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Email: babar DOT shahzaad AT sydney DOT edu DOT au

Babar Shahzaad

PhD Student

Biography

Babar Shahzaad is a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Athman Bouguettaya at The University of Sydney. He completed his Bachelor and Master of Science in Computer Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila, Pakistan in 2014 and 2016 respectively. He was awarded a merit-based scholarship for his Master studies. He worked as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at University of Management and Technology (UMT), Sialkot, Pakistan for two years. He is currently a recipient of Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Cloud Service Management. His research interests include ICN/NDN applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), IoT Service Mining, and Service Computing.

PhD Publications

– Conferences:
  1. Service-Oriented Architecture for Drone-based Multi-Package Delivery. Babar Shahzaad, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICWS 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
  2. Service-Based Drone Delivery. Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya. IEEE CIC 2021 , Virtual.
  3. Top-k Dynamic Service Composition in Skyway Networks. Babar Shahzaad, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICSOC 2021, Virtual.
  4. Robust Composition of Drone Delivery Services under Uncertainty Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, and Sajib Mistry. ICWS 2021, Virtual.
  5. A Game-Theoretic Drone-as-a-Service Composition for Delivery. Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, and Sajib Mistry. ICWS 2020, Beijing, China.
  6. Constraint-Aware Drone-as-a-Service Composition. Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry, and Azadeh Ghari Neiat. ICSOC 2019, Toulouse, France.
  7. Composing Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) for Delivery. Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry, and Azadeh Ghari Neiat. ICWS 2019: Milan, Italy.
– Demos:
  1. Service-based Trajectory Planning in Multi-Drone Skyway Networks. Sarah Bradley, Albertus Alvin Janitra, Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, Athman Bouguettaya, and Abdallah Lakhdari. PerCom 2023, Atlanta, USA, Demo paper.
  2. Drone Formation for Efficient Swarm Energy Consumption. Shilong Guo, Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shahzaad, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya. PerCom 2023, Atlanta, USA, Demo paper.
  3. Autonomous Delivery of Multiple Packages Using Single Drone in Urban Airspace. Seunghyun Lee, Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, Abdallah Lakhdari, and Athman Bouguettaya. UbiComp 2022, Virtual, Demo paper.
  4. Constraint-based Formation of Drone Swarms. Xijing Liu, Kevin Lam, Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shahzaad, and Athman Bouguettaya. PerCom  2022, Virtual, Demo paper.
  5. Constraint-Aware Trajectory for Drone Delivery Services. Jermaine Janszen, Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, and Athman Bouguettaya. ICSOC 2021, Virtual, Demo paper.
  6. Package Delivery Using Autonomous Drones in Skyways. Woojin Lee, Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shazaad, and Athman Bouguettaya. UbiComp21, Virtual, Demo paper.
– Journals:
  1. Resilient Composition of Drone Services for Delivery. Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry, and Azadeh Ghari Neiat. Future Generation Computer Systems (2020).
  2. Optimizing Drone Delivery in Smart Cities. Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, Jermaine Janszen, and Athman Bouguettaya. IEEE Internet Computing (2023).

Research Project

Drone-based Services in Smart Cities