Rate My Professor Jawwad Shamsi

Dr. Jawwad A. Shamsi serves as Professor and Dean of Computing at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), Karachi campus. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Wayne State University (2009), an MS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan-Dearborn (2002), and a BE in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Telecommunications and Electronics from N.E.D. University of Engineering and Technology (1998). His career at FAST-NUCES began in 1999 as an Instructor and progressed through roles including Assistant Professor (until 2012), Head of the Computer Science Department (2012-2017), Professor (since 2017), and Director of the Karachi Campus (from 2018). He is an HEC-approved PhD supervisor and leads the Systems Research Laboratory.

Dr. Shamsi's research focuses on cloud computing and distributed systems, cyber and network security, high-performance and volunteer computing, software-defined networks, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and smart city applications. He authored the book Big Data Systems: A 360-Degree Approach (Taylor & Francis, 2021). Key publications include Resilience in Smart City Applications: Faults, Failures, and Solutions (IEEE IT Professional, 2020), SDN based Secure and Agile Framework for Protecting Smart City Applications from DDoS Attacks (Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2019), Understanding Network Requirements for Smart City Applications: Challenges and Solutions (IEEE IT Professional, 2019), and Data-Intensive Cloud Computing: Requirements, Expectations, Challenges, and Solutions (Journal of Grid Computing, 2013). His accolades encompass the NVIDIA Research Center Award (2015), NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center Awards (2014, 2015), NSF-sponsored IEEE TCPP Early Adopter Awards (2012, 2013, 2015), HEC NRPU Grant (2018-2021), and multiple travel grants from Intel, HEC, IEEE, ACM, and Usenix.