I am a DAAD Deutscher Akdamischer Austausch Dienst scholar at the Databases and Distributed Systems Group. In addition to that, I have also been taking part in the activities of the Research Training Group Cooperative, Adaptive and Responsive Monitoring in Mixed Mode Environments.

Current Projects & Research Interests

CEACH: Configurable, Energy-efficient, Application- and Channel-aware Clustering Middleware Service for Sensor Networks

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I am the lead developer and represent my group (DVS) in the project. We team up with the following academic and industry partners for this project:

• Entwerfen und Energieeffizientes Bauen, Fachbereich Architektur, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
• Prelios
• Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung

Anything that falls within any of the following areas interests me:

• Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Multiagent based Systems in resource constrained environments
• Energy efficient and Channel-aware Hierarchical Routing Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Event based Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Complex Event Processing in Sensor Networks
• Software Size and Effort Estimation & Prediction Techniques

Functions & Memberships

Oracle Corporation, USA.: Oracle Certified Professional in the Application Development Track.

Member of the Reviewer Panel: Elsevier Journal on Pervasive and Mobile Computing.

Student Member: ACM, USA. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Teaching

• SS10: Seminar on Wireless Sensor Networks
• WS09/10: Lab (Praktikum) on Wireless Sensor Networks
• SS09: Seminar on Wireless Sensor Networks
• WS08/09: Lab (Praktikum) on Wireless Sensor Networks
• SS08: Lab (Praktikum) on Wireless Sensor Networks
• WS07/08: Seminar on Wireless Sensor Networks
• SS07: Lab (Praktikum) on Wireless Sensor Networks

Prior to joining DVS, I worked as an Assistant Professor at : University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
There I taught the following courses:

• Software Engineering-I
• Software Engineering-II
• Advanced Software Engineering (For CS grad students)
• Object Oriented Design
• Systems Analysis and Design (For Business Major undergraduate students)
• Database Systems

During my Masters studies at the department of Computer Science at: Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan,
I worked as a Teaching Assistant for the following courses:

• Software Engineering
• Software Development: Tools and Processes
• Software Quality

Publications

Conferences/Academic Events Attended

• December 2013
  Embedded Software Engineering Kongress (ESE) 2013, Sindelfingen, Germany.
• December 2012
  Embedded Software Engineering Kongress (ESE) 2012, Sindelfingen, Germany.
• November 2012
  SPS IPC Drives 2012, Nürnberg, Germany.
• October 2010
  Workshop "Oracle Technology Day: Geschäftsorientiertes IT-Management, Testverfahren für Anwendungen, SOA-Dienste und Datenbanken" organized by Oracle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• October 2010
  Workshop "Next Generation Datacenter: Optimize with Oracle, Improve Application Performance & Scale, Cloud Evolution-IaaS, PaaS and Applications" organized by Oracle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• August 2010
  Workshop "Oracle Database Infrastructure Technology Day" jointly organized by Oracle and Intel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• March 2009
  Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Cooperating Objects at Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Graphics Research IGD, Darmstadt, Germany.
• August 2008
  GKmM Summer School on "Monitoring and Coordination Across Networked Autonomous Entities" in Ebernburg, Germany.
• May 2008
  Third IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC 2008), Santorini, Greece.
• February 2008
  First ICST International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems (Ambi-Sys '08) in Quebec, Canada.
• November 2007
  AmI'07: European Conference on Ambient Intelligence at TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
• September 2007
  Senzations'07: Summer School on Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks at Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.