Introduction to the philosophy of IHSAN Lab and available research opportunities

1. Director:
Junaid Qadir
Associate Professor,
Elect. Engineering Department,
ITU-Punjab, Lahore
IHSAN* Lab(*ICT for human development, systems and networking)
Ihsanlab.itu.edu.pk

2. The excellence
imperative

3. Hadith Jibreel—The Hadith of Ihsan
Prophet Muhammad (SAW) also said:
“Verily, Allah the Exalted loves that the
doer of an action perfects his action.”
…

4. (1) The importance of setting goals
(2) it is worth setting yourself high goals.
(3) The importance of hard work
To do great research: you must aim BIG

5. Work with people doing/ who can do great research
To learn research, you must
work like an apprentice
who (atleast) aspire to

6. PERSONAL PROFILE &
RESEARCH INTERESTS

7. Scopus
indexed
papers
>50 Journal
papers
(Master
Journal List)
35 ISI-indexed
impact
factor papers
27
Citations on
papers
500
+ h-index
13 Cumulative
impact
factor
60+
Publications profile

8. Previous Research Work (selected)
2006, 2013, 2016 2007, 2008 (best
paper nomination)
2006
Conferences
Research funding
Principal investigator (PI) of a 3 million PKR project
“Efficient routing on multimedia content on dynamic spectrum
access wireless networks”
Agency: HEC (Pakistan); Duration: 2011 - 2013
Journals

9. Quality of published papers
(source: Thomson Reuters JCR 2014)
IF: 6.806; 2 papers
IF: 4.007; 2 papers
IF: 3.453
IF: 2.543
Have published in most of
the top journals of my field

10. Professional Activities/ Recognition
Journal Editorial Service
1) IEEE Access (Scopus Indexed)
2) IEEE Communications Magazine (ISI Indexed, Q1)
3) Big Data Analytics (PubMed Indexed)
4) Springer Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences
Editor of Various Special Issues
• Lead Editor of Feature Topic on ‘Computational Intelligence for Mobile Network Optimization’ in IEEE Computational
Intelligence Magazine, February 2018.
• Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Towards Enhancement of Communication Systems, Networks and Applications for
Smart Environment” in Springer Journal of Ambient Intelligent and Humanized Computing, 2018.
• Lead Editor of Special Section on ‘Health Informatics for the Developing World’ in IEEE Access, September 2017.
• Guest Editor of Special Issue on Deep Learning and Wearable Sensing in Hindawi Journal Of Sensors, September 2017.
• Lead Editor of Feature Topic on ‘Wireless Technologies for Development’ in IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2016.
• Lead Editor of Special Section on ‘Artificial Intelligence Enabled Networking’ in IEEE Access, December 2015.

11. Big Data Cloud
Computing
Network
Virtualization
Formal
Methods
Software Defined
Networks (SDN)
Applied
Machine Learning/ AI
Learning/
Pedagogy
Cognitive
Networking
Wireless
Networks
Multipathing/
Resource pooling
ICT/ Data
Science for
Development
Routing
Algorithms
Wireless Mesh
Networks
Diverse research interests
Research areas published in
Crisis
Analytics
Health
Informatics
Educational
Data Mining
Computational
Social Science
Approximate
Networking

12. Intended approach
Multi-
disciplinary
Impact and
Utility
Social
(collaborative)

13. Research collaborations (selected)

14. IHSAN Lab
(2016–)
Scopus
index papers
>25 Journal papers
(Master
Journal List)
20 ISI-indexed
impact factor
papers
13

15. Approximate Networking
The Pareto Principle
(also called the
80/20 rule)
TheTainter Curve
(the downside of too
much complexity)
Iatrogenics:
the externalities of
technology

16. Global access to the Internet for all
(GAIA)
Power of Good Enough
Operators should consider working with
community-driven bottom-up networking
Resource Pooling DIY networking Inclusive Architecture
Context-
appropriate
tradeoffs
Support diverse
approaches

17. Computational Social Science
Computer
Science
Social Science
Computational
Social Science
Psychology
Sociology
(Behavioral) Economics

18. Persuasive technology/ Positive Computing
Computer
Science
Positive Psychology
Behavior economics
Positive
Computing
Persuasive
Technology
Modeling/mitigating anti-social behavior
Rational Mind
Emotions
Society
Nudging people through persuasive tech.

19. Big data for development
Applying ML for education/healthcare/crime analytics

20. Big data for development
Learning analytics
Crisis Analytics Crime analytics Health analytics

21. Internet measurement based research

22. Cognitive networking
Deep Learning
Deep
RL

23. Desired skills
• Person skills: Intrinsically Motivated; Grit;
Professionalism
• System skills: programming background
(necessary to implement ideas)
• Mathematics/ statistical skills: Statistics,
probability, machine learning, data science
• Research skills: Good reading/writing skills
junaid.qadir@itu.edu.pk

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