CV
Waleed Iqbal
Curriculum Vitae
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Education:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Date: January 2020 to Present
- Research Topic: Online Manifestations of Real-World Inequalities.
- Advisors: Dr. Ignacio Castro and Dr. Gareth Tyson
- M.S., Computer Science, Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan
- Date: June 2018
- Graduate Thesis: Analysis of Computer Networking Research: An Bibliometric Study.
- Advisor: Prof. Dr. Junaid Qadir
- B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of the Punjab
- Date: March 2014
- Final Year Project: Analysis of VoIP Structure and Standards: Deployment of an Open Source VoIP Network for an Organization with Enhanced Services.
Employment
- Teaching Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, UK (September 2022 to present)
- Machine Learning Consultant, Ibtidah Solutions Pvt. Limited, Pakistan (March 2020 to March 2023)
- Laboratory Demonstrator, Queen Mary University of London, UK (September 2020 to December 2022)
- Teaching and Research Assistant, Information Technology University Lahore, Pakistan (November 2015 - December 2019)
- Summer Engineering Intern , PTCL, Lahore (August 2011 to September 2011)
Publications
Conferences
2023
- 1. Waleed Iqbal, Vahid Ghafouri, Gareth Tyson, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, and Ignacio Castro. Lady and the Tramp Nextdoor: Online Manifestations of Real-World Inequalities in the Nextdoor Social Network. In 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Limassol, Cyprus (2023). [Winter Acceptance Rate: 7%]
2022
- 2. Waleed Iqbal, Muhammad Haseeb Arshad, Gareth Tyson, and Ignacio Castro. "Exploring Crowdsourced Content Moderation Through Lens of Reddit during COVID-19. In 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC), Hiroshima, Japan (2022).
2021
- 3. Stephen McQuistin, Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Colin Perkins, Gareth Tyson, Matthew Purver, Patrick Healey, Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir and Ignacio Castro. Characterising the IETF Through the Lens of RFC Deployment. In 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Virtual (2021). [Acceptance Rate: 28%]
2020
- 4. Rana Tallal Javed, Mirza Elaaf Shuja, Muhammad Usama, Junaid Qadir, Waleed Iqbal, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Kiran Garimella. A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan. In 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), The Hague, Netherlands (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 17%]
2016
- 5. Adnan Noor Mian, Sheeraz A. Alvi, Raees Khan, Muhammad Zulqarnain, and Waleed Iqbal. Experimental study of link quality in IEEE 802.15.4 using Z1 Motes. In 12th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Paphos, Cyprus, (2016). [Acceptance Rate: 33%]
Journals
2022
- 1. Rana Tallal Javed, Mirza Elaaf Shuja, Muhammad Usama, Junaid Qadir, Waleed Iqbal, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro and Kiran Garimella. A Deep Dive into COVID-19-Related Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan. In Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) (2022)
2020
- 2. Adnan Qayyum, Aneeqa Ijaz, Muhammad Usama, Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir, Yehia Elkhatib, and Ala Al-Fuqaha. Securing machine learning in the cloud: A systematic review of cloud machine learning security. Frontiers in Big Data (2020).
3. Siddique Latif, Muhammad Usman, Sanaullah Manzoor, Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Adeel Razi, Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Adrian Weller and Jon Crowcroft. Leveraging Data Science To Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review. In IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI) (2020)2019
- 4. Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir, Rana Tallal Javed, Adnan Noor Mian, Jon Crowcroft and Gareth Tyson. Five Decades of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM): A Bibliometric Perspective. In ACM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 49, No. 5 (2019). [Impact Factor: 3.577]
5. Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir, Gareth Tyson, Adnan Noor Mian, Saeed Ul Hassan, Jon Crowcroft. A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in Computer Networking Research. In Springer Scientometrics Journal, Vol. 119, No. 2 (2019). [Impact Factor: 2.173]Posters
2022
- 1. Waleed Iqbal, Gareth Tyson, Vahid Ghafouri, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, and Ignacio Castro. "Exploring online manifestations of real-world inequalities. In 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nice, France, (2022).
2021
- 2. Stephen McQuistin, Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Colin Perkins, Gareth Tyson, Matthew Purver, Patrick Healey, Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir and Ignacio Castro. Characterising the IETF Through the Lens of RFC Deployment. In 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Virtual (2021).
2016
- 3. Tabish Manzoor, Waleed Iqbal, Eisha Tir Razia, and Samia Razaq. Bridging Educational Gaps through Volunteers; Implementation, Problems and Their Solutions. In Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, (2016).
Talks
2023
- 1. Waleed Iqbal. Exploring Online Manifestations of Real-World Inequalities in Nexdoor Social Network. In 35th Multi-Service Networks workshop (MSN-Coseners 2022), Abington, Oxfordshire, UK (2023).
2. Waleed Iqbal. Online Manifestations of Real-World Inequalities in Nexdoor Social Network. In Data Natives, City, University of London, London, UK (2023).2022
- 3. Waleed Iqbal. Lady and The Tramp Nextdoor: Online Manifestations of Real-World Inequalities. In 34th Multi-Service Networks workshop (MSN-Coseners 2022), Abington, Oxfordshire, UK (2022).
Academic Services
- Reviewer, International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2023
- Shadow Technical Program Committee Member, ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2022
- Reviewer, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2019
Advisors and Active Collaborators
- Dr. Ignacio De Castro Arribas, Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Queen Mary University of London, UK (Ph.D. Advisor)
- Dr. Gareth Tyson, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou Campus, China (Ph.D. Co-advisor)
- Dr. Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communication Systems, University of Cambridge, UK.
- Dr. Junaid Qadir, Professor, Qatar University, Qatar (M.S. Advisor)
- Dr. Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Assiatant Professor, IMDEA Networks, Spain
- Dr. Muhammad Usama, Assistant Professor, National University of Computer and Emerging Science (FAST-NUCES), Pakistan