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Publications

SIGSPATIAL ’24
Dockless Electric Scooters Worldwide: Methods and Analysis

Hassan Khan, Muhammad Shahzad
MASS ’24
FruitSight: A Millimeter Wave Radar Based Approach to Detect Occluded Fruits

Zahra Shiraz, Usman Mahmood Khan, Muhammad Shahzad
WoWMoM ’24
Leveraging the Movements of Occupants to Generate Indoor Maps Using RF Signals

Usman Mahmood Khan, Muhammad Shahzad
IFIP Networking ’24
Characterizing Power Usage in Zero Reserved Power Data Centers to Enable Planned Maintenance

Hassan Khan, Muhammad Shahzad
ICCCN ’23
Per-flow Packet Loss Measurement without Probing

Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad
MobiCom ’22
Estimating Soil Moisture using RF Signals

Usman Mahmood Khan, Muhammad Shahzad
SIGMETRICS ’22
Dissecting Cloud Gaming Performance with DECAF

Hassan Iqbal, Ayesha Khalid, Muhammad Shahzad
CHI ’22
RMS: Removing Barriers to Analyze the Availability and Surge Pricing of Ridesharing Services

Hassan Khan, Hassan Iqbal, Muhammad Shahzad, Guoliang Jin
WWW ’22
Left or Right: A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020

Hassan Iqbal, Usman Mahmood Khan, Hassan Khan, Muhammad Shahzad
IEEE/ACM ToN ’22 
Characterizing the Availability and Latency in AWS Network From the Perspective of Tenants

Hassan Iqbal, Anand Singh, Muhammad Shahzad
ICCCN ’22
A Distributed & Lightweight Framework to Secure IoT Networks Against Network Layer Attacks               

Prasesh Adina, Muhammad Shahzad

ACM IMWUT ’22
&
UbiComp ’22

Contactless Monitoring of PPG using Radar

Usman Mahmood Khan, Muhammad Shahzad
ACM ToSN ’22
Using RF Signals to Generate Indoor Maps

Usman Mahmood Khan, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad
ACM ToC ’22
Enhanced Machine Learning Sketches for Network Measurements

Hengrui Wang, Huiping Lin, Zheng Zhong, Tong Yang, Muhammad Shahzad
ICCCN ’21
Accurately Decoding MIMO Streams in VLC

Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad
ICCCN ’21
Characterizing the Performance of QUIC on Android and Wear OS Devices

Anirudh Ganji, Muhammad Shahzad

ACM IMWUT ’20
&
UbiComp ’20

Leveraging Polarization of WiFi Signals to Simultaneously Track Multiple People

Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad, Sangki Yun, Christina Vlachou, Kyu-Han Kim
IPSN ’20
RFMap: Generating Indoor Maps using RF Signals

Usman M. Khan, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad
ICDCS ’20
Characterizing the Impact of TCP Coexistence in Data Center Networks

Anirudh Ganji, Anand Singh, Muhammad Shahzad
PICom ’20
Recognizing Human Gestures Using Ambient Light

BEST PAPER AWARD
Shakir Mahmood, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad
MASS ’20
Distributed and Privacy Preserving Routing of Connected Vehicles to Minimize Congestion

Surabhi R. Boob, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad
MASS ’20
A WiFi-based Home Security System

Shaohu Zhang, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad
ICCCN ’20
Choosing TCP Variants for Cloud Tenants – A Measurement based Approach

Anirudh Ganji, Anand Singh, Muhammad Shahzad
IEEE TPDS ’20
SF-sketch: A Two-stage Sketch for Data Streams

Lingtong Liu, Yulong Shen, Yibo Yan, Tong Yang, Muhammad Shahzad, Bin Cui, Gaogang Xie
Elsevier CMPB ’20
Bimodal Affect Recognition based on Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models from Physiological Signals

Fatma Patlar Akbuluta, Harry G. Perros, Muhammad Shahzad
IFIP Networking ’20
Distributed and Privacy Preserving Routing of Connected Vehicles to Minimize Congestion
 (Extended Abstract)
Surabhi Boob, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad
IEEE TMC ’19
WiFi based Multi-User Gesture Recognition

Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad

ACM IMWUT ’19
&
UbiComp ’19

Enhancing Indoor Inertial Odometry with WiFi

Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad
IEEE TDSC ’19
Large Scale Characterization of Software Vulnerability Life Cycles

Muhammad Shahzad, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu
ICCCN ’19
Characterizing the Performance of WiFi in Dense IoT Deployments

Anirudh Ganji, Griffin Page, Muhammad Shahzad
ICNP ’19
Demo: Measuring Distance Traveled by an Object using WiFi-CSI and IMU Fusion

BEST DEMO AWARD
Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad
IFIP Networking ’19
A Framework to Secure IoT Networks Against Network Layer Attacks
 (Extended Abstract)
Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Prasesh Adina, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad
IFIP Networking ’19
Characterizing the Performance of WiFi in Dense IoT Deployments
 (Extended Abstract)
Anirudh Ganji, Griffin Page, Muhammad Shahzad
ComNet-IoT ’19
CSlim: Automated Extraction of IoT Functionalities from Legacy C Codebases

Hyogi Sim, Arnab K. Paul, Eli Tilevich, Ali R. Butt, Muhammad Shahzad

ACM IMWUT ’18
 &
UbiComp ’18

Augmenting User Identification with WiFi Based Gesture Recognition

Shaohu Zhang, Muhammad Shahzad

ACM IMWUT ’18
&
UbiComp ’18

Gesture Recognition Using Ambient Light

Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad
MobiSys ’18
Multi-User Activity Recognition Using WiFi

Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Griffin Page, Muhammad Shahzad
ICNP ’18
IoTm: A Lightweight Framework for Fine-grained Measurements of IoT Performance Metrics

Anirudh Ganji, Muhammad Shahzad
IEEE/ACM ToN ’18
Identifying and Estimating Persistent Items in Data Streams

Haipeng Dai, Muhammad Shahzad
WWW Journal ’18
FID-Sketch: an Accurate Sketch to Store Frequencies in Data Streams

Tong Yang, Haowei Zhang, Hao Wang, Muhammad Shahzad, Qin Xin, Xue Liu, Xiaoming Li
ICC ’18
Towards Composing Access Control Policies

Muhammad Shahzad
EdgeSys ’18
Sizing Buffers of IoT Edge Routers

Jamal Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Shahzad, Ali R. Butt
Mobile IoT SSP ’18
Impacts and Detection of Network Layer Attacks on IoT Networks

Prasesh Adina, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad
NetAI ’18
Empowering Sketches with Machine Learning for Network Measurements

Tong Yang, Lun Wang, Yulong Shen, Muhammad Shahzad, Qun Huang, Xiaohong Jiang, Kun Tan, Xiaoming Li
ACM S3 ’18
Recognizing Gestures With Ambient Light

Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad
MobiSys ’17
Position and Orientation Agnostic Gesture Recognition Using WiFi

Aditya Virmani, Muhammad Shahzad
BigData ’17
Rectangular Hash Table: Bloom Filter and Bitmap Assisted Hash Table with High Speed

Tong Yang, Binchao Yin, Hang Li, Muhammad Shahzad, Steve Uhlig, Bin Cui, Xiaoming Li
IEEE IC ’17
Continuous Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things
 (invited; not peer-reviewed)
Muhammad Shahzad, Munindar P. Singh
ICDE ’17
SF-sketch: A Fast, Accurate, and Memory Efficient Data Structure to Store Frequencies of Data Items
 (Extended Abstract)
Tong Yang, Lingtong Liu, Yibo Yan, Muhammad Shahzad, Yulong Shen, Xiaoming Li, Bin Cui, Gaogang Xie
IEEE/ACM ToN ’17
A Shifting Framework for Set Queries

Tong Yang, Alex Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Yang Dongsheng, Qiaobin Fu, Gaogang Xie, Xiaoming Li
IEEE JSAC ’17
Device-free Human Activity Recognition Using Commercial WiFi Devices

Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Kang Ling, Sanglu Lu
IEEE JSAC ’17
Recognizing Keystrokes Using WiFi Devices

Kamran Ali, Alex X. Liu, Wei Wang, Muhammad Shahzad
VLDB ’17
Finding Persistent Items in Data Streams

Haipeng Dai, Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu, Yuankun Zhong
ICDCS ’17
Fast and Accurate Tracking of Population Dynamics in RFID Systems

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
IEEE TMC ’16
Behavior Based Human Authentication on Touch Screen Devices Using Gestures and Signatures

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu, Arjmand Samuel
IEEE/ACM ToN ’16    
Multi-category RFID Estimation

Xiulong Liu, Keqiu Li, Alex X. Liu, Song Guo, Muhammad Shahzad, Ann L. Wang, Jie Wu
IEEE/ACM ToN ’16
Fast and Reliable Detection and Identification of Missing RFID Tags in the Wild

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
IEEE/ACM ToN ’16
Accurate and Efficient Per-flow Latency Measurement without Probing and Time Stamping

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
UbiComp ’16
Gait Recognition Using WiFi Signals

Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad
IFIP Networking ’16
A Stochastic Frame Based Approach to RFID Tag Searching

Ann L. Wang, Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
VLDB ’16
A Shifting Bloom Filter Framework for Set Queries

Tong Yang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Yuankun Zhong, Qiaobin Fu, Zi Li, Gaogang Xie, Xiaoming Li
ICNP ’15
Fairness Matters: Identification of Active RFID Tags with Statistically Guaranteed Fairness

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
MobiCom ’15
Understanding and Modeling of WiFi Signal Based Human Activity Recognition

Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Kang Ling, Sanglu Lu
MobiCom ’15
Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals

Kamran Ali, Alex X. Liu, Wei Wang, Muhammad Shahzad
INFOCOM ’15
Expecting the Unexpected: Fast and Reliable Detection of Missing RFID Tags in the Wild

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
IEEE/ACM ToN ’14   
Probabilistic Optimal Tree Hopping for RFID Identification

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
SIGMETRICS ’14
Noise Can Help: Accurate and Efficient Per-flow Latency Measurement without Packet Probing and Time Stamping

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
IEEE/ACM ToN ’13   
Fast and Accurate Estimation of RFID Tags

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
Elsevier JIS ’13
In-execution Dynamic Malware Analysis and Detection by Mining Information in Process Control Blocks of Linux OS

Farrukh Shahzad, Muhammad Shahzad, Mudassar Farooq
MobiCom ’13
Secure Unlocking of Mobile Touch Screen Devices by Simple Gestures – You can see it but you can not do it

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu, Arjmand Samuel
SIGMETRICS ’13
Probabilistic Optimal Tree Hopping for RFID Identification

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
USPTO
Behavior Based Authentication for Touch Screen Devices

Arjmand Samuel, Muhammad Shahzad
Application number: US 13/857,155
Year: 2013
MobiCom ’12
Every Bit Counts – Fast and Scalable RFID Estimation

Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu
ICSE ’12
A Large Scale Exploratory Analysis of Software Vulnerability Life Cycles

Muhammad Shahzad, Muhammad Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu
ICC ’11
In-execution Malware Detection using Task Structure of Linux Processes

Farrukh Shahzad, Sohail Bhatti, Muhammad Shahzad, Mudassar Farooq
RAID ’09
Keystroke-based User Identification on Smart Phones

Saira Zahid, Muhammad Shahzad, Syed Ali Khayam, Mudassar Farooq
GECCO ’09
A Hybrid GA-PSO Fuzzy System for User Identification on Smart Phones

Muhammad Shahzad, Saira Zahid, Mudassar Farooq
ICDIP ’09
Image Coprocessor: A Real-time Approach Towards Object Tracking

Muhammad Shahzad, Saira Zahid
IBCAST ’09
Iterative Learning Fuzzy Inference System

Sohail Ashraf, Ejaz Muhammad, F.Rashid, Muhammad Shahzad
PPSN ’08
A Scalable Formal Framework for Analyzing the Behavior of Nature-inspired Routing Protocols

Muhammad Shahzad, Saira Zahid, Muddassar Farooq
CEC ’07
A Comprehensive Formal Framework for Analyzing the Behavior of Nature-inspired Routing Protocols

Muhammad Shahzad, Saira Zahid, Syed Usman Ali, Muddassar Farooq