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Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
LUMS School of Science and Engineering

Office 421, LUMS,
Opposite Sector U, DHA, Lahore,
Pakistan. 54792
umar@mit.edu
umar@lums.edu.pk

Publications


  • Viral Entertainment as a Vehicle for Disseminating Speech-Based Services to Low-Literate Users [ PDF ]

    Raza, A., A., Christina, C., Guy, A., Sherwani, J., Pervaiz, M., Razaq, S., Saif, U., Rosenfeld, R. In Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2012), March 12-15, 2012.

  • BitTorrent for the Less Privileged [ PDF ]

    Khan, W., U., Saif, U. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-X), November 14-15, 2011.

  • A Dynamic Platform for Runtime Adaptation

    Pham, H., Paluska, J.M., Saif, U., Stawarz, C., Terman, C., Ward, S., In Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), Vol. 5, No. 6, 2009. (extended version of PerCom'09 paper)

  • Collaborative Technologies in International Distance Education [ PDF ]

    Anderson, R., Anderson, R., Linnell, N., Pervaiz, M., Saif, U., Videon, F., In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work in Design (CSCWD), April 22-24, 2009.

  • A Dynamic Platform for Runtime Adaptation [ PDF ]

    Pham, H., Paluska, J.M., Saif, U., Stawarz, C., Terman, C., Ward, S., In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom), March 9-12, 2009.

  • Structured Decomposition of Adaptive Applications

    Paluska, J.M., Pham, H., Saif, U., Chau., G., Terman, C., Ward, S., In Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), Vol. 4, No. 6, 2008.

  • A Peer-to-peer Internet for the Developing World (Best papers from IEEE/ACM ICTD'07)

    Saif, U., Latif, A., Butt, S. F., and Butt, N. F., Murtaza, G. In Journal of Information Technology and International Development (ITID), Vol. 4, No. 2, 2008 , MIT Press

  • Structured Decomposition of Adaptive Applications [ PDF ] (Mark Weiser Best Paper Award)

    Paluska, J.M., Pham, H., Saif, U., Chau., G., Terman, C., Ward, S., In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom), March 17-21, 2008.

  • Internet for the Developing World: Offline Internet Access at Modem-speed Dialup Connections [ PDF ]

    Saif, U., Latif, A., Butt, S. F., and Butt, N. F., Murtaza, G. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), December 2007.

  • Poor Man's Broadband: Peer-to-Peer Dialup Networking [ PDF ]

    Saif, U., Latif, A., Butt, S. F., and Butt, N. F., In ACM SIGCOMM CCR Journal, vol. 37, no. 5, October 2007. (ACM Press)

  • Opportunistic File Association for Mobile Operating Systems [ PDF ]

    Saif, U., In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing and System Architectures (HotMobile'06), April, 2006.

  • Medium Access Control Issues in Sensor Networks [ PDF ]

    Ali, M., Saif, U., Dunkels, A., Voigt, T., Römer, K., Langendoen, K., Polastre, J., and Zartash, U., In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 33–-36, April 2006.

  • Reducing Configuration Overhead by Using Goal-oriented Programming [ PDF ]

    Paluska, J.M., Pham, H., Saif, U., Terman, C., Ward, S., In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom), March 13-17, 2006.

  • Gigabit Routing on a Software-exposed Tiled- microprocessor [ PDF ]

    Saif, U., James, W., Anderson, Degangi, A., Agarwal, A., In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Annual International Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS), October 2005.

  • Practical Experience with Adaptive Service Access [ PDF ]

    Saif, U., Paluska, JM., and Chauhan, V., In ACM Mobile Computing and Communication Review Journal (MC2R), vol. 9, ISSN 1559-1662. pp 27-40, January 2005.

  • A Case for Goal-oriented Programming Semantics [ PDF ]

    Saif, U., Pham, H., Paluska, J.M., Waterman, J., Terman, C., and Ward, S., In System Support for Ubiquitous Computing (UbiSys), at the Fifth Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2003.

  • Service-oriented Network Sockets [ PDF ]

    Saif, U., and Paluska, J.M., In USENIX Annual Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2003.

  • Internet Access to A Home Area Network [ PDF ]

    Saif, U., Gordon, D., and Greaves, D.J., In IEEE Internet Computing, 54-63, January-February 2001.

  • Communication Primitives for Ubiquitous Systems or RPC Considered Harmful [ PDF ]

    Saif, U., and Greaves, D.J., In Proceedings of ICDCS International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing, 2001.

About Me

At MIT, I am part of the O2S group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Previously, I spent almost four years as part of the Oxygen core team and used to manage the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) collaboration on Pervasive Computing.
I am currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at LUMS where I lead the Dritte initiative. 

In the last few years, I helped found a number of startups: