Welcome to My Website

I will be on sabbatical from June 2012 to January 2013 based at Cloud and Security Research Laboratory at HP, Bristol.

These days my research interests are  mostly focused on Cloud and Security for Cloud mostly with collaborators at HP and BT research laboratories. In particular, I am focusing on development of monitors for detecting malicious behavior in Cloud and automated code generation.

Over the past decade I  worked on various projects  aiming at the use of modelling for producing more dependable software and systems solutions in shorter development cycles and at a lower cost. In particular,  we have developed a number of  technologies for the Design, Analysis and automated Implementation of large Distributed Systems, Component-based systems or Service oriented Architectures and recently Cloud. I enjoy application of automated model-based techniques to solving problems in large distributed systems.

Modelling languages that I use include Petri nets, Timed Automata and Alloy. I am also very keen of semi-formal languages such as Unified Modelling Language (in particular OCL) and Service oriented languages such as BPEL, BPMN and SBVR. I am interested in the transformation of models captured in one modelling language to another using Model Driven Architecture so that to benefit from the advantages of having multiple representations in different languages. My research activities are mostly guided by practical problems facing software industry. For further information visit my research page which includes a short description of the current projects and Software page listing some of the tools developed in Birmingham on the basis of our current research.

I am fortunate for having ongoing collaboration with colleagues from the UK, EU, Japan and US. I have been visiting researcher at Osaka University, Colorado State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan state University, Technische Universität Berlin and University of Gent. I am heading a team of researchers at Birmingham University. I am currently collaborating with researchers from BT, IBM and HP, among others. I am always looking forward to collaborative research as an opportunity to learn while having fun :-)

Current research themes include:

If you are interested to perform research, especially at PhD level, in any of these areas, email me (B.Bordbar [AT]cs.bham.ac.uk).

Former and current PhD students and Research fellows

  • Thanos Staikopolous (graduated 2008)

  • Kyriakos Anastasakis (graduated 2009)

  • Seyyed Shah  (graduated 2011)

  • Mohamed Ariff Ameedeen   (graduated 2011)

  • Mohammed Alodib (graduated 2011)

  • Emsaieb Geepall

  • Philip Weber

  • Imran Sarwar Bajwa

  •  Dr Xiaofeng Du

  • Marwah Alansari (joint supervision with Dr Bahsoon)

  • Imran Khan (visitor, research on virtualization and security in Cloud)

  • Mohammed Alwanain

  • Olfat Mirza

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Teaching- past and present

  • Enterprise Systems (New module)
  • Internet Computing Workshop
  • Fundamentals of Computer Science; Intro to CS
  • Software Systems Components
  • Distributed Systems (Extended Distributed Systems)
  • Student Projects
  • Timetable and availability

Click on this link for my Teaching page including link to course details, Slides, Handouts,...

Collaborations

I am very fortunate to have worked with and have the following people as my co-authors and friends:

Rene Boel, David Akehurst, Dirk Draheim, Gerald Weber, Russell Beale,John Derrick, George Jiroveano, Gill Waters, John Pym, Rachid Anane, Kozo Okano, David Holding, Juliana Bowles, Athanasios Staikopoulos, Kyriakos Anastasakis, Gareth Howells, Matthias Horn, Ina Schulz, Peter Rodgers, Nigel Dalgliesh, Luisa Giacomini, Geert Stremersch, Michael Evans, Steen Brahe, Guadalupe Ortiz,Juan Hernández, Sukhvir Dhillon, Geri Georg, Indrakshi Ray, Basim Majeed, Mohammed Alodib, Mohamed Ariff Ameedeen, Philip Weber, Emsaieb Geepall, Seyyed Shah, Keith Harrison, Chris Dalton, Andrew Norman, Joel Last

Industry: Among others, I have ongoing industrial collaboration with IBM Research (Switzerland), BT Research Laboratory (UK), Thales (UK), Danske Bank (Denmark) and HP research laboratories (Bristol). In the past, I worked as an IBM visiting Scientist. In 2008, I was awarded BT Research Fellowship. In 2011, I spent six month working at HP.