Irfan Habib, Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, Chapter XVI of the Handbook of Research on Grid Technologies and Utility Computing: Concepts for Managing Large-Scale Applications. ISBN 978-1-60566-184-1 IGI Global Publishers, May 2009.
• "Reusable Services from the neuGRID Project for Grid-Based Health Applications", Ashiq Anjum, Peter Bloodsworth, Irfan Habib, Tom Lansdale, Richard McClatchey, Yasir Mehmood, Studies in Health Technology & Informatics Vol 147, pp 283-288 ISBN 978-1-60750-027-8 IOS Press.
• "Gridifying Biomedical Applications: Experiences of the Health-e-Child Project", David Manset, Frederic Pourraz, Alexey Tsymbal, Jerome Revillard, Konstantin Skaburskas, Richard McClatchey, Ashiq Anjum, Alfonso Rios, Martin Huber, Chapter XXIV of the Handbook of Research on Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences, Biomedicine and Healthcare. ISBN 978-1-60566-374-6 IGI Global Publishers, May 2009.
• "Data Analysis with the DIANA Meta-Scheduling Approach", Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, Ian Willers, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2008 doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/119/7/072004.
• "Health-e-Child: A Grid Platform for European Paediatrics", K. Skaburskas, F. Estrella, J. Shade, D. Manset, J. Revillard, A. Rios, A.Anjum, A. Branson, P. Bloodsworth, T. Hauer, R. McClatchey, D. Rogulin on behalf of the Health-e-Child consortium, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2008 doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/119/8/082011.
• "PhantomOS: A Next Generation Grid Operating System", Irfan Habib, Kamran Soomro, Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, Arshad Ali, Peter Bloodsworth, The Sixth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Nottingham (AHM 2007)
• "Data Analysis through the DIANA Meta-Scheduling Approach", Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, Ian Willers, Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2007) Victoria, British Columbia, 2007
• "The Health-e-Child Project: A Grid enabled Platform for European Paediatrics", Richard McClatchey, Ashiq Anjum, Ian Willers, Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 2007
• "The Requirements for Ontologies in Medical Data Integration: A Case Study", Ashiq Anjum, Peter Bloodsworth, Andrew Branson, Tamás Hauer, Richard McClatchey, Kamran Munir, Dmitry Rogulin, Jetendr Shamdasani, Eleventh International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, Banff, Canada 2007
• "DIANA Scheduling Hierarchies for Optimizing Grid Bulk Job Scheduling", Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, Heinz Stockinger, Arshad Ali, Ian Willers, Michael Thomas, 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2006), The Netherlands, 2006
• "From Grid Middleware to a Grid Operating System", Arshad Ali, Richard McClatchey, Ashiq Anjum, Irfan Habib, Kamran Soomro, Mohammed Asif, Ali Adil, The 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2006), Hunan, China 2006
• "A Multi Interface Grid Discovery System", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, J. Bunn, F. Khan, R.McClatchey, H. Newman, C. Steenberg, M. Thomas, Ian Willers, The 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Grid2006, Barcelona Spain
• "Mobile Computing in Physics Analysis - An Indicator for eScience", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Julian Bunn, Ahsan Ikram, Richard McClatchey, Harvey Newman, Conrad Steenberg, Michael Thomas, Ian Willers, The Third International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU 2006), October 2006 , London, UK
• "Data Folder for Seamless Storage and Access of Scientific Data in Grid Environment", Yasir Mehmood, Asif Jan, Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Umar Kalim, The 3rd International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies, 2006, Charlotte North Carolina, USA 
• "Bulk Scheduling with DIANA Scheduler", Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, Arshad Ali, Ian Willers, Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) 2006, Bombay India
• "The Clarens Web Service Framework for Distributed Scientific Analysis in Grid Projects (DRAFT)", Frank van Lingen, Conrad Steenberg, Michael Thomas, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Harvey Newman, Arshad Ali , Julian Bunn, Iosif Legrand. The 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2005) Oslo, Norway
• "Resource Management Services for the Grid Analysis Environment", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Adeel Zafar, Atif Mehmood, Harvey Newman, Ian Willers, Richard McClatchey, Julian Bunn, Waqas-ur Rehman, The 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2005) Oslo, Norway
• "Distributed Heterogeneous Relational Databases Integration Services for An Interactive Scientific Analysis over the Grid", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum ,Tahir Azim, Yousaf Shah, Harvey Newman, Ian Willers, Richard McClatchey, Julian Bunn, Saima Iqbal, Tony Solomonides, The 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2005) Oslo, Norway
• "Optimal Replica Location for Efficient Job Scheduling in a Grid Analysis Environment", Ashiq Anjum, Richard McClatchey, Arshad Ali, Ian Willers, The Prep2005, Lancaster, UK
• "Collaboration in Grid Environments using Clarens", Frank van Lingen, Conrad Steenberg, Michael Thomas, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Faisal Khan, Harvey Newman, Arshad Ali , Julian Bunn, Iosif Legrand, Collaborate Environments SCI conference (June 20005), July 10-13, 2005 - Orlando, Florida, USA
• "JClarens: A Java Framework for Developing and Deploying Web Services for Grid Computing", Michael Thomas,, Conrad Steenberg, Frank van Lingen, Harvey Newman, Julian Bunn, Arshad Ali, Richard McClatchey, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Waqas ur Rehman, Faisal Khan,Jang Uk In, The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) , Florida, USA
• "Distributed Analysis and Load Balancing on Hand-held devices using Multi-Agents Systems for Grid Enabled Analysis Environment", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum ,Ahsan Akram,Naveed Ahmed, Ian Willers, Richard McClatchey, Julian Bunn, Harvey Newman, Michael Thomas, Conrad Steenberg, CHEP 2004 Interlaken, Switzerland
• "Grid Enabled Analysis: Architecture, Prototype And Status", Frank van Lingen, Julian Bunn, Iosif Legrand, Harvey Newman, Conrad Steenberg, Michael Thomas, Paul Avery, Dimitri Bourilkov, Rick Cavanaugh, Luakik Chitnis, Mandar Kulkarni, Jang Uk In, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, The Third International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2004), China
• "Process Maturity for Software Project Outsourcing", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Fawad Nazir, Tallat Tarar, Hamid Abbas. IADIS International Conference, Madrid, Spain 6-9 October 2004
• "Job Monitoring in Interactive Grid Analysis Environment", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum , Ian Willers, Richard McClatchey, Julian Bunn, Harvey Newman, Waqas-ur Rehman, CHEP 2004, Interlaken, Switzerland
• "Predicting Resource Requirements of a Job Submission in Grid Environment", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Ian Willers, Richard McClatchey, Julian Bunn, Harvey Newman, Atif Mehmood, CHEP 2004, Interlaken, Switzerland
• "Job Interactivity using Steering Service in Grid Enabled Analysis Environment", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Ian Willers, Richard McClatchey, Julian Bunn, Harvey Newman, Adeel Zafar, CHEP 2004, Interlaken, Switzerland
• "Use of Grid Tools to Support CMS Distributed Analysis", Andreeva, A. Anjum, T. Barrass, et al. In Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Rome 2004, Volume: 4, On page(s): 2029- 2032 Vol. 4, ISBN: 0-7803-8700-7
• "A Taxonomy and Survey of Grid Resource Planning and Reservation Systems for Grid Enabled Analysis Environment", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Ian Willers, Richard McClatchey, Julian Bunn, Harvey Newman, Atif Mehmood, The 2004 International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering and Science (DCABES), Wuhan, China
• "Grid Enabled Data Analysis on Handheld Devices", Ahsan Ikram, Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Conrad Steenberg, Harvey B. Newman, Julian J. Bunn, Michael Thomas and Tahir Azim, International Networking and Communications Conference, 2004 (INCC,2004), Lahore, Pakistan
• "Performance Assessment of Handheld Devices for Grid Enabled Physics Analysis", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Ahsan Akram, Julian J. Bunn, Harvey B.Newman, Michael Thomas, Conrad Steenberg, The 2nd Workshop on Applications of Wireless Communications (WAWC'04), Lappeenranta, Finland
• "Distributed Analysis on Handheld Devices in Grid Analysis Environment", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Ahsan Akram, Julian J.Bunn, Harvey B.Newman, Michael Thomas, Conrad Steenberg, The 13th Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, 2004, Lyon, France
• "JClarens: A Java Based Interactive Physics Analysis Environment for Data Intensive Applications", Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Michael Thomas, Conrad Steenberg, Julian J. Bunn, Harvey B.Newman, Tahir Azim, The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, California, USA
• "The Clarens Grid-enabled Web Services Framework: Services and Implementation", Conrad Steenberg, Frank van Lingen, Michael Thomas, Harvey Newman, Julian Bunn, Iosif Legrand, Richard Cavanaugh, Dmitry Bourilkov, Jang Uk (University of Florida),Arshad Ali,Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Asif Muhammad, Anzar Afaq, CHEP 2004 Interlaken, Switzerland
• "Web Services and Peer to Peer Networking in a Grid Environment", Conrad D. Steenberg, Eric Aslakson, Julian J. Bunn, Harvey B. Newman, Michael Thomas, Ashiq Anjum, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Technology and Particle Physics (ICATPP), 2003, Villa Erba, Como Italy.
• "Investigating the Role of Handheld devices in the accomplishment of Interactive Grid-Enabled Analysis Environment", Ashiq Anjum, Arshad Ali, Tahir Azim, Ahsan Akram, Julian J. Bunn, Harvey Newman, Conrad Steenberg, Michael Thomas, The second International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2003), China.

International Experience

Stream Cloud Project (2012-2014)

The Stream Cloud project (funded by the Technology Strategy Board) aims to develop an end-to-end solution for batch and real-time analysis of video streams using cloud computing. A software library will be developed to exploit the cloud computing potential for extracting and deriving important features from recorded video streams. For large-scale monitoring of objects, the partnership will setup a computing cloud to process video metadata in real time. To reduce video stream processing time and costs, image processing algorithms will be ported on hardware accelerators such as GPGPUs. Intelligent techniques such as machine learning will be exploited to enable users to provide object recognition, search and compare the objects, and track and monitor the objects under a controlled environment. Profiles will be created to find patterns and events or unusual behaviours in the recorded video streams.

Organization: University of Derby, UK (in collaboration with XAD Communications)

Transform Project (2010-2015)

The underlying concept of Transform (funded under the European Commission Framework 7 Programme) is to develop a rapid learning healthcare system driven by advanced distributed computational infrastructure that can improve both patient safety and the conduct and volume of clinical research in Europe. Providing interoperability between different clinical systems, across national boundaries, and integration of distributed clinical systems and research systems is the main focus of Transform.

Organization: Imperial College London (In collaboration with Kings College London, Trinity College Dublin, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, University of Antwerp, Belgium)

NeuGrid Project (2008-2011)

NeuGrid is an EC funded (under the European Commission Framework 7 Programme) Grid-enabled data mining and knowledge discovery project for the European neuroscientists to enable the Alzheimer�s disease analysis. NeuGRID aims to provide a new user-friendly Grid-based research e-Infrastructure enabling the European neuroscience community to carry out research required for the pressing study of degenerative brain diseases. In NeuGRID, the collection/archiving of large amounts of imaging data is paired with computationally intensive data analyses. Neuroscientists will be able to identify neurodegenerative disease markers through the analysis of 3D magnetic resonance brain images via the provision of sets of distributed medical and Grid services.

Organization: UWE, Bristol UK  (In collaboration with FBF Italy, Neuralyse Europe GmbH (NE) Switzerland, Maat G Knowledge SL (MAAT) Spain, VUmc Amsterdam, Karolinska Institutet (KI) Sweden)

Health-e-Child Grid Project (2006-2010)

Health-e-Child is an EC funded (under the European Commission Framework 6 Programme) project whose aim is to develop and deploy Grid enabled decision support system for the European paediatricians. The project aims to build a Grid-enabled European network of leading clinical centres that will share and annotate biomedical data, validate systems clinically, and diffuse clinical excellence across Europe by setting up new technologies, clinical workflows, and standards. The Health-e-Child project aims at developing an integrated healthcare platform for European Paediatrics, providing seamless integration of traditional and emerging sources of biomedical information. The long-term goal of the project is to provide uninhibited access to universal biomedical knowledge repositories for personalised and preventive healthcare, large-scale information-based biomedical research and informed policy making.

Organization: UWE, Bristol UK (In collaboration with Siemens AG - Erlangen Germany, CERN Geneva Switzerland, Maat G Knowledge Spain, GOSH UCL London UK, University of Athens Greece, University of Genoa, Italy, INRIA France)

DIANA Grid Scheduler (2004-2007)

The Data Intensive and Network Aware (DIANA) Grid Scheduler project investigated Data driven and Network Aware meta-scheduling approaches. The Scheduler takes into account a cost based mechanism to map jobs against the resources when making scheduling decisions across multiple sites. An extended version of the DIANA scheduling system not only allocates best available resources to a job, but also checks the global state of jobs and resources so that the output of the whole Grid is maximized and no single user or job can undergo starvation. The DIANA is a performance-aware and an economy-guided Meta Scheduler. The DIANA meta-schedulers create a peer-to-peer hierarchy of schedulers to accomplish resource management, since existing scheduling hierarchies are not sufficient for Grid systems due to their inability to change with evolving loads and due to the dynamic and volatile nature of the resources. The DIANA Scheduling Algorithm and its Queue Management mechanism for coping with the load distribution and supporting bulk job scheduling are the novel research contributions. Results indicate that considerable performance improvements can be gained by adopting the DIANA Scheduling approach.

Organization: CERN Geneva Switzerland (In Collaboration with UWE Bristol UK, NIIT Islamabad, Caltech USA)

PhantomOS (2005-2009)

This project is attempting to build a Grid Operating System. Despite having made huge progress during the last decade, Grid computing is not as pervasive as has been promised over recent years. This shortfall in use can be traced to obstacles coming from the strong focus on middleware in Grid computing research and on a hitherto particular community of largely scientific and engineering users. This has led to some limitations in existing grid infrastructures in terms of interactive application support, resource discovery in highly dynamic environments and scalable topologies for grids with loosely coupled dynamic clusters. In addition, the infrastructure required in managing Grids and the steep learning curve associated with maintaining contemporary Grid middleware discourages potential users from adopting the Grid. PhantomOS aims at the development of a pervasive general purpose Grid computing platform for both common and existing grid users by converging user-centric computing with eScience-centric grid computing, via a Grid Operating System built on a virtualized infrastructure. Moreover, a two-tier super-peer model based discovery topology is being created to converge centralized grid computing with the decentralized P2P architecture, leading to a potentially high QoS, scalable, self-organizing and fault tolerant Grid.

Organization: UWE Bristol UK (In collaboration with NIIT Islamabad)

JClarens (2002-2004)

The Clarens Grid-Enabled Web Services Framework is an open source, secure, high-performance "portal" for ubiquitous access to data and computational resources provided by computing grids. Clarens was developed as part of a wide-area network Grid-enabled Analysis Environment for collaborative analysis of data generated by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN. JClarens has been developed as a Java-based supplement to the Python-based Clarens Web Services Framework developed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The interoperability between the two implementations has helped to solidify the service APIs for both. It has also enabled Windows servers to host Clarens servers, which were previously only deployable on UNIX/Linux. The JClarens architecture is based on Java Servlet Technology and XML-RPC/SOAP. JClarens and the original Clarens are intended to be deployed as a set of peer-to-peer servers, each complementing the services provided by the other servers. The server-side application environment provides a standard, easy to use framework for developing Grid services, with mechanisms for PKI-based authentication, authorization based on access control lists in the context of distributed virtual organizations.

Organization: National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad (in collaboration with Caltech USA, CERN Geneva and UWE Bristol)

MAGGIE (2004-2005)

MAGGIE - Measurement and Analysis of the Global Grid and Internet End-to-End Performance - is a collaborative research project by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) USA and NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT). The motivation behind the project was the need for a better and more integrated network performance measurement and Monitoring, considering the increasing amount of computing and networking power in the scientific research community. Its purpose was to integrate numerous network and application performance monitoring tools into a scalable and secure infrastructure providing measurements, analysis and access to data. Most of the monitoring tools being developed, derive their data from the PingER project. PingER (Ping End-to-end Reporting) is the name given to the Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project to monitor end-to-end performance of Internet links. Originally in 1995 it was for the High Eneergy Physics community, however, this century it has been more focussed on measuring the Digital Divide from an Internet Performance viewpoint. The project now involves measurement to over 600 sites in over 125 countries. The project is still running and new developments have been made by the concerned researchers in the recent past.

Organization: National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad (In collaboration with SLAC, Stanford USA)

GAE (2003-2005)

Grid Enabled Analysis Environment (GAE) is aimed at providing an integrated service oriented environment for physicists to support distributed analysis of physics data from the CMS LHC experiment. A Grid Analysis Environment is a combination of software architecture, network and storage infrastructure, and software collaboration and analysis tools to enable many people to make effective use of Data and Computational computer Grids.. A set of services was developed to provide end users, in particular advanced end users, the ability to get more information about available resources and to gain more control over the execution of their jobs. These services have been written within the framework of a Grid Analysis Environment (Clarens Project), which advocates a web services based architecture to enable interoperability and language-neutral communication between various services. A steering service was developed to provide dynamic and adaptive resource management in a Grid environment. This assumes the Grid as a real-time system and plans to make intelligent decisions strategically in a consistent way, taking into account the changing state of the system. An estimator service allows users and other services to estimate the cost of doing a number of tasks, such as running a job, transferring a file, and accessing a server and thus helps resource brokers and schedulers to make optimal decisions. A job monitoring service enables the steering service (as well as clients) to collect information about the status of running jobs and the resources being used by them, such as CPU usage, amount of I/O performed, and the running executables. Finally, a meta-scheduling service enables users to select best resources taking into account data location, computing power availability and network conditions. The scheduling service uses the features of the other services and follows a P2P architecture. The scheduling service also supports bulk scheduling, policy aware scheduling and is data and network aware.

Organization: National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad (In collaboration with Caltech, USA)

ESTEEEM : Emerging Sensor Technologies for Effective Environmental Monitoring (2007-2010)

Reliable, high frequency, wide-scale monitoring of the Earth system is important for a number of reasons. Understanding the limits of natural resources that sustain life (such as water and soil) is vital if we are to maintain and enhance quality of life both globally and nationally. In order to better understand the processes that define our land-atmosphere-aquatic ecosystems, the development of simulation models that can be used for scientific, operational and predictive purposes including water resource management, weather forecasting and the impact of climate change is essential. It is crucial to have real-time environmental data when dealing with natural or human induced disasters, such as floods, prolonged droughts, hurricanes, and pollution. Consequently there is a pressing need for reliable and cost-effective mechanisms to remotely gather environmental data on a wide-scale, continuous and non-intrusive basis. The magnitude of this problem demands extensive take-up and deployment of established and emerging technologies that sense and measure key environmental variables through user-friendly tools, which can be configured, deployed and used by application scientists. It is evident that the tools and technologies used for environmental monitoring need to be user-friendly, easy to deploy, widely accessible by application scientists and capable of being exploited across a range of environmental applications. ESTEEM will advance current WSN research by demonstrating the use of sensor-based monitoring and data capture by a "non-technical" user community for a variety of environmental applications; it will bring WSN technology to the desktop for increasing numbers of environmental scientists.

Organization: UWE Bristol UK and National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad

Mobile Computing for e-Science: (2002-2005)

This research project was aimed at making the power of Grid computing available to resource-limited devices such as Pocket PC and Palm. Design and an implementation of a Grid-enabled physics analysis environment for handheld and other resource-limited computing devices were published as one example of the use of mobile devices in eScience. The project implemented a set of physics analysis applications (Root and JAS) for handhelds and optimized them for maximum performance on the handheld devices (by tuning the JVM to fulfil resource constraints). The implementation aimed to provide users of handheld devices the capability to launch heavy computational tasks on computational and data Grids, monitor the jobs� status during execution, and retrieve results after job completion. Users carry their jobs on their handheld devices in the form of executables (and associated libraries). Users can transparently view the status of their jobs and get back their outputs without having to know where they are being executed. In this way, this system is able to act as a high-throughput computing environment where devices ranging from powerful desktop machines to small handhelds can employ the power of the Grid. The results shown in this project are readily applicable to the wider eScience community.

Organization: National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad (In collaboration with Caltech, USA)

Access Card System for APS (American Payment System) (2002-2003)

An Access Card System was implemented to provide a flexible processing and card management platform, which combines agility and technical design to support the changing demands of the stored value industry. The System is implemented using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and is truly distributed in functionality. By enabling the independent configuration of card parameters including fees and charges, card and transaction limits, service options and branding the system ensures that services can be quickly and easily launched. The system accepts transactions from a diverse range of delivery channels, intelligently switching them to a variety of external networks. The System connects to a variety of devices including point-of-sale (POS) terminals, ATMs, IVR and the Internet. Its architecture isolates the device from the communication protocol layer, resulting in higher reliability and client flexibility. Transactions can be authorized against a local database in a stand-alone mode or through a remote host or an external network.

Organization: i2cinc, USA

Real Time Exposure and Loss Monitoring System (1999-2001)

The System was implemented to calculate, control, communicate and monitor the LSE exposure and loss mechanism and implement the administrative and financial policies in real time. Using TIBCO Rendezvous and C++ libraries, a truly distributed, low overhead, low traffic, and almost real time even driven and messaging system was implemented to inform the decision makers about the exposure, loss and other indicators during the trading hours. It provided the capability to calculate the various trading indicators of a particular stock broker and communicate it to financial and managerial decision makers. This also controls the trading limits, loss limits, exposure and other financial limits and effectively enforces the policies so that broker should adhere to these limits.3

Organization: Lahore Stock Exchange

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

• Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Member of British Computer Society

Recent Conferences

• 2003 International conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC) Shanghai, China
• 2004 Workshop on Internet resource management by APNIC Australia
• 2004 Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP), Interlaken Switzerland
• 2005 Workshop on Next Generation Networks, NUST Islamabad
• 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Oslo Norway
• 2005 Health Grid, Oxford UK2005 Cluster Computing and Grid (CCGrid) Cardiff, UK
• 2005 Frontiers of Information Technology, Islamabad
• 2005 International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET) Islamabad
• 2006 Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP), Bombay India
• 2006 Europython, Geneva Switzerland2006 The Third International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU), London
• 2006 The 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Barcelona Spain
• 2006 International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET) NC, USA
• 2006 2nd International Conferences on eScience and Grid Computing, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2007 Open Grid Forum (OGF 20), Manchester, UK
• 2007 Second International Conference on Open-Source Systems and Technologies, Lahore, Pakistan
• 2007 UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Nottingham, UK
• 2008 The 3rd EGEE User Forum, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• 2008 The 23rd Open Grid Forum - OGF23, Barcelona, Spain2008 UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, UK
• 2009 Open Grid Forum (OGF 25) and 4th EGEE User Forum, Catania, Italy
• 2009 4th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing , Geneva, Switzerland
• 2009 8th EGEE Conference, Barcelona, Spain
• 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Oxford, UK
• 2009 UK e-Science AHM
• 2009, Oxford, UK2010 OMII Collaborations Workshop, Edinburgh, UK
• 2010 5th EGEE User Forum, Uppsala, Sweden
• 2010 UK e-Science AHM 2010, Cardiff, UK
• 2011 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2011), Bristol, UK.
• 2011 Ninth HealthGrid conference (HealthGrid 2011), Bristol, UK
• 2011 The EGI Technical Forum, Lyon, France
• 2011 The 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2011), Lyon, France
• 2011 Open Grid Forum (OGF 33), Lyon, France
• 2011 19th annual International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2011), Derby, UK
• 2011 Fifth International Conference on Open-Source Systems and Technologies 22, 23, 24 December 2011, Lahore
• 2011 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2011 (ACM SOCC 2011), Cascais, Portugal
• 2011 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), Melbourne, Australia
• 2012 21st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing Delft, the Netherlands

Additional Interests and Activities

• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
• Guest Editor, Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications
• Sub Guest Editor, Journal of Network and Systems Management
• Reviewer, Journal of Grid Computing
• Reviewer, Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems
• Reviewer, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing
• Reviewer, International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (IJIIDS)
• Reviewer, European Journal of Operations Research Reviewer, Journal of Information Sciences
• Reviewer, Springer Wireless Networks Journal
• Reviewer, Mobile Information Systems Journal
• Reviewer, MDPI Journal of Sensors
• Reviewer, Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications
• Reviewer, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
• Reviewer, BMS Bioinformatics Journal
• Reviewer, IET Software Journal
• Reviewer, Journal of Physics: Conference Series
• Reviewer, International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing (IJSSC)
• Workshop Chair, 4th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) 2011
• PC Member, IEEE Grid 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
• PC Member, HealthGrid 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010
• PC Member, IEEE e-Science 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012
• PC Member, 4th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2012)
• PC Member, IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2008,2009, 2010
• PC Member, UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
• PC Member, Sixth International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC 2011), Barcelona, Spain
• PC Member, The 9th International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2011), Melbourne, Australia
• PC Member, The 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2012, Porto, Portugal
• PC Member, The 2nd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies, 2012, Tirana, Albania
• PC Member, 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC 2012), UK
• PC Member, The Fifth International Conference on Open-Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST), December 2011, Lahore, Pakistan.
• PC Member, DCABES 2004, China
• Invited Speaker, FIT 2005,2006,2007
• PC Member, ACM Middleware 2007
• PC Member, International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009), Budapest, Hungary
• PC Member, 9th International Workshop on State-of-the-Art in Scientific and Parallel Computing (PARA 2008), Trondheim, Norway
• PC Member, Third IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2009), San Francisco, California, 2009
• PC Member, The 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE-09) Vancouver, Canada, 2009
• PC Member, Software Engineering Research, Management & Applications (SERA 2010), Montreal, Canada
• PC Member, Euro-Par 2010, Naples, ItalyPC Member, C* Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering (C3S2E10), Montreal, QC, CANADA, 2010
• PC Member, Medical Imaging on Grids: (MICCAI-Grid Workshop), 2008 (New York), 2009 (London)
• PC Member, International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EURO-PAR 2012), Greece
• PC Member, 5th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS 2010), New Orleans, USA
• PC Member, The 10th International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2012), Cyprus
• Workshop Chair, ITAAC Autonomic Clouds workshop (UCC 2012)
• PhD Examiner, Tauqir Ahmed, UET Lahore
• PhD Examiner, Pen-Choug Sun, Coventry University, UK
• PhD Examiner, Syed Zubair Ahmad, Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad.
• PhD Examiner, Muhammad Shaheen, UET Lahore
• PhD Examiner, Mahmood Ahmad, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

Undergraduate qualifications

• BE Electrical Enginnering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

Postgraduate qualifications

• MS in Computer Science

Research qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, UWE, Bristol, UK
• Postdoc in Computer Science, Imperial College London, UK

Research posts

Institution	Project	Dates
Imperial College London	Transform Project	2010-2011
UWE, Bristol, UK	Health-e-Child and neuGrid Projects	2006-2010
CERN Geneva, Switzerland	LHC Grid (Grid Scheduling)	2004-2006
National University of Science and Technology	LHC Grid, Grid Monitoring and Scheduling	2002-2004

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