Fawad Nazir

Short Biography:

I graduated from National University of Science & Technology (NUST) institute of Information Technology (NIIT)  Pakistan in Oct 2004 with a Bachelors of Information Technology (BIT). During my BIT I had an honor to be Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan scholar. Further more I graduated with honor degree and received NUST’s most prestigious award Rectors Gold Medal. Right after my graduation I was hired by the same university to work as a Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Arshad Ali in three different projects in collaboration with California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA, Stanford University USA and Communication Technologies (Comtec) Japan . Due to my outstanding performance and understanding about network and network management in Feb 2005 I was invited Dr. Les Cottrell to peruse my research as postgraduate research students at Stanford University USA . I left NUST in Feb 2005 to pursue fame and fortune on the Left Coast of the U.S.A. I joined Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) as a research assistant to work with Network Monitoring team at SLAC Computing Services (SCS). During my one year stay at SLAC I participated in a wide range of projects and spend some fabulous moments of my life. In November 2005 I was part of the team lead my Dr. Les Cottrell who won SuperComputing Bandwidth Challenge for the maximum bandwidth utilization. I left USA in Feb 2006 and visited DERI, Ireland where I was invited to give a presentation and meet with researchers to discuss my research interests. Finally I arrived back to Pakistan by the Mid of Feb 2006 to join NUST. In April 2006, I was one of the only four lucky students who were awarded New South Global Scholarship to peruse my research in the state of NSW, Australia . I joined Department of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication at University of New South Wales (UNSW) to pursue my PhD studies. I was given a top up scholarship by this department. After few weeks of my arrival in Sydney, Australia I was offered a research assistant position in National ICT Australia (NICTA), where I got yet another top up scholarship.

Current Research Interests:

Semantic Web, Social Network Analysis, Mobile Social Networks, Data/Content Dissemination, Mobility Management in 4G Telecommunication Systems.

Research Experience: (I have research publications in the following domains)

11. Large Network Visualization.

Development Experience:

1. Languages: Java (Expert level skills), C/C++, Perl, VB/VB.NET, Web Programming.
2. Protocols : Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (Expert level skills).
3. Mathematical Tookits: Clot, JUNG, Matlab.
4. Graph/Network Visualization and Analysis Toolkits: Pajek (Expert level skills) , JUNG. 
5. Architectures: Autonomous Distributed Systems (ADS), Web Services. 
6. Database : MySQL, PostgresSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle.
7. Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Solaris (Beginner Level).

Employment:

IT Consultant (Trading Data Analysis and Signal Generation)

Share Digest

Sydney, Australia

July 2008 – current

Research Publication Administration & Audit Officer

Research Services

University of New South Wales(UNSW)

Sydney, Australia

May 2008 – July 2008

IT Consultant (Financial Analysis/Trading Algorithms)

Capital Market CRC

Sydney, Australia

March 2008 – May 2008

Visiting Researcher (Semantic Web)

National Institute of Informatics(NII)

Tokyo, Japan

September 2007 – February 2008

Research Publication Administration & Audit Officer

Research Services

University of New South Wales(UNSW)

Sydney, Australia

January 2007 – August 2007

Software Engineer

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center(SLAC)

Stanford University

California, USA

February 2005 – January 2006

Software Designer

NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT)

National University of Science & Technology (NUST)

Rawalpindi, Pakistan

October 2004 – February 2005

Network Management Expert

Communication Technologies (Comtec)

Sendai, Japan.

April 2004 – May 2004

PhD in Electrical Engineering & Telecommunication

University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia

Thesis Title: Dynamic Data Dissemination for Future Wireless Networks

April 2006 - Current

Post-Graduate Research

Stanford University, California, USA

Thesis Title: Anomalous Event Detection for Internet End-to-end Performance Measurements

February 2005 - February 2006

Bachelors of Science (Information Technology) (Graduated With a Rector's Gold Medal)

National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

Thesis Title: Constella: Autonomous IP Network Topology Discovery for Large, Multi-subnet and Dynamic Networks.

October 2000 - October 2004

• FIN0121 : Accounting Fundamentals certificate
• 235539_eng: ABAP Fundamentals certificate
• en_US_14212_ng: ABAP Objects 6.10 Overview certificate

Teaching Experience:

Scholarship/Awards Received:

I received University of New South Wales (UNSW) one of the most prestigious PhD scholarship “New South Global Scholarship” for 4 years of my PhD study.

I received National ICT Australia (NICTA) Postgraduate Award for 4 years of my PhD studies.

I received Supplementary Postgraduate Award (SPA) from University of New South Wales (UNSW) for 4 years of my PhD studies.

I received combined scholarship for one year from US State Department and Ministry of Sciences and Technology (MOST), Pakistan to pursue my postgraduate research at Stanford University, USA.

I received a combined funding from Communication Technologies, Japan and National University of Sciences Technology (NUST), Pakistan to visit Japan and have meeting with NEC and Cyber solutions Japan to commercialize my IP network topology discovery algorithm.

I have an honor of being Higher Education Commission (HEC) Scholar for four years of my B.S. in Information Technology.

I received National University of Science & Technology (NUST) Scholarships in 7 out of 9 semesters during my B.S. Information Technology.

International Research Publication

22. Exploiting Social Interaction for Content Delivery in Delay Tolerant Networks, Fawad Nazir, Upendra Rathnayake, Aruna Seneviratne, Under Progress.

21. Comparison of Community Identification Techniques for Two-Mode Affiliation Networks Using Wikipedia Data, Fawad Nazir, Hideaki Takeda, Aruna Seneviratne, Under Progress.

20. Extraction and Analysis of Tripartite Relationships from Wikipedia, Fawad Nazir, Hideaki Takeda, Accepted for publication at 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2008), Frederiction, New Brunswick, Canada.

19. A Case Study for Mobility Management Protocol Co-existence, Fawad Nazir, Roksana Boreli, Stephen Herborn, Aruna Seneviratne, The First International Workshop on Cross Layer Design (IWCLD 2007) Jinan, China

18. Constella: A Complete IP Network Topology Discovery Solution, Fawad Nazir, Tallat Hussain Tarar, Faran Javed, Hiroki Suguri, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Arshad Ali, 10^th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2007), Sapporo, Japan

17. Towards Mobility Enabled Protocol Stack for Future Wireless Networks, Fawad Nazir, Aruna Seneviratne, published in Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal. (2007), Korea.

16. An Efficient Approach toward IP Network Topology Discovery for Large Multi-subnet Networks, Fawad Nazir,Mohsin Jameel, Tallat Hussain Tarar, Hamid Abbas Burki, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Arshad Ali, Hiroki Suguri, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06) June 2006, Pula-Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

15. Anomalous Event Detection for Internet End-to-end Performance Measurements, R. Les Cottrell, Connie Logg, Mahesh Chhaparia (SLAC), Maxim Grigoriev (Fermilab), Felipe Haro (PUC), Fawad Nazir (NIIT), Mark Sandford (Loughborough University, 2006 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2006) Vancouver, Canada.

14. An intelligent self-learning algorithm for IP Network Topology Discovery. Zohaid Najeeb, Fawad Nazir, Sajjad Haider, Hiroki Suguri, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Arshad Ali. The 14th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2005), September 2005, Chania, Crete, Greece.

13. A Resource Monitoring and Management Middleware Infrastructure for Semantic Resource Grid, Fawad Nazir, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad^, Hamid Abbas Burki¹ Tallat Hussain Tarar, Arshad Ali^, Hiroki Suguri, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Publisher: Springer-Verlag GmbH, ISSN: 0302-9743 ,Scientific Applications of Grid Computing: First International Workshop, SAG 2004, September 20-24, 2004, Beijing, China,

12. Standardizing IP Network Topology Discovery through MIB Development,             Arshad Ali, Faran Javed Chawla, Fawad Nazir*, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Hamid Abbas Burki, and Tallat Hussain Tarar, The 2005 International Conference on Communications in Computing CIC'05: June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, USA

11. Extensions to the Principal Component Analysis based Network Anomaly Detection using Neural Networks, Arshad Ali, Mr. Fawad Nazir, Mr. Hammad A Qureshi, Mr. S Azam H Bukhari, Dr. Waqar Mahmood US-Pakistan 4 Day Workshop on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies 2004, Islamabad, Pakistan.

10. Restriction of Network Topology Discovery within a Single Administrative Domain Sajjad Haider, Fawad Nazir, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hamid Abbas Burki, Hiroki Suguri, Arshad Ali, The 2005 International Conference on Communications in Computing CIC'05: June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, USA

9. A Distributed Services based conference planner application using Software Agents, Grid Services and Web Services, Arshad Ali, M. Omair Shafiq, Amina Tariq, Amna Basharat, H. Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Fawad Nazir, The fourth international Joint Conferecne on Autonomous Agents & Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS) Utrecht University, The Netherlands July 2005, Netherlands.

8. Single Snapshot exploratory approach for visualizing very large network topologies, Arshad Ali, Faran Javed Chawla, Fawad Nazir, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hamid Abbas Burki, Hiroki Suguri, Tallat Hussain Tarar, 3^rd Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, Sept 7-10, 2004, Tokyo, Japan.

7. MoGiNMA: Autonomous Grid Node Monitoring Agent based on Grid Monitoring Architecture, Fawad Nazir, Arshad Ali, Farooq Ahmad, Fawad Nazir, Tallat Tarar, Hamid Abbas , IADIS International Conference, WWW/Internet 2004,  6-9 October 2004, Madrid, Spain.

6. Process Maturity for Software Project Outsourcing, Fawad Nazir, Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Fawad Nazir, Tallat Tarar, Hamid Abbas , IADIS International Conference, WWW/Internet 2004, 6-9 October 2004, Madrid, Spain.

5. District Special Data Infrastructure for Pakistan Educational System, Shahzad Khan, Ghulam Mustafa, Tayyab Ikram Shah, Fawad Nazir, International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organization Learning 29-30 October 2004, Toronto, Canada.

4. An Ontology-Based Knowledge Management Architecture for Autonomous Resource Management in Grid Computing, Arshad Ali, Fawad Nazir, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hamid Abbas Burki, Hiroki Suguri, Tallat Hussain Tarar, International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organization Learning 29-30 October 2004, Toronto, Canada.

3. Proactive Prediction Models in Grid Monitoring using Adaptive Decision making algorithms, Ashiq Anjum, Fawad Nazir, Nasir Rasul, Arshad Ali, Internetwokring 2004, May 13-14, 2004 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

2. Grid Resource Information Sharing Using Ontologies , Fawad Nazir, Arshad Ali, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Hamid Abbas Burki, Tallat Hussain Tarar, 12th Assurance System Symposium, July 6, 2004 Tokyo, Japan.

1. MoGiNMA: A Negotiation Framework for Grid Node Monitoring Agent, Fawad Nazir, Arshad Ali, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Hamid Abbas Burki, Tallat Hussain Tarar, 8th IEEE International Muti-topic conference (INMIC 2004) to be help in December 24-26 2004 at NUCES FAST, Lahore, Pakistan.

Other Publication & Posters:

9. Single Snapshot Exploratory Approach for Visualizing Very Large Network Topologies,  Arshad Ali, Faran Javed Chawla, Fawad Nazir, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hamid Abbas Burki, Hiroki Suguri, and Tallat Hussain Tarar MSV'05, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

8. A Multicast Based Context Transfer Technique for Seamless Handoffs in Mesh Networks, Faraz Idris Khan, Fawad Nazir, Adil Mehmood Khan, Professor Eui Nam Huh, HONET 2006, Dubai, UAE.

7. Network Visualization for Better Analysis of Changes in Network Traffic, Arshad Ali, Ashar Shouket, Usman Ahmad Mian, Fawad Nazir, Mati-ur-Rehman Khan and Azam Bukhar, The First International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 05) was held at NEWI from 7th-9th September 2005, Wrexham, North Wales, UK.

6. Extensions to the Principal Component Analysis based Network Anomaly Detection using Neural Networks, Dr.Arshad Ali, Mr. Fawad Nazir, Mr. Hammad A Qureshi, Mr. S Azam H Bukhari, Dr. Waqar Mahmood, HONET 2005, Islamabad, Pakistan.

5. An Ontology-Based Knowledge Management Architecture for Autonomous Resource Management in Grid Computing, Arshad Ali, Fawad Nazir, Hamid Abbas Burki, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad,International Conference on Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management University of Toronto,29-30 October 2004, Toronto, Canada.

4. Comparison between Two Dimensional time-series & Kolmogorov Smirnoff technique for Anomalous Variations in End-to-End Internet traffic http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/monitoring/forecast/ksvsmb/ksvsmb.htm

3. A Resource Monitoring & Management Middleware Infrastructure for Semantic Resource Grid, Arshad Ali, H. Farooq Ahmad, Fawad Nazir, Hiroki Suguri, Tallat Hussain Tarar, Hamid Abbas Burki, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 5th International Middleware Conference Middleware 2004, Toronto, Canada.

2. Distributed Ontology based Knowledge Management Architecture for Autonomous Resource Utilization, Arshad Ali, H. Farooq Ahmad, Fawad Nazir, Hiroki Suguri, Tallat Hussain Tarar, Hamid Abbas Burki, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 5th International Middleware Conference Middleware 2004, Toronto, Canada.

1. Knowledge Base for Adaptive Decision Making in Autonomous Grid Monitoring Middleware, Ashiq Anjum, Fawad Nazir, Nasir Rasul, Arshad Ali, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 5th International Middleware Conference Middleware 2004, Toronto, Canada.

Professional Activities:

Technical Paper Reviewer

International Journal of Network Management (IJNM)

Special Issue on Mathematical Methods in Network Management

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-NEM.html

Technical Paper Reviewer

2007 IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference 30 September – 3 October 2007
Renaissance Harborplace Hotel,202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD, USA , 21202

http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2007fall/committees.php

Technical Paper Reviewer

4^th international conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations'07)  Dubai  Noc 18-20 2007

http://www.it-innovations.ae/iit07/reviewers.htm

• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) - fawad.nazir@acm.org
• Australian Computer Society (ACS) - fawad@acsmail.net.au

Travel Experience:

Korea (Seoul, Suwan, Busan)

Japan (Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo)

USA (California, Nevada, Washington)

Australia (Sydney, Canbera)

China (Shanghai, Beijing, Jinan)

Ireland (Galway)

UK (London, Cardiff)

Canada (Toronto, Fredericton)

Sports:

Sky diving , Snorkeling, Swimming, Tennis, Squash, Table tennis, Badmintion, Cricket, Running

Hobbies:

Ambigrams, Photography

Languages:

Urdu (Read Write & Speak), English (Read, Write & Speak), Hindi (Speak), Punjabi (Speak), Arabic (Read), Japanese (learning)

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