Biography

Abusayeed Saifullah is an associate professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University. He received PhD in Computer Science and Engineering with Turner Dissertation Award under the supervision of Chenyang Lu from Washington University in St Louis. His research concerns Internet-of-Things, real-time and embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and wireless networks. He has authored around 100 papers published mostly in top-notch ACM/IEEE conferences including RTSS, RTAS, IoTDI, SenSys, ICCPS, MobiHoc, INFOCOM, ICNP, and ICDCS, in ECRTS, and in IEEE/ACM Transactions including TON, TOSN, TPDS, TC, TECS, TII, TMC, and in IEEE Internet of Things journal. His h-index is 35 and he has a total citations of over 6,700 according to Google Scholar. He received ten Best Paper Awards and nominations in highly competitive conferences including ACM SenSys (2016), IEEE RTSS (2019, 2014, 2011), IEEE ICII (2018), IEEE RTAS (2012), and ACM EWSN (2021). He also received NSF CAREER award (2019) and Wayne State University's College of Engineering Faculty Research Excellence Award (2020). He served as a program chair of IEEE ICESS 2020, as a track chair of IEEE ICCCN 2019, and as a TPC member of ACM SenSys, IEEE RTSS, ACM/IEEE IoTDI, IEEE RTAS, ACM/IEEE ICCPS, ACM MobiHoc, and IEEE INFOCOM. He is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems and an area editor of Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing. Here is the link to his homepage: https://saifullah.eng.wayne.edu.

Research Interests

Internet of Things, Real-time & embedded systems, Wireless network, and Cyber-physical systems. 

Research Projects

• Projects on Internet of Things: https://www.abusayeedsaifullah.com/research/iot-projects
• Projects on Cyber-Physical Systems: https://www.abusayeedsaifullah.com/research/cps-projects

Publications

Selected 15 Recent Papers (For full list, see https://www.abusayeedsaifullah.com/publications):

▪ Aakriti Jain, Md Ashikul Haque, Abusayeed Saifullah and Haibo Zhang; "Burst-MAC: A MAC Protocol for Handling Burst Traffic in LoRa Network"; In IEEE RTSS ’24 (The 44th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium); pp. 1--12; 2024.
▪ Sezana Fahmida, Akshar Chavan, Venkata Modekurthy, Abusayeed Saifullah, and Marco Brocanelli; “A Battery Lifespan-Aware Protocol for LPWAN”; In IEEE ICDCS ’24 (The 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems); Accepted; pp. 1050–-1061; 2024.
▪ Aakriti Jain*, Venkata Modekurthy*, and Abusayeed Saifullah; “Control over Low-Power Wide-Area Networks”; In ACM/IEEE ICCPS ’24 (The 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems); pp. 192–-201; CPS-IoT Week 2024; 2024. *co-primary author.
▪ Ashikul Haque and Abusayeed Saifullah; “Handling Jamming Attacks in a LoRa Network"; In ACM/IEEE IoTDI ’24 (The 9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation); pp. 146--157; CPS-IoT Week 2024; 2024.
▪ Prashant Modekurthy, Dali Ismail, Mahbubur Rahman, and Abusayeed Saifullah; Extending Coverage through Integrating Multiple Low-Power Wide-Area Networks: A Latency Minimizing Approach; in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing; Accepted; pp. 1–18; 2024.
▪ Sezana Fahmida, Venkata Modekurthy, Mahbubur Rahman, and Abusayeed Saifullah; “Handling Coexistence of LPWANs through Embedded Reinforcement Learning”; In ACM/IEEE IoTDI ’23 (The ACM/IEEE Conf. on Internet-of- Things Design and Implementation); pp. 410–423; CPS-IoT Week 2023; 2023.
▪ Mahbubur Rahman and Abusayeed Saifullah, “Boosting reliability and energy-efficiency in indoor LoRa”; In ACM/IEEE IoTDI ’23 (The ACM/IEEE Conf. on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation); pp. 396 –409; CPS-IoT Week 2023; 2023.
▪ Corey Tessler, Prashant Modekurthy, Nathan Fisher, Abusayeed Saifullah, and Alleyn Murphy; "Co-Located Parallel Scheduling of Threads to Optimize Cache Sharing"; In IEEE RTSS ’23 (The 43rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium); pp. 1--12; 2023.
▪ Sezana Fahmida, Dali Ismail, Venkata Modekurthy, Aakriti Jain, and Abusayeed Saifullah; “Real-Time Communication over LoRa Networks”; In ACM/IEEE IoTDI ’22 (The ACM/IEEE Conf. on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation); CPS-IoT Week 2022; pp. 14–27; 2022.
▪ Mahbubur Rahman and Abusayeed Saifullah, “T-IoT: Transparent and Tamper-Proof Event Ordering in the Internet of Things Platforms”, 13 pages; In IEEE Internet of Things Journal; 2022.
▪ Venkata Modekurthy, Dali Ismail, Mahbubur Rahman, and Abusayeed Saifullah; “Low-latency in-band integration of multiple low-power wide-area networks”, In IEEE RTAS '21 (The 27th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium); CPS-IoT Week 2021; pp. 1--13; 2021.
▪ Venkata Modekurthy, Abusayeed Saifullah, and Sanjay Madria; “A Distributed Real-Time Scheduling System for Industrial Wireless Networks”; In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems; pp. 1 – 25; 2021.
▪ Mahbubur Rahman, Dali Ismail, Prashant Modekurthy, Abusayeed Saifullah; “LPWAN in the TV White Spaces: A practical implementation and deployment experiences”; In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems; Accepted; pp. 1 – 25; 2021.
▪ Sezana Fahmida*, Venkata Modekurthy*, Mahbubur Rahman, Abusayeed Saifullah, Marco Brocanelli; "Long-Lived LoRa: Prolonging the Lifetime of a LoRa Network"; in IEEE ICNP ’20 (The 28th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols); pp. 1–12; 2020. *Co-first-author. Acceptance rate: 16.8%.
▪ Corey Tessler, Venkata Modekurthy, Nathan Fisher, Abusayeed Saifullah; "Bringing Inter-Thread Cache Benefits to Federated Scheduling"; In IEEE RTAS '20 (The 26th IEEE/USENIX Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium); CPS-IoT Week 2020; pp. 281-- 295; 2020.

 

Professional Affiliations

Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2023 -- present
Area Editor - Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2018 -- present
Guest Editor - IEEE Internet of Thing 2020--2021, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2016-2018.

General chair - IEEE ICESS 2021
Program chair - IEEE ICESS 2020
Co-chair - Wireless LAN, Ad Hoc, and Mesh Networks (WAM) track, IEEE ICCCN 2019 
Program Committee member - SenSys 2017-18, ICCPS 2017-18, 2021, RTSS 2014-16, 2019-23, INFOCOM 2016-20, IoTDI 2017-18, RTAS 2017 2022--24, MobiHoc 2016, EWSN 2017-23, RTCSA 2015-2019, BigData 2019-20, ICII 2018-19, IWQoS 2019-20.

Awards and Honors

Best paper award nominee at ACM EWSN 2021.

Faculty Research Excellence Award 2020 of the College of Engineering.

Best Student Paper Award at IEEE RTSS 2019.

NSF CAREER Award 2019.

Outstanding Paper Award at  RTSS 2019.

Best paper award at IEEE ICII ’18.

Best paper award nominee at ACM SenSys ’16.

NSF CRII Award 2016.

2014 Turner PhD Dissertation Award of Washington University’s CSE department.

The best paper award at RTSS ’14 (The 35th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium).

Best paper award nominee at RTAS ‘12 (The 18th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium).

The best student paper award at RTSS ’11 (The 32nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium).

The best student paper award at ISPA ‘07 (The 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications)

Education

PhD, Washington University in St Louis, 2014

Laboratory Web Site

http://saifullah.eng.wayne.edu

Courses taught by Abusayeed Saifullah

Winter Term 2025 (future)

• CSC6580 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• CSC8260 - Seminar in Networking, Distributed Systems and Parallel Systems

Fall Term 2024

• CSC6290 - Data Communication and Computer Networks

Winter Term 2024

• CSC6580 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• CSC8260 - Seminar in Networking, Distributed Systems and Parallel Systems

Fall Term 2023

• CSC6290 - Data Communication and Computer Networks

Winter Term 2023

• CSC6580 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• CSC7290 - Advanced Computer Networking

Fall Term 2022

• CSC6290 - Data Communication and Computer Networks

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