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​SHORT BIO:
Dr. Newaz received his B.Sc. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from East West University (EWU), Dhaka Bangladesh. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2010 and 2013, respectively. While pursuing Ph.D. at KAIST, he worked as a visiting research at Telecom SudParis (TSP), France. After completion of his Ph.D., he served as a postdoctoral researcher at KAIST from Aug. 2013 to July. 2016, Currently, Dr. Newaz is working as a Lecturer under the School of Computing and Informatics (SCI) at Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB), Brunei Darussalam. He is also holding an adjunct professor position at KAIST, South Korea.   ​
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Dr. Newaz has written and co-authored in more than 60 prestigious international journals, conferences and book chapter such as IEEE Internet Computing, Elsevier Computer Network, IEEE Communication Letter, Elsevier Applied Energy, Elsevier Optical Fiber Technology (OFT), IEEE Access, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE WCNC, and IEEE VTC. He also served as a reviewer of Springer Wireless Network journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Access, IEEE Communication letter,  Elsevier Renewable Energy, Int. J. of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, IEEE VTC and ICACT. His research interests include energy-efficient passive optical networks, IoTs, network function virtualization, software defined network, mobility and energy efficiency issue in wireless network, local cloud/fog computing, smart grid and content delivery network, all with specific focus, mainly on protocol design and performance aspects. Dr. Newaz is an ACS and an IEEE Senior Member.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), S. Korea, Feb. 2010 ~ Aug. 2013.
MSc, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), S. Korea, Feb. 2008 ~ Jan. 2010.
BSc, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 2004 ~ Dec. 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
  • Lecturer, School of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB), Brunei Darussalam, July. 24, 2016 ~ present.
  • Adjunct professor, KAIST, S. Korea, Dec. 1, 2017 ~ Present.
  • Postdoc researcher, Media Network Lab (MNLab), KAIST, S. Korea, Aug. 19, 2013 ~ July. 22, 2016.
  • Research engineer, Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis (TSP), France, Mar. 01, 2011 ~ Jan. 31, 2013.
  • Researcher assistant. Broadband Network Lab (BNLab), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Feb. 2008~ Aug. 16, 2013
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Local Cloud/Fog Computing/Mobile Cloud Computing:
- Resource management/allocation among Fog nodes.
- QoS aware data flow management among Fog nodes, clouds and clients.
- Trusted edge computing.

Internet of Things (IoTs):
- IoT-based solutions for peat swamp forest monitoring,
- IoT-based smart monitoring and control,  
- Protocol development resource constrained IoTs
- performance analysis for the communication interfaces of IoTs.
- Remote monitoring and control 

Wireless networks:
- Network slicing in 5G (resource virtualization and management)
- Multihoming management for QoS improvement in heterogeneous wireless networks
- Energy efficiency improvement protocol development (e.g. base station sleep)
- Handover management in homogeneous and heterogeneous wireless networks
- Mobility of Internet Protocol (IP) in wireless networks.

Content delivery network (CDN):
- CDN architecture based on NFV/SDN
- Home-CDN technology (Peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming, integration with Cloud and Edge)

​Smart grid:
- Energy demand forecast and demand response management.
- Household/office appliance load scheduling.
- Design issue in Smart grid communication network.
- Energy trading, 

Optical access networks:
- Machine learning and data analytics for optical and wireless networks
- Future optical and wireless integrated network designing and operation
- Quantifying energy-efficiency of networks.
- Sleep mode mechanism for network devices for maximizing energy saving.
- Traffic performance evaluation of energy-efficient optical access networks.
​PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Memberships:  IEEE , GreenTouch, ACM, VTS member.

Editorial Role:
Technical Paper Reviewer:
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • Elsevier Applied Energy
  • Elsevier Renewable Energy
  • Springer Wireless Network
  • EEE Communication letter,
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • Elsevier Optik
  • MDPI buildings
  • MDPI Energies
  • MDPI Sensors
  • MDPI information
  • ICT Express
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
  • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing

  TPC member: 
  • IEEE 20th International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT) 2020, Oct. 28-31, 2020, Nanning, China.  
  • 7th Brunei International Conference on Engineering and Technology (BICET) 2018, Nov. 12-14, 2018, Brunei Darussalam.
  • The 10 International Conference of ubiquitous and Future Networks, July 3-6, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications, Network, and Satellite (IEEE COMNETSAT), Nov. 15- 17, 2018, Madan, Indonesia.
  • ICCCEEE18, Aug. 12-14, 2018, Khartoum, Sudan.
  • International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), Jan. 13-17, 2017, Da Nang, Vietnam.
  • International advisory committee member: Brunei International Conference on Engineering and Technology (BICET), Nov. 14-16, 2016, Brunei Darussalam.
  • IEEE International Broadband and Photonics (IBP) Conference, April 23-25, 2015, Bali, Indonesia.
  • IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT), Jan. 27-30, 2013, Seoul, S. Korea.

 Session Chair at International Conferences:
  • 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Information Systems (CIIS-2018), (Brunei, 16-18 Nov. 2018)
  • IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (IEEE ICACT) (Seoul, South Korea; Feb., 2017)
  • 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Information Systems (CIIS-2016), (Brunei, 18-20 Nov. 2016)
  • IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking (IEEE WCNC) (LA, USA; March, 2015)


Workshop/Conference/Competition Organization:
  • Working program Committee member, 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Information Systems (CIIS-2020), Oct. 19-21, 2020, Brunei Darussalam.
  • Working committee member of Brunei Coding Conquest, Dec. 06 - 08, 2019, Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB), Brunei Darussalam.
  • Working committee member of ASEAN data science competition, Sept. 16, 2019, UTB, Brunei Darussalam.
  • Working program Committee member, 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Information Systems (CIIS), Nov. 16-18, 2018, Brunei Darussalam.
  • Steering committee member, UTB Postgraduate Colloquium, May 2 - 4, 2019, Brunei Darussalam.
  • Steering committee member, UTB Postgraduate Colloquium, March 31, 2018, Brunei Darussalam.
  • Theme Coordinator, UTB Postgraduate Colloquium, March 31, 2018, Brunei Darussalam.
  • Judging Committee, UTB Postgraduate Colloquium, March 31, 2018, Brunei Darussalam.
  • Special session chair, Special Session on Energy Informatics for Green and Smart Cities at the 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Information Systems (CIIS 2018), Nov. 6-18, 2018, Brunei Darussalam.
  • Special session chair, Special session on Green and Smart Cities at the 11th Multi-disciplinary International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI), Nov. 20-22, 2017, Brunei Darussalam.
  • Organizing committee member: ILLUMINE workshop Nov. 19 - 20, 2015, Seoul, S. Korea.


Invited Talks:
- GreenTouch Consortiums: Biannual meeting (Shanghai, China; May 2013).
- GreenTouch Consortiums: Biannual meeting (Milan, Italy; May 2014).
- A3 Foresight Program: Annual-workshop on Next Generation Network and Network Security (Busan, S. Korea; Feb., 2015).
- A3 Foresight Program: Annual-workshop on Next Generation Network and Network Security (Beijing, China; July, 2015).
- ILLUMINE workshop (Korean-French Joint Lab): Workshop on IoT based future media and services (Bundang, S. Korea; Nov, 2015).

STANDARDIZATION:
Contributed at ITU-T for standardization for couple of years. In the ITU-T Recommendation Y.3022, I contributed showing how energy consumption of an Optical Network Unit can be quantified when it uses different power modes. Additionally, I submitted and presented few proposals regarding energy-efficiency capability class of networks elements at ITU-T Study Group 13, Question 16 (Rapporteur of this group Dr. Gyu Myoung Lee[1]).
  • Several contributions to ITU-T Recommendation Y.3022 (Energy Measurement of Networks) approved in Aug. 2014.
  • ITU-T SG13 Q16 (Interim meeting in TTA, S. Korea), Q16-13-Sep4-C17, Proposal on energy consumption metric for PON system in skeleton of Y.EnergyECN, Sept. 2013.
  • ITU-T SG13 Q16 (Interim meeting in TTA, S. Korea), Q16-13-Sep4-C17, Proposal on energy consumption metric for PON system in Section 6 & 7 of Y.EnergyECN, Sept. 2013.
  • ITU-T SG13 Q16 (Interim meeting in TTA, S. Korea), Q16-13-Sep4-C17, Proposal on energy consumption metric for PON system in Section 8 of Y.EnergyECN, Sept. 2013.
  • ITU-T SG13 Q16 (Interim meeting in TTA, S. Korea), Q16-13-Sep4-C17, Proposal on energy consumption metric for PON system in Section 9 of Y.EnergyECN, Sept. 2013.

[1] https://www.itu.int/net4/ITU-T/lists/loqr.aspx?Group=13&Period=16
​INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION
  • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), S. Korea.
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), S. Korea.
  • Duksung Women’s University, S. Korea.
  • Gachon University, S. Korea.
  • Deakin University, Australia.
  • Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
  • Telecom SudParis, France.
  • Khulna University, Bangladesh.
  • East West University, Bangladesh.​
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​MEMBERSHIP HISTORY
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011- present.
         Grade: IEEE Senior Member
  • Australian Computer Society (ACS) Associate member, Apr. 2020 - 2022
  • IEEE Young Professionals, Jan. 2014 –Dec. 2014; Jan. 2018 - present
  • IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications, Mar. 2015 - present
  • IEEE Communications Society Membership, Mar. 2015 - Dec. 2015 
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), July 2011 - June 2012.
  • GreenTouch consortium, 2013 - 2014.