Syed Muhammad Mashhood Ishaque

Research

• Papers
  • Journal Papers
    1. Staged Self-Assembly: Nanomanufacture of Arbitrary Shapes with O(1) Glues, with Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Sándor P. Fekete, Eynat Rafalin, Robert Schweller, and Diane L. Souvaine. Natural Computing, 2008. Special issue of selected papers from the 13th International Meeting on DNA Computing, 2007.
    2. Project Management Using Point Graphs, with Abbas K. Zaidi and Alexander H. Levis. Journal of System Engineering, under submission.
    3. Using Temporal Reasoning for Criminal Forensics against Terrorists, with Abbas K. Zaidi and Alexander H. Levis. Mathematical Models in Counterterrorism, Springer, 2007, in press.
  • Conference Papers
    1. An Inference Mechanism for Point-Interval Logic, with Faisal Mansoor, and Abbas K. Zaidi, 21st International FLAIRS Conference, 2008, Coconut Grove, FL, to appear.
    2. Disjoint segments have convex partitions with 2-edge connected dual graphs (presentation), with Nadia Benbernou, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Michael Hoffmann, Diane L. Souvaine, and Csaba Toth. 19th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.
    3. Staged Self-Assembly: Nanomanufacture of Arbitrary Shapes with O(1) Glues (presentation), with Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Sándor P. Fekete, Eynat Rafalin, Robert Schweller, and Diane L. Souvaine. 13th International Meeting on DNA Computing, 2007, Memphis, TN.
    4. Project Management Using Point Graphs (presentation), with Abbas K. Zaidi and Alexander H. Levis. 5th Conference on Systems Engineering Research, 2007, Hoboken, NJ.
    5. On Applying Point-Interval Logic to Criminal Forensics (presentation), with Abbas K. Zaidi and Alexander H. Levis. Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, 2006, San Diego, CA. Nominated for Best Student Paper award.
    6. Time-Sensitive Planning Using Point-Interval Logic (presentation), with Abbas K. Zaidi. 10th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, 2005, McLean, VA.
• Theses
  • MS Thesis: On Temporal Planning and Reasoning (2006), CS, George Mason University
  • BS Thesis: Knowledge Verification of Intelligent Agents (2003), CS, Karachi University.
• Talks
  • Petri Nets, guest lecture in Comp 180, Tufts, fall 2007.
  • Emptiness Queries, guest lecture in Comp 11, Tufts, fall 2007.
  • Computational Geometry and Data Structures (presentation), guest lecture in Comp 11, Tufts, summer 2007.
  • Project Management using Point Graphs, CS Colloquium, Tufts,spring 2007.
  • Staged Self-Assembly, Graduate Student Council, 11th Annual Research Symposium, Tufts,spring 2007.
  • Petri Nets (presentation), guest lecture in Comp 180, Tufts, fall 2006.
  • Staged Self-Assembly (presentation), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Fall Seminar Series, Tufts, 2006.
  • Jigsaw-Puzzle Technique for Staged Model of Self-Assembly (poster), Graduate Research Virtual Expo, Tufts, 2006-07.
  • Algorithmic Self-Assembly, guest lecture in Comp 11, Tufts, fall 2006.
  • On Designing and Evaluating Computer Science Curricula in Pakistan, One Day International Conference on Computer Science Trends in Pakistan, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Feb 2002.
• CV in PostScript or PDF, last updated on July 25, 2007.
• I am interested in algorithms and complexity, data structures, computational geometry, algorithmic self-assembly, and temporal planning and reasoning.
• I worked as a Research Assistant in System Architectures Laboratory, at George Mason University.
• My Erdos number is 3. My co-authors are: Nadia Benbernou, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Sándor P. Fekete, Michael Hoffmann, Alexander H. Levis, Faisal Mansoor, Eynat Rafalin, Robert T. Schweller, Diane L. Souvaine, Csaba Toth, Abbas K. Zaidi

Academics

• Education:
  • MS, Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2005.
  • BS, Computer Science, Karachi University, Karachi, Pakistan, 2002.
  • HSc, Pre-Engineering, DJ Sindh Govt. Science College, Karachi, Pakistan, 1998.
  • SSc, Science Group, PAF Intermediate College (now Fazaia), Karachi, Pakistan, 1996.
• Awards and Honors:
  • Awarded student travel grant for DNA13 conference, Memphis, TN, 2007.
  • Awarded scholarship to attend NATO Advanced Study Institute's summer school on Combinatorial Optimization: Methods and Applications, Montreal, CA, 2006 (declined).
  • Outstanding Graduate Student, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, 2005-06.
  • George Mason University Masters Fellowship, 2004 and 2005.
  • Developed the software "ACM Curriculum Analyzer" that helped ACM Chapter (University of Karachi) win "ACM Excellence Award for Community Service", 2001-02.
  • Awarded HSc Merit Scholarship from Karachi Board of Education, 1998 (awarded to top 20 students out of approximately 15,000 students).
  • Participated in Second National Physics Talent Constest, Nilore, 1998 (only 50 students were invited from all over the country).
  • Invited to PAF Leadership Camp, Kalabagh, June 1996.
  • Chief of Air Staff Honor Student (9th grade) for year 1995 (only five 9th graders were selected from all over the country).
• Teaching Activities:
  • Teaching Assistant for Computational Geometry, spring 2008.
  • Teaching Assistant for Computational Geometry, fall 2006.
  • Taught a mini course on Computational Geometry at Karachi University, summer 2006.
  • Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Computer Science during spring 2006.
  • Teaching Assistant for Theory of Computation course at Karachi University during spring 2003.
• Courses I have taken at graduate level:
  • Courses while at Tufts: Computational Learning Theory, Computational Geometry, Software Engineering (audit), Advanced Computational Geometry, Advanced Data Structures (MIT), Probability in Computer Science, Wireless Sensor Networks (audit), Advanced Algorithms (MIT), Graph Theory (audit)
  • Course while at George Mason: Language Processors, Operating Systems, Analysis of Algorithms, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Discrete Event Systems, Parallel Algorithms (UMD), Approximation Algorithms (Directed Study with Dana Richards), Network Modeling

Contact Information

• Name: Mashhood Ishaque
• Email: mishaq01@cs.tufts.edu
• Mailing address:
  

  Mashhood Ishaque
  Computer Science Department
  161 College Ave
  Medford, Massachusetts 02155
  USA

Personal Information

• Languages (Reading, Writing, Speaking):
  • English (fluent, fluent, fluent)
  • Urdu (fluent, fluent, fluent)
  • Hindi ( , , fluent)
• Hobbies: Music, Poetry, Cricket, Squash, NFL, Learning Persian, PhD Comics, Big Nate
• Citizenship: Pakistani
• Birthplace: Karachi, Pakistan
• Birthdate: February 22, 1980