Research Interests
Federated learning for privacy-preserving and parallel training
Artificial intelligence for cyber-security
Internet of Things: Security, resource allocation, edge computing, offloading mechanisms
Software-defined Networks (SDNs): fault tolerance and resilience, security, detection of malicious behaviors, attack detection and mitigation, machine learning techniques for network management
Cloud data center networks: traffic engineering, resource allocation, virtual network embedding and migration, workflow embedding, hybrid optical-electrical data center networks
Cloud resource allocation and management: computing resource allocation, pricing models for cloud resources, competition, and cooperation among cloud providers
Scientific workflows: parallelization of scientific applications, application porting to clouds and distributed execution platforms, resource allocation to workflows, workflow languages, workflow interoperability
Research Projects
Dec. 2023 - May. 2025, SIT, MoE Ignition Grant, Co-PI, Programmable structured synthetic data generation for privacy-preserving data sharing
March 2023 - Feb. 2025, SIT, MoE Ignition Grant, PI, Vulnerability Assessment and Mitigation for Future Railway Communication (5G-VARAIL)
Nov. 2022 - Nov 2024, SIT, MoE AcRF Tier 1, PI, AI-assisted techniques for traffic routing and congestion control in next-gen networks (AI4XNet)
Nov. 2020 - Sept. 2022, A*STAR, PI (Champion from Sept. 2021), Performance Approximation of Malware Detection Models via Prediction Queries.
Aug. 2021 - Aug. 2022, A*STAR, PI (Champion from Sept. 2021), JUNO.
Nov. 2019 - Dec. 2020, A*STAR, Co-PI, Advanced Techniques for Malware & Malicious Event Detection & Analysis, 1M SGD
May 2018 - April 2019, NUS, Senior Research Fellow, SDN-based Techniques for IoT Security
May 2017 - April 2018, NUS, Senior Research Fellow, Fault Tolerance in Software-defined Networks
Aug. 2014 - April 2017, NUS, Research Fellow, Traffic Engineering and System Design for Hybrid Optical Data Center Networks
Jan. 2011 - June 2012, CNRS, Postdoctoral Fellow, SHaring Interoperable Workflow for large-scale scientific simulations on Available DCIs (SHIWA)
Nov. 2007 - Dec. 2010, ANR, U-NICE, Research Engineer, HIPCAL.