Suhail Yousaf
PhD Student - Computer Systems Group

Address: Dept. of Computer Science Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1081A 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Office: 4th floor, room P4.30 E-mail: s.yousaf [at] vu [dot] nl Tel.: +31 (0)20 598 7748 Fax: +31 (20) 598 7653

Biography

Since September 2009, I am a PhD student at the Computer Systems Group at Vrije Universiteit under the supervision of Prof. Maarten van Steen, co-supervised by Dr. Spyros Voulgaris. Before this, I did MSc in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems from Vrije Universiteit (2009), and MSc in Computer Science from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (2004).

Research

My research is focused on the area of Xtreme Wireless Distributed Systems: A case of real-time and data-intensive wireless distributed systems with resource constrained nodes on large scale.

Masters Thesis

Effect of Mobility on Wireless Gossiping.

Publications

• Reliable localized event detection in a wireless distributed radio telescope.
  S. Yousaf, R. Bakhshi, and M. van Steen,
  To appear in Proc. of 6th International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN2012) in conjunction with ICCCN 2012, (July 30 - August 2, 2012, Munich, Germany).   

Teaching

• Teaching assistant for Computer Networks Practicum - (2011)
• Teaching assistant for Graph Theory and Complex Networks - (2012)