Doctoral student (2nd year) at New York University

MacCracken fellow at NYU GSAS

Working in the Systems group Systems@NYU

Office: Room 444, 60 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10011

mh6218@nyu.edu

Research Interests

1. Computer Networks
2. Distributed Systems
3. Microservices Observability & Security

Research Papers

To Block or Not To Block: Accelerating Mobile Webpages On-The-Fly Through JavaScript Classification

• Accepted at ICTD'22. Link
• Authors: M Chaqfeh, M Haseeb, W Hashmi, P Inshuti, M Ramesh, M Varvello, F Zaffar, L Subramanian, Y Zaki

Using Application Layer Banner Data to Automatically Identify IoT Devices

• Accepted at ACM Sigcomm CCR, July 2020: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411740.3411744 Also, a poster of this work got accepted at IMC Reproducibilty Track 2019
• Authors: T Javed, M Haseeb, M Abdullah, M Javed

Ongoing Research Projects

Data Management System For Data Generated By Distributed Tracing Systems

• Designed a data management system that uses cheap cloud storage for storing trace data
• Designed a data layout amenable to fast retrieval of traces from cloud storage
• Designed indices specialized for querying traces based on their graph structures
• Achieved query latency 60% better than the state-of-the-art distributed tracing systems

Service Mesh Based Microservices Authorization For Byzantine Environments

• Designed a new access control system, Path Aware Access Control that takes into account the path a user request follows in a microservices application before allowing it to access some microservice(s)

Experience

Software Engineer at PosterMyWall, Pakistan

• Secured the product website by eliminating critical security vulnerabilities (XSS, CSRF, IDOR, potential Brute Force Attacks)
• Designed and implemented an access control system for different tools of the company
• Setup CI/CD pipeline along with a testing infrastructure
• Created a disaster recovery mechanism for the company’s infrastructure hosted on AWS
• Worked with various AWS services: EC2, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CodeDeploy

Teaching Assistant (TA) | Five Terms

• Worked as Teaching Assistant for five semesters and four different courses
• The courses: Networks Security, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Introduction to Programming