Mohammad Goudarzi

Bio: I am currently an Assistant Professor, and Organizer of Monash Software Systems and Cybersecurity (SSC) Seminars series in the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity (SSC), at Monash University. I am selected as a Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) Top 200 young computer science and mathematics scientist in 2024. Also, I am the recipeint of 2022 IEEE TCCLD Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, 2022 IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2022 Oracle Cloud Architect of the Year Award, and 2021 IEEE Outstanding Service Award.

Research Interest: My current research interests lie at the intersection of Distributed Systems, Cloud/Edge Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Machine Learning. Explore the Open Positions, Research Projects, and Research Team sections to discover the exciting topics we are currently working on. Iโ€™m always eager to collaborate on innovative ideas, and I encourage passionate students to reach out and discuss their ideas with me. Let us create something impactful together!

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Faculty of Information Technology (FIT),
Monash University,
Clayton, VIC, Australia

Open Positions

1. PhD Positions in Distributed Systems for Machine Learning (International and Australia)

Looking for motivated students interested in designing and implementation of Machine Learning solutions over large-scale Distributed Systems (e.g., distributed inference, distributed tranining, federated learning).

2. PhD Positions in Applied Machine Learning for Distributed Systems problems (International and Australia)

Looking for motivated students interested in applying Machine Learning solutions for Distribtued Systems problems (e.g., scheduling, routing, loadd balancing)

3. Master Research Students (Australia)

Multiple openings for research thesis in large-scale Distributed Systems (e.g., Cloud, Edge, IoT), Distributed Machine Learning, and Distributed Data Processing for Big Data.

Latest News

Accepted Paper in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

2025-01-10

Our paper "TF-DDRL: A Transformer-enhanced Distributed DRL Technique for Scheduling IoT Applications in Edge and Cloud Computing Environments" got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE A*). Congratulations to Zhiyu ๐ŸŽ‰

HLF Top 200 Young Scientists

2024-09-1

I am selected as one of the top 200 young computer science and mathematics by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) and will attend 11th HLF in Heidelberg, Germany

Assistant Professor @Monash University

2024-07-08

Statrted new position at Monash University as an Assistant Professor!

PATENT

2024-06-01

Our project, "IoT Data Security Project," culminated in the development of a patented innovation titled "Method and Device for Determining Security Compliance of Network Infrastructure."

Senior Research Associate @UNSW Sydney

2023-01-20

I will be joining the UNSW Sydney to work as the Lead Researcher in the IoT Data Security project in collaboration with Cisco and Cybersecurity CRC

IEEE TCSC Best PhD Thesis Award

2022-12-10

My PhD thesis awarded Outstanding PhD Thesis Award by IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (IEEE TCSC). Citation reads as โ€œFor Energy and Time Aware Scheduling of Applications in Edge and Fog Computing Environmentsโ€

IEEE TCCLD Best PhD Thesis Award

2022-12-01

My PhD thesis awarded Outstanding PhD Thesis Award by IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCCLD). Citation reads as โ€œFor outstanding research on energy and time aware scheduling of Internet of Things applications in Edge and Fog computing environments using novel Artificial Intelligence-enabled techniques.โ€

Oracle Cloud Architect of the Year Award

2022-09-01

We have received Oracle Cloud Architect of the Year AWard 2022

IEEE Outstanding Service Award

2021-05-13

I received IEEE Outstanding Service Award. Citation Reads as "For your services as Cyber Chair to The 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing"

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) ARM Accelerator Grant

2021-03-01

We have receveid "OCI ARM Accelerator Grant" to develop and deploy our resource management framework for IoT data

Rowden White Scholarship

2019-02-15

I am selected as the Highly Talented Graduate Student among all Graduate Students at The University of Melbourne and receveid "The Rowden White Scholarship"

Current Projects

SmartScaleSys (S3)

AI-Driven Resource Management for Efficient and Sustainable Large-Scale Distributed Systems

NeuroDistSys (NDS)

Optimized Distributed Training and Inference on Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Selected Papers

TF-DDRL: A Transformer-enhanced Distributed DRL Technique for Scheduling IoT Applications in Edge and Cloud Computing Environments

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)

2025
CORE A*

Method and device for determining security compliance of network infrastructure

Patent with UNSW, Cisco, CSCRC

2024
Patent

Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Scheduling for Optimizing System Load and Response Time in Edge and Fog Computing Environments

Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

2024
CORE A / JCR Q1

ฮผ-DDRL: A QoS-Aware Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning Technique for Service Offloading in Fog Computing Environments

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)

2023
CORE A*

A Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning Technique for Application Placement in Edge and Fog Computing Environments

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)

2023
CORE A*

Scheduling IoT Applications in Edge and Fog Computing Environments: A Taxonomy and Future Directions

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

2022
CORE A*

iFogSim: An extended iFogSim Simulator for Mobility, Clustering, and Microservice Management in Edge and Fog Computing Environments

Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

2022
CORE A / JCR Q1

An Application Placement Technique for Concurrent IoT Applications in Edge and Fog Computing Environments

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)

2020
CORE A*

A Fog-driven Dynamic Resource Allocation Technique in Ultra Dense Femtocell Networks

Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)

2020
CORE A / JCR Q1

A Fast Hybrid Multi-site Computation Offloading for Mobile Cloud Computing

Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)

2017
CORE A / JCR Q1