Community Activities

Current External affiliations

Current Community Engagements (Program/Organising Committee)

  • The 31st ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2025)

  • The 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2025)

  • The 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EURO S&P 2025)

  • The 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2025)

  • ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2024 (IMC 2024)

  • The 2024 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication(ACM SIGCOMM 2024)

  • The 22nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys 2024)

  • The 30th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2024)

  • IEEE/ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings’24)

  • Privacy Regulation and Protection in Machine Learning Workshop at ICLR 2024 (PRIVATE ML’24)

  • The 4th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys’24)

Consultancy

I offer consultancy services on research project and patent disputes, privacy, online advertising, and systems approach to related areas. Please contact me for informal discussions about your requirements and projects.

External examination

Journals (Editorial Board)

Journals (Reviewer)

I no longer perform reviews for commercial journals not supporting Open Access, or those (like Elsevier) taking part in political sanctions against any country.

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), PLOS ONE, Computers in Human Behavior, Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE JSAC Special issue on Measuring and Troubleshooting the Internet, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE JSAC on Network Science, IEEE Network, IET Networks, World Wide Web Journal, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, MDPI Entropy, Springer World Wide Web Journal, Elsevier COMNET, Elsevier Social Networks, Elsevier Computer Communications, Wiley’s handbook on Computer Networks, Computer Communications Journal, Springer Journal of the Network and Systems Management, Springer book ‘Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures’, Kunstliche Intelligenz (Artificial Intelligence), China Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Wireless Networks (WINET), Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), New Media & Society

Teaching

2018-2020: Imperial College Sensing & IoT (UG)
2015-2017: QMUL Digital Media and Social Networks (PG-UG)
2015-2017: QMUL 21st Century Networks with Steve Uhlig
2013-2014: QMUL Digital Media and Social Networks (PG-UG)
2013-2014: BUPT Networks and Protocols (UG) with Michael Chai
2013-2014: QMUL 21st Century Networks with Steve Uhlig
Cambridge University Computer Laboratory on MPhil course with Jon Crowcroft, Network Architecture guest lectures 2010, 2011, 2012
2012-2013: QMUL Computer Systems and Networks (UG) with Graham White
2012-2013: QMUL Communications and Networks (UG) with Vindya Wijeratne
2012-2013: QMUL 21st Century Networks (PG) with Steve Uhlig
2011-2012: QMUL ELE403 Internet Protocols (UG) with Maged Elkashlan
2011-2012: QMUL AMCM051 The Semantic Web (PG) with Félix Cuadrado

I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

PhD examination

Yanke Sun, UCL EEE, October 2024
Reza Nasirigerdeh, Technische Universität München, July 2024
Mohammad Naseri, UCL CS, July 2024
Kaihua Qin, Imperial College London, January 2024
Abhishek Mishra, INRIA Saclay, October 2023
Afroditi Papadaki, UCL EEE, October 2023
Sina Sajadmanesh, EPFL, August 2023
Ismael Castell Uroz, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, July 2023
Pelayo vallina Rodríguez , IMDEA Networks Institute, January 2023
Julien Gamba, IMDEA Networks Institute, September 2022
Jide Edu, Kings College London, June 2022
Zahra Tarkhani, University of Cambridge, May 2022
Ecenaz Erdemir, Imperial College London, February 2022
Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Lille university and INRIA Lille, December 2021
Michael Andreas Haus, Technical University of Munich, January 2021
Mohammed Ayyoob Ahamed Hamza, UNSW Sydney, November 2020
Anders Tungeland Gjerdrum, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, November 2020
Yifan Du, INRIA, France, July 2020
Liuqing Chen, Imperial College London, January 2020
William Wilkinson, Queen Mary University London, September 2019
Athanasios Andreou, EURECOM & UPMC, June 2019
Costas Iordanou, Technische Universität Berlin, February 2019
Feng She, Imperial College London, October 2018
Luca Melis, UCL, July 2018
Luca Vassio, Politecnico di Torino, March 2018
Yang Liu, University of Oxford, February 2018
Valerio Ciotti, Queen Mary University London, October 2017
Gregory Tsipenyuk, University of Cambridge, September 2017
Liam Turner, Cardiff University, July 2017
Sultan Alanazi, University of Nottingham, May 2017
Noradila Nordin, University College London, May 2017
Valentin Radu, University of Edinburgh, March 2017
Antonio Lima, University of Birmingham, June 2016
Dong Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), October 2015
Suranga Seneviratne, University of New South Wales/NICTA, August 2015
Tulio de Souza, University of Oxford, July 2015
Danny Matthews, University of Sussex, December 2014
Vasileios Giotsas, UCL, September 2014
Jiefeng Chen, The University of New South Wales, April 2014
Antonio Davoli, Sapienza University of Rome, November 2013
Anastasios Noulas, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, October 2013

Funding body reviews

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Peer Review Associate College
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Indo Swiss Joint Research Programme (ISJRP)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Canada Foundation for Innovation

Administration

Director of Postgraduate Studies, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London (2018-2022) Deputy Director of Research, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London (2017-2019) Member of admissions team, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London (2018-2022)

Randoms:

Fitness Instructor (part time), UCL Union Bloomsbury Fitness, June 2006-Jan 2009
Former President/Committee member, UCL Electrical Engineering Society (Flemingo Society), ULU Canoe Polo Club , Kensington Wrestling Club , University of London Lifesaving club, UCL Union Persian society

Past events & associations (and is there a cure?)

This list got too big to be useful, we have too many conferences and workshops (though many of them are pretty good!).

External Reviewer for ACM CSCW2015, IEEE WiMob (2011), IEEE/ACM MASCOTS,ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE INFOCOMM, IEEE/ACM ToN, USENIX NSDI, BCS HCI, ACM IMC, ACM UBICOMP, ACM ISWC

  • The 41st IFIP International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (Performance 2023)

  • The Eighth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2023)

  • ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2023 (IMC 2023)

  • ICML 2023 Workshop on Federated Learning and Analytics in Practice (FL @ ICML 2023)

  • The 21st ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys 2023)

  • The 29th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2023)

  • The 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2023)

  • IEEE Secure Development Conference 2022 (SecDev2022)

  • The ACM Data Economy workshop 2022, Co-Located with CoNext 2022 (ACM DE 2022)

  • The 18th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2022)

  • ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2022 (IMC 2022)

  • The 2022 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication(ACM SIGCOMM 2022)

  • The 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys’22)

  • IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things 2022 (Co-located with Oakland 2022)

  • The 2022 ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance conference (ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2022)

  • The 28th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2022)

  • The 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2021)

  • The ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (ACM SIGCOMM 2021)

  • The ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 2021 (ANRW’21)

  • The 44th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2021)

  • The 27th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2021)

  • 5th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (IFIP TMA Conference 2021)

  • The 19th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys 2021)

  • Distributed and Private Machine Learning workshop at ICLR 2021 (DPML 2021)

  • The 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2021)

  • The 1st Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys 2021)

  • UK Next Generation Networking Multi-Service Networks Program Committee co-chair (2013-2020, alongside Iain Philips)

  • The 16th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2020)

  • ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2020 (IMC 2020)

  • The 43rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2020)

  • Third UK Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Systems Research Symposium (MobiUK 2020)

  • The 26th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2020)

  • The Web Conference, 2020 (WWW 2020)

  • The 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2020)

  • The 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining WSDM 2020)

  • ACM SIGCOMM CoNext conference Steering Committee Member (August 2016 to December 2019)

  • Information Services Director on ACM SIGCOMM Executive committee (since July 2013, July 2017)

  • ACM Sensys conference Steering Committee Member (2015-2017)

  • Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA, 2012-2018)

  • The 15th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2019)

  • ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2019 (IMC 2019)

  • The 25th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2019)

  • The 1st International Workshop on Federated Machine Learning for Data Privacy (FML2019)

  • The 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining WSDM 2019)

  • The Web Conference, 2019 (WWW 2019)

  • ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2018 (IMC 2018)

  • The 26th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2018)

  • The 24th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2018)

  • ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Workshop on IoT Security and Privacy (IoT S&P)

  • The International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 30)

  • The 1st ACM SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys 2018)

  • 16th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2018 Poster session)

  • The 8th ACM Digital Health conference (DH 2018)

  • IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Decentralized Orchestration and Management of Distributed Heterogeneous Things (dominos 2018)

  • The Web Conference 2018 (WWW 2018)

  • Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2018)

  • 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2018)

  • ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2017 (IMC 2017)

  • ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2017 Shadow PC

  • ACM SIGCOMM 2017

  • ACM SIGCOMM 2017 Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM’2017)

  • ACM SIGCOMM 2017 Reproducibility Workshop (Reproducibility’17)

  • Data Transparency Lab Grants Program (DTL Call for Proposals 2017)

  • 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2017)

  • 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017)

  • 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017 , User Modeling, Personalization, and Experience track)

  • 7th ACM International Conference on Digital Health (DH 2017)

  • Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2017)

  • Third International IEEE Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (CLaw 2017)

  • 9th IEEE International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom 2017)

  • The 8th Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX 2016)

  • 8th EAI International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE 2016)

  • ACM SIGCOMM 2016

  • 12th ACM SIGCOMM Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC 2016)

  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC) Special Issue on Privacy and the Internet of Things

  • 1st ACM MobiSys International Workshop on Mobile Data (MOBIDATA 2016)

  • 3rd ACM MobiSys International Workshop on Physical Analytics (WPA 2016)

  • 2nd Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (ICCSS 2016)

  • The 10th Internationa AAAI conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016)

  • 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016 , mobility track)

  • 6th ACM International Digital Health conference (DH 2016 , Social Computing for Health Track co-Chair)

  • The 36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2016)

  • IEEE International Conference on Communications 2016 (ICC 2016, Social Networking track)

  • The Alan Turing Institute Symposium on Responsible, Ethics-Aware Research & Innovation in Data Science (March 2016)

  • The 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2016)

  • The 8th IFIP Traffic Monitoring and Analysis workshop (TMA 2016)

  • The 8th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-­scale mObile computing and online Social neTworking (HotPOST’16)

  • 5th IEEE Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP2016 , with IEEE INFOCOM 2016)

  • IEEE 2nd Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (CLaw 2016)

  • ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNext 2015)

  • 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE 2015)

  • ACM SIGCOMM 11th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC 2015)

  • ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN 2015)

  • First International Workshop on Social Sensing (SocialSens 2015)

  • ACM SIGCOMM 2015

  • Multi-Service Networks 2015 (MSN 2015)

  • IEEE GLOBECOM 2015

  • 9th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2015)

  • 5th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015)

  • Data Natives Workshop, City University London (Data Natives 2015)

  • 12th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2015)

  • Seventh International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA 2015)

  • The 7th Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX 2015)

  • 7th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-­scale mObile computing and online Social neTworking (HotPOST 2015)

  • 1st IEEE International Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud Computing (CLaw 2015)

  • Fourth IEEE Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP2015 , with IEEE INFOCOM 2015)
  • The International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM CPCC 2014)
  • Sixth International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE 2014)
  • Propagation Phenomena in Real World Network, Springer Book, 2014
  • IEEE Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity for the Digital Economy (PADE 2014)
  • 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2014)
  • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2014)
  • IEEE GLOBECOM 2014
  • International Workshop on Computational Advertising (WCA-2014)
  • 1st International Workshop on Hot Topics in Big Data & Networking (HotData’14, IEEE ICCCN)
  • TPC for 3rd Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP2014 , with IEEE INFOCOM)
  • TPC for 5th Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks (SIMPLEX 2014, with WWW Conference)
  • TPC for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2014)
  • TPC for 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in P2P computing & Online Social neTworking (HotPOST 2014)
  • IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2014)
  • TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
  • EPSRC ITaaU workshop on Human-Data Interaction (HDI 2013 , co-chair)
  • TPC co-Chair for ACM SIGCOMM HotPlanet workshop 2013
  • TPC for 8th workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2013 , with IEEE ICNP 2013)
  • TPC for IEEE LCN Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in Digital Economy (PADE 2013)
  • TPC for 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013)
  • Organising Committee for 8th Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2013) in conjunction with ICNP 2013
  • TPC for World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013)
  • TPC for IEEE International workshop on Hot Topics in P2P computing & Online Social Networking (HotPOST 2012, HotPOST 2013)
  • Shadow-heavy TPC for EuroSys 2013
  • TPC for Workshop on Open Resilient human-aware Cyber-physical Systems (WORCS-2013)
  • TPC for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013)
  • TPC for The Internet, Interdisciplinarity & Innovation (In3): The first international conference on Internet Science 2013
  • TPC co-Chair for EuroSys workshop Measurement, Privacy, Mobility (MPM 2012)
  • Co-Chair for EPSRC workshop on communications and networks (COMNET 2012)
  • TPC for IEEE Symposium on Green Technology and Systems (ISGTS 2012)
  • TPC for ACM SIGMETRICS workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in Digital Economy (PADE 2012)
  • TPC for IEEE Symposium on Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications (ISBEIA 2012) TPC for IEEE International Power and Energy Conference (PECON 2012)
  • TPC for ACM HotPlanet 2012
  • TPC for IEEE International Workshop on Social Networks and TV (CCNC’2012 SNTV)
  • TPC for ACM CoNext Student Workshop (2011)
  • TPC for First International Workshop on Enterprise Cloud Computing (ECCPL 2011)
  • TPC for ICCCN 2011 Workshop on Social Interactive Media Networking and Applications (SIMNA 2011)
  • TPC for 4th Workshop on Pervasive Advertising (Pervasive 2011)
  • TPC for International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology (DICTAP 2011)
  • TPC for IEEE Workshop on Complex and Communication Networks (CCNet 2010)
  • TPC for IEEE CCNC Workshop on Social Networking 2011
  • TPC for Eurosys Social Network Systems 2009
  • TPC for IEEE ICUMT 2009
  • TPC for 1st International Workshop on Emerging Internet Applications (WEIA’09)
  • TPC for International Congress on Modelling and Simulation( ModSim’09)
  • Guest Editor for MASAUM Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (MJBAS)