News (2009)

• Dec: My paper on Merlion, a system that enables application mashups for mobile devices, was accepted at HotMobile 2010
• Nov: I presented our paper at IMC 2009
• July: Our paper investigating the characteristics of IP addresses on 3G cell phones was accepted at IMC 2009
• June: I presented our paper on StarTrack at Mobisys 2009; I was a panelist at HotPlanet 2009
• Feb: Our paper on the StarTrack location middleware was accepted at MobiSys 2009; I gave a demo of StarTrack at TechFest 2009

About Myself

I'm currently a post-doc at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley. My research interests are in distributed systems, mobile computing and applications of pervasive computing technology.

I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. My dissertation work was on automatic customization of web content for mobile devices. At IBM Research, I worked on long-term remote health monitoring. At present, I am working on location middleware for mobile devices, the intersection of cloud computing and mobile computing, and turning phones into a replacement for traditional desktop computers.

Prior to my career as a research scientist, I designed and developed software systems at telecommunications companies such as Nortel Networks and Motorola. I have also been involved in developing software at two ISVs: CaseWare International and Pervasive Software.

I've also done a fair bit of teaching in the past. While I was a graduate student at the University of Toronto, I lectured about half a dozen undergraduate courses including Programming Languages (CSC 324), and Software Tools and Systems Programming (CSC 209).

Apart from computers, I have some other passions: Economics (seriously!), reading, board games, astronomy, travel and video games. I also enjoy running, archery and bicycling.

Research Publications

Content Adaptation for Mobile Devices:

• Fine Grain Adaptation of Multi-Purpose Content For Improved Mobile Web Browsing
  Iqbal Mohomed, Adin Scannell, Nilton Bila, Jin Zhang and Eyal de Lara
  ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2007), Newport Beach, California, USA, November 2007. [20% acceptance rate, 20 pages]
• PageTailor: Reusable End-User Customization for the Mobile Web
  Nilton Bila, Troy Ronda, Iqbal Mohomed, Khai Truong and Eyal de Lara
  Fifth International Conference on Mobile Systems Applications and Services (MobiSys 2007), San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007. [21% acceptance rate, 14 pages]
• Context-Aware Interactive Content Adaptation
  Iqbal Mohomed, Jim Chengming Cai, Sina Chavoshi and Eyal de Lara
  Fourth International Conference on Mobile Systems Applications and Services (MobiSys 2006), Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006. [16% acceptance rate, 14 pages]
• Usage-Aware Interactive Content Adaptation for Mobile Devices
  Iqbal Mohomed, Jim Chengming Cai and Eyal de Lara
  EuroSys 2006, Leuven, Belgium, April 2006. [20% acceptance rate, 14 pages]
• Community-Driven Adaptation: Automatic Content Adaptation in Pervasive Environments
  Iqbal Mohomed, Alvin Chin, Jim Chengming Cai and Eyal de Lara
  6th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA), English Lake District, UK, December 2004. [Highly selective and independently held workshop, 25% acceptance rate, 10 pages]

Health Monitoring:

• Context-aware and personalized event filtering for low-overhead continuous remote health monitoring
  

  Iqbal Mohomed, Archan Misra, Maria R. Ebling and William Jerome
  World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks Conference (WoWMoM 2008), New Port Beach, California, USA, June 2008.

• HARMONI: Context-aware Filtering of Sensor Data for Continuous Remote Health Monitoring
  Iqbal Mohomed, Archan Misra, Maria R. Ebling and William Jerome
  Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom 2008), Hong Kong, China, March 2008. [Short conference paper presented as poster, 22% acceptance rate, 4 pages]
• HARMONI: Motivation for a Health-oriented Adaptive Remote Monitoring Middleware
  Iqbal Mohomed, Maria R. Ebling, William Jerome and Archan Misra
  Fourth International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Pervasive Healthcare Applications (UbiHealth 2006), Newport Beach, California, USA, September 2006.  

Location:

• StarTrack: A Framework for Enabling Track-Based Applications. 
  Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Maya Haridasan, Iqbal Mohomed, Doug Terry and Chandramohan A. Thekkath
  Seventh International Conference on Mobile Systems Applications and Services (MobiSys 2009), Kraków, Poland, June 2009. [20% acceptance rate, 14 pages].
• Where’s that Phone?: Geolocating IP Addresses on 3G Networks.
  Mahesh Balakrishnan, Iqbal Mohomed and Venugopalan Ramasubramanian
  Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2009), Chicago, USA, November 2009. [22% acceptance rate, 6 pages].

Mobile Phones as a Desktop Replacement:

• Enabling Mobile Application Mashups With Merlion
  Iqbal Mohomed
  HotMobile 2010, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, February 2010. [24% acceptance rate, 6 pages]

Service

• Program Chair for PhD Forum, MobiSys 2010
• Program Committee Member: HotPlanet 2010, IEEE PerHealth 2010 workshop, Mobiquitous 2009, and the 2009 workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN)
• Workshops Organization Co-chair, Mobiquitous 2009
• Invited Panelist, HotPlanet 2009
• Student Volunteers Co-chair, Pervasive 2007
• Webmaster, IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC), 2006-2008
• Reviewer for Mobisys, Ubicomp, Pervasive, WWW, WMCSA, Mobiquitous, ICDE, MiNEMA Workshop and the PMC Journal