Mahesh K. Marina

Short Bio

I’m a Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. At Edinburgh, I have served as the Director of Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (one of the six research institutes within Informatics) between August 2018 and July 2022. Before joining Edinburgh, I had a two-year postdoctoral stint at the UCLA Computer Science Department in the Mobile Systems Laboratory headed by Prof. Rajive Bagrodia. I earned my PhD in Computer Science in 2004 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where my advisor was Prof. Samir Das. I have previously held visiting researcher positions at ETH Zurich and at Ofcom London. I’m a Distinguished Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Research

My research mostly falls in the areas of wireless networks and mobile systems but also heavily intersects with edge/cloud computing, applied machine learning, network security and privacy. Recent focus has been on various facets of 5G and beyond mobile networking systems. Within Informatics@Edinburgh, I'm part of the Networked Systems (NetSys) Group and the Security and Privacy group.

Publications (Google Scholar, DBLP)

Team:

Postdocs

• Tanya Shreedhar
• Alejandro Blanco
• Waleed Ahsan

• Caner Kilinc
• Chuanhao Sun
• Jon Larrea
• Leyang Xue
• Roger Lo

Graduated PhD Students

• Giacomo Bernardi (now a Principal Engineer at Amazon AWS)
• Sofia Pediaditaki (now at Intel)
• Arsham Farshad (now at BT Research)
• Lito Kriara (now at Roche)
• Valentin Radu (now at the University of Sheffield)
• Saravana Manickam (now running an IoT startup)
• Xenofon Foukas (now at Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
• Mahrukh Fida (now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Simula Research Laboratory)
• Galini Tsoukaneri (now at Samsung Research UK)
• Mohamed Kassem (now at University of Surrey / Edinburgh)
• Rajkarn Singh (now at Huawei Edinburgh Research Centre)

• Postdoc and PhD Positions: Interested applicants should e-mail me with their CV.

Teaching

I am involved in teaching the following courses:

• UG4/MSc Computer Networking (CN)
• UG3 Computer Communications and Networks (COMN)

Professional Service (recent/selected)

• Program Committee Member: ACM MobiCom ('23, '22, ..), IEEE INFOCOM ('23, '22, ..)
• Organising Committee Member (2018 - present), MobiUK
• Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member (till 2013), ACM MobiCom WiNTECH Workshop
• Co-Founder and Organising Committee Member (till 2014), SCONE (SCOttish Networking Event)