Dr. Abdullah PH.D.

COMPUTER SCIENCE
Moh.Jalal Khel, Village PO. Thandkoi, Tehsil and Distt., Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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”Specializes in : Computer Science and Systems, Cloud Computing, and Mobile Computing”

Brief
My research interest mainly focuses on parallel and distributed computing environments. Parallel and distributed environments is a large
universe and in that universe, I am interested in the subset containing cloud computing environments (task scheduling and VM place-
ment), HPC (for big-data processing), and mobile computing environments (computational offloading, and disconnection management
in mobile computing systems). Another area where my interest lies in the incentive management problem in self-organizing mobile and
wired ad-hoc networks, and computing environments. Recently, I am brainstorming on an idea which employs blockchain technologies
for tracking the incentive records of nodes in the self-organizing environments. Lastly, supervising a Master level student focusing on
Bio-Inspired Workflow Scheduling Strategies in Cloud Computing Environments. Besides all this, I have reviewed manuscripts for IEEE
Access, TIIS, SUSCOM, and AJSE. The list of publications and an under-review manuscript is compiled beneath.

Education
University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PH.D IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Sep. 2013 - Jul. 2017
• Got a Univerity of Malaya Bright Sparks RA-ship for bright students.
• Major Focus: Cloud Computing, Mobile Cloud Computing, Linux Kernel, Android, Application areas of MCC.

CIIT(Comsats Institute of Information Technology) Abbottabad, Pakistan

MS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (CGPA 3.83) August. 2011 - August, 2013
• Got a merit scholarship subsidising 80% tution fee.
• Major Focus: CDNs, Replication, Algorithms, Image Processing.

Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan

BS(HONS) IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (CGPA 3.63) August. 2004 - Dec, 2008
• Major Focus: Basic Concepts.

Experience
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HITEC University Taxila, Pakistan
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Sep. 2017 - to date
• As an instructor of computer science tailoring instructional strategies and learning activities to learner needs in each class is my
priority number one.
• Besides this I am involved in some administrative duties (such as In-charge Summer semester Summer 2018.)
• Furthermore, capacity building of the students is a self assignment I am taking on.

Center for Mobile Cloud Computing Research, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
RESEARCH ASSISTANT Sep. 2013 - Sep. 2016
• Providing efforts for the documentation process of the center.
• Exercising my expertise on technical procurement’s for the center.
• Improving our centers research visibility.

FSKTM Dev. Team Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

WEB DEVELOPER AT FSKTM DEV. TEAM Feb. 2016 - PRESENT
• Developed University of Malaya’s, Visit Management System for national and international visitors.

CIIT(Comsats Institute of Information Technology) Abbottabad, Pakistan

TEACHING ASSISTANT AT DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Sep. 2012 - July 2013
• Assiting Dr. Usama Ijaz Bajwa for the course of Image Processing.
• Conducting labs, and grading exams was major responsibilities.

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Paolucci Multimedia Inc. Offshore, USA
WEB DEVELOPER Dec. 2009 - July 2012
• Developed a customized web portal for JDSU.tv. Featuring video management, trans-coding, and survey questionnaires.
• Constantly maintaining and improving the custom designed web portal.
• Developing and maintaining web application projects.

United Solutions Islamabad, Pakistan

WEB DEVELOPER TRAINEE June 2009 - Dec. 2009
• Introduction with the web development world and team work.
• Developing small components for other web applications.

Academic Projects Thandkoi, Pakistan

PERSONAL PROJECTS 2008 - PRESENT
• As a PhD candidate and RA, prototype an Android based computational offloading system for augmenting native mobile appli-
cations.
• As a Master student prototypes a custom simulation environment for testing replica placement algorithms.
• The BS FYP project was developed in Java. The project is multiplayer turn based cards game called whistle (locally pronounced
as RANG). Java applets are used as clients and Java SDK is used to develop a raw server providing game remotely. The game
engine server is responsible for synchronizing clients and providing communication facilities to the game users.
• Developed a Payroll System in VB.net as semester project in BS.
• Developed a Scroller and Ball game in VB.net as semester project in BS. (inspired from a Nokia game)

List of Publication
Yet another computational offloading framework for mobile device augmentation Under Review
ABDULLAH YOUSAFZAI, ABDULLAH GANI, RAFIDAH MD NOOR XX-XX,XXX
• An Extension of the previous work.
• The proof of concept was improved to support generalized native applications
• We take advantage of the off-the-shelf checkpoint restart technologies and engineered them with AOSP for computational of-
floading.
• Results indicate the system can achieve a significant reduction in application execution time and energy consumption, with the
improved service availability when compared with existing offloading schemes.

Computational offloading mechanism for native and android runtime based

JSS, Elsevier
mobile applications
ABDULLAH YOUSAFZAI, ABDULLAH GANI, RAFIDAH MD NOOR, ANJUM NAVEED, RAJA WASIM AHMAD, VICTOR CHANG 28-39,V-121
• We empirically evaluate the current state of the computational offloading categories.
• We identified research gap in computational offloading with the introduction of ART.
• We propose an offloading framework for native and ART based mobile application.
• We provide the proof of concept experiment which validates the proposed framework.

Directory-based incentive management services for ad-hoc mobile clouds. IJIM, Elsevier
ABDULLAH YOUSAFZAI, VICTOR CHANG, ABDULLAH GANI, RAFIDAH MD NOOR 900–906, V-36-6-A
• We present a directory based framework for incentives management of mobile device resources in ad-hoc mobile cloud environ-
ment.
• We measure the incentives in energy consumption and energy saved not in Monterey bills.
• We equalized the incentives using third party settlement of energy consumptions according to the directory valuations.
• We present future application and business prospects utilizing the proposed framework.

Multimedia augmented m-learning: Issues, trends and open challenges. IJIM, Elsevier
ABDULLAH YOUSAFZAI, VICTOR CHANG, ABDULLAH GANI, RAFIDAH MD NOOR 784–792, V-36-5-A
• Devised a taxonomy based on the technical issues in multimedia augmented m-learning environment.
• How these technical issues affect the quality of learning, and quality of experience of a m-learning environment.
• Discussing trending technologies to improve the adaptability and accessibility of multimedia enabled m-learning environments.
• Outlining open challenges for deep penetration of multimedia enabled m-learning systems.

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Cloud resource allocation schemes: review, taxonomy, and opportunities KAIS, Springer
ABDULLAH YOUSAFZAI, ABDULLAH GANI, RAFIDAH MD NOOR, MEHDI SOOKHAK, HAMID TALEBIAN, MUHAMMAD
1 - 35
SHIRAZ, AND MUHAMMAD KHURRAM KHAN.
• A comprehensive review covering the resource allocation aspects of optimization objectives, design approaches, optimization
methods, and target resources types.
• The state-of-the-art cloud resource allocation schemes are extensively reviewed to highlight their strengths and weaknesses.
• Moreover, a thematic taxonomy is presented based on resource allocation optimization objectives to classify the referenced lit-
erature.
• The cloud resource allocation schemes are analyzed based on the thematic taxonomy to highlight the commonalities and devi-
ations among them.
• Finally, several opportunities are suggested for the design of optimal resource allocation schemes.

A survey on virtual machine migration and server consolidation frameworks for

JNCA, Elsevier
cloud data centers.
RAJA WASIM AHMAD, ABDULLAH GANI, SITI HAFIZAH AB HAMID, MUHAMMAD SHIRAZ, ABDULLAH YOUSAFZAI, FENG
11–25, V-52
XIA
• A state of the art survey on virtual machine migration in cloud data centers.
• Furthermore, presents a state of the art survey on server consolidation in cloud data centers.

Honors & Awards

INTERNATIONAL
Kuala Lumpur,
2013-2016 Bright Spark Scholarship, Got a Univerity of Malaya Bright Sparks RA-ship for bright students.
Malaysia
DOMESTIC
Abbottabad,
2011-2013 Merit Scholarship, CIIT merit scholarship subsidising 80% tution fee.
Pakistan

Presentations
Invited Speaker Lahore, Pakistan
PRESENTED: DEPLOYING OPEN-STACK USING PACKSTACK March 14,2018
• Provides hands-on deploying tips and techniques for configuring a private IaaS cloud infrastructure

Postgraduate Research Symposium Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

PRESENTED: A CHECKPOINT RESTART BASED COMPUTATIONAL OFFLOADING MECHANISMS FOR ANDROID BASED
2016
SMARTPHONES
• Envisioned a transparent computational offloading mechanism for offloading native mobile applications in Android devices.

Postgraduate Research Symposium Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

PRESENTED: A CHECKPOINT RESTART MECHANISMS FOR ANDROID BASED SMARTPHONES 2015
• Envisioned a transparent checkpoint restart mechanisms for Android-based smartphones.

Postgraduate Research Symposium Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

PRESENTED: AVAILAIBILITY AWARE CONTINUOUS REPLICA PLACEMENT PROBLEM 2014
• Introduced a fault tolerant replica placement problem for CDNs

Program Committee
Kuala Lumpur,
2016 Organizer & Member TPC, 1st Malaysian Conference on Cloud Computing
Malaysia
Member TPC, The 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
2017 Valencia, Spain
Conference

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