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Our paper ‘Network Assurance via Hybrid Systems Modelling and Set Invariance’ was published in Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems. The work introduces a model-predictive-control framework with formal network-assurance guarantees for service function chains. 🎉
Our poster ‘LLMCrater: Lifecycle-Aware FAIR Metadata Generation using Large Language Models’ has been accepted at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2026). 🎉
Our paper ‘Adaptive Mitigation of Amplification-Based DDoS Attacks in Programmable Data Planes’ was published at SecSoft 2026, co-located with IEEE NetSoft. The work explores online, in-switch reinforcement learning for adaptive amplification-attack mitigation. 🛡️
SLICES-IP launches its implementation phase in Lille
CompSys 2026 brought the Dutch computer systems and networking community together in Doorwerth
We presented two papers at CompSys 2026: ‘A Multi-Agent AI Approach to Intent-Based Network Configuration’ and ‘Reinforcement Learning-based Adaptive Path Selection for Programmable Networks’. 🎤
I received the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ/BKO), the nationally recognized Dutch credential demonstrating competence in designing, delivering, and assessing university education. 🎓
The PRIME-6G project kicked off online, bringing together its partners to begin developing resilient 6G technologies for industrial manufacturing. I am looking forward to contributing to the project as a Task Leader.
Our paper ‘Energy Consumption Analysis of Application Layer Protocols in Realistic IoT Uplink Scenarios: An Empirical Study on an ESP32 Microcontroller’ was published at IEEE GPECOM 2026. The study provides an empirical comparison of application-layer protocol energy use on a constrained ESP32 platform. 📡
We presented our poster ‘LLMCrater: LLM-Assisted Metadata Generation for FAIR Research’ at NWO ICT.OPEN 2026 in Rotterdam. 🎓
Happy to announce that I will be chairing the Workshop on Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems (MINDS) at the 19th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2027) for the fourth consecutive year! My co-chairs this year are Dr. Shashikant Ilager and Dr. Nishant Saurabh. 🎆
The results of Ilyas Rahimi’s MSc research project, “Local Root Serving by Default: Quantifying the Traffic Trade-off Between Root Queries and Root Zone Distribution”, were presented during the IEPG session at IETF 125. 🗣️
Our paper ‘Dependent Task Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing Using Trajectory-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning’ has been accepted for IEEE ICC 2026! 🤩
Our paper ‘An End-to-End Smart Radio Log Anomaly Detection Architecture for 5G/6G Networks’ has been published in IEEE Communications Magazine! 🤩
Our paper ‘A Multi-Agent AI Approach to Intent-Based Network Configuration’ has been accepted for ICIN 2026! 🤩
I gave an invited talk on “An End-to-end Smart Radio Log Anomaly Detection Architecture for 5G/6G Networks” for the Ericsson-Carleton Tech Talks. 🗣️
I gave an invited talk on “SemCom Enabled, Agentic AI-based 6G Architecture” for the IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2025. 🗣️
Happy to announce that I will be co-organizing the CompSys 2026 conference, together with Dr. Nishant Saurabh and Dr. R Venkatesha Prasad! 🎆
Our paper ‘FEDORA: Federated Ensemble Reinforcement Learning for DAG-Based Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in MEC’ has been published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal! 🤩
Our demo ‘Programmable & Trustworthy Data Paths for Sovereign Network Services’ was presented today at the 25th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2025)! 🎬
I gave an invited talk on “Networks for AI” for the IEEE Future Networks Artficial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AIML) Working Group. Slides and video available. 🗣️
Our work on ‘Reinforcement Learning-based Adaptive Path Selection for Programmable Networks’ was presented today as a poster at NWO ICT.OPEN 2025 in Utrecht! 📊
Our work Digital Sovereignty in Practice: Leveraging In-Band Telemetry and ML for a Responsible Internet was successfully presented today as a demonstrator at OFC50 in San Fransisco! 📊
Our work ‘MANTRA-6G: Management and Orchestration for Cloud- and AI-Native 6G Networks’ has been accepted as a Poster for 2025 EuCNC & 6G Summit! 🤩
Excited to share that I have been appointed as an Associate Editor for the Springer Journal of Cloud Computing! 🌟
Happy to announce that I will be chairing the Workshop on Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems (MINDS) of the 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2026) for the third consecutive year! My co-chairs for this year will be Dr. Shashikant Ilager and Dr. Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran! 🎆
Our SNS JU White Paper ‘AI/ML as a Key Enabler of 6G Networks: Methodology, Approach and AI-Mechanisms in SNS JU’ is now available in Zenodo! 🤩
Our paper ‘EMDTORA: Energy-aware multi-user dependent task offloading and resource allocation in MEC using graph-enabled DRL’ has been published in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking ! 🤩
Our paper ‘Cooperative learning-based framework for VNF caching and placement optimization over low earth orbit satellite networks’ has been published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology! 🤩
Our paper ‘Optimizing Resource Fragmentation in Virtual Network Function Placement using Deep Reinforcement Learning’ has been published in IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking! 🤩
A new, exciting chapter in my academic career starts! Today is my first day as an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Informatics Institute (IvI). I will be embedded in the MultiScale Networked Systems (MNS) group. 🏫
Our paper ‘DRL-Based Trajectory Planning and Sensor Task Scheduling for Edge Robotics’ has been accepted for 2024 IEEE WF-IoT! 🤩
Our paper ‘Online VNF Placement using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Reward Constrained Policy Optimization’ has been accepted for publication in 2024 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom)! 🤩
Our paper ‘VNF Placement and Dynamic NUMA Node Selection Through Core Consolidation at the Edge and Cloud’ has been published in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management! 🤩
Happy to announce that I will be chairing the Workshop on Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems (MINDS) of the 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2025) for the second consecutive year! 🎆
Glad to share that I will be serving as an invited judge for the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) 2024 Contest at Carleton University.
Our paper ‘Service Function Chain Network Planning through Offline, Online and Infeasibility Restoration Techniques’ has been accepted for publication in Computer Networks! 🤩
Our paper ‘Fragmentation-Aware VNF Placement: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach’ has been accepted for IEEE ICC 2024! 🤩
My research work of the last 2 years at Carleton University has been awarded with the 2023 CU-PSAC Postdoctoral Fellow Research Award!
I have taken on the role of Topic Editor for the Special Issue on "Intent-Based Networking for the Internet of Things" in Frontiers in the Internet of Things!
Our paper ‘Security-Oriented Network Intent Placement Using Particle Swarm Optimization’ has been accepted for CSNet’23! 🤩
Our paper ‘Service Function Chaining in LEO Satellite Networks via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning’ has been accepted for the 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom)! 🤩