I am a PhD candidate in the computer science department at (Tufts University). I am being advised by Prof. Fahad Dogar. Before joining Tufts University, I received an MSc in Computer Science from LUMS in 2016. In 2010, I received a BSc in Telecommunication Engineering from NUCES, Lahore. Prior to pursuing my graduate studies, I worked in IT & Telecommunication industry in Pakistan from 2010-2014.

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in the areas of cloud computing and data center networking. Currently, I am working on making duplication a first class concept inside a cloud system to minimize the tail latency of cloud applications.

News

• Spent summer'23 at Meta working as a PhD software engineering intern. I worked on the performance-isolation tradeoff for the encode service stack that powers video transcoding across Meta's family of application
• Poster: "Janus: Making TCP Priority-Aware in Modern Cloud Systems" NSDI 2023
• Poster: "Towards Predictable Job Completion Times in Shared GPU Clusters" NSDI 2023
• Our paper on network resource management is accepted at SoCC 2022
• Spent summer'22 at Meta working as a PhD software engineering intern where I got the opportunity to incorporate support for ASIC powered video transcoders in the encode service stack.
• Passed Qualifying Exam
• Our work on duplicate-aware scheduling is accepted at ACM CoNEXT 2019
• Our work on workload adaptive flow scheduling is accepted at ACM CoNEXT 2018

Publications

• Network resource management as a database problem
  Hafiz Mohsin Bashir, Abdullah Bin Faisal, Fahad R. Dogar
   ACM SoCC '22  [ DOI ]


• Reducing tail latency using duplication: a multi-layered approach
  Hafiz Mohsin Bashir, Abdullah Bin Faisal, M Asim Jamshed, Peter Vondras, Ali Musa Iftikhar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Fahad R Dogar
   ACM CoNEXT '19  [ DOI ]


• Workload Adaptive Flow Scheduling
  Abdullah Bin Faisal, Hafiz Mohsin Bashir, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash Uzmi, Fahad R Dogar
   ACM CoNEXT '18  [ DOI ]


• Load balancing over symmetric virtual topologies
  Syed Mohammad Irteza, Hafiz Mohsin Bashir, Talal Anwar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Fahad Rafique Dogar
   IEEE INFOCOM '17  [ DOI ]

Teaching

• TA for Comp112/Comp151: Computer Networks, Fall 2021, Tufts University
• TA for Comp112: Computer Networks, Spring 2019, Tufts University
• Lab Instructor for Computer Networks, Fall 2014, NUCES FAST
• Lab Instructor for Computer Networks, Spring 2013, NUCES FAST
• Lab Instructor for Computer Networks, Fall 2011, NUCES FAST
• Lab Instructor for Introduction to Programming, 2010, NUCES FAST
• Lab Instructor for Micorcontroller Programming and Interfacing, 2010, NUCES FAST

Academic Services

• Reviewer IEEE Transactions On Networking

Honors and Awards

• ACM Travel Grant to attend ACM SoCC, '22 in San Francisco
• Tufts Travel Grant to attend USENIX NSDI '19 in Boston
• ACM Travel Grant to attend ACM CoNEXT '18 in Crete, Greece
• ACM Travel Grant to attend ACM SIGCOMM '17 in Los Angeles
• Tufts Travel Grant to attend USENIX NSDI '17 in Boston
• Deans Honor List, MSc Computer Science, LUMS
• 100% tuition waiver for academic year 2015-2016 at LUMS (awarded to a department wise top performer)
• Deans Honor List, BSc Telecommunication Engineering, NUCES-FAST, Fall 2008, Spring 2010