School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Pakistan

Research Profile
Syed Ali Khayam
Overview
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
School: Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing USA
Graduation Date: December 2006
Dissertation Title: Wireless Channel Modeling and Malware Detection using
Statistical and Information-Theoretic Tools

At SEECS:
Director: Wireless Network Research (WisNet) Lab
Co-Director: Information Security Research Group (ISRG)

Research problems in these labs span three main areas:
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Wireless Communication
Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Multimedia
Cross-Layer Protocol Design
Mobile Networking
Network & Information
Security
Intrusion Detection
Malware Analysis
Vulnerability Assessment
Cover Channels
Bio-inspired Computing
Bio-inspired security solutions
Bio-inspired network protocols
Design of evolutionary
algorithms
Publications in 2007/2008
Journals and conferences publications in 2007/2008:
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Wireless Communication
IEEE Trans on Wireless
Communications (1 paper)
IEEE Trans on Multimedia (1
paper)
Elsevier Performance
Evaluation Journal (1 paper)
IEEE ICC 2008 (2 papers)
IEEE Sarnoff 2008 (2 papers)
Asilomar 2007 (1 paper)
IEEE ICC 2007 (2 papers)
CISS 2007
Network & Information
Security
DIMVA 2008 (1 paper)
IEEE ICC 2008 (2 papers)
IEEE ICC 2007 (1 papers)

Bio-inspired Computing
ACM GECCO 2008 (2 papers)
ACM ANTS 2008 (1 paper)
Evocomnet 2008 (1 paper)

Book chapter:
Patents
Two pending patents at the US Patents Office
One patent has already gone through the PCT application phase
Another patent is currently going through PCT review
Two patents are currently been drafted for filing before July 2008
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Projects
Funded Projects:
Design and Development of an Open-Source Enterprise Network Security
Solution
Funding Agency: Pakistan National ICT R&D Fund
Amount: 6.18 million rupees
Design of Adaptive Wireless Multimedia Protocols,
Funding Agency: Nokia Research, China
Amount: 200,000 Yuan
Development of an IPv6 (6lowpan) Wireless Sensor Network at NUST, in
collaboration with AJOU University, South Korea
Funding Agency: Korean Research Foundation
Amount: ~USD 100,000

Project Proposals under Submission:
Network-Embedded Security using In-Network Packet Marking, submitted to
Pakistan National ICTR&D Fund
Multimedia Transport over MIMO and IPTV systems, submitted to Electronics &
Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea

Projects Proposals in Preparation:
List of proposals in prep
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