Ashfaq A. Khokhar

Curriculum Vitae
May 2008

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Mailing Address

851 South Morgan Street (MC 154)
Departments of CS and ECE
University of Illinois
Chicago, IL 60607

(312) 413-9460 (Office)
(302) 413-0024-4316 (Fax)
Email: ashfaq@uic.edu
URL: http://multimedia.ece.uic.edu/

 

Education

PhD

1993

Computer Engineering

University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA.  

MS

1989

Computer Engineering

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.

BSc

1985

Electrical Engineering

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

 

Research Interests

Multimedia Content-based Storage and Retrieval, Multimedia Mining, Privacy Preserving High Performance Data Mining, Wireless Networks, High Performance Computing, Parallel Algorithms, Communication Libraries.

Professional Experience

5/05-

Professor

Department of Computer Science (50%) and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (50%), University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.

9/00-4/05

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science (50%) and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (50%), University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.

6/00-9/00

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (also joint appointment with the Department of Computer and Information Science), University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.

1995-00

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering  (also joint appointment with the Department of Computer and Information Science), University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.

1993-95

Visiting Assistant Professor

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (50%) and Department of Computer Sciences (50%), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

1989-93

Research Assistant

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

1991-93

Teaching Assistant

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

1990-93

Unix Consultant

University Computing Services, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

1985-86

Industrial Experience

National Engineering Services of Pakistan (Ltd.), Lahore, Pakistan.

 

Professional Memberships

·         Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member

·         IEEE Computer Society

·         Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)

 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Nominated for IEEE Fellowship, March 2006
  • NSF CAREER award, 1999-2003.
  • Dean’s Merit Research Award, College of Engineering, University of Delaware, 1999.
  • Outstanding paper award for the paper in refereed conference proceedings presented at the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), August 1996.
  • Merit Scholarship for Ph.D. studies in the US, Government of Pakistan, 1986-1990.
  • Honorarium for excellence in work performance, awarded by the National Engineering Services Pakistan (Ltd.), 1986. (only two out of 1200 employees received this award in 1986.)
  • Best Student Paper Award for the year 1985 (one awarded per year), Institute of Electrical Engineers, Pakistan, 1985.
  • Merit Scholarship, Lahore Board of Education, Pakistan, 1977-1984. (Top 10% of students in each province receive this award.)

 

RESEARCH GRANTS

Funded (Total: over $4,000,000)

1.    Principal Investigator, ``International Supplement Award - MotionSearch: Motion Trajectory-Based Object Activity Retrieval and Recognition from Video and Sensor Databases,” $72,000, NSF Office of International Programs, September 2007 - August 2010.

 

2.    Co-Principal Investigator, “SGER: Reliable Information Dissemination and Resource Discovery in Mobile Environments,” with A. Ouksel, $162,231, IIS Division, National Science Foundation, 2007-2009.

 

3.    Principal Investigator, ``Foveation Based Data Reduction Technologies for all-time, all-weather Surveillance Systems, $100,00, SBIR Program, Department of Homeland Security, 2006-2007.

 

4.    Principal Investigator, ``Foveation Based Event Classification for All-time, All-Weather Surveillance Systems, $100,00, State of Indiana 21st Century Development Fund, 2007-2008.

 

5.    Principal Investigator, ``MotionSearch: Motion Trajectory-Based Object Activity Retrieval and Recognition from Video and Sensor Databases,” $410,000, NSF IIS-Information and Data Management Program, September 2006 - August 2009.

 

6.    Co-Principal Investigator, ``Development of Computational Mechanics Infrastructure and Human Resources for Advancing Engineering Design Practices,’’ $560,000, US Academy of Sciences and Government of Pakistan, January 2006 – December 2008.

 

7.    Co-Principal Investigator, ``International Data Mining Grid Testbed for Research in High Performance Data Transport, Data Integration, and Data Exploration --Instrument Development Proposal,’’ with Bob Grossman, $237,000, NSF CNS Division: Major Research Instrumentation Program, September 2004 – August 2007.

 

8.    Principal Investigator, ``SGER: Trusted Privacy Preserving Data Mining over Grids,’’ $50,000, Supplement Award (recommended), NSF CNS-Distributed Systems Program, August 2006 – February 2007.

 

9.    Principal Investigator, ``SGER: Trusted Privacy Preserving Data Mining over Grids,’’ $100,000, NSF CNS-Distributed Systems Program, August 2005 – August 2006.

 

10.  Principal Investigator, ``Joint US Pakistan Workshop on Information Technology,’’ with Arif Ghafoor, NSF-International Programs, $20,000, 2004-2005.

 

11.  Principal Investigator, ``Joint US Pakistan Workshop on Information Technology,” with Arif Ghafoor, NSF-International Programs, $45,000, 2002-2003.

 

12.  Principal Investigator, ``Multithreaded Algorithms, Models, and Runtime System Tools for Multimedia Applications,'' National Science Foundation CAREER Supplement, $105,000, 2002-2004.

 

13.  Principal Investigator, ``High Speed Terabyte Storage Server based on Intelligent Disk Technology,” with R. Ansari, B. Grossman, D. Schonfeld, and C. Yu, Defense University Research Initiative Program (DURIP), Army Research Office, $422,640 (plus $120,000 in matching from UIC), 2002-2003.

 

14.  Principal Investigator, ``High Performance Digital Libraries for US ARMY TECOM Data Repositories,'' US ARMY Test and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, $350,000, 2002-2004.

 

15.  Co-Principal Investigator, ``Data Driven Communication and Synchronization in Non-uniform Bandwidth Computing Clusters,'' with S. Hambrusch, NSF-CCR Compiler and Operating Systems Program, $125,000, 2000-2001.

 

16.  Principal Investigator, ``High Performance Digital Libraries for US ARMY TECOM Data Repositories – Phase III,'' US ARMY Test and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, $95,000, 2000-2001.

 

17.  Principal Investigator, ``High Performance Digital Libraries – PHASE II,'' US ARMY Test and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, $75,000, 1999-2000.

 

18.  Principal Investigator, ``Multithreaded Algorithms, Models, and Runtime System Tools for Multimedia Applications,'' National Science Foundation CAREER PROGRAM, $205,000, 1998-2002.

 

19.  Principal Investigator, ``Multithreaded Algorithms, Models, and Runtime System Tools for Multimedia Applications,'' National Science Foundation CAREER PROGRAM, REU Support, $5000, 2000.

 

20.  Principal Investigator, ``Multimedia Processing on High Performance Computing Platforms,'' NSF-CISE Infrastructure Program, REU Support, $5000, 1999.

 

21.  Principal Investigator, ``High Performance Digital Libraries for US ARMY TECOM Data Repositories,'' US ARMY Test and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, $65,000, 1998-1999.

 

22.  Principal Investigator, ``Computation- and Communication-efficient Techniques for Progressive Transmission of Image/Video on Lossy Networks,’’ University of Delaware Research Foundation, $30,000, 1998-1999.

 

23.  Co-Principal Investigator, ``Parallel and Distributed Computing: System and Application Development Infrastructure, ``with G. Agrawal, S. Carberry, G. Gao, E. Lloyd, and L. Pollock, National Science Foundation CISE Infrastructure Program, $633,513, (plus $500,000 in matching), 1997-2002.

 

24.  Co-Principal Investigator, ``Advanced Telecommunication/Information Distribution Research Program,'' with C. Boncelet, Army Research Labs/Lockhead, $37,723. 1996.

 

25.  Affiliated Investigator ``Multimedia Research Foundation Plan at Purdue University,'' with Arif Ghafoor, $210,000, Fuji Electric, Japan, 1994.

Pending

  1. Principal Investigator, ``REU Supplement Award - MotionSearch: Motion Trajectory-Based Object Activity Retrieval and Recognition from Video and Sensor Databases,” $12,000, NSF, September 2008.

 

2.    Principal Investigator, “A Scalable High Performance Video Analysis and Search System,” with D. Schonfeld, and R. Ansari $2,076,553, DARPA, VIRAT Program 2008.      

3.    Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research: NeTS-ANET: Context Driven Management of Evolving Data in Mobility Oriented Sensornet Applications,” with R. Ansari, M. Zefran, and A. Ouksel, $1,392,121, National Science Foundation, 2008.

  1. Principal Investigator, “CDI-Type-II: Enhancing Semantic Web via Knowledge Discovery from Multimedia Archives,” pre-proposal with Dan Schonfeld and Aris Ouksel, $2,313,580, CCF Division, National Science Foundation, 2008.

 

  1. Principal Investigator, “Mobile Activity Driven Dynamic Sensor Networks,” with R. Ansari, $457,000, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2006.

 

PUBLICATIONS (# of Citations: over 500 as per Google Scholar)

Edited Volumes

1.    Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology, National Science Foundation, December 2004.

2.    Proceedings of 33rd International Conference on Parallel Processing, International Association for Computers and Communications (IACC), August 2004.

3.    Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDCS), International Society of Computers and Applications (ISCA), September 2004,

4.    ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Special Issue on Distributed Multimedia Documents, May 2004.

5.    Proceedings of the Ist International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology, National Science Foundation, December 2003.

Book Chapters

  1. T. Canli and A. Khokhar, “Data Acquisition and Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, in press, 2008.

 

  1. Z. Chen and A. Khokhar, “Medium Access Control: Techniques and Protocols,” Handbook of Wireless Local Area Networks: Applications, Technology, Security, and Standards, edited by M. Ilyas, CRC Press, 2004.

 

  1. S Khanvilkar, F. Bashir, A. Khokhar, and D. Schonfeld “Multimedia Networks and Communication,” Chapter in Electrical Engineering Handbook, edited by W. K. Chen, Academic Press, pp. 401-425, 2004.

 

  1. S. Khanvilkar, F. Bashir, A. Khokhar, and D. Schonfeld, “Multimedia Systems: Content Based Indexing and Retrieval,” Chapter in Electrical Engineering Handbook, edited by W. K. Chen, Academic Press, pp. 379-400, 2004.

 

  1. A. Khokhar and A. Ghafoor, “Application of Heterogeneous Computing in Multimedia Database Management Systems,”  in Heterogeneous Computing, edited by Mary Eshaghian, Artech House, Inc. 1995, pp. 335--354.

 

  1. L. Jamieson, S. Hambrusch, E. Delp, and A. Khokhar,  “The Role of Models, Software Tools, and Applications in High Performance Computing,” in Developing Computer Science Agenda for High Performance Computing, edited by Uzi Vishkin, ACM press, 1994, pp. 90--97.

 

Archival Journals

  1. S. Djahel, F. Na¨ıt-Abdesselam, Z. Zhang, and A. Khokhar, “Defending Against Packets Dropping Attack in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks,” Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley & Sons, accepted.

 

  1. W. Ahmad, A. Khokhar, cHawk: “A Highly Efficient Biclustering Algorithm Using Weighted Bigraph Crossing Minimization,” Bioinformatics, accepted to appear.

 

  1. X. Zhang, H. Wang, F. Na¨ıt-Abdesselam, A. Khokhar, “Distortion Analysis for Real-Time Data Collection of Spatially-temporally Correlated Data Fields in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, accepted subject to minor review.

 

  1. X. Zhang and A. Khokhar, “Optimizing Distortion for Real-Time Data Gathering in Randomly Deployed Sensor Networks,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, accepted subject to minor revision.

 

  1. L. Abusalah, A. Khokhar, and M. Guizani, “Security and Trust in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, accepted to appear.

 

  1. F.I. Bashir, A.A. Khokhar, and D. Schonfeld, “Object Trajectory based Activity Classification and Recognition using Hidden Markov Models,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 16, pp. 1912-1919, 2007.

 

  1. R. Hasimoto and A. Khokhar, “Spatial Error Concealment in Images Based on Bezier Curves,” Computación y Sistemas, Mexico, accepted to appear.

 

  1. H. Malik, R. Ansari, and A. Khokhar, “Robust Data-Hiding in Audio Using Allpass Filters,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 15,  No. 4, pp. 1296-1304, May 2007.

 

  1. F. Bashir, A.A. Khokhar, and D. Schonfeld, “Real-time Motion Trajectory-based Indexing and Retrieval of Video Sequences,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 58-65, January 2007.

 

  1. S. Shah, S. Khanvilkar and A. Khokhar, "RapidIO Traffic Management and Flow Arbitration Protocol", IEEE Communication Magazine, Vol. 44, No. 7, pp. 45-52, July 2006.

 

  1. F. Bashir, A. Khokhar, and D. Schonfeld, “Real-time Affine-invariant Motion Trajectory-based Retrieval and Classification of Video Sequences from Arbitrary Camera View,” ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Special Issue on Machine Learning Approaches to Multimedia Information vol. 12, pp. 45-54, 2006.

 

  1. Z. Chen and A. Khokhar, “A Channel Reservation Procedure for Fading Channels in Wireless Local Area Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications