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Lotfi Mhamdi

Lotfi Mhamdi

  • Position: Lecturer
  • Areas of expertise: next generation networks; networks for data centres; architecture, design and analysis of high-performance switches and internet routers; software-defined networking.
  • Email: L.Mhamdi@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 6919
  • Location: 359 School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Profile

Lotfi Mhamdi received the Master of Philosophy (MPhil.) degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2002 and the PhD. degree in computer engineering from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, in 2007. He continued his work at TU Delft as post-doctoral researcher, working on high-performance networking tropics within various European Union funded research projects. Since July 2011, he has been a Lecturer with the school of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds, UK. Dr. Mhamdi is/was a technical program committee member in various conferences, including the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), the IEEE GLOBECOM, the IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), and the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NoCS).
He is/was the TPC Co-Chair of the Green Computing, Networking, and Communications Symposium(GCNC 2020), the TPC co-Chair of GLOBECOM (NGNI Symposium) 2020. He is currently serving as the vice-chair for the IEEE ComSoc technical committee on Communication Switching and Routing (CSR-TC). His research work spans the area of high-performance networks including the architecture, design, analysis, scheduling, and management of high-performance switches and Internet routers. He is a member of the IEEE.


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Responsibilities

  • Programme Manager: Digital Communication Networks
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Qualifications

  • PhD. Technical University of Delft (TU Delft), the Netherlands
  • MPhil. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Professional memberships

  • Member of IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, HiPEAC

Student education

I teach in the following areas:

- Embedded Systems

- High-Speed Internet Architecture

Research groups and institutes

  • Institute of Communication and Power Networks

Current postgraduate researchers

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>
Projects
    <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/722-software-defined-quantum-key-distribution-networks">Software-Defined Quantum Key Distribution Networks</a></li>