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NASRO MIN ALLAH, PhD Associate Professor College of Computer Science and information Technology University of Dmmam, KSA

RESEARCH & WORK EXPERIENCE Associate Professor and Advisor to Dean, Department of Computer Scinece, College of Computer Science and information Technology(CCSIT), University of Dmmam, KSA, Sep 2014-Present  Assisting Dean-CCSIT in initiating new academic programs and international collaborations.  Supervising student projects.  Assisting CCSIT in ABET accreditation process

Research Scientist (MIT-CSAIL) & Faculty (EECS-MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sep 2012-Present  Worked actively as a member of SuperTech group at MIT-CSAIL working with Prof. Charles E. Leiserson (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sct/wiki/index.php?title=Group_Members)  Thought 6.UAT to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science students at EECS Dept. of MIT as Recitation Instructor. Responsibilities included grading students and guiding teaching assistants for recitation-related acclivities.

Head and Associate Professor, CS Dept, CIIT, Pakistan, August 2002 - February 2005 & June 2008 August 2012:  Lecturer from August 2002-March 2004, granted early promotion to Assistant Professor in Spring 2004. Raised research funding from key government agencies (Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Nation ICT R&D Fund, Ministry of Science & Technology, Pakistan).  As Head of the Dept (2009-20012), increased student enrollment from 350 to 2,500 within the short span of three years. Initiated, approved and successfully launched four new academic programs. Succeeded in attracting the best faculty (106) for the department.  Supervised one PhD and 8 Master thesis, 2 PhD thesis are at final stage.  Served as both a primary auth or co-author on more 35 research articles, out of which 23 were published in the last three years.  Winner of the following prestigious awards: CIIT Golden Medallion for Innovation (CIMI 2009, cash: PKR-100,000 ); and Best Mobile Innovation in Pakistan (BMIP, cash: $10,000) in year 2010.  Assisted CIIT in developing international linkages with University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), North Dakota State University (NDSU, USA), University of Malaysia (UM, Malaysia) etc.  Received the Best University Teacher Award in 2011 (PKR:100,000), Pakistan.  Architect of MIT-CIIT Seed Fund at MIT. Research Scholar, June 2010-July 2010, Dept of CS, University of York, UK.  Worked with Professor Alan Burns (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~burns/) on non-preemptive scheduling techniques

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Doctoral Student/Researcher, Institute of Software, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS), Beijing, China, February 2005 – August 2008  Research work on real-time systems  Assisted Prof. Yongji Wang in Software Engineering and related courses.  Received numerous scholarships and served as teaching assistant for many undergraduate courses. Lecturer, Margalla Institute of Technology, Pakistan, March 2000 – January 2002  Taught to undergraduate courses like Introduction to Programming, Object Oriented Programming, OS, Principle of Programming Languages etc.  Worked as network administrator. Teaching Assistant, Hamdard University Islamabad, Pakistan. March 1998 – February 2000:  Assisted senior faculty in undergraduate courses.

EDUCATION Post Doc, MIT-USA September 2010– June 2014  Worked with Prof. Charles E. Leisersosn on parallel programming and Cilk language runtime system  Courses in performance engineering of software systems etc Ph.D., Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS), Beijing, China, February 2005 – August 2008  Ph.D. in Engineering Computer Software and Theory, supervisor Dr. Wongji Wang Research in real-time and embedded systems, power efficient scheduling   Courses in real-time systems, operating systems, software engineering, queuing theory, and optimization Masters, Hamdard University, Islamabad, Pakistan, May 2000 - August 2002  Masters in Information Technology, supervisor Dr. I.M. Qureshi  Worked on Beam Steering through Genetic Algorithms  Courses in neural Massachusetts Institute of Technology networks, advanced operating systems/databases, satellite communication and pattern recognition Masters, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, February 1996 – March 1998  Masters in Electronics, supervisor Dr. I. M. Qureshi  Simulation of ALU, Controlling Plant Temperature through 68HC11  Courses in digital logic and circuit design, digital signal processing, automata, and Computer Architecture & Organization Bachelors Science, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan, June 1994- March 1996  Bachelors of Science in Computer Sciences  Courses in mathematics, operating systems, programming languages, and data structure

FOCUS AREAS & INTERESTS 

Systems/Theory: Pipelining parallelism, chromatic scheduling, real-time Systems, virtualization, big data, work stealing algorithm and parallel programming through CILKPlus.

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Applications and services: Disaster recovery, cloud-computing, grid services, network virtualization, advance reservation/scheduling.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (2010 -- )

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Nasro Min-Allah, Xing Jiansheng, Wang Yongji, Utilization Bound for Periodic Task Set with Composite-Deadline, Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering, (36) 6, pp. 1101-1109, 2010. Impact Factor: 0.837 (2012)

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Nasro Min-Allah, Samee Ullah Khan, Wang Youngji, Optimal Task Execution Times for Periodic Tasks Using Nonlinear Constrained Optimization, Journal of Supercomputing, pp. 1-19, 2010. Impact Factor: 0.545 (2010)

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Nasro Min-Allah, Samee Ullah Khan, Nasir Ghani, Juan Li, Lizhe Wang, and Pascal Bouvry, A Comparative Study of Rate Monotonic Schedulability Tests, Journals of Supercomputing, 59(3), pp. 1120-1138, 2012. Impact Factor: 0.545 (2010)

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Sameee Ullah Khan, Nasro Min-Allah, A Goal Programming Based Energy Efficient Resource Allocation in Data Centers, Journals of Supercomputing, Accepted, DOI 10.1007/s11227-0110611-7, 2011. Impact Factor: 0.545 (2010)

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G. L. Valentini, W. Lassonde, S. U. Khan, N. Min-Allah, S. A. Madani, J. Li, L. Zhang, L. Wang, N. Ghani, J. Kolodziej, H. Li, A. Y. Zomaya, and P. Bouvry, An Overview of Energy Efficiency Techniques in Cluster Computing Systems, Cluster Computing, 16(1): 3-15 (2013). Impact Factor: 0.679 (2010)

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Nasro Min-Allah, Hameed Hussain, Samee Ullah Khan, Albert Y. Zomaya, Power Efficient Rate Monotonic Scheduling for Multi-core Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 72(1), pp. 48-57, 2011. Impact Factor: 1.078 (2010)

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Kashif Bilal, Samee Khan Nasro-Min-Allah, Sajjad Madani, Khizar Hayat, Majid I. Khan, Joanna Kolodziej, Lizhe Wang, Sherali Zeadally, A Survey on Green Communications using Adaptive Link Rate, Journal of Cluster Computing, 16(3): 575-589 (2013). Impact Factor: 0.679 (2010)

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Osama Khalid, Samee Khan, Nasro-Min-Allah, Sajjad Madani, Khizar Hayat, Majid I. Khan, Joanna Kolodziej, Lizhe Wang, Sherali Zeadally, Comparative Study of Trust and Reputation Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks, Journal of Security and Communication Networks, 6(6): 669-688 (2013). Impact Factor: 0.356

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J. Kolodziej, S.U. Khan, L. Wang, A Byrski, N Min-Allah and S.A. Madani, Hierarchical Geneticbased Grid Scheduling with Energy Optimization, Cluster Computing, 16(3): 591-609 (2013). Impact Factor: 0.679.

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Oscar Diaz, Feng Xu, Nasro Min-Allah, Mahmoud Khodeir, Min Peng, Samee Khan, Nasir Ghani, Network Survivability for Multiple Probabilistic Failures, IEEE Communications Letters 16(8): 1320-1323 (2012).

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Kashif Bilal, S.U. Khan, N Min-Allah, S.A. Madani, Quantitative Comparisons of the State of the Art Data Center Architectures, Accepted for publication in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 25(12): 1771-1783 (2013).

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Jingzheng Wu, Liping Ding,Yanjun Wu, Nasro Min-Allah, Samee U. Khan, Yongji Wang, C2 Detector: A Covert Channel Detection Framework in Cloud Computing, Accepted for publication in Security and Communication Networks, 2013. Impact Factor: 0.414.

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Kaile Liang, Hamed Alazemi, Nasro Min-Allah, Min Peng, Nasir Ghani, An Optimization Approach for Multi-Domain Optical Network Provisioning, to appear in IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 2013.

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H. Hussain, S. U. R. Malik, A. Hameed, S. U. Khan, G. Bickler, N. Min-Allah, M. B. Qureshi, L. Zhang, W. Yongji, N. Ghani, J. Kolodziej, A. Y. Zomaya, C.-Z. Xu, P. Balaji, A. Vishnu, F. Pinel, J. E. Pecero, D. Kliazovich, P. Bouvry, H. Li, L. Wang, D. Chen, and A. Rayes, A Survey on Resource Allocation in High Performance Distributed Computing Systems, Parallel Computing. (Forthcoming), Impact Factor: 1.214

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Nasro Min-Allah, Samee Ullah Khan, Xiuli Wang, Albert Y. Zomay, Lowest Priority First Based Feasibility Analysis of Real-time Systems, Accepted for publication in: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Impact Factor: 1.078.

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S. U. R. Malik , S. U. Khan, S. J. Ewen , N. Tziritas, J. Kolodziej, A. Y. Zomaya, S. A. Madani, N. Min-Allah , L. Wang, C. Xu, Q. M. Malluhi, J. E. Pecero, P. Balaji, A. Vishnu, R. Ranjan, S. Zeadally, and H. Li, "Performance Analysis of Data Intensive Cloud Systems Based On Data Management and Replication: A Survey," Distributed and Parallel Databases. (Forthcoming)

BOOK CHAPTERS 

N. Minallah, S. Khan, W. Youngji, J. Kolodziej, N. Ghani, “Maximizing System Utilization by Adjusting Task Computation Times”, in Scalable Computing and Communications: Theory and Practice (Editors S. Khan, L. Wang, A. Zomaya), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2013, Chapter 19.

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P. Lindberg, J. Leingang, D. Lysaker, K. Bilal, S. U. Khan, P. Bouvry, N. Ghani, N. Min-Allah, and J. Li, Comparison and Analysis of Greedy Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithms for Computational Grids, in Energy Aware Distributed Computing Systems, A. Zomaya and Y.-C. Lee, Eds., John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2012.

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Jingzheng Wu, Yanjun Wu, Bei Guan, Yuqi Lin, Samee U. Khan, Nasro Min-Allah, Yongji Wang, C2Hunter: Detection and Mitigation of Covert Channels in Data Centers, Albert Y. Zomaya and Samee Ullah Khan, Eds., in Data Center, Springer, 2014.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

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S. Liu, K. Bilal, S. U. Khan, H. Li, N. Min-Allah, J. Li, N. Ghani, P. Bouvry, and S. Madani, "Heuristics-based Nominal Channels Allocation in Cellular Networks," in 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2010.

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A. Vosoughi, K. Bilal, S. U. Khan, N. Min-Allah, J. Li, N. Ghani, P. Bouvry, and S. Madani, "A Multidimensional Robust Greedy Algorithm for Resource Path Finding in Large-Scale Distributed Networks," in 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2010.

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J. Kolodziej, S. U. Khan, L. Wang, N. Min-Allah, S. A. Madani, N. Ghani, and H. Li, "An Application of Markov Jump Process Model for Activity-Based Indoor Mobility Prediction in Wireless Networks," in 8th IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2011.

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Feng Xu, N Ghani, S.U Khan, N. Min-Allah, Diverse Routing in Multi-Domain Optical Networks With Correlated and Probabilistic Multi-Failures, In international workshop on New Trends in Optical Network Survivability, 2012.

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Joanna Kolodziej, Khizar Hayat, Sajjad Madani, Samee Khan, Limin Zhang, Lizhe Wang ,Dan Chen, Kashif Bilal, Nasro Min-Allah, A Comparative Study of Data Center Network Architectures, 26th European Conference on Modeling and Simulation, ECMS 2012, Germany.

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Jingzheng Wu, Liping Ding, Yuqi Lin, Nasro Min-Allah, Yongji Wang, XEN: A New Method to Mitigate Timing Channel in Cloud Computing, 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, IEEE CLOUD 2012, 678 – 685, 2012.

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Joanna Kolodziej ,Magdalena Szmajduch, Tahir Maqsood, Sajjad A. Madani, Nasro Min-Allah and Samee U. Khan, Energy-aware grid scheduling of independent tasks and highly distributed data, in 11th IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2013.

RESEARCH THESES SUPERVISED 

Rafia Farooqi, A comparative study of rate-monotonic schedulability tests, 2009, MS Thesis

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Muhammad Bilal Qureshi, Finding optimal system speed under fixed priority scheduling in realtime systems, 2010, MS Thesis

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Mohammad Zakrya, Grid high availability & service security issues with solutions, 2010, MS Thesis

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Nazar Abbas, Power aware non-preemptive real-time systems, 2010, MS Thesis

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Ayaz Ali, Response based energy efficient feasibility test for multiprocessor systems, 2011, MS Thesis

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Muhamamd Mustafa Khatak, Unit-quantum scheduling for son-preemptive real-time tasks on multicore platforms, 2011, MS Thesis

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Basharat Mahmood, Controlled-preemption fixed priority scheduling for real-time systems, 2011, MS Thesis

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Syed Sabahat Hussain Bukhari, An efficient load partitioning algorithm for multi-core systems, 2011, MS Thesis

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Ikram Ullah Lali, Formal Design and Verification in parallel File Systems, 2012, PhD Thesis.

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Hameed Hussain, Power Efficient Resource Allocation in HPC Systems, 2009- 2014, PhD Thesis

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Muhammad Bilal Qureshi, Provision of Real-time Services in HPC Systems, 2010- 2014, PhD Thesis

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS    

Best University Teacher Award, cash PKR:100,000, 2011, Pakistan. Recipient of the 1st prize in most prestigious COMSATS Medal for Innovation (CIMI award, cash: PKR:100,000), 2009. Best international student award for the year 2007 – 2008 at iTechs, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. P. R. China. Best Mobile Innovation in Pakistan Award, (BMIP-2010, cash: $10,000)

REFERENCES Charles E. Leiserson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 32 Vassar Street, #32‐G768, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, Phone: +1‐617‐253‐5833, Fax: +1‐617‐253‐0415 Web: http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/~cel Email: [email protected] 2) Nasir Ghani, Professor Department of Electrical Engineering University of South Florida Tampa, FL 33620, USA Work: (813) 974‐4772 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Web: http://eng.usf.edu/~nghani 3) Yongji Wang, Professor Professor, The Lab for Internet Software Technologies (iTechs), Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Email: [email protected] 1)

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