Welcome!

Introduction

I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. I am interested in the broader areas of network systems, cloud/edge computing, systems for AI, and security. My goal is to build open-source systems that can be deployed in real-world scenarios and solve real-world problems (see my publications and software pages for details).

At the University of Notre Dame, I am the Director of the Network Systems Research laboratory. The research of my group has been generously supported through federal, state, foundation, and industry grants.

Select Awards and Distinctions

• 2023: IEEE TCSC (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing) Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researcher)
  Awarded annually to up to five individuals around the world within 5 years of receiving their PhD degrees “who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing”. The contribution statement reads “for contributions to scalable edge computing architectures”.

• 2023: ORISE Faculty Fellow

• 2022: National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) Fellow

• 2022: Best paper runner-up award, IEEE PerCom

• 2021: National Science Foundation, CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) award

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Research Group

• Md Washik Al Azad (Ph.D. student)

• Sifat Ut Taki (Ph.D. student)

• Daniel Worae (Ph.D. student)

• Sheikh Samit Muhaimin (Ph.D. student)

• Hasniuj (Pollobi) Zahan (Research associate, staff position)

• Shahbaz Ali Khan (M.S. student)

• Zanxiang Yin (M.S. student)

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Recent Select Publications

• [IoT-J '23] H. Zahan, M.W. Al Azad, I. Ali, and S. Mastorakis, "IoT-AD: A Framework To Detect Anomalies Among Interconnected IoT Devices", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023

• [Cloud '23] M. W. Al Azad, S. Sarwar, S. U. Taki, and S. Mastorakis, "The Case for the Anonymization of Offloaded Computation", IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2023

• [PerCom '22] M.W. Al Azad and S. Mastorakis, "Reservoir: Named Data for Pervasive Computation Reuse at the Network Edge", IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Best Paper Runner Up Award

• [INFOCOM '21] A. C. Nicolaescu, S. Mastorakis, I. Psaras, "Store Edge Networked Data (SEND): A Data and Performance Driven Edge Storage Framework", IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2021

• [ICDCS '20] S. Mastorakis, T. Li, L. Zhang, "DAPES: Named Data for Off-the-Grid File Sharing with Peer-to-Peer Interactions", IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2020

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Select Service Activities

• University of Notre Dame representative, U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (housed under NIST)

• University of Notre Dame representative, AI Alliance (international coalition on AI with the participation of tech companies, startups, research and government organizations, universities, and non-profit foundations)

• Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)

• TPC Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2024, ICCCN 2024, and IEEE ICNP 2024, among other conferences

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Teaching

• CSE 30264 (University of Notre Dame): Computer Networks (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)

• CSE 60749 (University of Notre Dame): Advanced and Secure Networks (Fall 2023)

• CSCI 3550 (University of Nebraska): Communication Networks (Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022)

• CSCI 8210 (University of Nebraska): Advanced Communication Networks (Fall 2019, Fall 2021)

• CIST 9080 (University of Nebraska): Research Directions in Information Technology (Fall 2022)

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