Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at LUMS, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA in 2010 and the BSc. (Hons) degree from LUMS with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2005. He was a Visiting Research Scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, USA in 2017. Previously, he has held positions at BBN Technologies (Cambridge, USA) and the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (Melbourne, Australia). His research interests are in networked systems and span cloud computing, ICT for development, mobile/wireless networks, and online privacy. His work has appeared in premier networking conferences, such as ACM SIGCOMM, and journals including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. His work was selected as a best ACM SIGCOMM CCR paper in 2018. He is a recipient of the Google Faculty Research Award, Facebook Research Awards, Google Faculty Research Award, Sheth International Young Alumni Achievement Award 2021 (University of Pittsburgh), LUMS Vice Chancellor's Alumni Achievement Award, and the Andrew Mellon Fellowship. His research has been sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), World Bank, Australian Research Council (ARC), Facebook, Google, HEC, and Ignite.

Title Publication Author Year
Of Choices and Control - A Comparative Analysis of Government Hosting Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2024
Uncovering the Hidden Data Costs of Mobile YouTube Video Ads WWW 2024 - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024
Analyzing Ad Exposure and Content in Child-Oriented Videos on YouTube WWW 2024 - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024
Deepfake Defense: Constructing and Evaluating a Specialized Urdu Deepfake Audio Dataset Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2024
Validated digital literacy measures for populations with low levels of internet experiences Development Engineering 2023
A Framework for Improving Web Affordability and Inclusiveness SIGCOMM 2023 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference 2023
Countering misinformation on social media through educational interventions: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Pakistan Journal of Development Economics 2023
A First Look at Public Service Websites from the Affordability Lens ACM Web Conference 2023 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023 2023
Self-Supervised Dataset Pruning for Efficient Training in Audio Anti-spoofing Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
Learning Fast and??Slow: Towards Inclusive Federated Learning Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2023
Data Pruning for Efficient Model Pruning in Neural Machine Translation Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 2023
Coal Not Diamonds: How Memory Pressure Falters Mobile Video QoE CoNEXT 2022 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies 2022
Causal Impact of Android Go on Mobile Web Performance Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2022
Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for COVID-19 headlines, less trust but greater use of formal information sources, and greater willingness to pay for masks among social media users in Pakistan Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review 2022
Dataset Pruning for Resource-constrained Spoofed Audio Detection Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
Rethinking Web for Affordability and Inclusion HotNets 2021 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks 2021
Using Self Attention DNNs to Discover Phonemic Features for Audio Deep Fake Detection 2021 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, ASRU 2021 - Proceedings 2021
Fake audio detection in resource-constrained settings using microfeatures Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021
Mobile web browsing under memory pressure Computer Communication Review 2020
MissIt: Using Missed Calls for Free, Extremely Low Bit-Rate Communication in Developing Regions Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings 2020
Deconstructing Google'sWeb Light Service The Web Conference 2020 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2020 2020
RecFlow: SDN-based receiver-driven flow scheduling in datacenters Cluster Computing 2020
Reducing tail latency using duplication: A multi-layered approach CoNEXT 2019 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies 2019
Device-aware adaptive video streaming SIGCOMM 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCOMM Conference Posters and Demos, Part of SIGCOMM 2019 2019
Scylla: Interleaving multiple IoT stacks on a single radio CoNEXT 2018 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies 2018