Syed Mohammad Irteza

Greetings! My name is Syed Mohammad Irteza.

I am currently teaching at the faculty of computing at FAST-NU Lahore, as an assistant professor. I have previously taught at UMT-Lahore (2019-2022), GIFT University (2019), Air University (2010-12) and FAST-NU Islamabad (2008). I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to teach many extraordinary students across all of these institutes, Alhamdolillah!

I am an HEC approved PhD supervisor. This enables me to supervise MS and PhD thesis students within Pakistan.

I completed my PhD in Computer Science from the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE), Lahore University of Management Sciences. I was studying under the supervision of Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi. I defended my thesis in December 2018, and received my degree in the 2019 convocation.   

My area of research is broadly within Systems and Networks, specifically in the domain of Data Center Networking (with focus upon SDN-inspired Transport Layer Protocols, and Load Balancing Schemes). I used to work in the Networks and Systems Group led by Dr. Ihsan Qazi. 

More about my RESEARCH INTERESTS here.

PhD TIMELINE:

[DEC 2018] PhD thesis defended!

[NOV 2018] Submitted my PhD thesis for external review. Looking forward for feedback from the reviewers.

[MAY 2018] The extended version of SAPS was accepted for publication in Computer Communications (an Elsevier journal). You can find the article here.

[MAY 2017] Presented our work on Load Balancing for DCs Under Asymmetry at IEEE INFOCOM 2017 (Atlanta, Georgia, USA). Received recognition as the best in-session presenter for the session on load balancing. Presentation Slides.

[JAN 2017] Moving onward to the status of TGS (Terminal Graduate Student), or ABD (All But Dissertation).

[NOV 2016] Our paper on SAPS (Symmetric and Adaptive Packet Spraying), i.e., Load Balancing for DCs under asymmetry was accepted at IEEE INFOCOM 2017. Congratulations to the team, i.e., Hafiz Mohsin, Talal, Dr. Ihsan and Dr. Fahad (Tufts). Here is a link to the paper.

[AUG 2016] I recently attended ACM SIGCOMM 2016 at Florianopoulis, Saint Catarina, Brazil. I am thankful to SIGCOMM for providing me the opportunity to attend through the Student Travel Grant, along with the SBASSE (my school, as they provided further assistance for the travel). I was also part of the Mentoring Session at SIGCOMM, where I got an opportunity to show some of my recent research work to some excellent researchers (from places such as UMass Amherst, MSR India, etc.).

[JUL 2014] I was fortunate to be invited to attend the Research Summer School at Microsoft Research Cambridge during the summer of 2014. You can read a bit about that here on the LUMS website.

[APR 2014] Our work on PASE, a synergistic transport protocol for datacenter networks, was accepted at ACM SIGCOMM 2014. Here is a link to the paper. Many congratulations to the team: Ali, Ghufran, Dr. Ihsan, Dr. Alex, and Dr. Fahad. Ali was the lead author.

[JAN 2014] Our work on the coexistence of transport protocols within datacenters was accepted at IEEE ICC 2014. The work is related to active queue management to ensure fair use of bandwidth by coexisting transports such as TCP and DCTCP.  Congratulations to the team: Adnan, Sana, Babar and Dr. Ihsan. Here is a link to the paper.

During my PhD studies I have also been involved in working on research courses/projects related to Network Security, Congestion Control & Distributed Systems. Before this, I was a lecturer at Air University, Islamabad. I was on leave from AU for the duration of my PhD, which commenced in September 2012. 

More about my teaching here (at Air University, Islamabad, between 2010 and 2012).

More about me on the personal info page (Here is my CV - July 2019).

My LinkedIn profile.

My Google Scholar page.

My DBLP page.

I am married with three four children, by the grace of Allah.