Adnan Mahmood (阿德南, 아드난 )
Lecturer in Computing – IoT and Networking (Equivalent: Assistant Professor)
School of Computing, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Macquarie University
Address: Room 286, 4 Research Park Drive, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Email: adnan.mahmood@mq.edu.au | Google Scholar | LinkedIn
I am actively looking for Highly Motivated and Dedicated Students interested to pursue PhD Studies under my Supervision at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Prospective Students with Outstanding Academic Record are highly encouraged to initiate contact delineating their intended Research Topic. Both Short- and Long-term Research Visitors are also more than welcome to get in touch. 本人招收有志于在澳洲, 悉尼, 麦考瑞大学攻读博士学位的学生. 热忱欢迎具备优秀学术造诣的青年才俊与我联系, 并简要阐述自己打算研究的课题. 短期和长期研究访问学者也非常欢迎加入, 共同推进前沿领域研究.
What's New:
Our Research Paper, Integrated Resource Allocation for Sequential Task Offloading in Edge Computing, has been accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE A*, Impact Factor: 5.8).
Our Survey Paper, Federated Learning at the Forefront of Fairness: A Multifaceted Perspective, has been accepted in the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence – IJACI 2025 (CORE A*).
Our Research Paper, Generating Synthetic Data for Unsupervised Federated Learning of Cross-Modal Retrieval, has been accepted in the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence – AAAI 2025 (CORE A*).
Our Survey Paper, Fairness in Federated Learning: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities, has been accepted in the Advanced Intelligent Systems (Q1, Impact Factor: 6.8).
I am invited to serve on the Program Committee of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence – IJACI 2025 (CORE A*).
I am invited to serve on the Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services – ICWS 2025 (CORE A).
Congratulations to Kasun Eranda Wijethilake, Jianxuan Xu, Manoj Madushanka Perera, and Fahmida Islam for completing the Master of Research with High Distinction.
I was awarded with the Outstanding Service Award for contributions as a Local Co-Chair of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications – ADMA 2024.
Authored Books
Yan Yan, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng (2025). Protecting Location Privacy in the Era of Big Data –A Technical Perspective. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, ISBN 978-1-032-89988-6.
Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Sira Yongchareon (2024). Trust Management in the Internet of Vehicles. Chapman and Hall / CRC, ISBN 978-1032429502.
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng (2024). Towards Resilient Social IoT Sensors and Networks – A Trust Management Approach. Springer Cham, ISBN 978-3-031-60700-4.
Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Hajime Suzuki, Wei Ni (2024). On the Road to Resilience – Ensuring Secure IoV Networks. Chapman and Hall / CRC, ISBN 978-1032723501.
Refereed Journal Articles (Selected)
Yang Zhang, Yufei Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Haihua Chen, Kai Wang, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, Munazza Zaib, Subhash Sagar, Rongying Zhao (2025). Deep Learning Meets Bibliometrics: A Survey of Citation Function Classification. Journal of Informetrics, 19(1), 101608 (Impact Factor: 3.4).
Taotao Cai, Qi Lei, Quan Z. Sheng, Ningning Cui, Shuiqiao Yang, Jian Yang, Wei Emma Zhang, Adnan Mahmood (2024). Reconnecting Estranged Relationships: Optimizing Influence Propagation in Evolving Networks. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36(5), pp. 2151 – 2165 (Impact Factor: 8.9).
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Yang Zhang, Jitander Kumar Pabani (2024). Understanding the Trustworthiness Management in the Social Internet of Things: A Survey. Computer Networks, 251, 110611 (Impact Factor: 4.4).
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Munazza Zaib, Farhan Sufyan (2024). Can We Quantify Trust? Towards a Trust-based Resilient SIoT Network. Computing, 106, pp. 557 – 577 (Impact Factor: 3.3).
Yan Yan, Pengbin Yan, Adnan Mahmood, Fei Xu, and Quan Z. Sheng (2024). Towards Achieving Geo-indistinguishability for 3D GPS Location: A 3D Laplace Mechanism Approach. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 36(14): e8111 (Impact Factor: 1.5).
Yan Yan, Pengbin Yan, Adnan Mahmood, Yang Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng (2024). Achieving Local Differential Location Privacy Protection in 3D Space via Hilbert Encoding and Optimized Random Response. Journal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences, 36(6), pp. 102085 (Impact Factor: 5.2).
Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Hajime Suzuki, Wei Ni (2023). Trust in Vehicles: Towards Context - Aware Trust and Attack Resistance Scheme for the Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(9), pp. 9546 – 9560 (Impact Factor: 7.9).
Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Yan Wang, Subhash Sagar (2023). Towards Distributed Trust Management System for Misbehavior Detection in the Internet of Vehicles. ACM Transactions on Cyber - Physical Systems, 7(3), Article 16, pp. 1 – 25 (Impact Factor: 2.0).
Tian Wang, Yuzhu Liang, Xuewei Shen, Xi Zheng, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng (2023). Edge Computing and Sensor - Cloud: Overview, Solutions, and Directions. ACM Computing Surveys, 55, 13s, Article 281, pp. 1 – 37 (CORE A*, Impact Factor: 23.8).
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Kai Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Jitander Kumar Pabani, Wei Emma Zhang (2023). Trust – SIoT: Towards Trustworthy Object Classification in the Social Internet of Things. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 20, 2, pp. 1210 – 1223 (Impact Factor: 4.7).
Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Hajime Suzuki, Wei Ni (2023). Towards a Machine Learning Driven Trust Management Heuristic for the Internet of Vehicles. Sensors, 23, 4, 2325 (Impact Factor: 3.4).
Yan Yan, Zichao Sun, Adnan Mahmood, Yiming Cong, Fei Xu, Quan Z. Sheng (2023). ST – Resnet: A Deep Learning - based Privacy Preserving Differential Publishing Method for Location Statistics. Computing, 105, pp. 2363 – 2387 (Impact Factor: 3.3).
Junhua Gu, Zhihao Jia, Taotao Cai, Xiangyu Song, Adnan Mahmood (2023). Dynamic Correlation Adjacency - Matrix - Based Graph Neural Networks for Traffic Flow Prediction. Sensors, 23, 2897 (Impact Factor: 3.4).
Yan Yan, Jianzhuang Chen, Adnan Mahmood, Xingying Qian, Pengbin Yan (2023). LDPORR: A Localized Location Privacy Protection Method Based on Optimized Random Response. Journal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences, 35(8), pp. 101713 (Impact Factor: 5.2).
Yan Yan, Fei Xu, Adnan Mahmood, Zhuoyue Dong, Quan Z. Sheng (2022). Perturb and Optimize Users’ Location Privacy Based on Geo - indistinguishability and Semantic. Scientific Reports, 12, 20445 (a part of the Nature Portfolio and 5th Most Cited Journal, Impact Factor: 4.6).
Adnan Mahmood, Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Hajime Suzuki, Wei Ni (2022). Trust on Wheels: Towards Secure and Resource Efficient IoV Networks. Computing, 104, pp. 1337 – 1358 (Impact Factor: 3.7).
Yan Yan, Eyeleko Anselme Herman, Adnan Mahmood, Jing Li, Zhuoyue Dong, Fei Xu (2022). Privacy Preserving Dynamic Data Release Against Synonymous Linkage Based on Microaggregation. Scientific Reports, 12, 2352 (a part of the Nature Portfolio and 5th Most Cited Journal, Impact Factor: 4.6).
Munazza Zaib, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Yang Zhang (2022). Conversational Question Answering: A Survey. Knowledge and Information Systems, 64, pp. 3151 – 3195 (Impact Factor: 2.7).
Yang Zhang, Rongying Zhao, Yufei Wang, Haihua Chen, Adnan Mahmood, Munazza Zaib, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng (2022). Towards Employing Native Information in Citation Function Classification. Scientometrics, 127, pp. 6557 – 6577 (Impact Factor: 3.9).
Vanh Khuyen Nguyen, Wei Emma Zhang, Adnan Mahmood (2021). Semi - supervised Intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring in Smart Energy Monitoring System. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 17, 3, Article 32, pp. 1 – 20 (Impact Factor: 2.560).
Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Hajime Suzuki, Wei Ni (2021). A Survey of Trust Management in the Internet of Vehicles. Electronics, 10, 2223 (Impact Factor: 2.690).
Yan Yan, Eyeleko Anselme Herman, Adnan Mahmood, Pengshou Xie (2021). A Weighted K - member Clustering Algorithm for K - anonymization. Computing, 103, pp. 2251 – 2273 (Impact Factor: 2.420).
Yan Yan, Xin Gao, Adnan Mahmood, Tao Feng, Pengshou Xie (2020). Differential Private Spatial Decomposition and Location Publishing Based on Unbalanced Quadtree Partition Algorithm. IEEE Access, 8, pp. 104775 – 104787 (Impact Factor: 3.367).
Syed Mohssen Ghafari, Amin Beheshti, Aditya Joshi, Cecile Paris, Adnan Mahmood, Shahpar Yakhchi, Mehmet A. Orgun (2020). A Survey on Trust Prediction in Online Social Networks. IEEE Access, 8, pp. 144292 – 144309 (Impact Factor: 3.367).
Yan Yan, Bingqian Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Tao Feng, Pengshou Xie (2020). Modelling the Publishing Process of Big Location Data Using Deep Learning Prediction Methods. Electronics, 9, 420 (Impact Factor: 2.397).
Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Wei Emma Zhang, Ali Shemshadi, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng (2020). A System for Effectively Predicting Flight Delays Based on IoT Data. Computing, 102, pp. 2025 – 2048 (Impact Factor: 2.220).
Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng (2019). Software Defined Heterogeneous Vehicular Networking: The Architectural Design and Open Challenges. Future Internet, Special Issue – 10th Anniversary Feature Papers, 11, 3, 70 (Invited Paper, Indexed in Web of Science).
Refereed Conference Papers (Selected)
Tianlong Zhang, Zhe Xue, Adnan Mahmood, Junping Du, Yuchen Dong, Shilong Ou, Lang Feng, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Yuankai Qi (2025). Generating Synthetic Data for Unsupervised Federated Learning of Cross-Modal Retrieval. The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Pennsylvania, USA (Accepted, CORE 2024 – A*, CCF A).
Kasun Eranda Wijethilake, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng (2025). FedCLF – Towards Efficient Participant Selection for Federated Learning in Heterogeneous IoV Networks. The 20th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), Sydney, Australia, pp. 223 – 238 (Best Student Paper Runner – Up Award).
Manoj Madushanka Perera, Adnan Mahmood, Kasun Eranda Wijethilake, Quan Z. Sheng (2025). Towards Adaptive Context Management for Intelligent Conversational Question Answering. The 20th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), Sydney, Australia, pp. 360 – 375.
Zhaoyang Zhang, Yang Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Yimeng Feng, Xiaoyu Wang, Yaolin Zhou (2024). Multimodal Archival Data Ecosystems. IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Shenzhen, China, pp. 73 – 83 (Invited Paper, CORE 2024 – A).
Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng (2024). Software Engineering Education – An Australian Higher Education Perspective. IEEE International Conference on Software Services Engineering (SSE), Shenzhen, China, pp. 270 – 274 (Invited Paper).
Munazza Zaib, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Elaf Alhazmi, Adnan Mahmood (2024). Learning Contrastive Representations for Dense Passage Retrieval in Open-domain Conversational Question Answering. 25th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), Doha, Qatar, pp. 3 – 13.
Wei Emma Zhang, Adnan Mahmood, Lixin Deng, Minhao Zhu (2023). SimSumIoT: A Platform for Simulating the Summarization from the Internet of Things. Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Singapore, pp. 1188 – 1191 (CORE 2023 – A).
Munazza Zaib, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Adnan Mahmood (2023). Keeping the Questions Conversational: Using Structured Representations to Resolve Dependency in Conversational Question Answering. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1 – 7.
Yang Zhang, Yufei Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang (2023). Hybrid Data Augmentation for Citation Function Classification. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1 – 8.
Behnaz Soltani, Venus Haghighi, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao (2022). A Survey on Participant Selection for Federated Learning in Mobile Networks. MobiArch'17 – 17th Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture, Sydney, Australia, pp. 19 – 24.
Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Subhash Sagar, Wei Emma Zhang, Hajime Suzuki, Wei Ni (2021). When Trust Meets the Internet of Vehicles: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Prospects. IEEE 7th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), Cyberspace, pp. 60 – 67 (Invited Paper).
Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Hajime Suzuki, Wei Ni (2021). A Time - aware Trust Management Heuristic for the Internet of Vehicles. IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), Shenyang, China, pp. 1 – 8 (Acceptance Rate: 28%).
Yang Zhang, Yufei Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, Rongying Zhao (2021). TDM – CFC: Towards Document - level Multi - label Citation Function Classification. 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 363 – 376 (Acceptance Rate: 24%).
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Jittander Kumar, Quan Z. Sheng (2020). A Time - aware Similarity-based Trust Computational Model for Social Internet of Things. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1 – 6 (IEEE Communications Society Flagship Conference).
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang (2020). Trust Computational Heuristic for Social Internet of Things: A Machine Learning - based Approach. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dublin, Ireland, pp. 1 – 6 (IEEE Communications Society Flagship Conference).
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Munazza Zaib, and Wei Emma Zhang (2020). Towards a Machine Learning - driven Trust Evaluation Model for the Social Internet of Things: A Time - aware Approach. 17th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services (MobiQuitous), Cyberspace, pp. 1 – 8 (CORE 2020 – A).
Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Dai Hoang Tran, Munazza Zaib, Salma Abdalla Hamad, Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Ahoud Abdulrahmn Alhazmi, Subhash Sagar, Congbo Ma (2020). The 10 Research Topics in the Internet of Things. IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. 34 – 43 (Invited Paper).
Yan Yan, Xin Gao, Adnan Mahmood, Yang Zhang, Shuang Wang, Quan Z. Sheng (2020). An Arithmetic Differential Privacy Budget Allocation Method for the Partitioning and Publishing of Location Information. IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computing and Communications – TrustCom (The 11th International Workshop on Collaborative Computing with Cloud and Client), Guangzhou, China, pp. 1395 – 1401.
Shuang Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xiaoping Li, Adnan Mahmood, Yang Zhang (2020). Energy Minimization for Cloud Services with Stochastic Requests. In: Eleanna Kafeza, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Martinelli, Hakim Hacid, Athman Bouguettaya, Hamid Motahari (eds) Service – Oriented Computing. ICSOC 2020 (The 18th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12571, pp. 133 – 148 (Acceptance Rate: 18.9%, CORE 2020 – A).
Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Sarah Ali Siddiqui (2020). SCaRT – SIoT: Towards a Scalable and Robust Trust Platform for Social Internet of Things (Demo Abstract). 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'20), Yokohama, Japan, pp. 635 – 636 (CORE 2020 – A*).
Vanh Khuyen Nguyen, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, Trung Duc Vo (2020). Helibot – A Smart Distributed Energy Resources Platform for Futuristic Smart Grids. 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGRID), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 898 – 901 (CORE 2020 – A).
Vanh Khuyen Nguyen, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, Minh - H. Phan, Trung Duc Vo (2020). Demo Abstract: An Internet of Plants System for Micro Gardens. 2020 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Sydney, Australia, pp. 355 –356 (CORE 2020 – A*).
Adnan Mahmood, Bernard Butler, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Sarah Ali Siddiqui (2019). A Hybrid Trust Management Heuristic for VANETs. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 748 – 752.
Adnan Mahmood (2019). Towards Software Defined Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks for Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 441 – 442.
Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng (2019). Machine Learning Based Trust Model for Misbehaviour Detection in the Internet-of-Vehicles. In: Tom Gedeon, Kok Wai Wong, Minho Lee (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2019 (26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing). Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1142, pp. 512 – 520 (CORE 2019 – A).
Vanh Khuyen Nguyen, Wei Emma Zhang, Khoa Le, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng (2019). Demo Abstract: An End - to - End Real - Time Efficient System for Smart Energy Monitoring. IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM Workshops), Paris, France, pp. 957 – 958.
Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng (2019). Overcoming the Bottlenecks in Next - Generation Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks: Is SDN the Optimal Solution? 17th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1 – 4.
Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Adnan Mahmood (2018). Towards Fog - based Next Generation Internet of Vehicles Architecture. ACM MobiCom's International Workshop on Communication and Computing in Connected Vehicles and Platooning (C3VP '18), New Delhi, India, pp. 15 – 21.
Adnan Mahmood, Bernard Butler, Brendan Jennings (2018). Towards Efficient Network Resource Management in SDN - Based Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks. IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 813 – 814 (Acceptance Rate: 24%).
Refereed Book Chapters
Adnan Mahmood, Bernard Butler, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Brendan Jennings (2019). Need of Ambient Intelligence for Next-Generation Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. In: Zaigham Mahmood (eds) Guide to Ambient Intelligence in the IoT Environment. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham.
Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Abdulwahab Aljubairy (2019). Trust Management for Software-Defined Heterogeneous Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. In: Zaigham Mahmood (eds) Security, Privacy, and Trust in the IoT Environment. Springer, Cham.
Adnan Mahmood, Hushairi Zen (2018). Toward Edge-based Caching in Software-Defined Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks. In: Zaigham Mahmood (eds) Fog Computing. Springer, Cham.
Adnan Mahmood, Hushairi Zen, Shadi M. S. Hilles (2018). Big Data and Privacy Issues for Connected Vehicles in Intelligent Transportation Systems. In: Albert Zomaya, Sherif Sakr (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham.
Adnan Mahmood, Bernard Butler, Hushairi Zen, Brendan Jennings (2018). Key Early Verticals, Challenges, and Limitations in Implementation of Augmented Reality. In: Newton Lee (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham.
Adnan Mahmood, Bernard Butler, Brendan Jennings (2018). Potential of Augmented Reality for Intelligent Transportation Systems. In: Newton Lee (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham.