
PROFILE SUMMARY
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Dr. Siraj has blend of experience both from academia and IT industry. He completed his Master of Computer Science in 2001 from University of Arid Agriculture Rawalpindi. Then he started his professional career and served as a software engineer at Pakistan International Computer Limited (PICL). He contributed in various software development projects at PICL. Meanwhile he also enrolled in MS Computer Engineering program at Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE, UET Taxila) and completed degree in 2005. After that, Dr. Rathore started his academic career as a faculty member at UET Taxila. Later he joined KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden as a PhD student. At KTH, he worked at networked systems laboratory and actively participated in international ICT research projects. He also served as a consultant at Ericsson Stockholm. He came back to Pakistan in 2019 and joined Barani Institute of Information Technology Rawalpindi as an Assistant Professor. Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor at Capital University of Science and Technology. He is the member of Advanced Network and Security research group and published several research articles in the prestigious international journals and conferences.
QUALIFICATION | |||
PhD | Information Communication & Technology | KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden | 2017 |
MS | Computer Networks | Center for Advance Studies in Engineering (CASE), UET Taxila, Pakistan | 2005 |
MSc | Computer Science | University of Arid Agriculture Rawalpindi, Pakistan | 2001 |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |||
Assistant Professor | Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad | Since – 2021 | |
Assistant Professor | Barani Institute of Information Technology (BIIT), Rawalpindi | 2019 – 2020 | |
Assistant Professor | University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila | 2006 – 2007 |
RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS | |||
1. | Network Function Virtualization | ||
2. | High Performance Networking | ||
3. | Software Defined networking | ||
4. | Network Security |
RESEARCH SUPERVISION | |||
1. | MS | Analysis of OpenCL Application on CPU and GPU | |
2. | MS | On the Design of Efficient and Secure Heterogenous Generalized Signcryption for Wireless Body Sensor Networks | |
3. | MS | SDN-Based Packet Scheduling for Smart Healthcare Services in Mobile Edge Computing | |
4. | MS | SVM Based DDoS Detection and Mitigation in Software Defined Networks |
SR. | JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS | YEAR |
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1 | A. Hayat, Y. N. Khalid, M. S. Rathore, and M. N. Nadir, “A machine learning-based resource-efficient task scheduler for heterogeneous computer systems,” The Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 79, no. 14, pp. 15 700–15 728, 2023 | 2023 |
2 | N. Ahmed, K. A. Bakar, F. T. Zuhra, T. Kehkashan, M. A. Mujahid, M. S. Rathore, M. Dawood, and B. Isyaku, “Security & privacy in software defined networks, issues, challenges and cost of developed solutions: a systematic literature review,” International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 314–340, 2022. | 2022 |
3 | N. Ahmed, A. b. Ngadi, J. M. Sharif, S. Hussain, M. Uddin, M. S. Rathore, J. Iqbal, M. Abdelhaq, R. Alsaqour, S. S. Ullah et al., “Network threat detection using machine/deep learning in sdn-based platforms: a comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art solutions, discussion, challenges, and future research direction,” Sensors, vol. 22, no. 20, p. 7896, 2022. | 2022 |
4 | F. S. Ujager, A. Mahmood, M. Usman, and M. S. Rathore, “A hierarchical energy conservation framework (hecf) of wireless sensor networks by temporal association rule mining for smart buildings,” Egyptian Informatics Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 137–147, 2022. | 2022 |
5 | M. S. Rathore, N. Ahmad, R. Kohli, J. Iqbal, R. Alroobaea, S. Hussain, S. S. Ullah, and F. Umar, “In the direction of service guarantees for virtualized network functions,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2022, no. 1, p. 5507845, 2022. | 2022 |
6 | M. S. Rathore, M. Hidell, and P. Sj odin, “Kvm vs. lxc: comparing performance and isolation of hardware-assisted virtual routers,” American Journal of Networks and Communications, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 88–96, 2013. | 2013 |
7 | S. Rasheed, M. S. Rathore. ”Support Vector Machine Based DDoS Detection and Mitigation in Software Defined Networks.” Journal of Innovative Computing and Emerging Technologies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2024. | 2024 |
8 | M. N. Nadeem, M. S. Rathore, A. Hayat, and J. A. Mansoor. ”CPU vs. GPU: Performance comparison of OpenCL Applications on a Heterogeneous Architecture.” Journal of Computing & Biomedical Informatics , vol. 7, no. 02, 2024. | 2024 |
SR. | CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS | YEAR |
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1 | V. Tanyingyong, M. S. Rathore, M. Hidell, and P. Sj odin, “Resilient communication through multihoming for remote healthcare applications,” in 2013 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). IEEE, 2013, pp. 1335–1341. | 2013 |
2 | V. Tanyingyong, M. S. Rathore, M. Hidell, and P. Sj odin, “Carenet: An architecture for home-based healthcare services,” in 9th Swedish National Computer Networking Workshop SNCNW 2013; Lund; 3-4 June 2013, 2013, pp. 28–31. | 2013 |
3 | M. S. Rathore, M. Hidell, and P. Sjodin, “Pc-based router virtualization with hardware support,” in 2012 IEEE 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications. IEEE, 2012, pp. 573–580. | 2012 |
4 | M. S. Rathore, M. Hidell, and P. Sj odin, “Data plane optimization in open virtual routers,” in NETWORKING 2011: 10th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference, Valencia, Spain, May 9-13, 2011, Proceedings, Part I 10. Springer, 2011, pp. 379–392. | 2011 |
5 | M. S. Rathore, M. Hidell, and P. Sj odin, “Performance evaluation of open virtual routers,” in 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops. IEEE, 2010, pp. 288–293. | 2010 |
6 | A. Razzaq and M. S. Rathore, “An approach towards resource efficient virtual network embedding,” in 2010 2nd International Conference on Evolving Internet. IEEE, 2010, pp. 68–73. | 2010 |
7 | M. S. Rathore, A. Razzaq, M. Hidell, and P. Sj odin, “Site-to-site vpn technologies: A survey,” 2009. | 2009 |
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