Professor Rabih Bashroush
Professor of Digital Infrastructure
Professor
Director of the Enterprise Computing Research Group
Research, Innovation and Enterprise , School Of Architecture, Computing And Engineering
Professor Rabih Bashroush is Professor of Digital Infrastructure. Currently, his main interest is in the design and implementation of energy efficient systems, especially in Cloud and data centre environments.
Qualifications
- PhD in Systems Engineering, BEng in Computer and Communications Engineering, PGCert, Certificate in Business Studies
Areas Of Interest
- Design and implementation of energy efficient systems
- Cloud and data centre environments
OVERVIEW
Rabih Bashroush is Professor of Digital Infrastructure. Currently, his main interest is in the design and implementation of energy efficient systems, especially in Cloud and data centre environments. Rabih established and leads the Enterprise Computing Research Group and serves on various international boards and committee's, including the BSI ST/46 ISO SC 39 Sustainability For and By IT Committee; the Data Center Alliance Advisory Board; and the EU Best Environmental Practice in the Telecommunication and ICT Services Sector Working Group.
Before joining UEL in 2010, Rabih was with the Queen's University Belfast (QUB) for 10 years. He has over 20 years experience in software development and held visiting scientist/researcher positions at a number of academic and industrial research groups including the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Philips Research Labs, NL; Danfoss Power Electronics, DK; and George Mason University, USA.
Rabih has a PhD in Systems Engineering from the Queen's University Belfast, a BEng in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut; a PGCert from the University of East London; and a Certificate in Business Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Funded projects
- EU H2020 EURECA (March 2015 - Sept 2017, €1.51M) - role: PI.
- EU H2020 ICT COST Action cHiPSet (Nov 2015 - Sep 2018) - role: Partner.
- EU FP7 PEDCA (July 2013 - Jan 2015, €1.71M) - role: PI.
- UEL Challenge Fund (May 2010 - July 2011, £34K) - role: PI.
- EU RDF MUSA (July 2008 - Aug 2009, £76K) - role: PI.
- EU RDF MUSA - commercialization grant (Aug 2009 – Mar 2010, £20K) - role: PI.
- PhD Studentships: Rabih has received a number of PhD studentships funded by industry and public sector to work in areas such as Cloud Computing and Information Security.
INVITED TALKS AT INDUSTRIAL EVENTS
- Data Centre World, London, 11-12 March 2015
- Open Europe: Open Data for Open Society, Latvia, 19 February 2015
- Irish Computer Society, Ireland, 16 June 2014
- Data Centre Dynamics Conference, London, UK, 20-21 November 2013
- Enterprise Architecture International Forum (ITARC), Cartagena, Colombia, 10-13 September 2013
- IT Architecture UK Summit, London, UK, 24-25 April 2013
- Iasa World Summit, Austin, Texas, 5-6 December 2012
- Data Centre Transformation Conference, Leeds, UK, 27-28 June 2012
TEACHING
PhD supervisions:
- Anas Almharat (Logic and parallel/SAT solvers for Variability Management in SPL)
- Comfort Oyede (Open Data in the NHS)
- Daniel Schatz (Information Security)
- Eoin Woods (Software Architecture)
- Fawzi Fawzi (Cloud adoption in the Public Sector)
- Hassan Kasir (Cloud based Computational Finance)
- Nigar Jebraeili (Energy-Efficiency in Data Centres)
- Moustafa Nouriddine (Cloud Computing Performance & Scalability) (Completed Nov 2014)
- Muhammad Garba (Variability Management in SPL)
- Umaima Haidar (Software Architecture Variability)
MODULES
- SDD001 - Applied Research Tools and Techniques (PhD level)
- SDM023 - Security Management
- SD0001 - Introduction to Software Design
Publications
The last four years of publications can be viewed below.
Full publications list
Visit the research repository to view a full list of publications
- SWOT Analysis of Information Security Management System ISO 27001 International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics. 10 (4), p. 305–329. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSOI.2020.111297
- Optimizing server refresh cycles: The case for circular economy with an aging Moore’s Law IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. 7 (1), pp. 189-200. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2020.3035234
- Case Studies for achieving a Return on Investment with a Hardware Refresh in Organizations with Small Data Centers IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. 6 (4), pp. 599-611. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2020.3031450
- Security predictions — A way to reduce uncertainty Journal of Information Security and Applications. 45, pp. 107-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2019.01.009
- Towards Efficient and Scalable Data-Intensive Content Delivery: State-of-the-Art, Issues and Challenges in: Kilanioti, Irene, Fernández-Montes, Alejandro, Fernández-Cerero, Damián, Karageorgos, Anthony, Mettouris, Christos, Nejkovic, Valentina, Albanis, Nikolas, Bashroush, R. and Papadopoulos, George A.High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications: Selected Results of the COST Action IC1406 cHiPSet. Springer, Cham
- A Comprehensive Reasoning Framework for Hardware Refresh in Data Centers IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. 3 (4), pp. 209-220. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2018.2795465
- Representing Variability in Software Architecture: A Systematic Literature Review International Journal of Software Engineering and Computer Systems. 4 (2), pp. 19-37. https://doi.org/10.15282/ijsecs.4.2.2018.2.0046
- The ALI Architecture Description Language ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 43 (4), pp. 52-52. https://doi.org/10.1145/3282517.3282545
- Architectural Principles for Energy-Aware Internet-Scale Applications IEEE Software. 34 (3), pp. 14-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2017.60
- CASE Tool support for variability management in software product lines ACM Computing Surveys. 50 (Art. 14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3034827
- Towards a More Representative Definition of Cyber Security Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law. 12 (2), pp. 53-74. https://doi.org/10.15394/jdfsl.2017.1476
- gUML: Reasoning about Energy at Design Time by Extending UML Deployment Diagrams with Data Centre Contextual Information in: Jebraeil, Nigar, Noureddine, A., Doyle, J., Islam, S. and Bashroush, R.2017 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES). IEEE, pp.In Press
- Cloud Strife: Expanding the Horizons of Cloud Gaming Services in: Doyle, J., Islam, S., Bashroush, R. and O'Mahony, Donal2017 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES). IEEE