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Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed,  Ph.D. (Computer Science)

Associate Professor,

Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

Marquette University
1313 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee WI 53233,  USA

Email:  iq@mscs.mu.edu

Office: Cudahy Hall 386

Phone: 414-288-5222, Fax: 414-288-5472

 

Director, Ubicomp Research Lab

Major Research Interests:   Pervasive Security, Trust and Privacy, Middleware for Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing,  Autonomic Pervasive computing,  and Pervasive Healthcare

Other Research Interests: RFID security,  HCI issues of  Handheld devices (such as PDAs, Cell phones), Middleware for Sensor Networks, and Security support at the application layer for wireless network(802.11, Bluetooth, and Zigbee)

 

Honors/Awards

·         Way-Klinger Young Scholars Award 2007 (One-semester sabbatical award for junior faculty  in the three years after the third-year review.  Up to $32,000 is awarded for half of a faculty member’s salary including $2,000 in operating funds). Received the award from Fr. Robert Wild, S.J., President of Marquette University.  Here is the photo.

·         Best Paper Award in the 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007),  Beijing, China, July 23-27. [Beginning 2006, COMPSAC is designated as the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Software Technology and Applications]. Total number of submission were 325.  Received award from Prof. Michael Williams, 2007 President, IEEE Computer Society. Here is the photo.

·         Best Paper Award in the Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous & Trustworthy Computing (TwUC),  Jakarta, Indonesia, December 2007.

Professional activities

·         Track Co-Chair, Security Track, 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008), Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008.

·         Workshop Program Co-Chair, 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Security, Trust, and Privacy  for Software Applications (SPTPA 2008) in COMPSAC 2008), Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008

·         Track Co-Chair on Middleware Engineering, The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 16-20, 2008, (SAC)

·         Program Committee, Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2008), Hong Kong, 17 - 21 March 2008

·         Program Committee,  Ubiquitous Computing track and Autonomic Computing track of The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 16-20, 2008, (SAC)

·         Program Committee, The 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing(UIC 2008), Oslo, Norway, June 23-25, 2008

·         Program Committee, Security track of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008

·         Publicity Co Chair, The 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, SAINT 2008

·         Reviewer, Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier publications.

·         Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE publications.

·         Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE publications.

 

Other professional activities

Teaching

·         MSCS 282 Mobile Computing

·         MSCS 237  Distributed Computing

·         COSC 162/MSCS 236 Component based   Software Development/ Components Architecture

·         COSC 061 Object Oriented Software Software Design

·         COSC 055/154 Data Structures

·         COSC 051(new COSC 060) Programming with Java

Publications 

·         Munirul M. Haque and Sheikh I Ahamed, “An Impregnable Lightweight Device Discovery (ILDD) Model for Pervasive Computing Environment of Enterprise Applications ,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Volume 38,  Issue 3,  May 2008, pp. 334-346.

·         Ian Obermiller and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “PATHOS: Pervasive at Home Sleep Monitoring”, International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications,  Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 290431, 9 pages, doi:10.1155/2008/290431.

·         Shameem Ahmed, Moushumi Sharmin, and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “Ubi-App: A Ubiquitous Application using Ubicomp Assistant (UA) Service of MARKS for Universal Access from Handheld Devices,” International Journal Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS), Springer –Verlag, March 2008, 11pages.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Mohamad Zulkernine, Sailaja Bulusu, and Mehrab Monjur, "Architecture and Implementation of a Trust Model for Pervasive Applications," International Journal of Mobile Multimedia, to appear, 2008.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Mohammad Zulkernine, and    Steven T. Wolfe, “A software-based trust framework for distributed industrial management systems”,  International Journal of System and Software 2007, Elsevier publications, 80(10), pp. 1621-1630, 2007.

·         Nilothpal Talukder and Sheikh I Ahamed “FPCS: A Formal Approach for Privacy-aware Context-based Services,” To appear in the Proceedings of the  32nd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008), IEEE CS Press, Turku, Finland, July 28-August 1, 2008.

·         Sheikh I Ahamed, Nilothpal Talukder and Mehrab Monjur, “WiFi Radar: Design and Implementation of an Infrastructure-less Location Tracking System for Pervasive Environment,” To appear in the Proceedings of the  32nd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008), IEEE CS Press, Turku, Finland, July 28-August 1, 2008.

·         Nilothpal Talukder and Sheikh I Ahamed, “How much Room before you Rely: Balancing Privacy control and Fidelity in the Location-based Pervasive Applications”,  The 2nd IEE International Workshop on Privacy-Aware
Location-based Mobile Services (PALMS), April 2008, Beijing, China.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Farzana Rahman, Md. Endadul Hoque, Fahim  Kawsar, Tatsuo Nakajima, “S3PR: Secure Serverless Search Protocols for RFID”,  Proceedings of  International Conference on Information Security and Assurance (ISA),  IEEE CS Press, 24-26 April 2008, pp. 187–192.

·         Rezwan Islam, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Nilothpal Talukder, Ian Obermiller, “Usability of Mobile Computing Technologies to Assist Cancer Patients.”,  Proceedings of the HCI and Usability for Medicine and Health Care, Third Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2007, Graz, Austria, November, 22, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4799 Springer 2007, pp. 227-240.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Munirul M Haque, and Nilothpal Talukder,  “Service Sharing with Trust in Pervasive Environment: Now it’s Time to Break the Jinx ,” Proc. of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC'08), to appear, 6 pages, Ceará, Brazil, March 2008, ACM Press.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Farzana Rahman, and Md. Endadul Hoque,  “Secured Tag Identification Using EDSA (Enhanced Distributed Scalable Architecture),” Proc. of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC'08), to appear, 5 pages, Ceará, Brazil, March 2008, ACM Press.

·         Salmin Sultana, Rezwana Karim, Md. Mostofa Akbar and Sheikh I ahamed,  “Ubicomp Secretary: A Web Service based Ubiquitous Computing Application,” Proc. of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC'08), to appear, 5 pages, Ceará, Brazil, March 2008, ACM Press.

·         Mohammad Uddin, Mohammad Zulkernine, and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “CAT: A Context-Aware Trust Model for Open and Dynamic Systems,” Proc. of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC'08), to appear, 6 pages, Ceará, Brazil, March 2008, ACM Press.

·         Moushumi Sharmin, Sheikh I. Ahamed , and Shameem Ahmed, , “A Risk-aware Trust Based Secure Resource Discovery (RTSRD) Model for Pervasive Computing,” To appear in the proceedings of  The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Web and Pervasive Security of PerCom,  Hong Kong, March 2008

·         Sailaja  Bulusu, Sheikh I. Ahamed, and Mohammad Zulkernine, “DIRT: A Trust Model For Pervasive Applications,” The Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous & Trustworthy Computing (TwUC), to appear, Jakarta, Indonesia, December 2007. (Best Paper Award)

·         Munirul Haque and Sheikh I Ahamed “An Omnipresent Formal Trust Model (FTM) for Pervasive Computing Environment,”  Proceedings of the  31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007), IEEE CS Press, Beijing, China, July 23-27,  pp. 49-56. [Beginning 2006, COMPSAC is designated as the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Software Technology and Applications] (Best Paper Award)

·            Munirul Haque, Sheikh I Ahamed, Haifeng Li, and KM Asif, “An Authentication based Lightweight Device Discovery (ALDD) Model for Pervasive Computing,”  Proceedings of the  31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007), IEEE CS Press, Beijing, China, July 57-64. [COMPSAC is designated as the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Software Technology and Applications.]  

·          Sheikh I Ahamed, Nilothpal Talukder, and Md. Munirul Haque, “Privacy Challenges in Context-sensitive Access Control for Pervasive Computing Environment,” To appear in the Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2007) SPEUCS Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, August 6-10, 2007. (Invited paper)

·          Nilothpal Talukder, Sheikh I Ahamed, and Rezaul Abid, “Smart Tracker:  Light Weight Infrastructure-less Assets Tracking Solution for Ubiquitous Computing Environment, To appear in the Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2007) IWASN Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, August 6-10, 2007.

·         Darrel Mazzari, Patrick Seraphine, Sheikh I Ahamed, and Sreekanth Balasubramanian, “Design and Implementation of EPARK Wireless Parking Payment System using Pervasive Computing,” Proceedings of The Second IEEE International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc Communications (PCAC-07), IEEE CS Press, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007, pp. 219-224.

·         Anahita Vyas, Sheikh Ahamed, Munirul Haque, Madhavi Jayanthi, “A Robust lightweight Security Solution for RFID Security,” Proceedings of The Second IEEE International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc Communications (PCAC-07), IEEE CS Press, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007, pp.182-187.

·         Pankaj Bhaskar and Sheikh I Ahamed, “Privacy in Pervasive Computing and Open Issues,”  Proceedings of The Second IEEE International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 07), IEEE CS Vienna, Austria,  April 10-13, 2007, pp. 147-154.

·         Niraj Swami and Sheikh I Ahamed, “Error Modeling in RF-based Location Detection (EMLD) for Pervasive Computing Environments,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2007) of ARES 07, IEEE CS Vienna, Austria,  April 10-13, 2007, pp. 783-790.

·         Vaibhav Tyagi and Sheikh I Ahamed, “Co-Learn: Collaborative Learning Engine - A Vision for Pervasive Collaboration in E-Learning,” To appear in the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer), Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007.

·         Moushumi. Sharmin, Shameem Ahmed , and Sheikh I Ahamed, “Design and Implementation of MARKS (Middleware Adaptability for Resource Discovery, Knowledge Usability and Self-healing) Middleware for Pervasive Computing Environments,” To appear in Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal , Volume 3, 2007.

·         Anhkhoa Nguyen, Sheikh I. Ahamed, Madhavi V.S Jayanthi and Anahita Vyas, and  Nilothpaul Talukder, “Infrastructure less Location Detection System for Pervasive Computing Environment,”  (Demo) Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computer and Communications (PerCom 2007), New York , 2007.(one page)

·         Sheikh I Ahamed, Munirul Haque, and KM Asif,  S-MARKS: A Middleware Secure by Design for the Pervasive Computing Environment, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2006),  IEEE CS Press, April, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,  pp. 303-308. 

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Munirul Haque, Karl Stamm and Ahmed J Khan,  “Wellness Assistant: A Virtual Wellness Assistant on a Handheld Device using Pervasive Computing, Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2007), Seoul, Korea, March 2007, pp. 782-787.

·         Shameem Ahmed, Sheikh I. Ahamed, Moushumi Sharmin, and Munirul Haque, “Self-healing for Autonomic Pervasive Computing”,  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2007), Seoul, Korea, March 2007, pp. 110-111.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Moushumi Sharmin, Shameem Ahmed, Munirul Haque, and Ahmed J Khan,  “Design and Implementation of A Virtual Assistant for Healthcare Professionals Using Pervasive Computing Technologies, ”  Journal Springer e&i, vol 123(4), April 2006, pp. 112-120.

·         Munirul Haque and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed,    “m-LPN: An Approach Towards a Dependable Trust Model for Pervasive Computing Applications,”  Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW'06), IEEE CS Press, August  2006, pp. 189-195. 

·         Moushumi Sharmin,  Sheikh I. Ahamed,   Shameem Ahmed, and Haifeng Li , “SSRD+:  A Privacy-aware Trust and Security Model for Resource Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environment,”  Proceedings 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006), IEEE CS Press, Chicago, USA, September 17-21, 2006, pp. 67-70.

·         Munirul Haque and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, “Security in Pervasive Computing: Current Status and Open Issues,” International Journal of Network Security,  Vol. 3, No. 3, 2006,  pp. 203-214.(Invited paper)

·         Shaun Szot, Sheikh I. Ahamed, Munirul M. Haque, and   Mohammad M. Molla, "Transparent Lightweight Device Discovery Model (TLDDM) Support for Ubiquitous Computing Middleware and Applications",  UbiSys: System Support for Ubiquitous Computing workshop of the 8th International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006),  ACM and Springer Verlag, September 2006.

·         Moushumi Sharmin, Shameem Ahmed, and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “An Adaptive Lightweight Trust Reliant Secure Resource Discovery for Pervasive Computing Environments, ” Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computer and Communications (PerCom 2006), Pisa, Italy, Mar 2006, pp. 258-263. 

·         Steven T. Wolfe, Sheikh I. Ahamed, and Mohammad Zulkernine, “A Trust Framework for Pervasive Computing Environments,” Proceedings of the 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), pp. 312-319, IEEE CS Press, Dubai, UAE, March 2006.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Mohammad Zulkernine, and Munirul Haque, “Security, Privacy, and Trust for Pervasive Computing Applications,” G. Karmakar and L. Dooley (editors), Mobile Multimedia Communications: Concepts, Applications and Challenges, to appear, Idea Group Publishing, 2007.

·         Mohammad Zulkernine and Sheikh I Ahamed, “Software Security Engineering: Towards Unifying Software Engineering and Security Engineering,” Book Chapter in M. Warkentin and R. Vaughn (editors), Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security: Managerial and Technical Issues, Idea Group Publishing, April, 2006.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Mohammad Zulkernine, and Suresh Anamanamuri, “A Dependable Device Discovery Approach for Pervasive Computing Middleware,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS), IEEE CS Press, Vienna, Austria, April 2006, pp. 66-73.

·         Moushumi Sharmin, Shameem Ahmed, and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “Ubicomp Assistant: An Omnipresent Customizable Service using MARKS, ” Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2006), Dijon , France, April, 2006, pp. 1013-1017.

·         Moushumi Sharmin, Shameem Ahmed, Sheikh I. Ahamed, Munirul Haque, and Ahmed J Khan, “Healthcare Aide: Towards a Virtual Assistant for Doctors, Patients, Nurses and Resident Doctors Using Pervasive Middleware, ”  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Health Care (UbiCare 2006) in conjunction with Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computer and Communications (PerCom 2006), Pisa, Italy, Mar 2006, pp. 490-495.

·         Moushumi Sharmin, Shameem Ahmed, and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “MARKS (Middleware Adaptability for Resource Discovery, Knowledge Usability and Self-healing) for Mobile Devices of Pervasive Computing Environments, ” Proceedings of the  Third International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2006), April, 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 306-313.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Moushumi Sharmin, Shameem Ahmed, Michael J. Havice, and Suresh Anamanamuri, “An Assessment Tool for Out of Class Learning using Pervasive Computing Technologies, ” Journal of Information, vol 8(5), September 2005, pp. 751-767.

·         Shameem Ahmed, Moushumi Sharmin, and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “PerAd-Service:  A Middleware Service for Pervasive Advertisement in M-Business,” in The proceedings 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2005), IEEE CS Press, vol 2, Edinburgh, Scotland, July, 2005, pp. 17-18.

·         Shameem Ahmed, Moushumi Sharmin, and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “A Smart Meeting Room with Pervasive Computing Technologies,” in the 6th ACIS international Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/ Distributed Computing (SNDP 2005), IEEE CS Press,  Maryland, USA, May 2005, pp. 366-371.

·         Shameem Ahmed, Moushumi Sharmin, and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “Knowledge Usability and Its Characteristics for Pervasive Computing,” The 2005 International Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing(PSC-05) in conjunction with The 2005 International Multi-conference in Computer Science and Engineering, CSREA Press, Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2005, pp. 206-209.

·         P. Kannadiga, M. Zulkernine, and S. Ahamed, “Towards an Intrusion Detection System for Pervasive Computing Environments,” in the Proceeding of the International Conference on Information Technology (ITCC), IEEE CS Press, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2005.pp. 277-282, IEEE CS Press, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2005.

·         Moushumi Sharmin, Shameem Ahmed, and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “SAFE-RD (Secure, Adaptive, Fault Tolerant, and Efficient Resource Discovery) in Pervasive Computing Environments,” in the IEEE international Conference on Information Technology (ITCC 2005), Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 2005, p. 271-276

·         Sheikh I Ahamed,  Sang Kim, Carl Twining, Michael Crichton, “An Integrated Approach to Customize Binary Components,” in the Proceedings of  the  16th IASTED International Conference Parallel and distributed Computing and Systems, pp. 689-694, MIT, Cambridge, USA, November, 2004.

·         Sheikh I Ahamed, A. Vyas, and M. Zulkernine, “Towards Developing Sensor Networks Monitoring as a Middleware Service,” Proc. of the International Workshop on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '04), Montreal, Canada, August 2004, pp. 465-471.

·         Sheikh I Ahamed, and Sanjay Vallecha, “Component based Embedded Database for Mobile Embedded Systems,”  in the Proceedings of Database Technology and Applications Workshop of International Conference on Information Technology , pp 534-538, 2004. 

·          Sheikh I Ahamed, and Sanjay Vallecha, “Wireless Sensor Network Framework Design,” in the Proceedings of International Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of  Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF),   Chicago, Illinois, June 2004.

·         Stephen S. Yau, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Fariaz Karim, Sheikh I. Ahamed, Yu Wang, and Bin Wang,
"Smart Classroom: Enhancing Collaborative Learning Using Pervasive Computing Technology,”  in the Proceedings of American Society of Engineering Education 2003 Annual Conference, June 2003.

·          Stephen S. Yau and Sheikh I. Ahamed, “An Approach to Developing Information Dissemination Service for Ubiquitous Computing Applications,” in the Proceedings  of 6th Int’l Symp. Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2003), April 2003, IEEE CS Press, pp. 240-245.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, “Experiences in Teaching an Object-oriented Design and Data Structure Course,” in the Proceedings of international Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications, 2003, IEEE CS Press,  pp. 248-252.

·         Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, “Information dissemination service for ubiquitous environments,” Workshop on Research in Computer Science  (WRCS) 2002, Tempe, AZ,  Tuesday,  March 19,  2002.

·         Sheikh I. Ahamed, Saqib Ali, David G. Bingham, Anshul Dawra, Loan T. Ha, Trung M. Luong, Donna M. Martinez, Jennifer Morris, Srihari A. Palangala, and Joseph E. Urban, “Software Requirements on the Web,” in the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS'2000), Poznan, Poland, April 12-13, 2000.

Education

·         Doctor of Philosophy(Computer Science)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Arizona State University

Area: Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing

Advisor: Prof. Stephen S. Yau

·         Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Engineering)
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh

Additional Information

·         Honors society member: UPE, Gamma Beta Phi