Fahim Kawsar

Dr. Fahim Kawsar leads the Internet of Things research at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (Belgium, and Ireland) and is working within the field of distributed systems, data analytics, and pervasive computing. Currently, he is driving the User Centered IoT system and application research efforts of Bell Labs with a particular focus on creating User Behaviour Models from Differential Network Traces (Device, Residential, Mobile, Travel, etc.) and then applying those models to design novel user experiences in three areas: Enterprise, Urban City, and Lifestyle. Fahim’s work has been published widely (80+ papers, and 15+patents) in international books and journals, presented at conferences across the world and has had projects commissioned. He has served or is currently serving as a General Chair, Program Chair or Program Committee Member in many conferences including the most prestigious ones in his field (e.g., UbiComp, MobiQuitous, IoT, INSS, etc.). Fahim has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Waseda University,  Japan, and has worked before at Nokia Research, and Lancaster University.