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Syed Taha Ali
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS)
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
NUST Campus H-12, Islamabad
Tel: -
Email: taha.ali@seecs.edu.pk
Web: https://agrammaton.wordpress.com/

Specialization:
computer networks, network security, Internet-of-Things, digital currencies, secure elections

Education:
PhD. - Electrical Engineering - University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia - Australia - 2012

1 .
Can GANs adapt without retraining?:

Deepfakes is an example of generative adversarial networks. Given a substantial amount of training data, GANs manage to generate data which resembles the training data.

In this work our aim is to come up with a strategy to use GANs to generate data considerably different from the training data but also realistic.

We will demonstrate this strategy on text detection. We plan to generate art...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2022
Status: Active
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
Hassan Bin Haroon [MSEE-2K21]

2 .
Developing Secure CAPTCHA for Online Security:

CAPTCHAs are essential for online security, and different approaches to development of secure and robust CAPTCHAs have been presented. However, there is a good body of work to break such CAPTCHAs, resulting in a race for developing and breaking new CAPTCHAs. In this work, we intend to use the knowledge of multi-view geometry, and 3D reconstruction to develop secure CAPTCHA for online security.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Human-Computer Interaction
Year: 2022
Status: Active
Advisor
Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
Taimoor Hasan Khan [MSEE-2K21]

3 .
Shared secrets using Shared Wireless Fingerprints:

This thesis develops security primitives using shared wireless signatures for a variety of security purposes, including authentication, pairing, and key exhange.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2022
Status: Active
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arshad Nazir [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
Ishra Hussain [MSEE-2K20]

4 .
Cooperative dynamic bandwidth assignement algorithm in virtual passive optical networks:

The Passive Optical Network (PON) provides end-users with high-speed and high-capacity network access, but at a significant capital expense known as CAPEX. Operators tend to deploy additional fibre with high operational expenses as a result of the rising data traffic. To save money on the initial expenditure, PON infrastructure should be shared among network providers, Virtual PON is the term fo...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2022
Status: Active
Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Hasan Ali Khattak [DoC] Salman Abdul Ghafoor [EE]
Students
HARIS MASHOOD [MSCS-8]

5 .
Machine Learning based Quality of Service (QoS) Estimation in Partially Disaggregated Optical Networks:

The software defined optical networks are bringing great changes in terms of flexibility. Not only does it improve spectral efficiency and receiver sensitivity, but it also makes the design of optical communication systems easier. Networks operators are concern about the maintaining the better performances of disaggregated optical networks and figuring out the potential performance hurdles. Opera...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2022
Status: Active
Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Hasan Ali Khattak [DoC] Muhammad Moazam Fraz [DoC]
Students
Affera Sultan [MSIT-2K20]

6 .
Is it possible to launch adversarial attacks in online video games?:

The video game industry is very popular nowadays. According to a study, the approximate worth of this industry is $159.3 billion with 2.7 billion gamers worldwide. As video games are very popular and easily accessible, they can be used as a tool for private communication. In the paper "A First look at Private Communications in Video Games using Visual features" published by Wajid et al. In this p...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2022
Status: Active
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
Khizer Mehmood [MSEE-2K20]

7 .
Adversarial attacks on Intrusion Detection Systems:

Due to the enormous use of the internet, cybersecurity issues have increased significantly during the past decades. CERT statistics show an excessive increase in intrusions year by year. To deal with intrusions, it is necessary to detect the intrusion before the CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability) is compromised. For this purpose, Intrusion detection systems have become an essentia...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arshad Nazir [EE]
Students
Ayisha Naeem [MSEE-2K20]

8 .
A comparative analysis of GANS for generating synthetic network traffic datasets:

Modern Machine learning and deep learning research have shown massive advancements
in the area of generative models. The most popular framework of generative models is
known as Generative Adversarial Networks or GANS. Although the primary research
on GANS was based on computer vision problems recent literature has shown a
diverse range of GANS applications including but not limited to text, a...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arshad Nazir [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
Madeeha Minhas [MSCS-2K20]

9 .
Towards Mimicking Network Traffic Streams Using Machine Learning Techniques:

Internet is a source of all types of information for a user, but several countries put restrictions on accessing the information backend by law to prevent the reputation of the country. For restriction, government uses censor models that detect if someone is trying to access the blocked content or site and took the countermeasure. This leads to the development of covert channels, that hide restri...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arshad Nazir [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
Rimsha Chauhdary [MSEE-2K20]

10 .
Implementation of Partially Disaggregated Open Optical Networks using open source software (SONIC & ONL) and bare-metal hardware:

In today’s world, open and disaggregated optical networks have earned the interest of the industry and academia. Vast and rapid deployment of fully and partially disaggregated optical networks in data centers as well as by network operators has been started. The software defined optical networks are bringing great changes in terms of flexibility. Not only does it improve spectral efficiency and r...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2021
Status: Active
Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Hasan Ali Khattak [DoC]
Students
Muhammad Hamza Iqbal [MSIT-2K20]

11 .
FMDAI: Facial Manipulation Detection Using Artificial Intelligence:

1. Summary of Research Proposal
We propose a transfer learning-based approach to tackle current visual
manipulations techniques. This scheme is targeted to detect these types of
problems more accurately and efficiently.

2. Introduction
Visual content manipulation is gaining huge popularity due to its applications in
entertainment industries. Many movies have been made using these techniqu...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2021
Status: Active
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
MAJEED AHMED [MSEE-10]

12 .
Securing IoT devices with In-hop encryption:

In this modern age, Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming part of our lives incautiously. The ease of monitoring and performing our tasks remotely has made this technology inescapable. Accessing IoT devices over the insecure network possess confidentiality threats to the private as well sensitive information. Communication can be intercepted in the absence of any proper access control and security...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
Arslan Riaz [MSIS-11]

13 .
Private Local Features:

In computer vision, most of the algorithms used to solve the problem of visual localization and area mapping, depend upon the finding as well as description of distinct local features of underlying images to make correspondence between multiple images. These features can be found either through legacy approaches e.g. Harris Corner Detection, Shi-Tomasi Corner Detection, SIFT, SURF, FAST, BRIEF an...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
HAMMAD ALI TARIQ [MSEE-9]

14 .
Using games to defend against adversarial attacks on mobile systems:

All around the world many different industries have been focused on making products that are more efficient and effective but not more engaging and interesting.
To be successful in the new age of engagement, companies are realising the need to shift from 'function-focused design' to 'human-focused design'. Gamification serves the purpose in automotive industry.
Along with the business improvem...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Management
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Hassan Aqeel Khan [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
MUHAMMAD NABEEL TAHIR [MSEE-9]

15 .
A Virtual Reality Simulator for Training of Emergency Staff during a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI):

The aim of this project is to develop a training simulator for the hospital staff. The training is provided to improve emergency responce during a mass casulity incidence (MCI). A couple of professional simulators are planned to be used to simulate a scenario and run the MCI algo to evaluate its perfromance.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Graphics and Visualization
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajid Mumtaz [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Rizwan Ahmad [EE] Iftikhar Ahmad Rana [EE]
Students
FAHAD MUSTAFA [MSEE-11]

16 .
Collaborative Work in Augmented Reality:

This project aims to ensure collaborative work in augmented reality.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2021
Status: Active
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
MUHAMMAD ARSLAN NIAZ [MSCS-9]

17 .
Investigating Mempool Optimizations for Ethereum:

The current Ethereum network is facing a lot of scalability issues which are driving the Ethereum clients to opt for another network that doesn't have any scalability issues. Gas fees and limited capacity to process transactions are the two main issues. This paper introduces an approach to optimizing Ethereum mempool to achieve better scalability than existing. OMCEM is a new scheme that optimize...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Management
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
Syeda Roushan Arshid [MSCS-8]

18 .
Combating Threats for an IoT based Cyberphysical Systems using Blockchain and Machine Learning:

Rapid advancement in Internet Technologies (IT) has not only evolved our daily lives but modern industry too. In this modern era, machines are replacing human’s work and sensors are acting as ears and eyes for the machines. Machines are augmented with sensors and network of these smart sensors can help to visualize the entire production line and can make decisions on its own. Modern industry uses...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Rizwan Ahmad [EE]
Students
Hafiz Humza Saeed [MSEE-10]

19 .
Steganography in Printed World:

Deep Neural networks are used on large scale for pattern recognition in many computer visions tasks.They are vulnerable to the specially crafted adversaries that can cause the Neural networks to wrongly classify the data .Various adversarial sample generating techniques have been invented over past few years .They can be applied digitally or in physical world as well.Lots of work is being done to...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Shahzad Younis [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
Faiza Muzaffar [MSEE-10]

20 .
Addressing OpenStack Performance Issues:

OpenStack is an open source cloud solution which aims at removing vendor locking by providing a virtualized environment in a production environment. OpenStack’s networking module i.e. Neutron provides a centralized routing service, where L3 packets are redirected to a central network node. A single network node is incapable of handling overlapping IP addresses for multiple networks, which in turn...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Telecommunications
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
MUHAMMAD TAHIR MASOOD [MSEE-8]

21 .
The Development of A Participatory Art Ecosystem using Generative Adversarial Networks and Blockchains:

Participatory art is a word that refers to a type of art that involves the audience directly in the creative process, making them participants in the event. The artist is viewed as a collaborator and co-producer of art with the audience in this regard, and these situations frequently have an ambiguous beginning or end. At the end of the 20th century, participatory art was introduced in almost eve...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2020
Status: Active
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
FARWA WAQAR [MSIT-19]

22 .
Evaluating the privacy features of privacy preserving maps:

3D maps reveal the geometry of the scene. This is a privacy violation. One can detect which objects are present in the scene. Furthermore, once can also locate them. These 3D maps are required for multiple applications, e.g., localization of agents, AR applications etc. Is it possible to achieve localization without revealing the 3D geometry of the environment? Recently a privacy preserving mappi...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Shahzad [DoC] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
MUHAMMAD WALID QAMAR [MSEE-8]

23 .
Analyzing Of Block Packing Strategies By Bitcoin Mining Pools:

Bitcoin, decentralised and conventionally produced in 2008, is a digital currency. Bitcoin nodes are continually creating and propagating blocks, a set of newly approved transactions published in Bitcoin’s Ledger, distributed and secure. In the Bitcoin network, mining pools play a major role in finding a block. When a new block is being created, miners tend to pay the highest fees for transaction...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
Ain Zia [MSEE-10]

24 .
Health Counselling using wearable cameras:

Motivation
It is a common practice that children and elder people tend to forget to wash their hands before eating. Most of them are prone to have a weak immune system which increases their risk of getting affected by contagious diseases like chicken pox, common cold, hepatitis A and B influenza and measles.
Many countries around the world are experiencing measles outbreaks. As of 5 November 2...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
MAHAM MUDASSAR [MSEE-9]

25 .
An Efficient Hardware Accelerator for Post Quantum Cryptography :

In recent years, there has been a substantial amount of research on quantum computers – machines that exploit quantum mechanical phenomena to solve mathematical problems that are difficult for conventional computers. If large-scale quantum computers are ever built, they will compromise the security of many commonly used cryptographic algorithms. In particular, quantum computers would completely b...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: DSSP
Year: 2020
Status: Transferred to Non-Thesis
Advisor
Osman Hasan [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Khawar Khurshid [EE] Muhammad Shafique [ECM]
Students
SYEDA GILANI [MSEE-10]

26 .
Capacity Sharing using Customized Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms in Virtual Passive Optical Networks:

Passive Optical Network (PON) delivers high speed and high capacity network access to the end users but at the cost of high capital expenditure called CAPEX. Because of the increased data traffic, the operators tend to deploy more fiber having high operational cost. In order to reduce the initial investment, PON infrastructure needs to be shared between the network operators. This sharing of reso...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Rizwan Ahmad [EE] Salman Abdul Ghafoor [EE]
Students
GULMINA MALIK [MSEE-10]

27 .
Optimal BBU Placement for 5G C-RAN Deployment:

5G mobile access has unprecedented targets for performance in terms of latency and data rates. For that reason, 5G networks will adopt advanced techniques to achieve those targets such as coordinated multipoint access and centralized radio access network with BBU hotelling. Optical aggregation networks based on wavelength division multiplexing are a good solution for 5G transport. The baseband un...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Rizwan Ahmad [EE] Salman Abdul Ghafoor [EE]
Students
MUHAMMAD AHSAN [MSEE-10]

28 .
Autoscaling and resource placement in containerized based NFV:

This thesis invesigates autoscaling and resource placement in containerized based NFV.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Telecommunications
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
ABDUL BASIT ALVI [MSEE-8]

29 .
Secure Messaging over IPFS:

Internet is such a valuable tool in our everyday life. We use it to consume media, to communicate with friends and colleagues, to learn, to handle our finances and much more. Providing reliable and confidential communication is difficult in the presence of third party devices when they communicate with our devices to provide services. So here IPFS came with its solution.IPFS is decentralized peer...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
ARSHIA WAHEED [MSIT-18]

30 .
Which patterns GANs are unable to reproduce?:

Most challenging problem that is faced while applying deep learning solutions to any problem is to find large amount of data. A recent breakthrough that is being looked as a solution to this problem is, GANs (Generative adversarial networks). Unlike typical deep learning models that are used to classify data, GANs actually produce new data that is similar to the data it is trained on. GANs have m...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Muhammad Shahzad [EE]
Students
JAWAD AHMED [MSEE-9]

31 .
Using classical tools to counter adversarial attacks on deep learning networks:

Major success has been achieved by deep learning in various domains e.g. medical imaging, self-driving cars, face recognition, industrial automation and a lot more. But, discovery of adversarial examples has highlighted severe concerns and alarms about the deployment of deep learning systems in the real world. The goal of this study is to explore generation of text based adversarial examples and ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
AQSA IMTIAZ [MSCS-7]

32 .
Online adaptive application independent network intrusion detection :

The purpose is to develop a deep learning based approach to correctly identify network attacks alongwith their type and involved risk, by continuously monitoring real time network traffic and packets inspection.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Transferred to Non-Thesis
Advisor
Muhammad Khuram Shahzad [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Farhan Khan [DoC] Muazzam A Khan Khattak [DoC]
Students
SOHAIB HANIF [MSIT-19]

33 .
Cuckoo Filter in Carbyne:A bitcoin mempool Optimization scheme using cuckoo filter:

Bitcoin use has been increased tremendously and is continuously rising, with the space optimization for bitcoin mempool is a big concern. Previously in Carbyne technique optimizes mempool using counting bloom filter, we have used the same concept but used the cuckoo filter to be more optimized and better data structure. For incoming new transactions, the cuckoo filter is applied before saving any...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
UROOJ TARIQ [MSEE-9]

34 .
Checking perfomance of GANs on difficult Captchas:

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) seems to be hot topic for research where the solution has shown tremendous amount and capacity to learn and duplicate from sketches to images and then even Network packets. GANs are generative model as they tend to create new things based on their training data, as an example, they can create a human face image which seems like they belong to real person b...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
ABDUL FAREED JAMALI [MSEE-9]

35 .
Intelligent Multimedia Protocol Tunnelling:

This project develops solutions to evade multimedia protocol detection.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Active
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
HASSAN ROSHAN AWAN [MSEE-9]

36 .
Intelligent traffic shaping to evade censorship:

This project develops new techniques to evade machine learning firewall tools.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Active
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
MUHAMMAD HAMAS RIZWAN [MSEE-9]

37 .
Building household electricity load profiles using machine learning:

In this project we intend to collect data and apply machine learning techniques on energy consumption habits of Pakistani households. The first step in the project will be to collect energy and socio-economic data and then to apply various machine learning algorithms to model, predict and simulate consumer behavior


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Computational Science
Year: 2019
Status: Active
Advisor
Fahad Javed [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Safdar Abbas Khan [DoC] Imran Mahmood Hashmi [DoC]
Students
ARISHA AKKAS [MSCS-8]

38 .
Bitcoin Fee Optimization using Machine Learning:

The Bitcoin transaction fee is an important incentive mechanism for Bitcoin miners. It also plays a vital role in long term stability and security of the network. The Bitcoin users set a suitable fee value for their transactions according to their desired confirmation time. The Bitcoin fee market is significantly effected by dynamic and volatile nature of Bitcoin network. The current Bitcoin fee ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
AROONA ASHKENAZ [MSIS-10]

39 .
A study of pirated content on IPFS:

IPFS is web3.0, it maps content to a specific hash address. IPFS bases search engines are hosting data in the form of CIDs which is also carrying dark web traffic. Dark web is a topic of serious concern because it has become a growth area for clandestine entities catering to forbidden activities and services such as illegal drugs and weapons, child pornography, sensitive information such as stole...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
AATQA HUSSAIN [MSIS-9]

40 .
A security analysis of IPFS:

IPFS is a peer to peer distributed web which has many layers as it is distributed, it has certain protocols at network level, design level, front end and its low-level communication and peering with other node mechanisms. All of these must be secure for the users in order to get started with IPFS. It is claimed globally that InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a replacement of HTTPS. Security a...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
HAFSA RANA [MSIS-9]

41 .
Blockchain-based Auction Mechanisms for Transacting Energy:

Certain factors like increased distributed energy generation, shift towards renewable energy resources, digitalization and excessive data handling are changing the energy sector. Due to economic reasons and concept of clean energy for decarbonisation and reduction of environmental hazards, use of renewable energy resources and small scale energy generation is emerging. With the popularity of smar...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Fahad Javed [DoC]
Students
LAIBA NASIR [MSEE-9]

42 .
Doodles: a Hash Visualization Scheme:

Several authentication techniques and security protocols require users to compare hash strings in different forms like cryptographic keys, addresses, and identifiers. As these hash values are long sequences of digits and alphanumeric strings, there is quite a chance that humans may have problems in precise comparisons of the hash values. Also, considerable time and effort are required for these s...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
MOMNA SAEED [MSIT-18]

43 .
Innovative Privacy-preserving Aggregation Techniques for Smart meters:

The way energy is provided by electricity providers is changed because of various upgrades in power grid. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is one of the main reasons to modernize the electricity grid. There are some privacy concerns associated with this electricity grid. This process can reveal the private information of consumer's as it collects fine-grained power consumption data. This ha...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
NAZISH KANWAL [MSIS-10]

44 .
Privacy-preserving techniques to detect search engine manipulation :

Recent research has shown that Google's search suggestions can turn a fifty-fifty split to ninety-ten among undecided voters without their awareness. It has also been observed that Google has been determining the outcomes of national elections upwards of 25%. Big multinational tech companies have the power to manipulate users’ opinions and voting preferences by using their forum to further their ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
MUSFIRAH . [MSIS-10]

45 .
Privacy-preserving techniques for smart traffic:

Due to the advancement in connected car technology, the toll calculation methods have been evolved to the electronic toll collection. As the toll collection methods evolved to be electronic, they are also exposed to various attack types. The plain text toll details are communicated to the toll server through the internet, which may be a great threat to security. Various schemes are proposed for t...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
HADEEQA NASIR [MSIS-10]

46 .
Network analysis of IPFS:

Right now the Internet is in the middle of a revolution, its deeply changing how things work and how data is stored, the world is moving towards decentralization due to limitations in current web. Security and privacy are everyone's concern and is now a days threatened by the tech giants, like we see dropbox and facebook data breaches recently. The root cause of the problem is centralization and ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
AASIM SAJJAD [MSIS-9]

47 .
Estimation of QoT using machine learning techniques in optical networks:

With the increase in global IP traffic it is becoming important in optical networks to estimate the Quality of Transmission (QoT) of new lightpaths before their establishment. The traditional approaches used to estimate the QoT of new lightpaths are coupled with high margins which leads to inaccurate QoT predictions. Accurate prediction of QoT is significant so that network can work efficiently, ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Salman Abdul Ghafoor [EE] Muhammad Shahzad [DoC]
Students
MAHNOOR KHAN [MSEE-9]

48 .
Quality of transmission prediction using machine learning models in future optical networks:

With the increase in global IP traffic in core optical networks, the accurate estimation of the Quality of Transmission (QoT) of new lightpaths before their establishment has become an important issue. The traditional approaches used to estimate the QoT of new lightpaths are coupled with high margins which leads to inaccurate QoT predictions. Accurate prediction of QoT is significant so that netw...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Salman Abdul Ghafoor [EE] Muhammad Shahzad [DoC]
Students
MEHEK SIDDIQUI [MSEE-9]

49 .
Crosstalk aware routing core and spectrum allocation in SDM based Elastic Optical Networks:

Global IP traffic is increasing day by day at a substantial rate resulting in a capacity crunch for the existing telecommunications systems based on Single Mode Fibers (SMF). To address this issue, technique like Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) and architecture like Elastic Optical Networks (EON) have been proposed. Since EON’s exhibit improved transmission capacity, they are promising future n...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2019
Status: Active
Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Salman Abdul Ghafoor [EE] Usman Zabit [EE]
Students
WARDA ZAHOOR [MSEE-9]

50 .
Remove what you don't want to share:

Recent deep learning solutions manage to detect multiple objects and remove them from the image. This ability opens up the avenue for generating private content. Remove what you don't want to share to generate private content. Removing content leaves holes in the content. Filling these holes still reveals the presence the something missing, e.g., removing chair underneath the person results in un...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
QASIM ZIA [MSEE-9]

51 .
Adversarial attack on slam systems:

This work tries to investigate the adversarial attacks on slam systems. Recently there is war of arms between attacks and defenses of deep learning systems. However, the current state of the art in SLAM relies on robust, well established image processing methods.

In this work we show attack on state of the art orb-slam. We demonstrate repeating simple patches around the environment confuse sla...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Rehan Ahmed [EE]
Students
MUHAMMAD HARIS IKRAM [MSEE-9]

52 .
Resource Allocation Schemes for IRS-enabled B5G Networks:

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), with the potential to reconfigure the wireless environment, have emerged as a promising technology to improve the spectral and energy efficiency of future wireless networks. An IRS consists of a large number of passive reflecting elements, which phase-shifts the impinging signal in order to tune the propagation channel according to the network requirements....


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Telecommunications
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Ali Hassan [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Rizwan Ahmad [EE]
Students
AHMED KAMAL TAHIR [MSEE-9]

53 .
A Detailed Analysis of BitCoin-Inspired Messaging App- Bitmessage:

The thesis presents a detailed analysis of Bitcoin Inspired messaging application - Bitmessage. The working, protocols and cryptographic algorithms used by bitmessage are explained and analyzed in detail. Certain design flaws and cryptographic weaknesses are highlighted.
Bitmessage is also analyzed from various perspectives i.e. on the basis of its performance, run-time analysis of the applicati...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
MASHAL KHAN [MSIS-10]

54 .
Formal verification of E-voting Protocols Using Probabilistic Model Checking:

A large number of secure voting systems have been proposed in the last few decades. However, it is quite challenging to completely verify these protocols quantitatively due to their distributive nature and complex structures. In this thesis, we propose to explore the usage of probabilistic model checking, i.e., a formal verification technique, to verify E-voting protocols. The rigorous nature of ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: DSSP
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Osman Hasan [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Seema Jehan [DoC] Khawar Khurshid [EE]
Students
SARA IFTIKHAR [MSEE-9]

55 .
Steganography in the printed world:

Hiding messages in the digital domain is relatively simple. How to add hidden message in the printed content? Recently deep networks have shown that they are able to detect changes in the printed material which the naked eye can not spot. However the challenge with the printed domain is the increased noise associated with the printing process. In this work we plan to use the deep learning to dete...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Rehan Ahmed [EE]
Students
ABDUL NAJEEB [MSEE-8]

56 .
Smart Contracts and Shielded Execution based Distributed Networked Storage System:

In Intel-SGX we can run a process in a secure way without being corrupted, even OS can’t change the behaviour of code running in SGX. SGX result in little overhead but this overhead is bearable as it provides better security.
Our aim is to use SGX technology to secure our data so that if different cases when our system is compromised or our secret data is on cloud hardware then even these cases ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Telecommunications
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Saad Qaisar Senior Member IEEE [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
MUHAMMAD AWAIS [MSEE-9]

57 .
Real-Time Telecommunication Network Management using Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques:

The process of network operations results in a large number of alerts generated daily due to the occurrences of abnormal activities. Traditional methods depend on the knowledge of equipment manufacturers and industry experts, therefore there was the requirement of novel ways to overcome this problem in network management system. Nowadays application of data mining technology for finding alarms pa...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2019
Status: Active
Advisor
Saad Qaisar Senior Member IEEE [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Rafia Mumtaz [DoC]
Students
SYEDA HAJRA HASHMI [MSIT-18]

58 .
Actualizing fast lanes using SDN and Smart Contracts:

In this project we design fast lanes using SDN and smart contracts to enable trust.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
MUHAMMAD MUNEEM SHABIR [MSEE-8]

59 .
Physical Security of Autonomous and Dumb Car:

Human activity recognition is a significant component of many innovative and human-behavior based systems. The ability to recognize various human activities enables the developing of intelligent control system. Usually the task of human activity recognition is mapped to the classification task of images representing person’s actions. Autonomous cars are on their way. These intelligent and mobile ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Hassan Aqeel Khan [EE]
Students
YASAR HAYAT [MSEE-8]

60 .
Sentiment analysis to identify patterns in online aggression:

Rise of internet has given a lot of worth and power to the voice of common man and it won’t be wrong to say that social media network is playing a major role in shaping up our behavior and thoughts now-a-days. The practice of instant thought or opinion sharing to a huge number of individuals on social media has made internet Polarized which means that whenever a certain incident happens it alway...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Management
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
SADAF NADEEM [MSIT-18]

61 .
Closing the backdoor on federated learning with increased accuracy:

The recent deep learning systems rely on data for accuracy. There are cases where the data is private and agents do not want to share it. How to train a system without the data? federated learning is the method of sharing the local trained model instead of the data. This addresses the privacy concern. There are two major shortcomings of current federated learning schemes. Firstly it is prone to b...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Hassan Aqeel Khan [EE] Omar Arif [DoC]
Students
ABDUL WAJID [MSEE-9]

62 .
Password Composition Policies in the Developing World:

Passwords an important entity in website security. The first barrier between the attacker and the host is the password. Password composition policy (PCP) is the rule upon which a website lets its host or client to choose a password. In this thesis we examine the password policies of different websites of Pakistan and India including their comparison with the previous studies on the topic. Our goa...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
SAAD AHMED KHAN [MSEE-8]

63 .
Smart contracts for smart grid:

Ten years from now, blockchain was proposed as an infrastructure to omit the need of a central authority in banking system along with the ample sense of security. Over the last decade, blockchain has been through multiple phases due to which today it's use is not limited to cryptocurrencies and financial sector only. With the rise of "smart contracts" blockchain is widely being used as distribute...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Fahad Javed [DoC] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
SANA FATIMA [MSIS-10]

64 .
Modifying Network Traffic Profiles to Counter Recognition:

With the rapid advancement of networking techniques, network traffic analysis has
become key part of network management. Network traffic detection creates open
threats to privacy and confidentiality of sensitive data. Different encryption
techniques are being used to hide network information. But encryption doesn't hide
statistical properties of a packet, therefore, network traffic still ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Management
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
SALMAN HAIDER [MSIT-17]

65 .
From Shorthand to Shortcut Writing:

Ever wondered why printers are so slow? The dumb printers take few seconds even to print an empty paper. In this work answer to this challenge is explored and tried to understand the process of producing text. We have investigated whether humans are the cost efficient writers. This work will help in saving time and increasing efficiency of both humans and machines while reproducing text. There a...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
SEHRISH AMAN [MSEE-8]

66 .
Rethinking Blockchains for an IoT based Secure closed loop Cyberphysical System:

This thesis investigates critical issues of security, centralized database in Cyber-Physical System (CPS). Internet of Things (IoT) devices and users of CPS communicate in the trustless environment as their data can tamper and access can be hacked in the centralized database. Due to their energy and computational power constraints, securing them is expensive. The proposed system is the smart cont...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Syed Ali Hassan [EE] Rizwan Ahmad [EE]
Students
ABDULLAH BIN MASOOD [MSEE-9]

67 .
Achieving Privacy by Image Inpainting:

With the boost of social media, tons of personal images and videos are being shared. With this immense sharing, people want privacy as well as visually more appealing images. Traditional filters like pixelate, blur and other obfuscating filters provide privacy but also make the images and videos less attractive. As we know the social media content is consumed by human that’s why visual aesthetics...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
MADEEHA ALMAAS [MSIT-17]

68 .
How to avoid surveillance cameras:

We are fed up of letting go of our privacy using security concerns as an excuse. Currently humans are being watched indoor and outdoors. Regimes are placing massive security camera setups. This madness raises the question "Is it possible to avoid security cameras?" In this work we show simple computer vision method to avoid security cameras. We will also show how Google StreetView helps us to es...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Hasan Tahir [DoC]
Students
RAFI UL ZAMAN [MSEE-8]

69 .
Improved flexible representation of quantum images:

Quantum information and quantum computation is an exciting field, which is an overlap of mathematics, physics, and computer science. The astounding properties of quantum mechanics have led to the emergence of quantum image processing.
Quantum image processing models are used to store, retrieve and process digital images in quantum computers. The flexible representation of quantum images (FRQI) ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Shahzad Saleem [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Jahanzeb Shahid [ECM] Asad Waqar Malik [DoC]
Students
Rabia Khan [MSIS-8]

70 .
Simplifying receipt verification in E2E verifiable voting systems:

In late nineteen century, a lot of corrupted elections were held in United States. After that many new different technologies were introduced to facilitate voters and provide secure elections. The main issue was to provide integrity of elections. Many information security experts and cryptographers moved forward and developed new technologies. End-to-End verifiable systems ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Management
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
SADIA SARDAR [MSIS-8]

71 .
Defeating Anti Ad Blockers:

Perceptual ad blockers came with the claim that they finished the arm race between ad blockers and anti-ad blockers. They used the technique to visually identify advertisement instead of blocking domains. But adversarial attacks successfully defeated all the classifiers that were using to classify ads. But the Classifier that we proposed in not only detecting Ad Choice logo in advertisement image...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Wajahat Hussain [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
WAHEED UR REHMAN [MSIS-9]

72 .
Hybrid protocol for Energy Proficient Routing in IoT Networks using Swarm Intelligence:

Internet of Things (IoTs) are commonly used in various fields of life because of their infrastructure free deployment and smartness. One of most critical issue with IoTs is network lifespan depending on energy resource. Energy harvesting is the key for mass deployment of devices used for IoTs applications. Energy harvesting systems could be better managed by using effective Energy prediction mode...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Salman Abdul Ghafoor [EE] Rizwan Ahmad [EE]
Students
ABDUL NASIR [MSEE-8]

73 .
Optimizing industrial supply chains with blockchain:

Supply chain management is the essential part to enhance the coordination because it refers to flow of product and exchange of associated information among different actors of supply chain network. This flow have primary importance as product is modified and transform as it passes from one actor to other. Supply chain faces many issues such as: traceability, food provenance, food contamination an...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Management
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE] Saad Qaisar Senior Member IEEE [EE]
Students
MAHAK TARIQ [MSIS-10]

74 .
A blockchain-based freight management solution:

Freight Management System streamlines shipping procedure. It is a sub-process of supply-chain realm which focuses on transportation and logistics solution. Freight Management System allows its participants to use technology to automate shipping process. Thus, saving time and cost for shipments.
Since all shipments are not similar in nature. Some are time sensitive, whereas others are temperature...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Management
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE] Saad Qaisar Senior Member IEEE [EE]
Students
RAMSHA RIZWAN [MSIS-10]

75 .
Using machine learning techniques for censorship-resistant communication:

To prevent citizens from accessing unfiltered information over the internet, repressive governments usually deploy national level censorship. To counter these censors, a number of systems have been introduced that make use of
various allowed applications as covert channels and tunneling data through them. However, a drawback of these covert channels is their failure to maintain un-observability....


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
ZIL E HUMA BAJWA [MSCS-7]

76 .
Designing intelligent botnets:

Machine learning is making its way in every field today and has recently been of special interest in the domain of Cyber-security. It is of special interest in applications where decision making is critical. For this very reason, Machine learning based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are getting popular by the day. We explored some of the best machine learning models to create these IDS systems...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Arsalan Ahmad [DoC] Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
MUHAMMAD ERTZA AFZAL [MSCS-7]

77 .
Controller Design under Power Constraints and DoS Attacks:

Networked Control Systems (NCSs) connect cyber space to physical space making it possible to perform certain tasks from long distance. A NCS is at the core of many important infrastructures. The availability of cheap communication technologies makes vital infrastructures vulnerable to cyber security threats.

Denial of service (DoS) attack is an important type of cyber physical attack. A succes...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Control
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Ammar Hasan [EE] Iftikhar Ahmad Rana [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
SHIZA SHAUKAT [MSEE-8]

78 .
Diffusion and Consensus Algorithms for Coordinated Flight Formations:

This project examines diffusion and consensus algorithms for coordinated formations applicable to a wide variety of real-life scenarios.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Control
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Ammar Hasan [EE] Iftikhar Ahmad Rana [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
ASAD ULLAH CHUGHTAI [MSEE-8]

79 .
Replay Attacks in Cyberphysical Systems:

Replay attack is an important and generic type of cyber physical attack and in this thesis its effects are analyzed on a number of control systems. The systems are equipped with a chi square failure detector, Kalman filter and model predictive controller. The aim is to analyze the detection of replay attack on cyber-physical systems (CPSs) by formulating successful attack. The attack is generated...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Control
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Ammar Hasan [EE] Iftikhar Ahmad Rana [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE]
Students
ABAID UR REHMAN [MSEE-8]

80 .
A Blockchain-based Transactive Energy System:

The blockchain based transactive energy system is a complete secure and transparent system which make the consumer to smart prosumer in which the participants can trade with each other in secure manner. In this thesis a complete secure and transparent system is developed for the one consumer and one prosumer with an active smart controller that can monitor and control the produced and consumed en...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Power
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Fahad Javed [DoC] Asad Waqar Malik [DoC] Ammar Hasan [EE]
Students
SIKANDAR SATTAR [MSEE-8]

81 .
Sentiment Analysis for cryptocurrencies:

This thesis presents an assessment of Twitter sentiment as a useful metric for predicting cryptocurrencies markets, specifically the bitcoin exchange rate. The tweets associated with the bitcoin digital currency are tracked in order to find out if the users sentiment contained within those tweets could reflect reflects the exchange rate of the currency. The sentiment of users’ tweets is categoriz...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Management
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Muhammad Suhail Rizwan [ECM] Zahid Irshad Younas [ECM]
Students
MUHAMMAD SHARIQ [MSIT-17]

82 .
Detection and Prevention of Mirai botnet using Public blockchain:

IoT devices are largely used in almost every field these days, and the dependability of users on these devices is drastically increasing. This poor security can lead to various cyber attacks which may result in huge financial losses of the stakeholders. In October 2016, Mirai exploited the vulnerability of IoT devices which lead to massive DDOS attack. This was an eyeopener for the researchers, s...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Rizwan Ahmad [EE] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC]
Students
ZOHAIB AHMED [MSIT-18]

83 .
Towards end-to-end security for home networks:

Home IoT devices constitute the greatest part of IoT devices. Smart homes is the most searched term from among the other IoT networks, and currently it’s startups are receiving funding worth of billions of dollars. As the number of IoT devices is exponentially increasing in recent years, number of home IoT devices is also tremendously increasing. With increasing number of devices, attacks are als...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Wajahat Hussain [EE] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC] Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE]
Students
ARFA NASIR [MSEE-8]

84 .
Next-generation botnets:

Botnets are the main cause besides cyber crime and is the major threat for internet users. Next-generation botnets uses social media apps such as twitter, skype and telegram as their C&C protocols instead of using IRC, HTTP and peer-to-peer botnets, actually next-generation botnets comes in the category of 4th generation botnets. 1st generation botnets use IRC (internet relay chat) as their C&C c...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC] Asad Waqar Malik [DoC]
Students
MUHAMMAD HARIS [MSEE-8]

85 .
A detailed analysis of the evolution of smart contracts:

ERC-721 tokens are one of the two most popular tokens that the Ethereum blockchain offers. They are non-fungible in nature as opposed to ERC-20 and became popular with the introduction of Cryptokitties Dapp. A lot of work has been done to study ERC-20 tokens networks and various methods have been used for their categorization, but no such work exists for ERC-721 tokens. In this research, for the ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC] Asad Waqar Malik [DoC]
Students
MAHAM ZAIDI [MSIS-9]

86 .
Optimizing the Bitcoin Lightning Network:

Bitcoin, the worlds most popular cryptocurrency, has achieved a market capitalisation of $20 billion in March 2017 with more than 300k transactions per day. Regrettably, Bitcoin is nearing its capacity limit which has led to the emergence of a transaction fee market where users compete for space in the Blockchain. Today, the network can process 3.3 to 7 tx/s due to a cap of 1 MB...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC] Asad Waqar Malik [DoC]
Students
DANYAL AHMAD [MSIS-9]

87 .
A secure and distributed public randomness beacon:

Random numbers are those numbers which can not be predicted before hand such that the input provided to the system (Beacon) can be known but the output can not be guessed.So in technical terms, random numbers are numbers that should satisfy two conditions such as the random values will have a uniform distribution with a de ned interval and also it is impossible to predict random numbers based on ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE] Asad Waqar Malik [DoC] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC]
Students
ALI MURTAZA [MSEE-8]

88 .
Performance of Ultra Reliability and Low Latency Communication (URLLC) in the Presence of Composite Shadowing-Fading:

The purpose of this research is to study the performance of Reliability and Low Latency Communication (URLLC) in Composite Effects of Fading and Shadowing. We will attempt to establish that in the presence of composite fading and shadowing the highly stringent performance requirements of URLLC cannot be met with the prevalent systems without taking additional parameters into consideration, for ex...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Telecommunications
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Ali Hassan [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE] Hassaan Khaliq [EE]
Students
ARSLAN HAIDER [MSEE-8]

89 .
Zero dynamics attacks on network control systems:

Cyber physical systems (CPS) are hybrid systems that integrates physical processes, computational resources and communication capabilities to monitor and control a physical process. In simple terms cyberphysical systems are real world systems controlled by computers. Examples of CPS are power grid network, water distribution systems, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure. Integ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Control
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Ammar Hasan [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Iftikhar Ahmad [EE]
Students
AYESHA AYUB [MSEE-8]

90 .
False data injection attacks in cyberphysical systems:

False data injection (FDI) attack is an important type of cyber-attack and in this thesis its effect are analyzed on a number of network control systems. The systems are equipped with a failure detector, Kalman filter and LQG controller. The aim is to analyze resilience of the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) by formulating successful attack and bypassing the anomaly detector. The attack is generate...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Control
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Ammar Hasan [EE] Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Iftikhar Ahmad [EE]
Students
RIJHA SAFDAR [MSEE-8]

91 .
Reputation and Trust Management in Gem Supply Chains using Blockchain:

Business is mostly about competitiveness. Supply chains are critical to ensuring that a business yields maximum profit in least possible investment of resources. Supply chains are established on inter-disciplinary principles and modern supply chains heavily rely on technology infrastructure. While there has been a lot of research on human resource, operations, technology, sustainability and risk ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Shahzad Saleem [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] adnan khalid [EE] Naveed Ahmed [ECM]
Students
Chaudhry Ali [MSIS-8]

92 .
Integration of Free Space Optics and Fiber Optics:

This thesis presents a comprehensive survey on the importance of free space optical systems used as last mile for communication systems and their integration with optical fibers. Optical fiber is already being used in the backbone networks due to its high speed and high bandwidth qualities but the last mile has always been a problem. Last mile is the last physical connection between access network ...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Salman Abdul Ghafoor [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Rizwan Ahmad [EE] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC]
Students
MUHAMMAD SALMAN KHAN [MSEE-8]

93 .
Runtime Detection of Hardware Trojans using LTL Monitors:

Recent advancements in FPGA and ASICs based hardware products have led their applications in both safety and security critical domains including aerospace, autonomous vehicles and high-speed communication networks. Due to the involvement of many stockholders (e.g., OEMs and Tier1-nsuppliers), such hardware systems are becoming more vulnerable to malicious alterations known as hardware Trojans. En...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: DSSP
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Osman Hasan [EE]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] M. Umair Siddique [ECM] Rehan Ahmed [EE]
Students
Ayaz Ahmad [MSEE-7]

94 .
E2E security for popular web services:

With the ever growing number of data breaches on servers, its now more important than ever to secure sensitive information in a way that only intended parties can decrypt/understand the message even if data itself is compro- mised. This is specially true for government agencies and officials, who have always remained main target for attackers.
Government Officials are however not the only intend...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Arsalan Ahmed [DoC] Asad Waqar Malik [DoC] Haleemah Zia [DoC]
Students
MUHAMMAD ZOHAIB SHAHEEN [MSIT-17]

95 .
Scalable and efficient certificate revocation systems:

This project looks at building scalable and efficient certificate revocation systems using blockchain technology.


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Active
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Haleemah Zia [DoC] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC] Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE]
Students
KIRAN SHAKIR [MSIT-17]

96 .
Evading mass surveillance using virtual reality environments:

With the Internet assuming a critical role in journalism and political activity worldwide, we are also witnessing a clampdown by governments in the form of mass surveillance deployments and frequent censorship. Users are combating this trend with privacy preserving applications and circumvention tools, but these can be identified and blocked in turn. In this paper, we propose Tableau, a method f...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Muhammad Latif Anjum [EE] Hasan Tahir [DoC] Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
Waqas Amjad [MSIS-8]

97 .
Analysis and Application of Blockchain platforms:

The world is witnessing another silent revolution: the blockchain. The blockchain, is a tamper-resistant distributed ledger that aggregates an expanding list of timestamped transactions, into sequential blocks and preserves them through cryptographic primitives. It can be configured to store not only currency transactions, but virtually anything with which value, identity, ownership can be assoc...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Haleemah Zia [DoC] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC] Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE]
Students
HINA BINTE HAQ [MSIS-9]

98 .
Secure, transparent and efficient verification of academic credentials and career qualifications:

Certification ensure the competence of professionals through a measurement of skills and knowledge. They helps employers evaluate potential new hires, analyze job performance, evaluate employees, select contractors, market services. Certificate refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. These educational or professional certificates are not tamper...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Committee Members
Haleemah Zia [DoC] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC] Fahd Ahmed Khan [EE]
Students
AAMNA TARIQ [MSIT-17]

99 .
Improving TCP congestion control in datacenters:

These day interactive and social media applications demand huge computation and storage capacity. To cope with the issue, technology giants such as Google and many others have deployed large number of datacenters. Inside these datacenters, where queries are highly time sensitive, about 80% of the traffic is East-West (remaining within the datacenter). TCP restricts the performance of the datace...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Advisor
Nadeem Ahmed [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC] Muazzam A Khan Khattak [DoC]
Students
TAIMUR HAFEEZ [MSIT-17]

100 .
Fingerprinting the Software Defined Networks:

Research in Software Defined Networks (SDN) has gained momentum in recent years. SDNs are getting mature, however, there are still many research challenges to consider before SDN become ubiquitous. The adaptation of the technology brings immediate focus to its security aspects. The centralized nature of the SDN makes it prone to many denial of service attacks, especially if the policy parameters...


Project Level: PG
Project Type: Thesis Knowledge Area: Networking and Communications
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Advisor
Nadeem Ahmed [DoC]
Committee Members
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Arsalan Ahmed [DoC] Muazzam A Khan Khattak [DoC]
Students
BILAL AHMED [MSIT-17]

1 .
Securing Smart Contracts:

This project seeks to develop secure smart contract coding strategies and solutions.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2022
Status: Active
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
Waleed Ahmed [BSCS-9]


2 .
Verifiable I-Voting for Developing Countries Using Blockchain:

A blockchain-based Internet voting system which caters to complexities and ground realities of elections in developing countries.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2022
Status: Active
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
Muhammad Sohaib [BSCS-9] Muhammad Suhaib [BSCS-9]


3 .
Online Auction Service for Properties:

An online portal to run auctions for properties


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Management
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Arshad Nazir [EE]
Students
Syed Mehdi Raza Bukhari [BSCS-8] Umair Imran Abbasi [BESE-9]


4 .
Macro Scale Molecular Communication System:

Molecular Communication is a communication system that is based upon the transfer of information using molecules as the primary means of propagation. It has received a lot of attention as a means of communication at the nano-scale level, allowing nano-machines to communicate with each other and interact with their environment. However, prototyping this at the nano-scale level poses many challenge...


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Networking and Communications
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Advisor
Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi [EE]
Co-Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Students
Saad Imran [BEEE-10] Raaez Muhammad Sheikh [BEEE-10] Mohtashim Zaheer [BEEE-10]


5 .
Development and Verification of Blockchain based E-voting system using Model Checking:

An electoral system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Political electoral systems are organized by governments, while non-political elections may take place in business, non-profit organizations and informal organizations. Once the rules of electoral system are determined, the most important thing is to implement it ...


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
Afrasiab Khan [BESE-8] Ahmad Shaf [BSCS-7]


6 .
A Smart Energy Transactive System:

The main idea is to build a smart energy transactive system. The target is to provide a platform that promotes peer to peer transactions between consumers and prosumers and encourages smart, secure and digital solutions to energy crisis globally and locally. The idea is to implement a proof of authority in order to avoid any type of extra computation.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
Haseeb Saeed [BSCS-7]


7 .
Disaster aware networking using delay tolerant networks (DTNs):

DTNs stands for delay tolerant networks which is a specialized networking protocol in handling frequent link disruptions over longer distances. For example, NASA uses DTN protocols for interplanetary networks. This project is based on post-disaster communication management using DTNs where other protocols would fail to fulfill the communication gap. We will develop a simulation based demonstratio...


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Networking and Communications
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Co-Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Students
Muhammad Bilal [BESE-8] Mariya Sami [BSCS-7]


8 .
A Blockchain-based Voting System:

This project will investigate the application of blockchain in electronic and online voting paradigms.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi [EE]
Students
Muhammad Zaid Mughal [BEEE-9] Faizan Ahmad [BEEE-9]


9 .
Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Traceability in Tea Industry:

A supply chain is defined as a procedure of creation, growth, and marketing of merchandise. Tea supply chain initiates in plantation and finishes at the final retail market to be purchased by the customers. A sustainable supply chain management can reduce cost and boost revenue if effective implementation was planned. A major focal point of supply chain evaluation is the issue of authority i.e. w...


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Parallel and Distributed Computing
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Asad Waqar Malik [DoC]
Co-Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE] Anis Ur Rahman [DoC]
Students
Saira [BESE-8]


10 .
Feeding bots energy hungry examples to catch them red handed:

The project is basically a derivative project (more details in
applications) related to the field of network security and is meant to tackle problems
that the new age of IOT will bring along with it. We will use neural networks to detect
malicious behavior of software running on critical systems and using adversarial
attacks to detect malware learning the detection system’s behavior recogniti...


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Co-Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Students
Sikandar Bakht Kiani [BEEE-9] Talha Nasir [BEEE-9] Musa Jabbar Taib [BEEE-9]


11 .
A Blockchain-based Secure Metering System:

This project builds a transactive energy system for users to trade renewable energy.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Networking and Communications
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Fahad Javed [DoC]
Students
Sana Shakeel [BEEE-9] Hannah Nadeem [BEEE-9]


12 .
A verifiable online voting system for overseas citizens:

In this project we design and implement a verifiable online voting system for overseas citizens. We attempt to rectify the shortcomings of the iVote system used by the Election Commission of Pakistan in the 2018 elections, and provide a safer and more reliable alternative for future needs. We will be using end-to-end verifiable technology to help secure the votes.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
Maria Ahmed [BESE-7] Shabeeh Fatima Chaudry [BESE-7]


13 .
Generation and Analysis of Art using Machine Learning:

In this project we will analyze artworks using machine learning tools as well attempt to digitally generate such works.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Graphics and Visualization
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem [BSCS-6] Muhammad Shafay Ijaz [BSCS-6] Tarmah Bin Iqbal [BSCS-6]


14 .
A hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies:

Cryptocurrencies are notoriously hard to secure because keys are usually stored in software where they can be accessed by hackers and malware. Our goal is to design and build a secure hardware repository for keys for cryptocurrencies as well as add complete wallet functionality with plug and play features.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Osman Hasan [EE]
Students
Muhammad Fahad Baig [BEEE-8] Haider Tariq [BEEE-8] Safi Majid [BEEE-8]


15 .
A next-generation verifiable voting machine:

In this project we attempt to build a low-cost secure and verifiable voting machine specifically geared to the needs of developing countries. Our aim is to build a product within the specifications laid down by the Election Commission of Pakistan, while still providing superior security and verifiable guarantees as compared to the machines deployed in most other countries. For this purpose, we wi...


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Intelligent Systems
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
Muhammad Adeel Samar [BEEE-8] Afaf Muzzamil Siddiq [BEEE-8]


16 .
A hardware implementation of mixnets:

Mixnets are very useful network security tools with applications in anonymous browsing, cryptocurrencies, and next-generation online voting. Unfortunately, mixnets are very compute-intensive and cause significant latency in applications. For this reason, mixnets are not widely used. Our goal is to rectify this with a hardware implementation of popular mixnets for improved speed and efficiency.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Osman Hasan [EE]
Students
Talha Nawaz [BEEE-8] Huzaifa Ghias Ud Din [BEEE-8] Abdullah Bin Tahir [BEEE-8]


17 .
Helping Blocks:

This project aims to build new efficient payment methodologies for relief efforts. This will significantly cut down operational costs in relief work and make the process much more transparent and efficient. We intend to use the blockchain for this purpose.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Software Engineering
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
Usama Khalid Khan [BSCS-5] Awais Waheed [BSCS-5] Muhammad Suchal Riaz [BSCS-5] Muhammad Ammad Malik [BSCS-5]


18 .
Yneer:

A peer-to-peer marketplace that connects shoppers, who want something from abroad, with travelers who are willing to provide this service in exchange for a reward.
So if a person is coming from Switzerland to Pakistan and you want a certain product from Switzerland, that person can simply buy and bring it for you. The traveler will in return receive a previously agreed upon monetary reward. And ...


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Platform-based Development
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Co-Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Students
Khursand Shakeel [BSCS-5] Talha Nadeem Piracha [BSCS-5]


19 .
TrackMed: Security of Medicine Tracking Using Blockchains:

Most of the ad hoc networks do not implement any network security, which leaves the network vulnerable to attacks where an attacker can inject malicious nodes that can destroy the network resources. Distributed Ledger Technology establishes a trust layer on top of the network thus ensuring the security of the network.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Telecommunications
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Ali Hassan [EE]
Co-Advisor
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE] Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Students
Shazina Zubair [BSCS-5] Muhammad Umer [BSCS-5]


20 .
EEG for Neuromarketing:

Neuromarketing is the application of neuroscience to marketing. It includes the direct use of brain imaging, scanning, or other brain activity measurement to measure a subject’s response to specific products, packaging, advertising, or other marketing elements. In some cases, the brain responses measured by these techniques may not be consciously perceived by the subject; hence, this data may be ...


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: DSSP
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Awais Mehmood Kamboh [EE]
Co-Advisor
Maryam Saeed [EE]
Students
Maryam Sulemani [BESE-6] Mahnoor Asghar [BESE-6]


21 .
A blockchain-based platform to secure pharmaceutical supply chains:

This project aims to combat the fake drug problem by embedding identifiable provenance information in a blockchain-based platform.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Muhammad Imran Abeel [EE]
Students
Maryam Hasnain [BESE-6] Maryam Adnan [BESE-6] Sharif Ahmad [BESE-6]


22 .
A next-generation secure audit and logging solution:

This project aims to develop a next-generation audit and logging solution inspired by principles of the blockchain.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Management
Year: 2018
Status:
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Haleemah Zia [DoC]
Students


23 .
Analysis of vulnerabilities in home networks:

This project uses port scanning and network analysis techniques to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities in home networks.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Arsalan Ahmad [DoC]
Students
Talha Javed Mukhtar [BSCS-5] Muhammad Karshasup Khan [BSCS-5]


24 .
Devising information security solutions using techniques from computer vision:

This project borrows techniques from computer vision to build new information security tools and primitives.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Wajahat Hussain [EE]
Students
Syed Ajwad-Ud-Din [BSCS-5] Maheen Jamil [BSCS-5] Nabeel Hussain Syed [BSCS-5]


25 .
Online Privacy Protection Using Generative Adversarial Networks:

This project intends to secure online browsing using obfuscating techniques derived from machine learning.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Hassan Aqeel Khan [EE]
Students
Abdul Manan Ali [BSCS-5] Hashim Ikram [BSCS-5] Saad Obaid Ul Islam [BSCS-5]


26 .
Secure Analytics Using Blockchain:

This project develops Android apps for secure analytics conducted using blockchain-based platforms.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Haleemah Zia [DoC]
Students
Adil Ahmad [BSCS-5] Sarum Younas [BSCS-5] Osama Nadeem [BSCS-5]


27 .
Blockchain-based background verification system:

This project attempts to build a decentralized and secure resume/CV verification system. Prospective employers can verify that job applicants do not forge their claimed credentials and experience in their resumes using this solution.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Management
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Haleemah Zia [DoC]
Students
Usama Zafar [BSCS-3]


28 .
Secure Overlays for Online Communication:

Services such as Gmail, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc. do not provide end-to-end security and can spy on communications between users. In this project we build secure overlays which add an extra layer of encryption prior to communicating over these platforms.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Haleemah Zia [DoC]
Students
Shah Nawaz Khan [BSCS-4]


29 .
Smart Traffic lights:

This project will design and implement smart traffic lights in line with the vision of a smart city. In the future, such traffic lights will be deployed on streets and will be used to optimize traffic flows. These lights will communicate wirelessly with cars and run efficient algorithms to distribute traffic loads in a fair and equitable manner.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Haleemah Zia [DoC]
Students
Huzaifa Mahmood Bajwa [BESE-5] Muhammad Mubashir Nazir [BESE-5] Ramsha Tariq [BESE-5]


30 .
A Lightweight Optimized Bitcoin Client:

In this project, we implement a lightweight and optimized Bitcoin client. Existing clients for the protocol have high resource consumption and are susceptible to DoS attacks. We adapt compact data structures in a novel configuration to build a client which uses orders of magnitude less memory resources than existing clients. We also simulate and verify our design against real-world Bitcoin traffi...


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Haleemah Zia [DoC]
Students
Asad Salman [BESE-5] Anam Baloch [BESE-5]


31 .
Near-end-to-end encryption for IoT Devices:

The Internet of Things (IoT) is proving to be a security nightmare. Small networked devices have very poor security and have proved to be very easy for hackers to compromise and exploit. The resource constraints of these devices make it impossible to ensure adequate security on the device itself. We propose a new paradigm where security is offloaded to another party. In this project, we demo a po...


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Anis ur Rahman [DoC]
Students
Usama Shaheen [BSCS-4] Muhammad Saad Tehseen [BSCS-4] Ehsan Ul Hassan [BSCS-4]


32 .
Transparent and Efficient Verification of Academic Credentials:

Credentials fraud is now a billion dollar industry and represents a global threat for universities. On the other hand, existing mechanisms to verify credentials are costly and slow. In Pakistan alone it can take months to verify academic degrees. This project aims to leverage blockchains to store and verify academic credentials in a secure, transparent, and efficient manner.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Haleemah Zia [DoC]
Students
Khawaja Muhammad Abdullah Anwer [BESE-4]


33 .
End-to-end encryption of Video Feed for IoT Devices:

This project aims to secure the Internet of Things by encrypting IoT data at the first hop.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Ubaid Ur Rehman [DoC]
Students
Syeda Maria Hussain [BSCS-3]


34 .
E2E Verifiable Elections:

This project will look at designing and demo-ing an E2E verifiable voting system.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Ubaid Ur Rehman [DoC]
Students
Maryam Attiq [BSCS-3] Muhammad Umar [BSCS-3]


35 .
Novel C&C options for Botnets:

This project will explore novel C&C communication options for next generation botnets.


Project Level: UG
Project Type: FYP
KnowledgeArea: Information Assurance and Security
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Advisor
Syed Taha Ali [EE]
Co-Advisor
Ubaid Ur Rehman [DoC]
Students
Omar Ahsan [BESE-4] Muhammad Shehzad [BESE-4] Muhammad Junaid [BESE-4]


Research Experience

Research Projects Officer , Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

October 2011 - July 2012

Details: I worked on a project to ‘green’ residential WiFi networks. Typical home WiFi access point (AP) power usage can be reduced by as much as 40% if the radio is turned off during idle periods, leading to massive savings on a larger scale. We developed algorithms to strategically adjust the mode and transmit power of WiFi APs in response to user traffic. We showcased a working demo in June, 2012.
Postdoctoral Researcher , University of New South Wales

August 2012 - February 2013

Details: I researched security solutions for software-defined networks and body area networks.
Research Associate, Dept. of Computing Science , Newcastle University

March 2014 - February 2016

Details: I worked on multiple projects including end-to-end verifiable election systems, Bitcoin technology, and botnet command-&-control infrastructures.
Journal

(1.) S. T. Ali , M. Siddiqi, V. Sivaraman , "Secure Opportunistic Contextual Logging for Wearable Healthcare Sensing Devices", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 18 , No. 2, Apr, 2021. IF: 6.404
(2.) S. T. Ali , M. Siddiqi, V. Sivaraman , "Forensic Verification of Health Data from Wearable Devices using Anonymous Witnesses", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. preprint , No. preprint, Mar, 2020. IF: 9.515
(3.) Syed Taha Ali , Patrick McCorry, Peter Hyun-Jeen Lee, Feng Hao , "ZombieCoin 2.0: managing next-generation botnets using Bitcoin", International Journal of Information Security, Vol. , No. , PP. , Jan, 2017. IF: 1.915
(4.) Syed Taha Ali , Vijay Sivaraman, Sanjay Jha, Adam Radford , "A Survey of Securing Networks using Software Defined Networking", Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 64 , No. 3, PP. 1086, Oct, 2015. IF: 1.934
(5.) Syed Taha Ali , Vijay Sivaraman, John Matthews, Craig Russell, Syed Taha Ali, Arun Vishwanath , "Greening Residential Wi-Fi Networks under Centralized Control", Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 14 , No. 3, PP. 552, Jan, 2015. IF: 2.543
(6.) Syed Taha Ali , Vijay Sivaraman, Diethelm Ostry, Gene Tsudik, Sanjay Jha , "Securing First-Hop Data Provenance for Bodyworn Devices Using Wireless Link Fingerprints", Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 9 , No. 12, PP. 2193, Jan, 2014. IF: 2.408
(7.) Syed Taha Ali , Vijay Sivaraman, Diethelm Ostry , "Eliminating Reconciliation Cost in Secret Key Generation for Body-Worn Health Monitoring Devices", Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 13 , No. 12, PP. 2763, Jan, 2014. IF: 2.543
(8.) Syed Taha Ali , Vijay Sivaraman, Diethelm Ostry , "Authentication of lossy data in body-sensor networks for cloud-based healthcare monitoring", Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 35 , No. , PP. 80, Jan, 2014. IF: 2.786
(9.) Syed Taha Ali , Vijay Sivaraman, Diethelm Ostry , "Secure key loss recovery for network broadcast in single-hop wireless sensor networks", Ad hoc Networks, Vol. 8 , No. 6, PP. 668, Jan, 2010. IF: 1.53

Conference

(1.) Syed Taha Ali , Muhammad Siddiqi, Vijay Sivaraman , "Secure lightweight context-driven data logging for bodyworn sensing devices", Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Digital Forensic and Security (ISDFS), Jan, 2017, , Pakistan.
(2.) Syed Taha Ali , Patrick McCorry, Dylan Clarke , "Bitcoin: Perils of a P2P Decentalized Cryptocurrency", Proceedings of the Security Protocols Workshop, Jan, 2015, Cambridge , United Kingdom.
(3.) Syed Taha Ali , Patrick McCorry, Peter Hyun-Jeen Lee, Feng Hao , "ZombieCoin: Powering Next-Generation Botnets with Bitcoin", Proceedings of the Bitcoin Workshop, Financial Cryptography & Data Security, Jan, 2015, , Barbados.
(4.) Syed Taha Ali , Vijay Sivaraman, Diethelm Ostry , "Zero Reconciliation Secret Key Generation for Mobile Bodyworn Health Monitoring Devices", Proceedings of the WiSec (Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks), Jan, 2012, , United States.
(5.) Syed Taha Ali , Vijay Sivaraman, Diethelm Ostry , "Authentication of Lossy Data in Body Sensor Networks", Proceedings of the SECON (International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking), Jan, 2012, , South Korea.

Book/Chapter

(1.) [Chapter] Syed Taha Ali , Judy Murray , "Real-World Electronic Voting: Design, Analysis and Deployment /An Overview of End-to-end Verifiable Voting Systems", Saunders Saunders, ISBSN , Jan 2016.

(1.) [Book] H. B. Haq, S. T. Ali , "Building and Islamic Case for Open Markets/Navigating the Cryptocurrency Landscape", Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue, Islam and Liberty Network , ISBSN 978-969-7576-78-4,Apr, 2019.

Assistant Manager, Engineering Dept. , WorldCALL Broadband
January 2003 - July 2005