Associate Professor
Director High Performance Computing and Networking Lab HPCNL
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
University of Engineering and Technology
GT Road, Lahore 54890 Pakistan
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Biography
Dr.-Ing. Amir Mehmood obtained his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin / Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Berlin, Germany in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Anja Feldmann. He received degree of M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) in 2005. After graduation, he has worked at TELIPS Payphones as Manager Technical, Siemens Engineering, Pakistan as Senior Executive Engineer, and Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited as ADE Network Administrator, Pakistan Internet Exchange. Currently, he is Associate Professor and Director of High Performance Computing and Networking Lab at Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.
Research Interest
Distributed Systems, Big data analytics, Social Computing, Information Retrieval.
Publications
Characterizing Urdu Language Web Content in the World Wide Web using Common Crawl Corpus.
Analysis of Hotspot Methods in JVM for Best-Effort Run-Time Parallelization.
Understanding Regional Context of World Wide Web using Common Crawl Corpus.
Validity of GRACE Risk Score as a Prognostic Marker of In-hospital Mortality after Acute Coronary Syndrome.
Exploring Twitter News Biases using Urdu Based Sentiment Lexicon.
Emulating an Octeon MIPS64 based Embedded System on X86 in QEMU
HTTM - Design and Implementation of a Type-2 Hypervisor for MIPS64 Based Systems.
Impact of access bandwidth on packet loss: A flow-level analysis (MICC 2013, Malaysia
Research Projects
Language Engineering Lab (NCBC, 2018-present, PKR 72 M)
Urdu Search Engine - Humkinar Pakistan (ICT RDF, 2012-2017, PKR 33.3 M)
Run time parallelization of sequential binary code through JVM ( HEC 2015-present, PKR 3.4 M)
Development of Type2 hypervisor for MIPS64 based systems (ICT RDF, 2013-15, PKR 15.25 M)
Teaching
Operating System Concepts (TN: 511, 2013, UET Lahore)
Operating Systems (EE: 330, 2013, UET Lahore)
Computer Networks (2012-2013, UET Lahore)
RouterLab Praktikum (2011, TU-Berlin)
RouterLab Praktikum (2010, TU-Berlin)
Awards
Best paper at IEEE ICET Conference, 2005, Islamabad Pakistan.
Best paper at IEEE CQR Workshop, 2011, Florida USA
First prize in 2nd IEEE annual final year project competition at University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore Pakistan, 1996.
