Rate My Professor Bahman Javadi

Professor Bahman Javadi is a Full Professor of Networking and Cloud Computing in the School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences at Western Sydney University. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in IT and Computer Engineering and a Master of Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran, completed between 2001 and 2007. Prior to joining Western Sydney University, he served as a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne from June 2010 to January 2012. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the MESCAL team at INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France, from 2008 to 2010. His early career included faculty positions in the Department of Computer Engineering and IT at Amirkabir University of Technology.

Javadi's research specializations encompass distributed computing, edge computing, cloud computing reliability, Internet of Things, federated learning, and applications in healthcare and sustainable infrastructure, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health and Well-being), 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), and 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities). As Principal Investigator, he has led funded projects including Edge Intelligence for Smart Home Healthcare (2022–2026), Design and Development of Smart Secure Tracking and Data Acquisition System for Mobile Phones (2023–2024), Secured Smart Sensing and Industry Analytics Facility for Industry 4.0 (2022–2023), and Smart Irrigation Management for Parks and Cool Towns (2021–2024). He has produced 153 research outputs, comprising 69 conference papers, 60 journal articles, and 11 editorials. Notable publications include "Performance evaluation of serverless edge computing for machine learning applications" (2022), "Smart nutrition monitoring system using serverless edge computing" (2024), "Privacy-preserving graph similarity search with attribute-based access control" (2026), "An Analysis of the Impact of Network Conditions on Edge Federated Learning" (2025), and "Dynamic function placement and request scheduling of serverless workflows in edge environment" (2025). His work has amassed over 5,880 citations on Google Scholar, underscoring his influence in large-scale distributed systems. Javadi has received the Khwarizmi International Award (2nd Winner, Applied Research, 2008), Best Paper Awards at the 10th IEEE/ACM CCGrid (2010) and 4th IEEE/ACM UCC (2011), Best Paper Finalist at the 4th IEEE CloudCom (2012), and IEEE Senior Member designation (2015). He holds memberships in ACM, IEEE, and IEEE Computer Society, and has contributed to 11 journal editorials. Recently, he provided leadership to the School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences prior to the appointment of a new Dean in 2024.