-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 1
/
Copy pathindex.html
657 lines (621 loc) · 45.4 KB
/
index.html
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332
333
334
335
336
337
338
339
340
341
342
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
371
372
373
374
375
376
377
378
379
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
395
396
397
398
399
400
401
402
403
404
405
406
407
408
409
410
411
412
413
414
415
416
417
418
419
420
421
422
423
424
425
426
427
428
429
430
431
432
433
434
435
436
437
438
439
440
441
442
443
444
445
446
447
448
449
450
451
452
453
454
455
456
457
458
459
460
461
462
463
464
465
466
467
468
469
470
471
472
473
474
475
476
477
478
479
480
481
482
483
484
485
486
487
488
489
490
491
492
493
494
495
496
497
498
499
500
501
502
503
504
505
506
507
508
509
510
511
512
513
514
515
516
517
518
519
520
521
522
523
524
525
526
527
528
529
530
531
532
533
534
535
536
537
538
539
540
541
542
543
544
545
546
547
548
549
550
551
552
553
554
555
556
557
558
559
560
561
562
563
564
565
566
567
568
569
570
571
572
573
574
575
576
577
578
579
580
581
582
583
584
585
586
587
588
589
590
591
592
593
594
595
596
597
598
599
600
601
602
603
604
605
606
607
608
609
610
611
612
613
614
615
616
617
618
619
620
621
622
623
624
625
626
627
628
629
630
631
632
633
634
635
636
637
638
639
640
641
642
643
644
645
646
647
648
649
650
651
652
653
654
655
656
657
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="yz-Qx--2-ik62F-9CF4RCvB5OcuLR6m4sM-43ywAjvQ" />
<style>
/* Set the size of the div element that contains the map */
#map {
height: 400px; /* The height is 400 pixels */
width: 100%; /* The width is the width of the web page */
}
</style>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1">
<title>ComNets NYUAD</title>
<!-- Loading third party fonts -->
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto+Slab:400,700|" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="fonts/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<!-- Loading main css file -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="js/ie-support/html5.js"></script>
<script src="js/ie-support/respond.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div id="site-content">
<div class="container">
<header class="site-header">
<a href="https://yasirzaki.net" id="branding" class="pull-left">
<img src="images/logo.webp" alt="" class="logo">
<div class="logo-text">
<h1 class="site-title">ComNets</h1>
<Large class="site-description">Communication Networks Lab</Large>
</div>
</a>
<!-- Default snippet for navigation -->
<div class="main-navigation">
<button type="button" class="menu-toggle"><i class="fa fa-bars"></i></button>
<ul class="menu">
<li class="menu-item current-menu-item"><a href="https://yasirzaki.net">Home</a></li>
<li class="menu-item"><a href="mediacoverage.html">Media coverage</a></li>
<li class="menu-item"><a href="people.html">People</a></li>
<li class="menu-item"><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li>
<!-- <li class="menu-item"><a href="gallery.html">Gallery</a></li> -->
<!-- <li class="menu-item"><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> -->
</ul> <!-- .menu -->
</div> <!-- .main-navigation -->
<div class="mobile-navigation"></div>
</header> <!-- .site-header -->
<div class="home-slider">
<ul class="slides">
<li data-bg-image="images/nouar1.jpeg">
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/ayushCameroon.jpg">
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/Daniel1.jpeg">
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/hi1.jpg">
<!-- <div class="slide-content">
<h2 class="slide-title" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">4G Measurements</h2>
<p style="color:white; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Collecting 4G channel traces under different mobility scenarios.</p>
<a href="#" class="button">Read more</a>
</div> -->
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/cn7.webp">
<!-- <div class="slide-content">
<h2 class="slide-title" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">4G Measurements</h2>
<p style="color:white; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Collecting 4G channel traces under different mobility scenarios.</p>
<a href="#" class="button">Read more</a>
</div> -->
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/groupPhoto.jpg">
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/cn9.webp">
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/cn11.webp">
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/cn4.webp">
<!-- <div class="slide-content">
<h2 class="slide-title" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">4G Measurements</h2>
<p style="color:white; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Collecting 4G channel traces under different mobility scenarios.</p>
<a href="#" class="button">Read more</a>
</div> -->
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/cn2.webp">
<!-- <div class="slide-content">
<h2 class="slide-title" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">4G Measurements</h2>
<p style="color:white; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Collecting 4G channel traces under different mobility scenarios.</p>
<a href="#" class="button">Read more</a>
</div> -->
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/gilgit1.jpg">
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/cn6.webp">
<!-- <div class="slide-content">
<h2 class="slide-title" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">ACM SigCom 2015</h2>
<p style="color:white; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation.</p>
<a href="#" class="button">Read more</a>
</div> -->
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/hi2.jpg">
<!-- <div class="slide-content">
<h2 class="slide-title" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">4G Measurements</h2>
<p style="color:white; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Collecting 4G channel traces under different mobility scenarios.</p>
<a href="#" class="button">Read more</a>
</div> -->
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/cn10.webp">
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/Daniel2.jpeg">
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/cn1.webp">
<!-- <div class="slide-content">
<h2 class="slide-title" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">4G Measurements</h2>
<p style="color:white; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Collecting 4G channel traces under different mobility scenarios.</p>
<a href="#" class="button">Read more</a>
</div> -->
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/nouar2.jpeg">
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/cn3.webp">
<!-- <div class="slide-content">
<h2 class="slide-title" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); line-height: 1.2;">Verus Measurements</h2>
<p style="color:white; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation.</p>
<a href="#" class="button">Read more</a>
</div> -->
</li>
<li data-bg-image="images/cn8.webp">
<!-- <div class="slide-content">
<h2 class="slide-title" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">4G Measurements</h2>
<p style="color:white; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Collecting 4G channel traces under different mobility scenarios.</p>
<a href="#" class="button">Read more</a>
</div> -->
</li>
<!-- <li data-bg-image="images/cn6.jpg"> -->
<!-- <div class="slide-content">
<h2 class="slide-title" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">4G Measurements</h2>
<p style="color:white; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Collecting 4G channel traces under different mobility scenarios.</p>
<a href="#" class="button">Read more</a>
</div> -->
<!-- </li> -->
</ul>
</div>
<main class="main-content">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-2">
</div>
<div class="col-md-8">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/Nature_headline_article.webp">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Headline Article at Nature<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Featuring our Citation Manipulation Work</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle"><br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01672-7">The citation black market: schemes selling fake references alarm scientists</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> Our work on <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607">citation manipulation</a> has been recently covered by Nature. In this work, the research team went undercover and contacted a "citation boosting" service. The team managed to buy citations that appeared in a Scopus-indexed journal, providing conclusive evidence that citations can be bought in bulk!! </p>
</div>
</div>
<!-- <div class="col-md-12">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/IU35.png" height="400">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Innovators Under 35 MENA 2023</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">MIT Technology Review Arabia<br><a href="https://majarra.com/en/about/news/%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D8%A9-%22%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-35%22-%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85-2023?from=home_page">MIT Technology Review Arabia announces winners of Innovators Under 35 MENA 2023</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> <u><b>Hazem Ibrahim</b></u> a PhD students working at our lab was named as one of the 2023 MIT Technology Review's innovators under 35. Hazem is is working on building frameworks to analyze the impact of generative artificial intelligence on higher education. Hazem has pioneered the study of ChatGPT detectors in the context of university assessments, as well as methods to obfuscate text to avoid detection. Throughout this process, he collaborated with government officials and experts in education studies to help guide educational policies on AI plagiarism and its impact in the classroom. </p>
</div>
</div> -->
</div>
<div class="row">
<!-- <div class="col-md-4"> -->
<!-- </div> -->
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/hazemIC2S2.avif">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Awards @ IC2S2</h2>
<!-- <small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">MIT Technology Review Arabia<br><a href="https://majarra.com/en/about/news/%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D8%A9-%22%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-35%22-%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85-2023?from=home_page">MIT Technology Review Arabia announces winners of Innovators Under 35 MENA 2023</a></small> -->
<br>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> <u><b>Hazem Ibrahim</b></u> a PhD students working at our lab won two prestigous awards at the international conference for computational social science (IC2S2). He won the best poster award for our <a href="https://shorturl.at/mU5EF">"Big Tech Dominance Despite Global Mistrust"</a> paper, and the best parallel talk award for our <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-38964-3">"Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses"</a> paper.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-8">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/IU35.avif">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Innovators Under 35 MENA 2023</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">MIT Technology Review Arabia<br><a href="https://majarra.com/en/about/news/%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D8%A9-%22%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-35%22-%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85-2023?from=home_page">MIT Technology Review Arabia announces winners of Innovators Under 35 MENA 2023</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> <u><b>Hazem Ibrahim</b></u> a PhD students working at our lab was named as one of the 2023 MIT Technology Review's innovators under 35. Hazem is is working on building frameworks to analyze the impact of generative artificial intelligence on higher education. Hazem has pioneered the study of ChatGPT detectors in the context of university assessments, as well as methods to obfuscate text to avoid detection. Throughout this process, he collaborated with government officials and experts in education studies to help guide educational policies on AI plagiarism and its impact in the classroom. </p>
</div>
</div>
<!-- <div class="col-md-12">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/IU35.png" height="400">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Innovators Under 35 MENA 2023</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">MIT Technology Review Arabia<br><a href="https://majarra.com/en/about/news/%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D8%A9-%22%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-35%22-%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85-2023?from=home_page">MIT Technology Review Arabia announces winners of Innovators Under 35 MENA 2023</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> <u><b>Hazem Ibrahim</b></u> a PhD students working at our lab was named as one of the 2023 MIT Technology Review's innovators under 35. Hazem is is working on building frameworks to analyze the impact of generative artificial intelligence on higher education. Hazem has pioneered the study of ChatGPT detectors in the context of university assessments, as well as methods to obfuscate text to avoid detection. Throughout this process, he collaborated with government officials and experts in education studies to help guide educational policies on AI plagiarism and its impact in the classroom. </p>
</div>
</div> -->
</div>
<div class="row">
<!-- <div class="col-md-4"> -->
<!-- </div> -->
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/bigTech.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">BigTech Dominance despite Mistrust</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @TCSS 2024<br><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10379489">Big Tech Dominance Despite Global Mistrust</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> The dominance of "Big Tech" companies in global technological and online experiences raises concerns across governmental, economic, and ethical domains. Despite this, there's a lack of comprehensive studies on the impact of public scandals on these companies and global sentiment toward them. This study addresses this gap by analyzing Big Tech's power through acquisitions, market capitalization, and user numbers. It employs the synthetic control method to assess the effects of scandals on the stock prices of two major Big Tech firms, finding no lasting impact. Additionally, the study examines tweets mentioning these scandals, noting their quick disappearance from public attention. Surveying 5300 participants across 25 countries, the study reveals that individuals from countries with lower digital literacy and more authoritarian regimes tend to trust Big Tech more. It also uncovers concerns among respondents about data privacy, with many feeling a lack of control over their data and expressing worries about Big Tech's knowledge and potential surveillance. Moreover, a significant portion of participants feel addicted to Big Tech products and express a desire for more choice in the market. These findings underscore the negative effects of Big Tech's oligopolistic dominance on consumer choice and provide insights for policymakers seeking to address this issue. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/satellite-network.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Space: the Final Frontier</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @CoNext 2023<br><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3629137">Dissecting the Performance of Satellite Network Operators</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> The rapid growth of satellite network operators (SNOs) has revolutionized broadband communications, enabling global connectivity and bridging the digital divide. As these networks expand, it is important to evaluate their performance and efficiency. This paper presents the first comprehensive study of SNOs. We take an opportunistic approach and devise a methodology which allows to identify public network measurements performed via SNOs. We apply this methodology to both M-Lab and RIPE public datasets which allowed us to characterize low level performance and footprint of up to 18 SNOs operating in different orbits. Finally, we identify and recruit paid testers on three popular SNOs (Starlink, HughesNet, and ViaSat) to evaluate the performance of popular applications like web browsing and video streaming. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/tags.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Apple's AirTag vs. Samsung's Galaxy SmartTag</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @ACM IMC 2023<br><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3618257.3624834">I Tag, You Tag, Everybody Tags!</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> We study the performance of the two most popular location tags (Apple's AirTag and Samsung's SmartTag) through controlled experiments – with a known large distribution of location-reporting devices – as well as in-the-wild experiments – with no control on the number and kind of reporting devices encountered, thus emulating real-life use-cases. We find that both tags achieve similar performance, e.g., they are located 60% of the times in about 10 minutes within a 100 meter radius. It follows that real time stalking via location tags is impractical, even when both tags are concurrently deployed which achieves comparable accuracy in half the time. Nevertheless, half of a victim's movements can be backtracked accurately (10 meter error) with just a one-hour delay. </p>
<iframe width="350" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XHls8PvCVws?start=6731s" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> Invited talk at the IETF-18 MAPRG. </p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<main class="main-content">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/pnas-nexus.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">YouYube's Political Recommendation</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @PNAS Nexus 2023<br><a href="https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/8/pgad264/7242446">YouTube's recommendation algorithm is left-leaning in the United States</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> We analyze YouTube's recommendation algorithm by constructing archetypal users with varying political personas, and examining videos recommended during four stages of each user's life cycle: (i) after their account is created; (ii) as they build a political persona through watching videos of a particular political leaning; (iii) as they try to escape their political persona by watching videos of a different leaning; (iv) as they watch videos suggested by the recommendation algorithm. We find that while the algorithm pulls users away from political extremes, this pull is asymmetric, with users being pulled away from Far-Right content faster than from Far-Left. These findings raise questions on whether recommendation algorithms should exhibit political biases, and the societal implications that such biases could entail. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/tma.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Mobile Networks Performance</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @TMA 2023<br><a href="https://tma.ifip.org/2023/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2023/06/tma2023-final32.pdf">A WorldWide Look Into Mobile Access Networks Through The Eyes of Amigos</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> proposes a novel testbed design called "AmiGo", which relies on travelers carrying mobile phones to act as vantage points and collect data on mobile network performance. The AmiGo design has three key advantages: it is easy to deploy, has realistic user mobility, and runs on real Android devices. We further developed a suite of measurement tools for AmiGo to perform network measurements, e.g., pings, speedtests, and webpage loads. We leverage these tools to measure the performance of 24 mobile networks across five continents over a month via an AmiGo deployment involving 31 students.
We find that 50% of networks face a 40-70% chance of providing low data rates, only 20% achieve low latencies, and networks in Asia, Central/South America, and Africa have significantly higher CDN download times than in Europe. Most news websites load slowly, while YouTube performs well.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<main class="main-content">
<div class="row">
<!-- <div class="col-md-4"> -->
<!-- </div> -->
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/Sci-Reports-Nature.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">LLMs in Education</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @Scientific reports 2023<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13934.pdf">Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> Given the recent emergence of conversational artificial intelligence tools, educational institutions worldwide are facing the significant challenge of addressing the integration of artificial intelligence into educational frameworks. Yet, the literature lacks a systematic study evaluating the performance of such tools on university-level courses and their susceptibility to detection, and also lacks an examination of students' and educators' perspectives on the use of such tools in educational contexts. This work fills these gaps, providing timely and vital insights into the performance of the latest such tool—ChatGPT—and the threat of "AI-plagiarism" that it entails. Our findings can inform policy discussions of how to shape student evaluation frameworks in the age of artificial intelligence. </p>
</div>
<center>
<img src="images/LLMs_Education.avif" height="370">
</center>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/ieee_int_sys.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Homework in the Age of AI</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @IEEE Intelligent Systems 2023<br><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10111520">Rethinking Homework in the Age of Artificial Intelligence</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> The evolution of natural language processing techniques has led to the development of advanced conversational tools such as ChatGPT, capable of assisting users with a variety of activities. Media attention has centered on ChatGPT's potential impact, policy implications, and ethical ramifications, particularly in the context of education. As such tools become more accessible, students across the globe may use them to assist with their homework. However, it is still unclear whether ChatGPT's performance is advanced enough to pose a serious risk of plagiarism. We fill this gap by evaluating ChatGPT on two introductory and two advanced university-level courses. We find that ChatGPT receives near-perfect grades on the majority of questions in the introductory courses but has not yet reached the level of sophistication required to pass in advanced courses. These findings suggest that, at least for some courses, current artificial intelligence tools pose a real threat that can no longer be overlooked by educational institutions. </p>
</div>
<img src="images/chatGPT.avif">
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<img src="images/pnas.avif" height="50">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Lite-Web</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @PNAS 2023<br><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2212649120">Towards a World Wide Web without digital inequality</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> Developing regions suffer from poor Internet connection and over reliance on low-end phones, which violates net neutrality—the idea that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. We sent participants to 56 countries to measure global variation in web-browsing experience, revealing significant inequality in mobile data cost and page load time. We also show that popular webpages are increasingly tailored to high-end phones, thereby exacerbating the inequality. Our solution, Lite-Web, makes webpages faster to load and easier to process on low-end phones. Evaluating Lite-Web on the ground reveals that it transforms the browsing experience of Pakistani villagers with low-end phones to that of Dubai residents with high-end phones. These findings call attention from researchers and policy makers to mitigate digital inequality. </p>
</div>
<img src="images/liteWeb.jpg" height="435">
</div>
</div>
<br><br>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<img src="images/videoWild.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Videoconferencing in the Wild</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @ACM IMC 2022<br><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517745.3561442">Performance characterization of videoconferencing in the wild</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;"> One important question that we tackle in this paper is: what is the performance of videoconferencing in the wild? Answering this generic question is challenging because it requires, ideally, a world-wide testbed composed of diverse devices (mobile, desktop), operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and network accesses (mobile and WiFi). In this paper, we present such a testbed that we develop to evaluate videoconferencing performance in the wild via automation for Android and Chromium-based browsers. </p>
<!-- <iframe width="350" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13qVW_SUP3s" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> -->
<video controls="true" width="350">
<source src="https://dl.acm.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1145%2F3517745.3561442&file=216.m4v">
</video>
<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517745.3561442" class="button">Read paper</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<img src="images/muzeel.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">Muzeel</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @ACM IMC 2022<br><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517745.3561427">Muzeel: assessing the impact of JavaScript dead code elimination on mobile web performance</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;">Muzeel, a black-box approach requiring that aims at removing deadcode (i.e., un-used code) from JavaScript files in today's web. It requires neither the knowledge of the code nor the execution traces. While the state-of-the-art solutions stop analyzing JavaScript when the page loads, the core design principle of Muzeel is to address the challenge of dynamically analyzing JavaScript after the page is loaded, by emulating all possible user interactions with the page, such that the used functions (executed when interactivity events fire) are accurately identified, whereas unused functions are filtered out and eliminated.</p>
<!-- <iframe width="350" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13qVW_SUP3s" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> -->
<video controls="true" width="350">
<source src="https://dl.acm.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1145%2F3517745.3561427&file=107.m4v" type="video/webm">
</video>
<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517745.3561427" class="button">Read paper</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<img src="images/jsanalyzer.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">JSAnalyzer</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @ACM TWEB 2022<br><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3550358">JSAnalyzer: A Web Developer Tool for Simplifying Mobile Web Pages</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;">JSAnalyzer is a an easy-to-use tool that enables web developers to quickly optimize JavaScript usage in their pages, and to generate simpler versions of these pages for mobile web users. JSAnalyzer is motivated by the widespread use of non-critical JavaScript elements, i.e., those that have negligible (if any) impact on the page’s visual content and interactive functionality. JSAnalyzer allows the developer to selectively enable or disable JavaScript elements in any given page while visually observing their impact on the page.</p>
<!-- <iframe width="350" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13qVW_SUP3s" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> -->
<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3550358" class="button">Read paper</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<img src="images/slimWeb.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">slimWeb</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @ICTD 2022<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.13764.pdf">To Block or Not to Block: Accelerating Mobile Web Pages On-The-Fly Through JS Classification</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;">slimWeb is a novel approach that automatically derives lightweight versions of mobile web pages on-the-fly by eliminating the use of unnecessary JavaScript. It consists of a JavaScript classification service powered by a supervised Machine Learning (ML) model that provides insights into each JavaScript element embedded in a web page. slimWeb aims to improve the web browsing experience by predicting the class of each element, such that essential elements are preserved and non-essential elements are blocked.</p>
<!-- <iframe width="350" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13qVW_SUP3s" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> -->
<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.13764.pdf" class="button">Read paper</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<img src="images/qlue.webp" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">QLUE</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @The Webconf 2022<br><a href="https://comnetsad.github.io/papers/Qlue_WWW2022.pdf">QLUE: A Computer Vision Tool for Uniform Qualitative Evaluation of Web Pages</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;">QLUE (QuaLitative Uniform Evaluation) is a tool that automates the qualitative evaluation of web pages generated by web complexity solutions with respect to their original versions using computer vision. QLUE evaluates the content and the functionality of these pages separately using two metrics: QLUE's Structural Similarity, to assess the former, and QLUE's Functional Similarity to assess the latter---a task that is proven to be a challenging for humans given the complex functional dependencies in modern pages.</p>
<!-- <iframe width="350" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13qVW_SUP3s" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> -->
<a href="https://comnetsad.github.io/papers/Qlue_WWW2022.pdf" class="button">Read paper</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<img src="images/alcc.png" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">ALCC</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @JSYS 2022<br><a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3989w2s4">ALCC: Migrating Congestion Control to the Application Layer in Cellular Networks</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;">Application Layer Congestion Control (ALCC) is a framework that allows any new CC protocol to be implemented easily at the application layer, within or above an application-layer protocol that sits atop a legacy TCP stack. It drives it to deliver approximately the same as the native performance. The ALCC socket sits on top of a traditional TCP socket. Still, it can leverage the large congestion windows opened by TCP connections to carefully execute an application-level CC within the window bounds of the underlying TCP connection.</p>
<!-- <iframe width="350" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13qVW_SUP3s" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> -->
<a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3989w2s4" class="button">Read paper</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<img src="images/mdi.webp" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">MDI</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @Sigcomm CCR 2021<br><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3457175.3457179">The Case for Model-Driven Interpretability of Delay-Based Congestion Control Protocols</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;">Model-Driven Interpretability (MDI) is congestion control framework, which derives a model version of a delay-based protocol by simplifying a congestion control protocol's response into a guided random walk over a two-dimensional Markov model. We demonstrate the case for the MDI framework by using MDI to analyze and interpret the behavior of two delay-based protocols over cellular channels: Verus and Copa.</p>
<!-- <iframe width="350" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13qVW_SUP3s" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> -->
<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3457175.3457179" class="button">Read paper</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<img src="images/pqual.webp" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">PQual</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Demo @UIST 2020<br><a href="https://comnetsad.github.io/papers/UIST2020Demo.pdf">PQual: Automating Web Pages Qualitative Evaluation</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;">A tool that enables the automation of the qualitative evaluation of web pages using computer vision. In comparison to humans, PQual can effectively evaluate all the functionality of a web page, whereas the users might skip many of the functional elements during the evaluation.</p>
<iframe width="350" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13qVW_SUP3s" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<a href="https://comnetsad.github.io/papers/UIST2020Demo.pdf" class="button">Read paper</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<img src="images/JSclean.avif" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">JSCleaner</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">Paper @The Webconf 2020<br><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3366423.3380157">JSCleaner: De-Cluttering Mobile Webpages Through JavaScript Cleanup</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;">A JavaScript de-cluttering engine that aims at simplifying web pages without compromising the page content or functionality. JSCleaner uses a classification algorithm that classifies JavaScript into three main categories: non-critical, translatable, and critical scripts. JSCleaner removes the non-critical scripts from a web page, replaces the translatable scripts with their HTML outcomes, and preserves the critical scripts.</p>
<video controls="true" width="350">
<source src="http://yasirzaki.net/public/media/webconf2020.webm" type="video/webm">
</video>
<a href="https://comnetsad.github.io/papers/WWW-sample-sigconf.pdf"
class="button">Read paper</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="feature">
<div align="center">
<img src="images/verus.webp" height="100">
<h2 align="center" class="feature-title">VERUS</h2>
<small align="center" class="feature-subtitle">@Sigcomm 2015<br><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2829988.2787498">Adaptive Congestion Control for Unpredictable Cellular Networks</a></small>
</div>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 1.3;">An adaptive congestion control protocol designed for cellular networks. Verus leverages the relation ship between the sending window and the observed network delay by using the delay profile curve. Verus is a delay-based congestion control protocol.</p>
<video controls="true" width="350">
<source src="https://dl.acm.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1145%2F2785956.2787498&file=p509-zaki.webm" type="video/webm">
</video>
<a href="http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p509.pdf" class="button">Read paper</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<section data-bg-color="#4B0082">
<div class="cta-section" >
<h2 class="cta-title">Be part of the team</h2>
<h3>We are always on the look out for talented people to join the lab. Whether a research summer internship, a research visit, or a longer term position as a post-doc or research assistant. For inquiries please email yasir.zaki (at) nyu.edu. </h3>
<!-- <a href="#" class="button">Read more</a> -->
</div>
</section>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
<h2 class="section-title">News</h2>
<ul class="news">
<li>
<small class="date">01.09.2022</small>
<h2 class="entry-title">Hazem Ibrahim has joined our lab as a research assistant. Welcome on board Hazem. </h2>
</li>
<li>
<small class="date">23.08.2022</small>
<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/accepted/">Our paper "Assessing the Impact of JavaScript Dead Code Elimination on Mobile Web Performance" has been accepted at the ACM Internet Measurements Conference IMC 2022 ...</a></h2>
</li>
<li>
<small class="date">23.08.2022</small>
<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/accepted/">Our paper "Performance Characterization of Videoconferencing in the Wild" has been accepted at the ACM Internet Measurements Conference IMC 2022 ...</a></h2>
</li>
<li>
<small class="date">05.08.2019</small>
<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="#">Our "Learning Congestion State For mmWave Channels" paper has been accepted at the ACM mmNets 2019 conference...</a></h2>
</li>
<li>
<small class="date">22.12.2018</small>
<h2 class="entry-title">Dr. Moumena Shaqfa has joined our lab as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome on board. </h2>
</li>
<li>
<small class="date">30.06.2017</small>
<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="#">Our "Xcache: Rethinking Edge Caching" has been accepted at the Information and Communication technologies for Development (ICTD) 2017 conference ...</a></h2>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<!-- <div class="col-md-4 col-md-offset-1">
<h2 class="section-title">September's Events</h2>
<table id="wp-calendar">
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope="col" title="Monday">Mon</th>
<th scope="col" title="Tuesday">Tue</th>
<th scope="col" title="Wednesday">Wed</th>
<th scope="col" title="Thursday">Thu</th>
<th scope="col" title="Friday">Fri</th>
<th scope="col" title="Saturday">Sat</th>
<th scope="col" title="Sunday">Sun</th>
</tr>
</thead> -->
<!-- <tfoot>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" id="prev"><a href="#">Jan</a>
</td>
<td class="pad"> </td>
<td colspan="3" id="next" class="pad"> </td>
</tr>
</tfoot> -->
<!-- <tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" class="pad"> </td>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td id="today">4</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td><a href="#">
<span class="tip">
<strong>11 September 2019</strong> A visit from Prof. Manzoor Khan (UAEU).
</span>11</a></td>
<td>12</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>14</td>
<td>15</td>
<td>16</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17</td>
<td>18</td>
<td>19</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>23</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24</td>
<td>25</td>
<td>26</td>
<td>27</td>
<td>28</td>
<td>29</td>
<td>30</td>
</tr> -->
<!-- </tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div> -->
<iframe width="100%" height="500" style="position:relative;" src="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=(24.524397,54.433151)&z=15&output=embed" width="360" height="270" frameborder="0" style="border:0"></iframe>
</main> <!-- .main-content -->
<footer class="site-footer">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="widget">
<h3 class="widget-title">Contact</h3>
<address>
<strong>ComNets AD</strong>
<p>Saadiyat Island<br>Computational Research Building (A2)</p>
<!-- <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> -->
<a href="#">+971 2 6284860</a>
</address>
</div>
</div>
<!-- <div class="col-md-4">
<div class="widget">
<h3 class="widget-title">Information</h3>
<ul class="no-bullet">
<li><a href="#">Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Sit voluptatem accusantium</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Laudantium totam rem aperiam</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Ipsa quae ab illo inventore</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div> -->
<div class="col-md-4">
<div class="widget">
<h3 class="widget-title">Follow us</h3>
<!-- <form action="#" class="newsletter-form">
<input type="text" placeholder="Enter your email...">
<input type="submit" value="Join">
</form> -->
</div>
<div class="widget">
<div class="social-links">
<a href="#"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i></a>
<a href="#"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></a>
<a href="#"><i class="fa fa-google-plus"></i></a>
<a href="#"><i class="fa fa-pinterest"></i></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- <div class="colophon">
<p>Copyright 2014 Company name. Designed by Themezy. All right reserved</p>
</div> -->
</footer>
</div> <!-- .container -->
</div> <!-- #site-content -->
<script src="js/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&language=en"></script>
<script src="js/plugins.js"></script>
<script src="js/app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>