Dr Ahmed M. A. Sayed
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Director of MSc Data Science Programme
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Federated Learning, Computer Networks, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Performance Evaluation & Optimisation
Interests
I lead SAYED Systems Group (https://sayed-sys-lab.github.io) in which we build Scalable, AdvancedYet Efficient Distributed Systems of the Future. Our research spans inter-related disciplines of computer
science and engineering with a focus on system design and optimization for machine learning systems
(training and inference efficiency, distributed ML, federated learning), distributed systems (architecture
design, performance analysis, resource allocation, algorithmic optimization), computer networks (traffic
engineering, congestion control, performance optimization, software-defined networking), and wireless
networks (routing in mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks). We work closely with the Networks
research group (https://networks.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/) at QMUL and various research groups in the UK
and worldwide. Our main research project is KUber (http://kuber.org.uk/) funded by UKRI-EPSRC.
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Networks, Communications and Systems2024
Abdelmoniem AM and Zhao Y (2024). Knowledge Routing in Decentralized Learning. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. PP (99), 1-8. 28-11-2024
Abdelmoniem AM, Jaber M, Anwar A, Zhang Y and Gao M (2024). Towards a Decentralized Collaborative Framework for Scalable Edge AI. Future Internet, MDPI vol. 16 (11) 14-11-2024
Chen Q, Li H, You L, Qu H, Abdelmoniem AM and Yuen C (2024). AFML: An Asynchronous Federated Meta-Learning Mechanism for Charging Station Occupancy Prediction with Biased and Isolated Data. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. PP (99), 1-16. 22-10-2024
Huang C, Zhang T, Wang L, Xiao Y, Yang C, Tian C, Wang X, Zhang D, Yan B, Abdelmoniem AM, Dou W and Chen G (2024). MpScope: Enabling multi-pipeline monitoring inside a switch. Computer Networks, Elsevier vol. 254, 110764-110764. 03-09-2024
Bhattacharjee S, Choudhury T and Abdelmoniem AM (2024). Data privacy and integrity in complex data. Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things for Industrial Automation 163-190. 15-08-2024
Abdelmoniem AM, Abdelmoniem YM and Bensaou B (2024). Design and Analysis of an Incast Mitigation System. 2024 International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt). 25-07-2024
Lynch S, Abdelmoniem AM and Gill SS (2024). Centralised and Decentralised Fraud Detection Approaches in Federated Learning. Applications of AI for Interdisciplinary Research 205-217. 22-07-2024
Lai HK, Abdelmoniem AM and Gill SS (2024). Federated Learning for the Predicting Household Financial Expenditure. Applications of AI for Interdisciplinary Research 141-156. 22-07-2024
Pardeshi K, Gill SS and Abdelmoniem AM (2024). Stock Market Price Prediction: A Hybrid LSTM and Sequential Self-Attention-based Approach. Applications of AI for Interdisciplinary Research 122-140. 22-07-2024
Song P, Lee J, Abdelmoniem AM and Mukhanov L (2024). Do 5G Networks Achieve The Proclaimed Promises? An Empirical Study Using YouTube Edge Service. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE). 13-07-2024
Esquivel JA, Aldous B, Abdelmoniem AM, Alhilal A and You L (2024). Performance Profiling of Federated Learning Across Heterogeneous Mobile Devices. 2024 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C). 05-07-2024
Wang J, Guo X, Li Q, Abdelmoniem AM and Gao M (2024). SDANet: scale-deformation awareness network for crowd counting. Journal of Electronic Imaging, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics vol. 33 (4), 043002-043002. 01-07-2024
Zaeri K and Abdelmoniem AM (2024). EMPRN: Reinforcement Learning-based ECN Tuning Using Message Passing Graph Recurrent Networks for Datacenters. ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. 13-06-2024
Song W, Zeng X, Abdelmoniem AM, Zhang H and Gao M (2024). Cross-Modality Interaction Network for Medical Image Fusion. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. PP (99), 1-1. 11-06-2024
Agarwal V, Raman A, Sastry N, Abdelmoniem AM, Tyson G and Castro I (2024). Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-Based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) vol. 18, 2-14. 28-05-2024
Arouj A, Abdelmoniem AM, Alhilal A, You L and Wang C (2024). Resource-Aware Split Federated Learning for Edge Intelligence. 2024 IEEE 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning on Edge in Sensor Systems (SenSys-ML). 16-05-2024
Chen G, Li K, Abdelmoniem AM and You L (2024). Exploring Representational Similarity Analysis to Protect Federated Learning from Data Poisoning. Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024. 13-05-2024
Mohamed Abdelmoniem Sayed A (2024). Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-Based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 08-05-2024
Zhang Y, Huang H, Abdelmoniem AM, Zeng G, Zheng C, Que X, Wang W and Xu K (2024). FLAIR: A Fast and Low-Redundancy Failure Recovery Framework for Inter Data Center Network. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 12 (2), 737-749. 02-05-2024
Arouj A and Abdelmoniem AM (2024). Towards Energy-Aware Federated Learning via Collaborative Computing Approach. Computer Communications, Elsevier vol. 221, 131-141. 01-05-2024
Khan AF, Khan AA, Abdelmoniem AM, Fountain S, Butt AR and Anwar A (2024). FLOAT: Federated Learning Optimizations with Automated Tuning. Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. 22-04-2024
Aldous B and Abdelmoniem AM (2024). Comparative Profiling. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems. 22-04-2024
Abu AJ, Bensaou B and Abdelmoniem AM (2024). Dimensioning the pending interest table in content-centric networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier vol. 152, 179-192. 01-03-2024
Alrubayyi H, Alshareef MS, Nadeem Z, Abdelmoniem AM and Jaber M (2024). Security Threats and Promising Solutions Arising from the Intersection of AI and IoT: A Study of IoMT and IoET Applications. Future Internet, MDPI vol. 16 (3) 29-02-2024
Bhattacharjee S, Sharma H, Choudhury T and Abdelmoniem AM (2024). Publisher Correction to: Leveraging chaos for enhancing encryption and compression in large cloud data transfers. The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer Nature vol. 80 (9), 13493-13494. 19-02-2024
Bhattacharjee S, Sharma H, Choudhury T and Abdelmoniem AM (2024). Leveraging chaos for enhancing encryption and compression in large cloud data transfers. The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer Nature vol. 80 (9), 11923-11957. 04-02-2024
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B (2024). Alleviating Congestion via Switch Design for Fair Buffer Allocation in Datacenters. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 12 (1), 219-231. 23-01-2024
Lynch S, Abdelmoniem AM and Gill SS (2024). Centralised and Decentralised Fraud Detection Approaches in Federated Learning: A Performance Analysis. Applications of AI for Interdisciplinary Research 205-217. 01-01-2024
Chen J, Gao Y, Liu G, Abdelmoniem AM and Wang C (2024). Manipulating Pre-Trained Encoder for Targeted Poisoning Attacks in Contrastive Learning. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 19, 2412-2424. 01-01-2024
2023
Khan N, bin Salleh R, Khan Z, Koubaa A, Hamdan M and Abdelmoniem AM (2023). Ensuring reliable network operations and maintenance: The role of PMRF for switch maintenance and upgrades in SDN. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, Elsevier vol. 35 (10) 01-12-2023
Zhang T, Zhou H, Huang C, Tian C, Zhang W, Wang X, Wang Y, Abdelmoniem AM, Tan M, Dou W and Chen G (2023). Achieving Zero-copy Serialization for Datacenter RPC. 2023 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC). 17-11-2023
Alshareef MS, Jaber M and Abdelmoniem AM (2023). A Differential Privacy Approach for Privacy-Preserving Multi-Modal Stress Detection. 2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD). 08-11-2023
Zahri S, Bennouri H, Chehri A and Abdelmoniem AM (2023). Federated Learning for IoT Networks: Enhancing Efficiency and Privacy. 2023 IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT). 27-10-2023
Gadgil K, Gill SS and Abdelmoniem AM (2023). A meta-learning based stacked regression approach for customer lifetime value prediction. Journal of Economy and Technology, Elsevier vol. 1, 197-207. 22-09-2023
Abdelmoniem AM, Abdelmoniem YM and Elzanaty A (2023). A2FL: Availability-Aware Selection for Machine Learning on Clients with Federated Big Data. ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. 01-06-2023
Abdelmoniem AM, Sahu AN, Canini M and Fahmy SA (2023). REFL: Resource-Efficient Federated Learning. Proceedings of the Eighteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. 08-05-2023
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B (2023). Enhancing TCP via Hysteresis Switching: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evaluation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 31 (6), 2614-2623. 07-04-2023
Bragion E, Akter H, Kumar M, Xu M, Abdelmoniem AM and Gill SS (2023). Fortaleza: The emergence of a network hub. Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems vol. 3, 272-279. 18-01-2023
Abdelmoniem AM, Ho C-Y, Papageorgiou P and Canini M (2023). A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Heterogeneity in Federated Learning. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 10 (16), 14071-14083. 15-01-2023
Tian Z, Wang Z, Abdelmoniem AM, Liu G and Wang C (2023). Knowledge Representation of Training Data With Adversarial Examples Supporting Decision Boundary. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 18, 4116-4127. 01-01-2023
Hota M, Abdelmoniem AM, Xu M and Gill SS (2023). Leveraging Cloud-Native Microservices Architecture for High Performance Real-Time Intra-Day Trading: A Tutorial. 6G Enabled Fog Computing in IoT 111-129. 01-01-2023
Tewatia S, Patel AA, Abdelmoniem AM, Xu M, Kaur K, Kumar M, Chowdhury D, Kumar A, Singh M and Gill SS (2023). GPU Based AI for Modern E-Commerce Applications: Performance Evaluation, Analysis and Future Directions. 6G Enabled Fog Computing in IoT 63-89. 01-01-2023
2022
Iftikhar S, Gill SS, Song C, Xu M, Aslanpour MS, Toosi AN, Du J, Wu H, Ghosh S, Chowdhury D, Golec M, Kumar M, Abdelmoniem AM, Cuadrado F, Varghese B, Rana O, Dustdar S and Uhlig S (2022). AI-based fog and edge computing: A systematic review, taxonomy and future directions. Internet of Things, Elsevier BV vol. 21, 100674-100674. 20-12-2022
Arouj A and Abdelmoniem AM (2022). Towards energy-aware federated learning on battery-powered clients. Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Data Privacy and Federated Learning Technologies for Mobile Edge Network. 17-10-2022
Abdulah S, Atwa W and Abdelmoniem AM (2022). Active clustering data streams with affinity propagation. ICT Express, Elsevier vol. 8 (2), 276-282. 01-06-2022
Abdelmoniem AM, Ho C-Y, Papageorgiou P and Canini M (2022). Empirical analysis of federated learning in heterogeneous environments. Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems. 05-04-2022
2021
Xu H, Ho C-Y, Abdelmoniem AM, Dutta A, Bergou EH, Karatsenidis K, Canini M and Kalnis P (2021). GRACE: A Compressed Communication Framework for Distributed Machine Learning. 2021 IEEE 41st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). 10-07-2021
Chiu KHT, Wang JM, Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B (2021). A Two-tiered Caching Scheme for Information-Centric Networks. 2021 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR). 10-06-2021
Abdelmoniem AM and Canini M (2021). DC2: Delay-aware Compression Control for Distributed Machine Learning. IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. 13-05-2021
Abdelmoniem AM and Canini M (2021). Towards Mitigating Device Heterogeneity in Federated Learning via Adaptive Model Quantization. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems. 26-04-2021
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B (2021). T-RACKs: A Faster Recovery Mechanism for TCP in Data Center Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) vol. 29 (3), 1074-1087. 08-03-2021
Sahu AN, Banerjee T, Dutta A, Canini M, Abdelmoniem AM and Kalnis P (2021). Rethinking gradient sparsification as total error minimization. 01-01-2021
2020
Gajjala RR, Banchhor S, Abdelmoniem AM, Dutta A, Canini M and Kalnis P (2020). Huffman Coding Based Encoding Techniques for Fast Distributed Deep Learning. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning. 01-12-2020
Abdelmoniem AM, Susanto H and Bensaou B (2020). Reducing Latency in Multi-Tenant Data Centers via Cautious Congestion Watch. 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing - ICPP. 17-08-2020
Dutta A, Bergou EH, Abdelmoniem AM, Ho C-Y, Sahu AN, Canini M and Kalnis P (2020). On the Discrepancy between the Theoretical Analysis and Practical Implementations of Compressed Communication for Distributed Deep Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) vol. 34 (04), 3817-3824. 03-04-2020
2019
Susanto H, Abdelmoniem AM, Zhang H, Liu B and Towsley D (2019). A Near Optimal Multi-Faced Job Scheduler for Datacenter Workloads. 2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). 07-07-2019
Abdelmoniem AM, Bensaou B and Susanto H (2019). Taming Latency in Data centers via Active Congestion-Probing. 2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). 07-07-2019
Susanto H, Abdelmoniem AM, Jin H and Bensaou B (2019). Creek: Inter Many-to-Many Coflows Scheduling for Datacenter Networks. ICC 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 24-05-2019
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B (2019). Hysteresis-based Active Queue Management for TCP Traffic in Data Centers. IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. 02-05-2019
Dong J, Yin H, Tian C, Abdelmoniem AM, Zhou H, Bai B and Zhang G (2019). Uranus: Congestion-proportionality among slices based on Weighted Virtual Congestion Control. Computer Networks, Elsevier vol. 152, 154-166. 01-04-2019
Abdelmoniem AM, Abdelmoniem YM and Bensaou B (2019). On Network Systems Design: Pushing the Performance Envelope via FPGA Prototyping. 2019 International Conference on Innovative Trends in Computer Engineering (ITCE). 21-02-2019
2018
Abdelmoniem AM, Bensaou B and Barsourrr V (2018). IncastGuard: An Efficient TCP- Incast Mitigation Mechanism for Cloud Networks. 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 09-12-2018
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B (2018). Curbing Timeouts for TCP-Incast in Data Centers via A Cross-Layer Faster Recovery Mechanism. IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. 16-04-2018
2017
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B (2017). Enforcing Transport-Agnostic Congestion Control in SDN-based Data Centers. 2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). 01-10-2017
Abdelmoniem AM, Bensaou B and Abu AJ (2017). Mitigating incast-TCP congestion in data centers with SDN. Annals of Telecommunications, Springer Nature vol. 73 (3-4), 263-277. 30-08-2017
Abdelmoniem AM, Bensaou B and Abu AJ (2017). SICC: SDN-based Incast Congestion Control for Data Centers. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 01-05-2017
Sabvasachi AS, Kabir HMD, Abdelmoniem AM and Mondal SK (2017). A Resilient Auction Framework for Deadline-Aware Jobs in Cloud Spot Market (Poster Abstract). 2017 IEEE 36th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS). 01-01-2017
2016
Abu AJ, Bensaou B and Abdelmoniem AM (2016). Inferring and Controlling Congestion in CCN via the Pending Interest Table Occupancy. 2016 IEEE 41st Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). 22-12-2016
Abu AJ, Bensaou B and Abdelmoniem AM (2016). A Markov Model of CCN Pending Interest Table Occupancy with Interest Timeout and Retries. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 01-05-2016
Abdelmoniem AM, Bensaou B and Abu AJ (2016). HyGenICC: Hypervisor-Based Generic IP Congestion Control for Virtualized Data Centers. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 01-05-2016
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B (2016). Incast-Aware Switch-Assisted TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers. 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 25-02-2016
2015
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B (2015). Reconciling Mice and Elephants in Data Center Networks. 2015 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet). 01-10-2015
2014
Abdelmoniem AM and Bensaou B (2014). Incast-Aware Switch-Assisted TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers. 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 01-12-2014
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Networks, Communications and SystemsKUber: Knowledge Delivery System for Machine Learning at ScaleAhmed M. A. Sayed
£522,781 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-04-2024 - 31-03-2027)
Moderation in Decentralised Social NetworksIgnacio De Castro Arribas, Gareth Tyson and Ahmed M. A. Sayed
£65,058 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-05-2022 - 30-06-2023)