Key Team Members
DAIS-ITA Project
Prof. Kin K. Leung
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Kin K. Leung received his PhD degree from University of California at Los Angeles. He joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1986 and worked at its successor companies, AT&T Labs and Bell Labs of Lucent Technologies, until 2004. Since then, he has been the Tanaka Chair Professor at Imperial College London. His research interests include network resource allocation, protocol and control algorithms, mobility management, network architecture, real-time applications and teletraffic issues for wireless IP networks, sensor and ad-hoc networks. He is also interested in a wide variety of wireless technologies, including IEEE 802.11 and future generation cellular networks. In terms of mathematical tools, he is interested stochastic modeling, distributed optimization and machine learning.
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Tiffany Tuor
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Tiffany Tuor obtained a Bachelor (BSc) degree in Communication Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) in 2014 and a Master of Science (MSc) in Communication and Signal Processing from Imperial College London in September 2016. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) at Imperial College. Her research interests cover various aspects of future communication networks, mobile cloud computing, distributed machine learning, distributed optimisation algorithms. Her work is in close collaboration with Shiqiang Wang working of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center . During summer of 2017, she interned at the Distributed Artifical Intelligence group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yortown Heights, NY. Her research is funded by DAIS-ITA project.
Further details can be found on her personal webapage.
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Faheem Zafari
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Faheem Zafari is currently a second year Ph.D. Candidate in Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) at Imperial College working under the supervision of Professor Kin K. Leung. At Imperial,
his research is funded by EEE Department, the EPSRC (UK. equivalent of NSF) Center for Doctoral Training in High Performance Embedded and Distributed Systems (HiPEDS), and DAIS-ITA Project. His primary research interests include optimization theory, game theory, and mobile networks. He is also mentored by Dr. Athanasios (Thanos) Gkelias. As part of DAIS-ITA project, he works in close collaboration with Dr. Jian Li, Professor Don Towsley of University of Massachussetts Amherst and Ananthram Swami, Paul Yu of Army Research Lab, USA.
Prior to joining Imperial College, he obtained his Master's in Computer and Information Technology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Further details can be found on his personal webapage.
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Ziyao (Spike) Zhang
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Ziyao Zhang is currently a PhD student with the Communication and Signal Processing Group in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Imperial College.
He started the PhD program under the supervision of Prof. Kin K. Leung in December 2016. Since then, he has been mainly working in collobration with Dr. Liang Ma (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
on the International Technology Alliance in Distributed Analytics and Information Sciences (DAIS-ITA) project. His research interests include performance analysis of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm, trade-offs among different resources in networks, optimization algorithms, and structures of complex networks.
He obtained the Master of Science (MSc) degree in Communication and Signal Processing from Imperial College, also under the supervision of Prof. Kin K. Leung, in September 2016. His MSc degree thesis was on caching algorithms in Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
Ziyao completed his Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree in Electronic and Information Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU). His final year project for BEng degree focused on network throughput analysis in 5G mmWave system.
During his undergraduate program, he studied at the University of Strathclyde for one year between 2013 and 2014 as a visiting student.Further details can be found on his personal webapage.
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