Faisal Nawab
MS Degree, Computer Science
faisal.nawab [at] kaust.edu.sa
Education Profile
PhD Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara (2012-2015)
MS, Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) 2009-2011 Thesis title: "TMAC: Timestamp-Ordered MAC for CSMA/CA Wireless Mesh Networks"
BS, Computer Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUMP) 2005-2009
Academic Senate Travel Grant UC Santa Barbara 2015 The Doctoral Student Travel Grant awards travel funds to graduate students who have been invited or selected to present a paper, present research, perform or exhibit at a major professional conference or meeting.
ICDE 2015 Travel Scholarship 2015
Outstanding publication award UCSB's computer science department 2015. An annual award for the best publication authored by a student in UC Santa Barbara's computer science department.
SIGMOD 2015 Travel Award 2015
"Best papers of ICDE" invitation to a special issue of TKDE 2015
Best presentation award at the Graduate Students Workshop on Computing UCSB October 2014
Outstanding TA award UCSB February 2014Academic excellence award KAUST 2010
Graduate Fellowship KAUST 2009
Discovery scholarship KAUST 2008
Faisal Nawab graduated with an MS degree in Computer Science from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2011. Nawab currently works as an Assistant Professor of computer science and engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he works on developing‏ systems for quick and accurate data analysis of new applications in cloud computing and Big Data.
Nawab earned a B.S degree in Computer Science from the KFUPM (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals). He then studied Computer Science at KAUST where he obtained an M.S degree. He continued his studies at the UC Santa Barbara University from which obtained a Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science. After graduate studies, Faisal worked as a Research Intern at Microsoft, where he worked in the database group under the supervision of Dr. David Lomet. He then worked as a Research Associate in HP Labs where he focused on designing data stores for non-volatile memory architectures. He studied the implications of emerging flush-on-fail CPU technology on the durability cost of transactions. He also worked on a design of a data store that improves performance by avoiding two main overhead sources: logging and cache-line flushing.
Master's Thesis title: "TMAC: a Timestamp-ordered MAC protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks."
Faisal Nawab's research lies at the intersection of Big Data management and distributed Cloud Computing systems. Specifically, he works on data management systems that accelerate and support data science and global connectivity especially in the context of autonomous, mobile applications and the Internet of Things.
Data processing is the driver of the sustained growth and impact of Internet services and Big Data analytics. The global nature of users and data invites a Global-Scale Data Management paradigm. Faisal's main areas of work and study are related to build global-scale systems with a focus on providing high performance and easy-to-use database abstractions.
Buffer Management in Wireless Mesh Networks
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are a type of ad hoc wireless network that uses multi-hop wireless communications to provide or improve connectivity between wireless devices.
Power and Delay Optimization for Data Transmission in Wireless Networks
In this project, we considered the optimization of transmission power and delay in a wireless mesh networks.
M3: Multimedia for Mobile Nodes in a Wireless Mesh Network
This project committed to address the key problems for supporting multimedia over wireless mesh networks.
Nawab, F. (2011). TMAC: Timestamp-Ordered MAC Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks, (Thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10754/136196
Nawab, F., Jamshaid, K., Shihada, B., & Ho, P.-H. (2011). TMAC: Timestamp-Ordered MAC for CSMA/CA Wireless Mesh Networks. 2011 Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN). doi:10.1109/icccn.2011.6005807
10.1109/icccn.2011.6005807
Nawab, F., Jamshaid, K., Shihada, B., & Ho, P.-H. (2012). MAC-layer protocol for TCP fairness in Wireless Mesh Networks. 2012 1st IEEE International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC). doi:10.1109/iccchina.2012.6356924
10.1109/iccchina.2012.6356924
Nawab, F., Jamshaid, K., Shihada, B., & Ho, P. H. (2014). Fair packet scheduling in Wireless Mesh Networks. Ad Hoc Networks, 13, 414–427. doi:10.1016/j.adhoc.2013.09.002
10.1016/j.adhoc.2013.09.002
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Basem Shihada