Muhammad Usama

I'm a conflicted explorer with a doctoral degree in electrical engineering. I recently started working on urban computing and analyzing data from social media applications to first identify questions and then answering them!!!

☎️ Contact information

📧 Email: osama5124@gmail.com

🐦 Twitter: @osama_sana

🔗 LinkedIn: Muhammad Usama

Google Scholar : Muhammad Usama


👩🏻‍💻 Work experience

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science, School of Computing,

National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Pakistan - (August 2022 — )

I have taught the following courses:

Post-Doc (Research Associate)

Department of Electrical Engineering, Syed Babar Ali School of Science & Engineering (SBASSE), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan – (June 2021—August 2022)

I am leading a team of researchers in following three projects:

  1. Urban Air Quality Measurement
  1. Measuring the Urban Sentiment
  1. DeepFake for Good

Post-Doc (Research Associate)

School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, United kingdom – (November 2020 - July 2021)

I was part of the team that worked on the adversarial machine learning for next-generation communication networks, machine learning-based jammer detection and localization, and measuring the communication parameters for a major part of Edinburgh city.

Ph.D. Fellow

Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology University (ITU), Pakistan – (September 2016 - December 2020)

During my Ph.D., I worked on designing and launching adversarial machine learning on machine learning-based networking applications.

Academic Coordinator

Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology University (ITU), Pakistan – (July2015 - September 2016)

I was leading a team of Lab Engineers in designing lab material for the electrical engineering department and dealing with day-to-day coordination among departments.

Lecturer

Department of Electrical Engineering, Riphah International University (Faisalabad Campus), Pakistan – (February 2013 - May 2015)

I taught undergraduate computer networks and network security courses.

Teaching Assistant

Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Pakistan – (August 2010 - August 2011)

I was the teaching assistant for undergraduate Electronics I and II courses.


📚 Education

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

2020

Information Technology University (ITU), Pakistan

MS. Electrical Engineering

2013

National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Lahore Campus, Pakistan

BSc. Telecommunication Engineering

2010

Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan


📜 Dissertations

Doctoral Dissertation: Adversarial Machine Learning and Networking Applications: Attacks & Defenses

MS Dissertation: Post Processing Algorithm for Event Detection in Optical Time Domain Reflectometer

🛠 Research:

Publications (Accepted for publications in conferences and journals)
Publications in 2022
  • Muhammad Musa, Muhammad Usama, and Momin Uppal, “Extremism on Social Media: Lynching of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana” accepted as a poster in IEEE/ACM ASONAM, 2022.
  • Abdur Rahman, Muhammad Usama, Muhammad Tahir, Momin Uppal, “Data driven framework for analysis of air quality landscape for the city of Lahore.” accepted for publications in 7th SDSC and 17th 3DGeoinfo conferences, UNSW, Australia.
  • Kilinc, C, Marina, MK, Usama, M, Ergut, S, Crowcroft, J, Gundogdu, T & Akinci, I, “JADE: Data-Driven Automated Jammer Detection Framework for Operational Mobile Networks.” accepted for publication in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2022).
Publications in 2021
Publications in 2020
  • Rana Tallal Javed, Mirza Elaaf Shuja, Muhammad Usama, Muhammad Furqan Muzammil, Junaid Qadir, Waleed Iqbal, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, and Kiran Garimella, “A First Look Into COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan” accepted for publication in the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, IEEE/ACM ASONAM, 2020.
Publications in 2019
Publications in 2018
Publications in 2017
Publications in 2013
Papers under review
Blog posts and reports
  • “Finding the blue skies: Lahore’s Air Apocalypse”, by M. Usama, available on https://sdsa.lums.edu.pk/, 2022.
  • “Artificial Intelligence as an Enabler for Cognitive Self-Organizing Future Networks”, S. Latif, F. Pervez, M. Usama, J. Qadir, published in the Special Issue on “Enabling Mobile Computing and Cognitive Networks through Artificial Intelligence” published in IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)’s blog on Cognitive Radio Networking and Security, Feb 2017.
  • “Design Challenges in Wireless and Data Networks: Security as Case Study”, Muhammad Usama, July 2017.

🗣 Selected Talks


💻 Awards and Honors


Services

Reviewer

– IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

– IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

– IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking

– IEEE Wireless Communications Letters