Research Web3 Engineer at Nokia Bell-Labs.
Research interests are: 1) Distributed Ledger Technologies 2) Service Level Agreements 3) Accountable and Tansparent Networks 3) Network design for 6G and beyond
Projects
PhD Projects
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BEAT: Blockchain-Enabled Accountable and Transparent Network Sharing
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Accountable Quality of Service Monitoring and SLA Management with Just-in-Time Smart Contracts
MRes Project
Evolution of Metadata in Bitcoin Blockchain
Invited Talks
Smart Contracts Standardisation Workshop – organised by EU Commission - 07th June 2022 
EUBOF Workshop on Smart Contracts - organised by EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum - 10th March 2022 EUBOF YouTube Link
IEEE Blockchain Symposium - IEEE UAE Blockchain Kick-Off Symposium organised by University of Dubai - 09th March 2022
ICT Verticals and Horizontals for Blockchain Standardisation - Round Table on Smart Contracts organised by European Commission - 21st April 2021
ICT Verticals and Horizontals for Blockchain Standardisation - Round Table on IoT organised by European Commission - 27th January 2021
EU Cyber Security Week - ETSI - 29th October 2020
Joining Forces for Blockchain Standardisation - European Commission - 17th June 2020
GSMA Operator Platform workshop London - 16th September 2019
Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies and their Future in Pakistan - Bahria University - October 2018
Education
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PhD - King’s College London (2018 - 2022) – PhD Thesis available here
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Master of Research (Security Science) - University College London (UCL) (2016 - 2017)
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Master of Science (Telecommunication and Networks) - Bahria University, Karachi, Pakistan (2005-2007)
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Bachelor of Computer Engineering - Bahria University, Karachi, Pakistan (2001 - 2005)
Publications
- JITRA: Just-In-Time Resource Allocation Through the Distributed Ledgers for 5G and Beyond (IEEE/ACM Transactions of Networking October 2023)
- How to Design Autonomous Service Level Agreements for 6G (IEEE Communications Magazine March 2023)
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BEAT: Blockchain-Enable Accountable and Transparent Infrastructure Sharing (IEEE Access 2022)
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BEAT: Blockchain-Enable Accountable and Transparent Network Sharing (IEEE Communications Magazine 2022)
- Automated Quality of Service Monitoring for 5G and Beyond Using Distributed Ledgers (IWQoS’21)
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How to Request Network Resources Just-in-Time using Smart Contracts (ICBC’21)
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AJIT: Accountable Just-in-Time Network Resource Allocation with Smart Contracts (MobiArch’20)
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The Evolution of Embedding Metadata in Blockchain (IJCNN’18)
Standards Contribution
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Participating as an Expert in STF 655 on Smart Contracts from Nokia Networks France
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Rapporteur of the Work Item on ‘Smart Contracts’ Group Report PDL - 004 ETSI Industries Specifications Group (ISG) for Permissiond Distributed Ledgers (PDL) Link to the WI
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Rapporteur of the Work Item on ‘Smart Contracts’ Group Specifications PDL - 11 ETSI Industries Specifications Group (ISG) for Permissiond Distributed Ledgers (PDL) Link to the WI
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Rapporteur of the Work Item on ‘Study on Non-Repudiation Techniques’ Group Report PDL - 14 ETSI Industries Specifications Group (ISG) for Permissiond Distributed Ledgers (PDL) Link to the WI
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