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A team comprising of Ch. Junaid Anwar (Software Engineer), M. Zubair Shafiq (Research Engineer) and M. Qasim (ISRG, NIIT) got the 3rd position in the "Network Security Competition" held by the IEEE-LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan.
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The project titled "An Immune Inspired Antivirus Software" won the 1st position at the All Pakistan Digital Innovation Competition (DICOMP) held at the College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. M. Zubair Shafiq (Research Engineer) and Ch. Junaid Anwar (Software Engineer) represented nexGINRC at the competition. Dr. Syed Ali Khayam was the academic supervisor and Dr. Muddassar Farooq was the industrial supervisor for the project.
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The 1st design review for the project AISGPIDS was held on 2nd February, 2008 in meeting room of Telecomm department, NUCES-FAST, Islamabad. All the directors, engineers and students attended the seminar. The complete proceeding of the meeting is available on the group webpage.
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The 2nd design review for the project AISGPIDS was held on 3rd March, 2008 in meeting room of Telecomm department, NUCES-FAST, Islamabad. All the directors, engineers and students attended the seminar. The complete proceeding of the meeting is available on the group webpage.
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The Director nexGIN RC, Dr. Muddassar and the team including the research engineers of various projects met with the team of Talented Earth Organization (TEO) a Denmark based company on 10th April 2008. The agenda of the meeting was to discuss and brief TEO team about the on going projects at the Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center. The Director wished to collaborate and benefit from the industry oriented work environment of TEO for future business dealings.
Mr. Zubair Shafiq presented the project "Artificial Immune System based General Purpose Intrusion Detection System", Ms. Aliya Awais presented the project "Bio Inspired Self Healing Self Defending Framework for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)", Dr. Muddassar Farooq presented the project "Remote Patient Monitoring System With Focus on Antenatal Care for Rural Population" and finally Mr. Shehzad Mughal presented the project "An Intelligent Secure Kernel for Next Generation Mobile Computing Devices". The engineers answered the queries raised by the TEO team regarding the software aspects of the project, project plan, and the work force etc.
The Research Engineers and the TEO's Project managers discussed about their respective projects and the working environment in the tea break.
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The 3rd design review for the project AISGPIDS was held on 7th April, 2008 in meeting room of Telecomm department, NUCES-FAST, Islamabad. In the meeting, the engineers and students discussed with the Director, the work done and challenges faced during the month. The complete proceeding of the meeting is available on the group webpage.
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The venue for next Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) is Montreal, Canada. It will take place from July 8-12, 2009. Paper submission deadline is January 14, 2009. The official website is at http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/. So start your brain-engines to prepare well in advance!
Source - IlliGal IL
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Next CEC (IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation) will be held at Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21, 2009. Paper submission deadline is 1st November, 2008. Official conference website is located at http://www.cec-2009.org/.
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Finally, call for papers of IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy is out. Paper submissions are due on 10th November, 2008 and acceptance notification will be dispatched on 30th January, 2009. See http://oakland09.cs.virginia.edu/cfp.html for more details.
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Official Tea Break started at nexGIN RC on 19th August 2008. The Project Director, alongwith all the engineers, project coordinators and students enjoyed tea and biscuits. The environment was very relaxed and friendly. The Project Director chatted and discussed the work done and problems being faced at the center. The Director also reminded prpject coordinators to arrange a recreational trip for all the employees of the center.
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A team consisting of a student (Syed Wahab Ali) in supervision of two research engineers (M. Zubair Shafiq and Syeda Momina Tabish) participated in the 4th International and 13th National SOFTware Exhibition & Competition, held at NU-FAST Lahore on August 30-31, 2008. The team presented the project titled "Immune-inspired Network Intrusion Detection System", which won the "Best Software Project" award and the prize money of US$825.
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A team consisting of students, Faraz Ahmad and Haider Hameed, participated in the All Pakistan Engineering Competition (APEC), held at GIK Institute of Technology on November 14-16, 2008. The team presented the research paper titled "Mining Spatio-Temporal Information in Windows API Calls for Zero-day Malware Detection", which won the third prize.
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SecureComm Greece, September, 2009 --- 31st March : Full Paper Submission
RAID France, September, 2009 --- 5th April
ESORICS France, September, 2009 ---17th April
ACM CCS USA, November, 2009 ---20th April
NSPW UK, September, 2009 --- 17th April
ACM USENIX IMC USA, November, 2009 --- 4th May -> 11th May
ASCAC December, 2009 --- 8th June
AsiaCCS China, March, 2010 --- TBA
NDSS 2010 --- TBA
List maintained by M. Zubair Shafiq --- zubair [dot] shafiq [at] nexginrc [dot] org
Last updated: 11th February, 2009
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M. Zubair Shafiq, of nexGIN RC, has won the best tertiary student project award at the Pakistan Software House Association (P@SHA) ICT Awards, 2008. This award was presented for the project titled "An Immune-inspired Intrusion Detection System".
Read more at http://www.ictrdf.org.pk/news4.htm
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A research paper titled "A Comparative Study of Anomaly Detection Algorithms for Detection of SIP Flooding in IMS" has received the best paper award at the 2nd International Conference on Internet Multimedia Services Architecture and Applications, held in Banglore, India.This paper was co-authored by M. Ali Akbar, Zeeshan Tariq and Muddassar Farooq.
Good start by the IMS group, lets hope they continue their good work.
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A computer malware, named as Kido, Conficker or Downadup has penetrated into more than 3.9 million computer systems worldwide running Microsoft Windows. The number also includes a major proportion of machines deployed at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), UK. It first takes control of an infected system by utilizing a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows and then speedily replicates itself through the network or flash drives.
A team of security researchers headed by Dr. Muddassar Farooq at Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGIN RC), FAST National University Islamabad, Pakistan have been working on a next-generation anti-malware solution that has the ability to detect a given malware without a priori information about it. Consequently, it successfully detects a "zero-day malware". The product prototype of the solution is expected to be rolled out in near future. Researchers have collected samples of Conficker from a well-known malware consultancy firm OffseniveComputing.Org (based in the US) and scanned it using the developed prototype. Their solution not only detects Conficker and its variants but also provides useful forensic information about its functionality. Researchers believe that this groundbreaking achievement is made possible by a novel approach that--in contrast to the existing antivirus products--does not require any signature updates. They envision that the product, once fully developed, can realize "once-deployed-forever-protected" dream.
The on-going project is funded by National ICT R&D fund, Ministry of Information Technology, Pakistan.
Important Note: If you have unlabeled malware samples, and are interested in their forensic analysis provided by our anti-malware product PE-Miner, then email them to zubair [dot] shafq [at] nexginrc [dot] org in a password protected zip archive. Our average response time is one business day. This service is free of cost.
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Five research papers from nexGIN RC have been accepted at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), to be held in Montreal, Canada, July, 2009. Out of these 5 papers, 4 are accepted as full length papers and one is accepted as poster. We are really proud of our nexGIN RC team. Congratulations on this achievement!
Remember that GECCO is one of the top 2 conferences in the world in the domain of bio-inspired algorithms and evolutionary computing. Also, GECCO is 11th in the rankings of 701 international conferences in artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and human-computer interaction . See more.
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Researchers from nexGIN RC have been invited to give a talk about our latest malware detection product in the technical stream of 2009 Virus Bulletin conference to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, 2009. The VB conference brings together the best industrial security researchers with a special focus on novel product ideas.
Congratulations to our research team!
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The project "Remote Patient Monitoring System" of Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGIN RC), National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES) marks its impact at the global level by getting among the winners of the World Summit Youth Award (WSYA). The project has been selected out of 612 submissions from 102 different countries after extremely competitive evaluation by 20 experts and social entrepreneurs during a three-stage judging process. The World Summit Youth Award for the project will be presented to the young brain of nexGIN RC, Ajay Kumar Tanwani, before the center stage of the world in Monterrey, Mexico.
The WSYA provides the global initiative to select and promote the world's best e-content and innovative ICT applications. The contest helps to raise awareness and resolve the UN Millennium Development Goals of ending poverty, hunger, disease, empowering women, improving mother and child health, and saving the environment. The WSYA showcases the young developers and serves as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together on the efforts of reaching the Millennium Development Goals. The event brings together Ministers, policymakers, business leaders, and young content innovators in the field of information and communication technologies for development from around the world. Together they join the development community under the umbrella of the Global Alliance, enter the dialogue with focus on emerging issues and challenges in the areas of Education and Innovation, and foster cooperation among governments, private sector and civil society. For youth of Pakistan to be a part of these next generation policies is indeed a matter of pride for the whole country.
"Let ICT save our mothers for our better future" -- the vision developed by Dr. Muddassar Farooq at nexGIN RC -- is now being realized to provide low cost, efficient and effective antennal care to poor underprivileged women of Pakistan living in remote rural areas. The technological advancements in ICT and rapid penetration of mobile networks happen to be at the core of the project. The low-cost patient monitoring system provides point-of-care decision support to the rural women at their door step in order to reduce the alarming rates of Maternal Mortality and Infant Mortality - important Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) planned by United Nations. The hardware involved in the system is a data gathering module containing wearable medical sensors and a mobile phone. The Lady Health Workers are trained to gather the physiological data of the patients and then transmit it via mobile phone to a remote web server in a tertiary care hospital. The server stores the data in an electronic medical database and invokes the services of an intelligent clinical decision support system to scan for anomalies. The medical consultant can access the generated inferences on his smart phone and give his specialized opinion about the patient. The proper implementation of this system, therefore, guarantees a reliable, safe and efficient maternal care routine.
The PKR 26.9 million project is in part (PKR 14.66) funded by National ICT R&D Fund (Ministry of IT). The project is being executed by a team of researchers of "nexGIN RC FAST-NU" headed by Dr. Mudassar Farooq (http://rpms.nexginrc.org). The main collaborators of the project are: (1) Human Development Foundation (HDF) (http://www.hdf.com), and (2) Obs & Gyane department of Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) headed by Prof Dr. Asma Usmani. Recently MCH department of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) headed by Prof. Dr. Ghazala Mehmood has also joined the project team. HDF, a US based NGO, is the deployment organization that currently covers seven rural centers throughout Pakistan. Dr. Abul Aziz Awan from HDF is leading the team of field doctor and lady health workers. The medical expertise for developing the system is being provided by the senior registrar of BBH -- Dr. Sadia Khan -- and her postgraduate trainee -- Dr. Ayesha Basharat. The active collaboration of engineers and researchers with doctors, sociologists, Lady Health Workers and patients is playing a key role in making this project a true success.
This is a global recognition for Pakistan and specifically motivated team of nexGIN RC FAST-NU. This win at the international stage will open up a new chapter for young and innovative minds in Pakistan to use technology in a novel fashion to bring much needed 'change' in the lives of the underprivileged rural population of Pakistan. We wish the nexGIN RC team best of luck for the finals in Monterrey, Mexico.
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The nexGIN RC team has earned an unprecedented honor for the country by winning the silver medal in Human-Competitive awards (HUMIES) at GECCO 2009. Dr. Muddassar Farooq, Director, Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center, FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences Islamabad, presented the team's work in Montreal, Canada.
GECCO 2009 is the world's best forum for Bio-inspired computing. Generally more than 200 papers are accepted for the conference out of 500+ submissions. But Humies' submission criteria is so tough that generally 9-10 papers become eligible for the competition. This year 9 entries were submitted and out of these 7 were shortlisted for final presentations on July 10, 2009 in Montreal Canada. nexGIN RC had both of its entries shortlisted.
The Judging Committee consisted of Wolfgang Banzhaf, John Koza, Darrell Whitley, Riccardo Poli, and Erik Goodman. These are the most respected names not only in evolutionary computing but also in Computer Science.
The nexGIN RC team's entry based on the papers A Hybrid GA-PSO Fuzzy System for User Identification on Smart Phones and Keystroke-based User Identification on Smart Phones have won the silver medal. These papers can be downloaded from the publications section of the project's website.
The silver medal is worth $3000. All credit goes to Shahzad and Saira who did this remarkable work. The gold medal was won by Steffany Forrest - the most distinguished researcher in CS - whose paper "A sense of Self in Unix Processes" has more than 1000 citations and is among the top 3% cited papers overall in CS.
This is for the first time in the history of the conference that a team from Asia has been among the top 3. We hope that these efforts will bear fruit and help to change the image of Pakistan.
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A team consisting of students Salman Manzoor, Faraz Ahmad, Haider Hameed and Jamal Afridi participated in the 8th All Pakistan Inter College/University Software Exhibition and Competition, held at College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Rawalpindi on July 17-18, 2009. The team presented the project titled "A Sense of Danger for Windows Processes", which won first position in Applications and Utilities category and won a prize money of Rs. 40,000/-.
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Haider Hameed, a research student of AIS project participated in the All Pakistan SEECOM - Software Competition, held at University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore on May 21-23, 2010. He presented the project titled "Research, Design & Implementation of Zero-Day Malware Detection System Using Windows API Calls", which won first position.
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A team consisting of Mudaser Awan, Jamal Afridi and Ali Akbar participated in the COMPPEC 2010, held at College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Rawalpindi on June 6th, 2010. The team presented the project titled "Remote Patient Monitoring System", which won first position in Research category and won a prize money of Rs. 20,000/-.
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