Adel Nadjaran Toosi

Design by TEMPLATED

• Homepage
• Presentations
• Curriculum Vitae
• Publications
• Teaching
• My Blog
• Contact Me

Adel Nadjaran Toosi

Lecturer
Faculty of Information Technology
Monash University

Contact:

Phone: +61 3 83441335
E-mail: adel [dot] nadjaran [at] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au
Address: Level 7, Room 13, Doug McDonell (DMD) Building (Building 168), University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010
Homepage: www.adelnadjarantoosi.info

Research Interests:

• Distributed Systems and Networks
• Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing
• Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Energy Efficiency and Green Computing
• Resource Management
• Scheduling and Provisioning
• Cyber-Security
Intrusion detection and anomaly detection Machine learning Clustering, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, and Reinforcement learning
• Optimization Dynamic Programming, Online algorithms, and Mechanism design, Markov decision processes -Soft Computing (Fuzzy logic systems and genetic algorithm)

Currently I am working on Auto-Scaling and Resource Coordination of Network Slices in Software-Defined Clouds.

Education:

• Jul 2010 - Sept 2014: PhD, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
• Sept 2003 - Aug 2006: M.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Mashhad, Iran
• Sept 1998 - Jul 2003: B.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Mashhad, Iran

Work Experience:

• Sept. 2014 - Present: Research fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne
• Sept. 2014 - Present: Sessional Teaching
  • Lecturing:
    • Semester 1, 2015, Distributed Systems (COMP90015)
    • Semester 2, 2016, Distributed Systems (COMP90015)
  • Tutoring:
    • Semester 2, 2014, Distributed Systems (COMP90015)
    • Semester 2, 2015, Distributed Systems (COMP90015)
• Aug 2006 - Jul 2010: Full Time Lecturer at Azad University of Mashhad
• Sept 2004 - Aug 2009: Part Time Lecturer at Azad University of Shirvan
• Dec 2003 - Sept 2004: Part Time project coordinator and software engineer in Shargh Raya Co.

Publications:

• http://adelnadjarantoosi.info/publications.html

Students:

• Harshit Kapoor, MSc, University of Melbourne, (2016-2017) Thesis: Cost and Energy Eefficient Job Scheduling Algorithm for Cloud Data Centre
• Bingfeng Liu, MSc, University of Melbourne, (2017-2018) A Fuzzy logic based Auto-scaler for Web Applications in Cloud Computing Environments
• Seyed Saeed Mirpour Marzuni, PhD, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, (2017- )
• TianZhang He, PhD, University of Melbourne, (2017- )

Professional Services:

• External Reviewer:
  • Journals: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Journal of Computers & Electrical Engineering, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE)
  • Conferences: The International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), Conference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE)
  • Master’s Theses: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Program Committee (PC) Member:
  
  • The 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016),
  • The 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization CLOUD COMPUTING 2017,
  • The 11th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS) 2017.
• Memberships:
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Curriculum development:
  • Programming Challenge for Girls (PC4G), Workshops for computer programming for Year 9 school girls and teachers

Research Grants and Sponsorships:

• Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Chief Investigator, “Cost-Efficient Orchestration of Containers in Clouds”, Samsung 2017 GRO award, Amount: US$120,000.
• Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Chief Investigator, “RenewMan: Managing Renewable Energy in Sustainable Cloud Data Centres”, The University of Melbourne 2018 Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme, Amount: AU$32,302.
• Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Reza Razzaghi, Behrooz Bahrani, Martin Singh, “Algorithms and Software Systems for Green Cyberinfrastructure”, 2018 Monash Infrastructure Research Seed Fund Grant, July 2018 - July 2019, Amount, AU$48,478.

Awards and Honors:

• 2016, Nominee, John Makepeace Bennett Best PhD Thesis Award, Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE).
• 2016, Nominee, John Melvin Memorial Scholarship for the Best PhD Thesis in engineering
• 2016, Nominee, Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne
• 2012, Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarships (MATS)
• 2012, Google Travel Prize, Google
• 2010, Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS)
• 2010, Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS)
• 2010, Travel bursary, EII PhD School: Cloud Computing, Service Computing & Social Networks, The University of Queensland
• 2006, Was selected as a lecturer in Azad University of Mashhad among applicants
• 2003, Ranked 225th among roughly 20,000 computer engineering students in National Entrance Exam for Graduate Studies in Software Engineering Major, Iran. 2002 Runner-up in the ACM programming contest of the FUM.
• 1998, Ranked 769th among about 290,000 high school students in Nationwide University Entrance Exam in Engineering/Math/Science, Iran.

© Adel Nadjaran Toosi. All rights reserved. Design by TEMPLATED.