Member Name: Umar Saif

Title: Associate Professor of Computer Science

Qualifications: Post-Doctorate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Ph.D., University of Cambridge

Phone: + 92 (42) 572 2670 Ext: 4421

Fax: + 92 (42) 589 8315

E-Mail: umar@lums.edu.pk

Website: http://web.lums.edu.pk/umar

Research Interests: Pervasive Computing, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Mobile Computing, Network Protocols and Architectures

Biography: Umar Saif received his academic training from LUMS, Cambridge and MIT. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Cambridge (2001) and Postdoctorate from MIT (2002), in Computer Science. Dr Saif worked and taught at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) for four years, where he was part of the core team which developed system technologies for project Oxygen- a US$40 million project sponsored by the US Department of Defense and an industrial Alliance of world-class companies. While at MIT, Dr Saif also managed the multi-million dollar collaboration on future computing technologies between University of Cambridge and MIT sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) and a consortium of high-tech companies.

Publications & Patents: Poor Man's Broadband: Peer-to-Peer Dialup Networking
Saif, U., Latif, A., Butt, S. F., and Butt, N. F., In ACM SIGCOMM CCR Journal, vol. 37, no. 5, October 2007. (ACM Press)

Opportunistic File Association for Mobile Operating Systems
Saif, U., In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing and System Architectures, April 6-7, 2006.

Medium Access Control Issues in Sensor Networks
Ali, M., Saif, U., Dunkels, A., Voigt, T., Römer, K., Langendoen, K., Polastre, J., and Zartash, U., In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 33–36, April 2006.