Academics

 

Spring 2005      

 

1.      CS 583: “Data Mining and Text Mining”.  Instructor: Prof. Bing Liu

1. Text books

    1. Data mining: Concepts and Techniques, by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN 1-55860-489-8.
    2. Machine Learning, by Tom M. Mitchell, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-042807-7
    3. Modern Information Retrieval, by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-39829-X
  1. Data mining resource site: KDnuggets Directory

 

2.     MCS 590: “ High Speed Cryptography” : Instructor: Prof. D. J. Bernstein

 

3.    MCS 425   “Codes and Cryptography”  Instructor: Prof. Jeffrey S. Leon

 

Textbook: Wade Trappe and Lawrence C. Washington, Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory,  Prentice-Hall, 2002, ISBN 0-13-061814-4 

 

 

Fall 2004

 

  1. PhD Qualifying Exam

Exam Areas:

    1. Digital System Design and Computer Architecture
    2. Computer Communications and Networks
    3. Algorithms, Data Structures and Operating Systems

 

 

Spring 2004

 

1- ECE 594. “ Adavanced Microprocessor Architecture.”         Instructor. Prof. Ghyungho Lee

                   1. A survey of Five Microprocessor design research areas namely

·        Secure/Trusted Computing

·        Cache Performance

·        Network Processors

·        Power aware architectures

·        Java processor

2.      A survey of the state of art of the memory integrity verification schemes for secure processors.      [PPT presentation]

3.      Project Report. “ Graph based Memory Integrity Verification schemes for Secure Processors” [pdf]

 

2- CS 503   “Applied Graph Theory”            Instructor: Prof. Tadao Murata

 

 

 

Fall 2003       

 

1- ECE 466     “Advanced Computer Architecture”      Instructor: Prof. Ghyungho Lee

·        Term Project Report

       Waseem Ahmad, Enrico Ng, “A Quantitative/Qualitative Study for Optimal Parameter Selection of a Superscalar Processor using SimpleScalar “

 

2- CS 450   “Computer Networks”      Instructor: Prof. Ajay Kshemkalyani

·        Waseem Ahmad, “Performance Monitoring and Evaluation of a Concurrent File Server “.

 

 

3- CS 401   “Design and Analysis of Algorithms”          Instructor: Prof. Dasgupta

 

 

 

Spring 2003     

 

1- ECE 566     “Parallel Processing”     Instructor: Prof Ashfaq Khokhar

 

2- ECE 434   “Multimedia Communication Networks”  Instructor: Prof Marilyn Andrews

 

3- ECE 430   “Statistical Communication and Signal Processing”           Instructor: Mark Hibbard

 

 

 

 

Bachelor of Science in Electrical/Computer Engineering  (with Honors GPA =81/100 )(April 1998 – April 2002)

University of Engineering and Technology  Lahore.

1998-2002.

 

Interesting Articles about Cheating and Dishonesty in Academics

                      

1-     Cheating@MIT

2-     Professors, Students Must Share Blame for Dishonesty by Audrey Wu, Staff Reporter for the Tech. The Tech, April 19,1996.

3-     Ethics Building for Engineers