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Research Interests

Secure and privacy preserving computation, distributed data management

Funded Research Projects

“Multi-layer Cybersecurity and Situational Awareness to Enhance Resiliency in Qatar’s Power Grid,” Lead PI, National Priorities Research Program-Cluster (NPRP-C), Qatar national Research Fund (QNRF), 2020-2024, $470,000.

“Qaution: Privacy-Preserving Crowdsourcing for Outbreak Management and Self Protection in Qatar,” Concept Development-Emergency Response Grant, Qatar University, 2020-2021, $13,200.

“Efficiently Reliable and Privacy Preserving Cloud Data Storage,” Lead PI, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), 2016-2020, $810,000.

“The Garbled Computer: Towards Computing without Seeing (Phase I),” Lead PI, Exceptional National Priorities Research Program (NPRP-EP), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), 2015-2020, $2,750,000.

“How to Attack a Disconnected Computer,” Primary Research mentor, Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), 2020-2021, $13,890.

“Securing Biometrics Using Intel’s SGX Enclave Technology,” Primary Research Mentor, Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), 2018-2019, $14,300.

“Scientific Data Management in the Cloud,” Lead PI, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), 2012- 2015, $1,030,000.

“BioCloud: Algorithms, Tools and Infrastructure for High-Performance Next-Generation Bioinformatics on the Cloud,” Co-Lead PI, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), April 2012-March 2015, $1,000,000.

“Trusted Computation-Intensive Services in Cloud Computing Environments,” Lead PI, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), December 2010-Nov 2013, $1,015,000.

“Managing Private Data in the Cloud,” Co-Lead PI, NPRP, QNRF, December 2010-Nov 2013, $1,048,000.

“Qloud: Towards a Cloud Computing Infrastructure in Qatar to Target Regional Scientific Applications,” Co-PI, NPRP, QNRF, December 2010-Nov 2013, $1,000,000.

“Cloud Computing for Efficient Analysis of Historical Data Repositories of Oil and Gas Production Systems,” QNRF, Qatar, February 2010, $27,400.

“Cloud Computing for Efficient Analysis of Oil and Gas Production Data,” IBM Faculty Award, September 2009, $12,000.

“Building the QU Cloud Computing Infrastructure,” Qatar University, June 2009-March 2010, $60,000.00.

“A Distributed System for Vehicle Tracking and Real-Time Doha Traffic Surveillance,” Qatar University, February-July 2008, QR 21,800.

“A System for Automatic Gathering and Intelligent Analyses of Doha Traffic Data”, QNRF, Qatar, February-October 2007, $37,760.

“Automatic Doha Traffic Data Collection and Analysis,” Qatar University, September 2005-June 2006, QR 11,900.

“Content-Based File Systems for Intelligent Management of News Articles,” Qatar University, September 2005-September 2007, QR 117,400.

“Vehicle Tracking Using GPS systems and the GSM network,” Qatar University, September 2005-June 2006, QR 6,873.

“Intelligent Information Management in Data-Intensive HPC Environments Using Content-Based File Systems,” US DoD/ERDC, Vicksburg, MS, August 05-August 06, $147,257.

“Scalable and Reliable Storage Infrastructure for Server Farms,” NSF, Project Director, January 2005-December 2007, $500,000.

“Vertical Integration for Missile Defense Surveillance Data,” Senior Personnel, US Army Space and Missile Defense Command, August 2004-July 2005.

“NSM on DAFS over InfiniBand: Design, Implementation, and Assessment,” HPCVI/ERDC/DoD, July 2004-July 2005, $195,723.

“Scalable and Reliable Storage Infrastructure for Web Server Farms,” NSF, Project Director, January 2004-June 2004, $100,000.

“NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Distributed Storage Security,” NSF, March 2004-February 2005, $12,000.

SBIR Phase 0, MS-FAST, May 2004-June 2004, $3,000.

“SBIR Phase II: Group Coding for Reliable High Performance Network-Centric Storage,” NSF, Feb 2003-Feb 2005, $494,000.

“SBIR Phase I: Group Coding for Reliable High Performance Network-Centric Storage,” NSF, January 2002-June 2002, $100,000.

“High Performance Secure 3D Visualization Application,” HPCVI Project, June-May 2004, $91,587.

“Dynamic Visualization & Management of Distributed Storage Resources,” HPCVI Project, June-May 2004, $99,719.

“Network Storage Management in the Data Grid Environment,” NASA ARC, November 2001-2003, $222,000.

“3D Network Visualization,” NASA ARC, March 2001-2002, $35,000.

“Distributed Storage for Video on Demand Application,” DOD High Performance Visualization Center Initiative, September 2001-2002, $151,781.

“High Performance Network-Based Storage Management and File Sharing in the DOD HPC environment,” DOD High Performance Visualization Center Initiative, September 1999-2002, ($336,056 + $198,486 + $209,629).

“Critical Review of Computer-based Distance Education and Distance Lab Environment Technologies,” DOD High Performance Visualization Center Initiative, Co-PIs: Q. M. Malluhi, September 1999-2001, ($168,796 + $162,681).

“High Performance Management of Distributed Data,” SBIR Phase 0, NSF, March 2000-2001, $3,000.

“Enabling Technology for Building High Performance Distributed Information Storage and Retrieval Systems,” DOE, Co-PIs: G. Jung and Q. M. Malluhi, September 1997-1999, $320,000.

“Distributed Storage for High Performance I/O,” Raytheon E-Systems/DoD Modernization Program, PD: W. Brown, Co-PIs: G. Jung, and Q. M. Malluhi, May 1997–1999, $224,000.

“Distributed Storage for High Performance I/O,” Nicholes Research Grant/DoD Modernization Program, PD: W. Brown, Co-PIs: G. Jung, and Q. M. Malluhi, August 1997-1999, $150,000.

“Implementation of a Reliable High‑Performance Distributed Parallel Storage System,” LBNL, December 1996 – November 1997, $38,633.

“Coding Techniques for Reliability and Security of the Image Server System,” LBNL, September 1995–1996, $65,315.

“Parallel Implementation of AI Algorithms,” LBL/JSU/AGMUS Science Consortium/DOE, Co-PIs: Q. M. Malluhi and D. Mitra, September 1995 – May 1996, $23,400.