Mahesh K. Marina

Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA)
School of Informatics
The University of Edinburgh

E-mail: mahesh<at>ed.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)131 650 5125

Fax: +44 (0)131 651 5651

Room 1.20, Informatics Forum (Central area campus)
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Scotland, UK

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 currently also serve as the Director of Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (one of the six research institutes within Informatics). 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, intersecting with (edge) cloud computing, applied machine learning and security/privacy. Recent focus has been on various facets of emerging 5G mobile networking systems. Within Informatics@Edinburgh, I'm a member of the Networks Research Group as well as the Security and Privacy group.

Publications (Google Scholar, DBLP)

Team:

Current PhD Students

Caner Kilinc
Chuanhao Sun
Jon Larrea
Leyang Xue

Graduated PhD Students

Giacomo Bernardi (now at Extreme Networks)
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

Open Positions I am currently recruiting to fill Postdoc and PhD openings in my team asap. If your research interests and experience align with my interests above, please e-mail me with your 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 ('22, '21, ..), IEEE INFOCOM ('22, '21, ..)
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)