Biography

Amani Abusafia is a Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. She received her Bachelor’s degree (2009) and Master’s degree (2013) in Computer Science from The University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She is currently a recipient of the Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend Scholarship by the Australian Government (2022-2023). Amani was the recipient of the Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Internet of Things Service Management from the University of Sydney (2019-2022). She worked as a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sharjah for six years. Her research interests include Service Computing, Crowdsourcing, and IoT

PhD Publications

– Conferences:

1. Energy Loss Prediction in IoT Energy Services. Pengwei Yang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICWS 2023, Chicago, US.
2. Maximizing Consumer Satisfaction of IoT Energy Services. Amani Abusafia, Athman Bouguettaya, and Abdallah Lakhdari. ICSOC 2022, Sevilla, Spain.
3. Service-Based Wireless Energy Crowdsourcing. Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICSOC 2022, Sevilla, Spain.
4. Quality of Experience Optimization in IoT Energy Services. Amani Abusafia, Athman Bouguettaya, and Abdallah Lakhdari. ICWS 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
5. Crowdsharing Wireless Energy Services. Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia, and Athman Bouguettaya. IEEE CIC 2020, Virtual.
6. Reliability Model for Incentive-Driven IoT Energy Service. Amani Abusafia, and Athman Bouguettaya. EAI MobiQuitous 2020, Virtual.
7. Incentive-based selection and composition of iot energy services.  Amani Abusafia, Athman Bouguettaya, and Sajib Mistry. SCC 2020, Virtual.

– Demos/Posters:

1. CrowdWeb: A Visualization Tool for Mobility Patterns in Smart Cities. Yisheng Alison Zheng, Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia, Shing Tai Tony Lui, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICDCS 2023, Hong Kong, China, Demo paper.
2. Activity-based Profiling for Energy Harvesting Estimation. Jiajie Li, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya. IPSN 2023, Texas, USA, Poster paper.
3. Monitoring Efficiency of IoT Wireless Charging. Pengwei Yang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya. PerCom 2023, Atlanta, USA, Demo paper.
4. IMAP: Individual huMAn mobility Patterns visualizing platform. Yisheng Alison Zheng, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, Shing Tai Tony Lui, and Athman Bouguettaya. MobiCom 2022, Sydney, Australia, Demo paper.
5. DIY-IPS: Towards an Off-the-Shelf Accurate Indoor Positioning System. Riccardo Menon, Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia, Qijun He, and Athman Bouguettaya. MobiCom 2022, Sydney, Australia, Demo paper.
6. The Nudging Effect on Tracking Activity. Ruochun Wang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya. UbiComp  2022, Virtual, Poster paper.
7. Wireless IoT Energy Sharing Platform. Jessica Yao, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya. PerCom 2022, Virtual, Demo paper.
8. Towards peer-to-peer sharing of wireless energy services. Pengwei Yang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICSOC 2022, Sevilla, Spain, Demo paper.
9. Occupancy Estimation from Thermal Images. Zishan Qin, Dipankar Chaki, Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICSOC 2021, Virtual, Demo paper.

– Journals:

1. In-Flight Energy-Driven Composition of Drone Swarm Services. Balsam Alkouz, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya.  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (2022).

PhD Awards

• ACM-W scholarship to fund conference attendance, 2022.
• Selected among the top 100 young researchers in computer science to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 2022.
• Zonta International Women in Technology Scholarship, 2022.
• Researh Training Program (RTP) Stipend Scholarship by Australian Government, 2022-2023.
• IEEE Women In Services Computing (WISC) Premier Scholarship to deserving female students pursuing technical education, 2021.
• Grace Hopper Student Scholarship to attend the annual Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), 2021.

Research Project

IoT Energy Services Composition