Publications
2022
| MobiCom ’22 | Estimating Soil Moisture using RF Signals Usman Mahmood Khan, Muhammad Shahzad Acceptance rate: 17.6% Download: [paper] |
| SIGMETRICS ’22 | Dissecting Cloud Gaming Performance with DECAF Hassan Iqbal, Ayesha Khalid, Muhammad Shahzad Acceptance rate: 15.6% Download: [paper] |
| CHI ’22 | RMS: Removing Barriers to Analyze the Availability and Surge Pricing of Ridesharing Services Hassan Khan, Hassan Iqbal, Muhammad Shahzad, Guoliang Jin Acceptance rate: 24.7% Download: [paper] |
| 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 Acceptance rate: 17.7% Download: [paper] |
| IEEE/ACM ToN ’22 | Characterizing the Availability and Latency in AWS Network From the Perspective of Tenants Hassan Iqbal, Anand Singh, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.56 Download: [paper] |
| ICCCN ’22 | A Distributed & Lightweight Framework to Secure IoT Networks Against Network Layer Attacks Prasesh Adina, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| ACM IMWUT ’22 & UbiComp ’22 |
Contactless Monitoring of PPG using Radar Usman Mahmood Khan, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 4.16 Download: [paper] |
| ACM ToSN ’22 | Using RF Signals to Generate Indoor Maps Usman Mahmood Khan, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.39 Download: [paper] |
| ACM ToC ’22 | Enhanced Machine Learning Sketches for Network Measurements Hengrui Wang, Huiping Lin, Zheng Zhong, Tong Yang, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.194 Download: [paper] |
2021
| ICCCN ’21 | Accurately Decoding MIMO Streams in VLC Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| ICCCN ’21 | Characterizing the Performance of QUIC on Android and Wear OS Devices Anirudh Ganji, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
2020
| 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 Download: [paper] |
| IPSN ’20 | RFMap: Generating Indoor Maps using RF Signals Usman M. Khan, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| ICDCS ’20 | Characterizing the Impact of TCP Coexistence in Data Center Networks Anirudh Ganji, Anand Singh, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| PICom ’20 | Recognizing Human Gestures Using Ambient Light BEST PAPER AWARD Shakir Mahmood, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| MASS ’20 | Distributed and Privacy Preserving Routing of Connected Vehicles to Minimize Congestion Surabhi R. Boob, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| MASS ’20 | A WiFi-based Home Security System Shaohu Zhang, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| ICCCN ’20 | Choosing TCP Variants for Cloud Tenants – A Measurement based Approach Anirudh Ganji, Anand Singh, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| 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 Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.402 Download: [paper] |
| Elsevier CMPB ’20 | Bimodal Affect Recognition based on Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models from Physiological Signals Fatma Patlar Akbuluta, Harry G. Perros, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.424 Download: [paper] |
| IFIP Networking ’20 | Distributed and Privacy Preserving Routing of Connected Vehicles to Minimize Congestion (Extended Abstract) Surabhi Boob, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
2019
| IEEE TMC ’19 | WiFi based Multi-User Gesture Recognition Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 4.474 Download: [paper] |
| ACM IMWUT ’19 & UbiComp ’19 |
Enhancing Indoor Inertial Odometry with WiFi Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| IEEE TDSC ’19 | Large Scale Characterization of Software Vulnerability Life Cycles Muhammad Shahzad, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 4.41 Download: [paper] |
| ICCCN ’19 | Characterizing the Performance of WiFi in Dense IoT Deployments Anirudh Ganji, Griffin Page, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| ICNP ’19 | Demo: Measuring Distance Traveled by an Object using WiFi-CSI and IMU Fusion BEST DEMO AWARD Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| IFIP Networking ’19 | A Framework to Secure IoT Networks Against Network Layer Attacks (Extended Abstract) Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Prasesh Adina, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| IFIP Networking ’19 | Characterizing the Performance of WiFi in Dense IoT Deployments (Extended Abstract) Anirudh Ganji, Griffin Page, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| 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 Download: [paper] |
2018
| ACM IMWUT ’18 & UbiComp ’18 |
Augmenting User Identification with WiFi Based Gesture Recognition Shaohu Zhang, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| ACM IMWUT ’18 & UbiComp ’18 |
Gesture Recognition Using Ambient Light Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| MobiSys ’18 | Multi-User Activity Recognition Using WiFi Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Griffin Page, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| ICNP ’18 | IoTm: A Lightweight Framework for Fine-grained Measurements of IoT Performance Metrics Anirudh Ganji, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| IEEE/ACM ToN ’18 | Identifying and Estimating Persistent Items in Data Streams Haipeng Dai, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.11 Download: [paper] |
| 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 Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 1.405 Download: [paper] |
| ICC ’18 | Towards Composing Access Control Policies Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| EdgeSys ’18 | Sizing Buffers of IoT Edge Routers Jamal Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Shahzad, Ali R. Butt Download: [paper] |
| Mobile IoT SSP ’18 | Impacts and Detection of Network Layer Attacks on IoT Networks Prasesh Adina, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| 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 Download: [paper] |
| ACM S3 ’18 | Recognizing Gestures With Ambient Light Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
2017
| MobiSys ’17 | Position and Orientation Agnostic Gesture Recognition Using WiFi Aditya Virmani, Muhammad Shahzad Acceptance rate: 18.1% Download: [paper] |
| 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 Download: [paper] |
| IEEE IC ’17 | Continuous Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things (invited; not peer-reviewed) Muhammad Shahzad, Munindar P. Singh Impact factor at the time of publishing: 1.4 Download: [paper] |
| 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 Download: [paper] |
| IEEE/ACM ToN ’17 | A Shifting Framework for Set Queries Tong Yang, Alex Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Yang Dongsheng, Qiaobin Fu, Gaogang Xie, Xiaoming Li Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.376 Download: [paper] |
| IEEE JSAC ’17 | Device-free Human Activity Recognition Using Commercial WiFi Devices Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Kang Ling, Sanglu Lu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.672 Download: [paper] |
| IEEE JSAC ’17 | Recognizing Keystrokes Using WiFi Devices Kamran Ali, Alex X. Liu, Wei Wang, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.672 Download: [paper] |
| VLDB ’17 | Finding Persistent Items in Data Streams Haipeng Dai, Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu, Yuankun Zhong Download: [paper] |
| ICDCS ’17 | Fast and Accurate Tracking of Population Dynamics in RFID Systems Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 16.9% Download: [paper] |
2016
| IEEE TMC ’16 | Behavior Based Human Authentication on Touch Screen Devices Using Gestures and Signatures Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu, Arjmand Samuel Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 2.456 Download: [paper] |
| IEEE/ACM ToN ’16 | Multi-category RFID Estimation Xiulong Liu, Keqiu Li, Alex X. Liu, Song Guo, Muhammad Shahzad, Ann L. Wang, Jie Wu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 2.186 Download: [paper] |
| IEEE/ACM ToN ’16 | Fast and Reliable Detection and Identification of Missing RFID Tags in the Wild Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 2.186 Download: [paper] |
| IEEE/ACM ToN ’16 | Accurate and Efficient Per-flow Latency Measurement without Probing and Time Stamping Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 2.186 Download: [paper] |
| UbiComp ’16 | Gait Recognition Using WiFi Signals Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad Acceptance rate: 23.9% Download: [paper] |
| IFIP Networking ’16 | A Stochastic Frame Based Approach to RFID Tag Searching Ann L. Wang, Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 26.5% Download: [paper][slides] |
| 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 Acceptance rate: 14.5% Download: [paper] |
2015
| ICNP ’15 | Fairness Matters: Identification of Active RFID Tags with Statistically Guaranteed Fairness Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 38/187 = 20.3% Download: [paper][slides] |
| MobiCom ’15 | Understanding and Modeling of WiFi Signal Based Human Activity Recognition Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Kang Ling, Sanglu Lu Acceptance rate: 38/207 = 18.4% Download: [paper][slides] |
| MobiCom ’15 | Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals Kamran Ali, Alex X. Liu, Wei Wang, Muhammad Shahzad Acceptance rate: 38/207 = 18.4% Download: [paper][slides] |
| INFOCOM ’15 | Expecting the Unexpected: Fast and Reliable Detection of Missing RFID Tags in the Wild Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 316/1640 = 19.3% Download: [paper][slides] |
2014
| IEEE/ACM ToN ’14 | Probabilistic Optimal Tree Hopping for RFID Identification Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 2.014 Download: [paper] |
| SIGMETRICS ’14 | Noise Can Help: Accurate and Efficient Per-flow Latency Measurement without Packet Probing and Time Stamping Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 40/238 = 16.8% Download: [paper][slides] |
2013
| IEEE/ACM ToN ’13 | Fast and Accurate Estimation of RFID Tags Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 2.014 Download: [paper] |
| 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 Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.969 Download: [paper] |
| 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 Acceptance rate: 28/208 = 13.5% Download: [paper][slides] |
| SIGMETRICS ’13 | Probabilistic Optimal Tree Hopping for RFID Identification Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 27/196 = 13.8% Download: [paper][slides] |
| USPTO | Behavior Based Authentication for Touch Screen Devices Arjmand Samuel, Muhammad Shahzad Application number: US 13/857,155 Year: 2013 |
2012
| MobiCom ’12 | Every Bit Counts – Fast and Scalable RFID Estimation Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 32/212 = 15.1% Download: [paper][slides] |
| ICSE ’12 | A Large Scale Exploratory Analysis of Software Vulnerability Life Cycles Muhammad Shahzad, Muhammad Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 87/408 = 21.3% Download: [paper][slides] |
2011
| ICC ’11 | In-execution Malware Detection using Task Structure of Linux Processes Farrukh Shahzad, Sohail Bhatti, Muhammad Shahzad, Mudassar Farooq Download: [paper] |
2010 and before
| RAID ’09 | Keystroke-based User Identification on Smart Phones Saira Zahid, Muhammad Shahzad, Syed Ali Khayam, Mudassar Farooq Download: [paper] |
| GECCO ’09 | A Hybrid GA-PSO Fuzzy System for User Identification on Smart Phones Muhammad Shahzad, Saira Zahid, Mudassar Farooq Download: [paper] |
| ICDIP ’09 | Image Coprocessor: A Real-time Approach Towards Object Tracking Muhammad Shahzad, Saira Zahid Download: [paper] |
| IBCAST ’09 | Iterative Learning Fuzzy Inference System Sohail Ashraf, Ejaz Muhammad, F.Rashid, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper] |
| PPSN ’08 | A Scalable Formal Framework for Analyzing the Behavior of Nature-inspired Routing Protocols Muhammad Shahzad, Saira Zahid, Muddassar Farooq Download: [paper] |
| CEC ’07 | A Comprehensive Formal Framework for Analyzing the Behavior of Nature-inspired Routing Protocols Muhammad Shahzad, Saira Zahid, Syed Usman Ali, Muddassar Farooq Download: [paper] |