Ali Yavari at Great Ocean Road in 2017 Dr Ali Yavari is Senior Research Engineer (Software and Data Analytics) at Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering in Swinburne University of Technology. He has received his Master of Science degree in Communication Systems from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and his Ph.D. from School of Computer Science and Information Technology at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia. Ali had been with Digital Productivity Flagship and Data61 at CSIRO. Prior to joining RMIT, Ali was Research Engineer at KTH University in Communication Systems department. He contributed to several research projects including SeRMon and COSEM and collaborated with several companies and organisations including, but not limited to, Wireless@KTH, TeliaSonera, Vinnova, and Ericsson. Ali has been working for more than ten years in IT industry as chief executive officer, project manager, system designer, and developer for aviation, bank, and IT companies in several countries. He serves as program committee member and designated reviewer in several international conferences and workshops. Ali  had served as a committee member in Computer Society Chapter at IEEE Victorian Section. He is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Research Interest

  • Big Data Processing and Analysis in particular developing methods to enable large-scale collection of distributed and heterogeneous data sets on Internet connected devices supported by real-time data processing/reasoning in the cloud or similar distributed environment.
  • Contextualization and in particular developing techniques that exclude irrelevant data form consideration and have the potential to reduce data from several aspects including volume, velocity, and variety in IoT applications and subsequently improve the data processing and knowledge extraction in large-scale IoT applications.
  • Semantic Web and in particular data formats and exchange protocols on the Web that have the potential to be extended and be more compatible for large-scale Internet of Things applications and platforms.
  • Mobile computing and Cloud Computing and in particular Techniques and frameworks to store, process, and manage of Internet scale data using Cloud infrastructure

Professional Activities
  • International Conference on data mining and knowledge discovery (Advisory Committee)
  • International Conference on Big Data and Computing (Technical Program Committee)
  • nternational Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (Technical Program Committee)
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (Reviewer)
  • World Symposium on Computer Applications & Research (Technical Program Committee)
  • International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics (Technical Program Committee)
  • ICCAAD IC Computer Applications and Aided Diagnosis (Technical Program Committee)
  • IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (Reviewer)
  • International Conference on Electronic Publishing and Information Technology (Reviewer)
  • International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (Reviewer)
  • International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Analysis applications (Technical Program Committee)
  • International Workshop on the Design and Performance of Networks on Chip (Reviewer)
  • MobiAPPs (Reviewer)
  • International Conference on Signal Processing & Data Mining (Technical Program Committee)
  • Global Summit on Computer & Information Technology (Technical Program Committee)
  • International Symposium on Web of Things and Big Data (WoTBD) (Reviewer)
  • International Conference on Computing in Mechanical Engineering (ICCME) (Reviewer)
  • IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Smart Cities, IEEE Internet of Things Community, IEEE Cybersecurity Community, and IEEE Cloud Computing (Member)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (Member)
  • The Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers - Sveriges ingenjörer (Member)

Internet of Things data contextualisation for scalable information processing, security, and privacy