Consistently publishes in top-tier journals and conferences including IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE TMC, IEEE TKDE, INFOCOM, ICDCS, ICDE, IJCAI, WWW, MobiHoc, and NeurIPS
Published over 10 high-impact papers annually from 2020 to 2025
Authored multiple scholarly books:
— 'Network Security Empowered by Artificial Intelligence' (Springer, 2024)
— 'Mobile Crowdsourcing: From Theory to Practice' (Springer, 2023)
— 'Fog/Edge Computing For Security, Privacy, and Applications' (Springer, 2021)
— 'Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks' (Taylor & Francis, 2014)
— 'Energy-Aware Scheduling on Multiprocessor Platforms' (Springer, 2013)
Received multiple Best Paper Awards, including:
— MASS 2024 Best Paper Award for 'Social-Aware DT-Assisted Service Provisioning in Serverless Edge Computing'
— MASS 2023 Best Paper Award for 'Towards Federated Learning on Fresh Datasets'
Background
Fellow of AAAS
Fellow of IEEE
Laura H. Carnell Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University
Director of the Center for Networked Computing (CNC)
Research interests include networked computing, mobile crowdsourcing, edge/fog computing, AI-powered network security, blockchain scalability, epidemic modeling, real-time video security, and socially-aware networking