11/05/2026
🎉Welcome Zirui Zhou to the SCS Lab!
Zirui is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Advanced Computing at the University of Sydney. We are excited to have him join the lab and look forward to his contributions to drone swarm delivery research. Welcome to the team, Zirui! 🚀
💎 Project title: Constraint-driven formation and positioning of drone swarms
04/05/2026
🎉Welcome Harriyanto to the SCS Lab!
Harriyanto is currently pursuing a Master of Data Science at the University of Sydney. We are excited to have him join the lab and look forward to his contributions to drone swarm delivery research. Welcome to the team, Harriyanto! 🚀
💎 Project title: Turbulence-Aware Inter-Drone Distance Management in Drone Swarms
20/04/2026
🎉Congratulations to Thilina Lokuruge, Prof. Athman Bouguettaya, Amani Abusafia, and Abdallah Lakhdari for their accepted paper in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) !🎉
💎Paper title: Detection of Trust Information Tampering in IoT Service Environments
25/11/2025
🎉 Congratulations to Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, Athman Bouguettaya, Thilina Lokuruge, Shing Tai Tony Lui, and Syeda Amna Rizvi for their accepted paper in the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing 2025! 🎉
💠Syeda Amna Rizvi and Athman Bouguettaya, 'Optimizing QoS fulfillment of Drone Services'
💠Thilina Lokuruge and Athman Bouguettaya, 'Detecting AI-Assisted Tampering in Crowdsourced IoT Service Trust Information'
💠Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia, Shing Tai Tony Lui and Athman Bouguettaya, 'Preference-aware crowdsourcing of IoT energy services'
26/10/2025
🎉 Congratulations to Haoren Zheng, Syeda Amna Rizvi, Muhammad Umair, and Prof. Athman Bouguettaya for their accepted demo paper in the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2025! 🎉
🔹 Paper Title: Managing Drone Traffic in Urban Skyway Networks
25/08/2025
🎉Congratulations to Ali Hamdi, Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shahzad, Prof. Athman Bouguettaya, Azadeh Ghari Neiat, and Flora Salim for their accepted paper in the Journal of Expert Systems With Applications🎉
🔹 Paper Title: Drone-as-a-Service: Research Challenges and Directions
🔹 Link to the paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11134278
19/08/2025
🎉Congratulations to Thilina Lokuruge and Prof. Athman Bouguettaya for their accepted paper in IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2025) held in Helsinki, Finland!🎉
💎Paper title: Ensuring Trust Information Availability for Ubiquitous Trustworthy IoT Services
💎Link to the profile: http://scslab.net/our-team/thilina-thilakarathna/
10/08/2025
🎉Congratulations to Syeda Amna Rizvi and Prof. Athman Bouguettaya for their accepted paper in IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2025) held in Helsinki, Finland!🎉
💎Paper title: Service-based Interference Resolution in Multi-drone Skyway Networks
💎Link to the profile: http://scslab.net/our-team/syeda-amna-rizvi/
04/08/2025
🎉Congratulations to Ethan Katte, Muhammad Umair, and Prof. Athman Bouguettaya for their accepted paper in IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2025) held in Helsinki, Finland!🎉
💎Paper title: Servitizing Image Provenance for Fake Image Detection
💎Link to the profile: http://scslab.net/our-team/muhammad-umair/
30/06/2025
🎓Congratulations to Dr. Muhammad Umair on being conferred the PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Sydney! Proud of you! 🌟
PhD Thesis Title: Determining the Trust of Social Media Images
Profile Link: http://scslab.net/our-team/muhammad-umair/