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Arshad Jhumka - Research

Short Bio

I am an Honorary Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick and I am Professor of Distributed Systems in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. While at Warwick, I led the Reliability and Fault Tolerance group, which is part of the AI theme. My group currently has 6 PhD students. I was previously a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.

Research Interests

The central theme of my research is dependability. A system is said to be dependable if trust can be justifiably placed in its correct operation, even in the presence of undesired events (e.g., network failures, malicious behaviours). My current interest lies at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems (e.g., wireless sensor networks, cluster systems), embedded and/or cyberphysical systems and dependability. My work has both an experimental and a formal flavour. I have been increasingly looking at the application of artificial intelligence techniques to the design of dependability.

I have several current research projects in the following areas:

  • Reliability and Fault Tolerance
    • Global predicate detection in fault-prone distributed systems
    • Reliable mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks
    • Self-stabilization in distributed systems, including sensor networks and MANETs
    • Design of dependable software systems
    • Dependability in high performance systems
    • Fair exchange
    • Mechanism design
  • Application of Machine Learning
    • Error detection/failure prediction in cluster systems
    • Root cause analysis
    • Design of dependable software
  • Computer Security
    • Trusted mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs)
    • Security issues in sensor networks
    • Computer/digital forensics
    • Data Science/ support system
      • Dependability-driven design and analysis of large-scale systems
      • Data driven design and analysis of dependable/secure systems and software
      • Data driven design of network protocols for (sensor) networks
      • (Computer/digital) forensics

    Publications

    A list of my publications (in chronological order) can be found here.

    You might also like to visit my profile on DBLP, ACM Portal and Google Scholar.

    Students

    • Current Team

      Matthew Bradbury (Research Fellow) (03.20 - 08.21)

      Internet of Things/Edge Computing - Security at the Edge (Moved to Lancaster, April 2021)
      Ali Meree (Mar 2019) Edge/fog computing
      Sahrish Khan (June 2021) Sentiment analysis
      Sara Alosaime (Nov 2021) Federated Learning
      Alya Alhazmi Edge Computing, IoT
      Majed AlBarrak Computer Security, AI
    • Graduated Students (Sole supervisor)
      Matthew Leeke (2008-2011) Towards the design of efficient error detection mechanisms
      Sain Saginbekov (2010-2015) Efficient and reliable data dissemination and convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks
      Nentawe Gurumdimma (2012-2016) Towards efficient error detection in large-scale HPC systems
      Fatimah Adamu-Fika (2012-2017) LnCm fault model: complexity and validation
      Chen Gu (2014-2018)

      Source location privacy in wireless sensor networks under practical scenarios: routing protocols, parameterisations and trade-offs

      Matthew Bradbury (2014-2018) Near Optimal Routing Protocols for Source Location Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks: Modelling, Design and Evaluation
      Denys Flores (2015-2019) Theory and Practice of Proactive Database Forensics
      Jack Kirton (2016-2020) Source Location Privacy-Aware Data Aggregation Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks
      Edward Chuah (2016-2020) Features Correlation-based Workflows for Error Propagation and Recovery Diagnosis in HPC Systems
      Farrukh Qazi (2015-2020) Towards Automating SLA Enforcement in Cloud Environments
      Mohammed Maray (2017-2021) Efficient Computational offloading of Dependent Tasks in Mobile Edge Networks
      Alwaleed Alharbi (2017-2022) Towards Efficient Predicate Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
      Jasmine Grosso (2017-2021) Reliable many-to-many routing in wireless sensor networks using ant colony optimisation
      Mansour Aldawood (2017-2021) Secure virtual machines allocation in cloud computing environments
      Sara Alhajaili (2018-2023) Towards Reliable Logging in Internet of Things Network
      Abdullah Al Hajri (2018-2023) Performance and Forensic Applications of a Novel OCC Algorithm
      Khalid Alharthi (2019-2023) The Terminator: an AI-Based Framework to Handle Dependability Threats in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
      Jawaher Alharbi (2020-2024) Checkpointing in Transiently-Powered Sensor-Based Internet-of-Things Networks
      • Graduated Students (co-supervised)
        Adam Chester (2007-2011) Towards effective dynamic resource allocation for enterprise applications
        Henry Franks (2009-2013) Supporting cooperation and coordination in open multi-agent systems
      • PostDoctoral Research Assistants (Completed)
        Fred Huang (10.09 - 09.10) Mobile Adhoc Networks
        Matthew Bradbury (03.20 - 03.21) IoT Networks

        Others

        • MSc students - > 10
        • MEng students - > 60
        • BSc students - > 100

        Professional Activities (not maintained)

        I am a full member of IEEE and ACM.

        I have been a member of several TPCs, including:

        • International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (Mobiwac)
        • International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS)
        • International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc Communications (PCAC)
        • DEPEND

        I regularly review papers for journals, including:

        • IEEE Transactions Software Engineering (TSE)
        • IEEE Transactions on Computers (ToC)
        • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
        • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
        • IEEE Transactions on Reliability

        I also regularly review papers for conferences, including:

        • International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
        • International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)

        I also regularly review proposals for EPSRC.