Research

Research Interests: Distributed Systems, Virtual Worlds, Sensor Network Systems, Energy Conservation In Computing Systems

Current Projects

I am working on the Meru Virtual World project helping to develop a scalable, federated architecture for virtual worlds.

I am also working on dissemination and routing protocols for wireless sensor networks.

Resume:

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Selected Publications:

Daniel Horn, Ewen Cheslack-Postava, Tahir Azim, Michael J. Freedman and Philip Levis. Scaling Virtual Worlds with a Physical Metaphor. IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 50-54, July-September, 2009. [Invited Paper]

Tahir Azim, Qasim Mansoor and Philip Levis. Starburst SSD: An Efficient Protocol for Selective Dissemination. Proceedings of IEEE ICC'09, the International Conference on Communications, Dresden, Germany, 2009. [Code+Paper]

Michael Thomas, Conrad Steenberg, Frank van Lingen, Harvey Newman, Julian Bunn, Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Waqas ur Rehman, Faisal Khan, Richard Mcclatchey and Jang Uk In. JClarens: A Java Framework for Developing and Deploying Web Services for Grid Computing. Proceedings of IEEE ICWS, the International Conference on Web Services, Orlando, Florida, 2005.

Frank van Lingen, Conrad Steenberg, Michael Thomas, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Faisal Khan, Harvey Newman, Arshad Ali, Julian Bunn, Iosif Legrand. The Clarens Web Service Framework for Distributed Scientific Analysis in Grid Projects. International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW'05), 2005.

Conrad Steenberg, Julian Bunn, Iosif Legrand, Harvey Newman, Michael Thomas, Frank van Lingen, Ashiq Anjum and Tahir Azim. The Clarens Grid-Enabled Web Services Framework: Services and Implementation. Proceedings of CHEP (Computing in High Energy Physics) 2004, Interlaken, Switzerland.

Paul Avery, Dimitri Bourilkov, Julian Bunn, Richard Cavanaugh, Laukik Chitnis, Mandar Kulkarni, Iosif LeGrand, Harvey Newman, Conrad Steenberg, Michael Thomas, Jang Uk In, Frank van Lingen, Ashiq Anjum and Tahir Azim. Grid Enabled Analysis for CMS: Architecture, Prototype and Status. Proceedings of CHEP (Computing in High Energy Physics) 2004, Interlaken, Switzerland.

Ahsan Ikram, Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Conrad Steenberg, Harvey Newman, Julian Bunn, Michael Thomas, and Tahir Azim. Grid-enabled Data Analysis on Handheld Devices. International Networking and Communication Conference (INCC), 2004, Lahore, Pakistan.

Awards/Achievements:

2nd Prize in National Science and Technology Fair Art Competition on the topic "New Frontiers of Science" organized by Pakistan Science Foundation, 1997.

1st Position in MoST IT Scholarship Test,2000.

1st Position in NUST Entrance Test, 2000.