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• Communication & Wireless Networks
• Machine Learning & AI Systems
• Data Centers
  & Cloud
• Social
  Networks

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      ▷ Communication and Wireless Networks

• Jhonatan Tavori, Mehmet Kerem Turkcan, Zoran Kostic, Javad Ghaderi, Gil Zussman, Worst-Case Attacks in Reactive Edge-Cloud Systems: Expected Latency and SLA Violation, IEEE INFOCOM 2026, Accepted

• Christos Tsanikidis, Javad Ghaderi, Scheduling Stochastic Traffic With End-to-End Deadlines in Multi-hop Wireless Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2024. (Best Paper Award).
  Full version accepted in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Jan 2026.

• Christos Tsanikidis, Javad Ghaderi, Near-Optimal Packet Scheduling in Multihop Networks with End-to-End Deadline Constraints, ACM SIGMETRICS 2024.

• Christos Tsanikidis, Javad Ghaderi, Online Scheduling and Routing with End-to-End Deadline Constraints in Multihop Wireless Networks, Proc. ACM MobiHoc 2022, Oct 2022. Full version accepted in IEEE Transactions on Neworking, May 2025.

• Christos Tsanikidis, Javad Ghaderi, Randomized Scheduling of Real-Time Traffic in Wireless Networks Over Fading Channels, IEEE INFOCOM 2021, May 2021. Full version accepted in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Nov 2022. [Technical Report: arXiv:2101.04815].

• Christos Tsanikidis, Javad Ghaderi, On the Power of Randomization for Scheduling Real-Time Traffic in Wireless Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2020, July 2020. (Best Paper Award)
  Full version appeared in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 29, no. 4, Aug 2021. [Technical Report: arXiv:2001.05146]

• Tingjun Chen, Jelena Diakonikolas, Javad Ghaderi, Gil Zussman, Hybrid Scheduling in Heterogeneous Half- and Full-Duplex Wireless Networks, IEEE/ACM Transations on Networking. Jan 2020.

• Tingjun Chen, Javad Ghaderi, Dan Rubenstein, Gil Zussman, Maximizing Broadcast Throughput Under Ultra-Low-Power Constraints, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 26, no. 2, Apr 2018.

• Tingjun Chen, Jelena Diakonikolas, Javad Ghaderi, Gil Zussman, Hybrid Scheduling in Heterogeneous Half- and Full-Duplex Wireless Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2018.

• Tingjun Chen, Javad Ghaderi, Dan Rubenstein, Gil Zussman, Maximizing Broadcast Throughput Under Ultra-Low-Power Constraints, ACM CoNEXT 2016.  (Best Paper Award)

• Javad Ghaderi, Sem Borst, and Phil Whiting, Queue-Based Random-Access Algorithms: Fluid Limits and Stability Issues, Stochastic Systems, vol. 4, no. 1, Sep 2014. [Technical Report: arXiv:1302.5945]

• Javad Ghaderi, Tianxiong Ji, and R. Srikant, Flow-Level Stability of Wireless Networks: Separation of Congestion Control and Scheduling, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 59, no. 8, 2014. [Technical Report: arXiv:1209.5464]

• Javad Ghaderi and R. Srikant, The Impact of Access Probabilities on the Delay Performance of Q-CSMA Algorithms in Wireless Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 21, no. 4, 2013.

• Javad Ghaderi, Sem Borst, and Phil Whiting, Random Access in Wireless Networks: How Much Aggressiveness Can Cause Instability?, MAMA'13, ACM SIGMETRICS, 2013.

• Javad Ghaderi, Sem Borst, and Phil Whiting, Backlog-Based Random Access in Wireless Networks: Fluid Limits and Instability Issues, Proc. IEEE WiOpt 2012 Conference, May 2012.

• Javad Ghaderi and R. Srikant, Flow-Level Stability of Multihop Wireless Networks Using Only MAC-Layer Information, Proc. IEEE WiOpt 2012 Conference, May 2012.

• Javad Ghaderi, Sem Borst, and Phil Whiting, Stability and Instability of Backlog-Based Random Access in Wireless Networks, Proc. 46th CISS Conference, Princeton, March 2012.

• Javad Ghaderi and R. Srikant, Effect of Access Probabilities on the Delay Performance of Q-CSMA Algorithms, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2012, March 2012.

• Javad Ghaderi, Tianxiong Ji, and R. Srikant, Connection-Level Scheduling in Wireless Networks Using Only MAC-Layer Information, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2012 Mini-Conference, March 2012.

• Javad Ghaderi and R. Srikant, On the Design of Efficient CSMA Algorithms for Wireless Networks, Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Atlanta, 2010. (Invited Paper). [An extended version of this paper is available here].

• Javad Ghaderi, Liang-Liang Xie, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen,  Hierarchical Cooperation in Ad Hoc Networks: Optimal Clustering and Achievable Throughput, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 3425 - 3436, 2009.

• Javad Ghaderi, Liang-Liang. Xie, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, Throughput Optimization for Hierarchical Cooperation in Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008.

• Javad Ghaderi and R. Srikant, Towards a Theory of Anonymous Networking, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2010 [An extended version of this paper is available here].

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  ▷ Machine Learning and AI Systems

• M. Ghasemi, Y. Fu, X. Ouyang, P. Wang, M. Turkcan, J. Tavori, S. Kleisarchaki, T. Calmant, L. Gürgen, Z. Kostic, X. Di, G. Zussman, Javad Ghaderi Real-Time Video Analytics for Urban Safety: Deployment over Edge and End Devices, ACM/IEEE SEC 2025 (ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing), Dec 2025 (Best Paper Award)

• Chengbo Zang, Memmet Turkan, Gil Zussman, Zoran Kostic, Javad Ghaderi, Adaptive Data Collection for Robust Learning Across Multiple Distributions, ICML 2025, July 2025.

• Yuyang Li, Devika Gumaste, Mehmet Turkcan, Javad Ghaderi, Gil Zussman, Zoran Kostic, Distributed VLMs: Efficient Vision-Language Processing through Cloud-Edge Collaboration, PeRConAI, IEEE PerCom’25, Mar 2025

• Yiru Chen, Xupeng Li, Jeff Tao, Lana Ramjit, Ravi Netravali, Subrata Mitra, Aditya Parameswaran, Javad Ghaderi, Dan Rubenstein, Eugene Wu, Physical Visualization Design: Decoupling Interface and System Design, ACM SIGMOD 2025, July 2025

• Caiyi Yang, Javad Ghaderi, Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Learning via Remove-then-Clip Aggregation, AAAI 2024, Special Track on Safe, Robust and Responsible AI, Feb 2024.

• Chengbo Zang, Mehmet Kerem, Turkcan, Gil Zussman, Javad Ghaderi, Zoran Kostic, Traffic Simulation for an Intersection in a Metropolis, CVPR 2024, Workshop on Populating Empty Cities- Virtual Humans for Robotics and Autonomous Driving, Jun 2024.

• William Ho, Mehmet Turkcan, Zoran Kostic, Gil Zussman, Javad Ghaderi, Zero Shot Classification in Urban Setting, CVPR 2024, VAND 2.0 Workshop, Jun 2024.

• Gaurav Jain, Basel Hindi, Zihao Zhang, Koushik Srinivasula, Mingyu Xie, Mahshid Ghasemi, Daniel Weiner, Sophie Ana Paris, Xin Yi Therese Xu, Michael Malcolm, Mehmet Kerem Turkcan, Javad Ghaderi, Zoran Kostic, Gil Zussman, Brian A. Smith, StreetNav: Leveraging Street Cameras to Support Precise Outdoor Navigation for Blind Pedestrians, ACM UIST 2024, Oct 2024.

• Mahshid Ghasemi, Zhengye Yang, Mingfei Sun, Hongzhe Ye, Zihao Xiong, Javad Ghaderi, Zoran Kostic, Gil Zussman, Video-based Social Distancing: Evaluation in the COSMOS Testbed, IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Smart Cities and System Theories,, Aug 2023

• Mahshid Ghasemi, Sofia Kleisarchaki, Thomas Calmant, Levent Gürgen, Javad Ghaderi, Zoran Kostic, Gil Zussman, Real-time Camera Analytics for Enhancing Traffic Intersection Safety, Demo, Proc. ACM MobiSys '22, June 2022.

  Mahshid Ghasemi, Zhengye Yang, Mingfei Sun, Hongzhe Ye, Zihao Xiong, Javad Ghaderi, Zoran Kostic, Gil Zussman, Video-based Social Distancing Evaluation in the Cosmos Testbed Pilot Site, Demo, Proc. ACM MobiCom '21, Mar 2022.

• Mahshid Ghasemi, Zoran Kostic, Javad Ghaderi, and Gil Zussman, Auto-SDA: Automated Video-based Social Distancing Analyzer, ACM HotEdgeVideo (3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Video Analytics and Intelligent Edges), Oct 2021.

• Alexandr Andoni, Javad Ghaderi, Daniel Hsu, Dan Rubenstein, Omri Weinstein, Coding Sets with Asymmetric Information, Preprint.

• Avik Ray, Javad Ghaderi, Sujay Sanghavi, Sanjay Shakkottai, Overlap Graph Clustering via Successive Removal, Allerton 2014. (Invited paper)

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  ▷ Data Centers and Cloud Computing

• Mehrnoosh Shafiee, Javad Ghaderi, Scheduling Coflows with Dependency Graph, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 30, no. 1, Feb 2022. arXiv:2012.11702

• Mehrnoosh Shafiee, Javad Ghaderi, Scheduling Parallel-Task Jobs Subject to Packing and Placement Constraints, Operations Research, vol. 70, no. 6, Dec 2022. arXiv:2004.00518.

• Konstantinos Psychas, Javad Ghaderi, A Theory of Autoscaling for Resource Reservation in Cloud Services, IFIP Performance 2020, Nov 2020. (Best Student Paper Award)
  Full version accepted in Stochastic Systems, Nov 2021, arXiv:2005.13744.

• Konstantinos Psychas, Javad Ghaderi, High-Throughput Bin Packing: Scheduling Jobs with Random Resource Demands in Clusters, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 29, no. 1, Feb 2021.

• Mehrnoosh Shafiee, Javad Ghaderi, On Max-Min Fairness of Completion Times for Multi-Task Job Scheduling, IFIP Networking 2020, Jun 2020.

• Konstantinos Psychas, Javad Ghaderi, Scheduling Jobs with Random Resource Requirements in Computing Clusters, IEEE INFOCOM 2019. (Best-In-Session Presenation award) [Technical Report: arXiv:1901.05998]

• Konstantinos Psychas, Javad Ghaderi, Randomized Algorithms for Scheduling Multi-Resource Jobs in the Cloud, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 26, no. 5, Oct 2018.

• Konstantinos Psychas, Javad Ghaderi, On Non-Preemptive VM Scheduling in the Cloud, ACM SIGMETRICS 2018. Journal version in POMACS (Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems), vol. 1, no. 2, Dec 2017. [Technical Report: arXiv:1807.00851]

• Mehrnoosh Shafiee, Javad Ghaderi, An Improved Bound for Minimizing the Total Weighted Completion Time of Coflows in Datacenter Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 26, no. 4, Aug 2018.

• Soumya Basu, Aditya Sundarrajan, Javad Ghaderi, Ramesh Sitaraman, Sanjay Shakkottai, Adaptive TTL-Based Caching for Content Delivery, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Apr 2018.

• Soumya Basu, Aditya Sundarrajan, Javad Ghaderi, Ramesh Sitaraman, Sanjay Shakkottai, Adaptive TTL-Based Caching for Content Delivery, ACM SIGMETRICS 2017 poster paper.

• Mehrnoosh Shafiee, Javad Ghaderi, A Simple Congestion-Aware Algorithm for Load Balancing in Datacenter Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 6, Dec 2017.

• Javad Ghaderi, Sanjay Shakkottai, R Srikant, Scheduling Storms and Streams in the Cloud, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, vol. 1, no. 4, Sep 2016.

• Mehrnoosh Shafiee, Javad Ghaderi, Brief Announcement: A New Improved Bound for Coflow Scheduling, ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2017.

• Mehrnoosh Shafiee, Javad Ghaderi, Scheduling Coflows in Datacenter Networks: Improved Bound for Total Weighted Completion Time, ACM SIGMETRICS 2017 poster paper.

• Mehrnoosh Shafiee, Javad Ghaderi, A Simple Congestion-Aware Algorithm for Load Balancing in Datacenter Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2016.

• Javad Ghaderi, Randomized Algorithms for Scheduling VMs in the Cloud, IEEE INFOCOM 2016. (Best-In-Session Presenation award)

• Sharayu Moharir, Javad Ghaderi, Sujay Sanghavi, Sanjay Shakkottai, Serving Content with Unknown Demand: the High-Dimensional Regime, Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, vol. 81, no. 2-3, Nov 2015.

• Javad Ghaderi, Sanjay Shakkottai, R Srikant, Scheduling Storms and Streams in the Cloud, ACM SIGMETRICS 2015.

• Sharayu Moharir, Javad Ghaderi, Sujay Sanghavi, Sanjay Shakkottai, Serving Content with Unknown Demand: the High-Dimensional Regime, ACM SIGMETRICS 2014.

• Javad Ghaderi, Yuan Zhong, and R. Srikant, Asymptotic Optimality of Best-Fit for Stochastic Bin Packing, MAMA'14, ACM SIGMETRICS, 2014

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  ▷ Social Networks

• Javad Ghaderi and R. Srikant, Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks with Stubborn Agents: Equilibrium and Convergence Rate, Automatica, vol. 50, no. 12, 2014. [Technical Report: arXiv:1208.5076]

• Javad Ghaderi and R. Srikant, Opinon Dynamics in Social Networks: A Local Interaction Game with Stubborn Agents, 2013 American Control Conference (ACC), 2013. (Best Student Paper Award Finalist)

  Theses

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• Javad Ghaderi, Fundamental Limits of Random Access in Wireless Networks, PhD Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2013.

• Javad Ghaderi, Capacity Scaling and Optimal Operation of Wireless Networks, MASc Thesis, University of Waterloo, July 2008.