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Dr. Toqeer A Israr, Associate Professor and Computer & Information Technology Coordinator
Office: 4513 - Lumpkin Hall
Phone: 217-581-2721
Fax: 581-6607
Email: taisrar@eiu.edu
Website: http://www.eiu.edu/tech/faculty.php?id=taisrar&subcat=
Hello and Welcome !
My name is Toqeer Israr and I am an Associate Professor at School of Technology at Eastern Illinois University. Though my area of expertise is Software Engineering, I am a self proclaimed jack-of-all-trades :) !
My office is at 4513 Lumpkin Hall, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, Illinois 61920.
My office hrs vary semester to semester - Best way of getting hold of me is to email me at taisrar@eiu.edu.
Frequently Taught Courses
A) Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University 2015 – current
1. Multimedia and Web Technology Summer 2016
2. Big Data and Hadoop (author) Summer 2016
3. Database Security and Reliability Spring 2016
4. Multimedia and Web Technology Spring 2016
5. Total Quality Systems Spring 2016
6. Mobile App Development Spring 2016
7. Multimedia and Web Technology Fall 2015
8. Advance Web Technologies Fall 2015
9. Database Security and Reliability Fall 2015
B) Instructor, Eastern Illinois University 2014 – 2015
1. Total Quality Systems Spring 2015
2. Advance Database Spring 2015
3. Science and Technology of Leadership Spring 2015
4. Total Quality Systems Fall 2014
5. Global Technology Fall 2014
6. Science and Technology of Leadership Fall 2014
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2008 – 2014
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| Thesis: | Modeling and Performance Analysis of Distributed Services with Collaboration Behaviour Diagram |
| Advisor | Dr. Gregor v Bochmann |
| Summary: | · Modeled the behaviour of a composite distributed system with several inputs and outputs |
| · Analyzed a distributed system to calculate the performance of a global collaboration in terms of the performance of its sub-collaborations | |
| · Developed a methodology to realize dependencies and measure delays between inputs and outputs of black-box systems | |
| · Presented research papers and demonstrated a prototype in various Conferences and to Faculty members |
Masters in Applied Sciences (MASc) in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2002 – 2005
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| Thesis: | A Technique for Transformation of Annotated UML 2.0 Models to Core Scenario Models |
| Advisor | Dr. Dorina Petriu |
| Summary: | · As part of a larger performance analysis project, I investigated and implemented various methods of transformations of UML 2.0 Models with Performance Annotation to Core Scenario Models utilizing the powerful features of IBM’s Eclipse v 3.0 and IBM Rational Software Development Platform |
| · Presented various research and demonstrated a prototype to various Faculty members as well as Industrial partners |
Bachelors of Computer Systems Engineering – Graduation with Distinction 1998 – 2002
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Professional Organizations
o Program Committee Member of IAJC/ISAM Joint International Conference
o Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
o Member of IEEE Communications Society (ICS)
o Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Research
Research interests include the following:
Software Engineering
– Modeling and analyzing systems with various Software paradigms such as UML, UCM, etc.;
– Modeling and analyzing the behaviour of a composite distributed system with several inputs and outputs;
– Analyzing the distributed systems to calculate the performance of a global collaboration in terms of the performance of its sub-collaborations;
– Developing a methodology to realize dependencies and measure delays between inputs and outputs of black-box systems;
– Analyzing Web Services for the use of traditional/deep web-crawlers;
– Developing methodologies for web crawling for Rich Internet Applications
Selected Publications
Book:
· Toqeer Israr, “Modeling and Performance Analysis of Distributed Systems with Collaboration Behaviour Diagrams”, Saarbrücken, Germany, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014
Journal Papers:
· Toqeer Israr, “Performance Analysis of Distributed Systems Involving Loops”, International Association of Journals and Conferences / International Society of Agile Manufacturing, 2016 (accepted)
· Toqeer Israr, Gregor v Bochmann, "Modeling and Performance Analysis of Stochastic Distributed Services", Journal Paper, (submitted to SoSyM – International Journal on Software and Systems Modeling)
· Toqeer Israr, Gregor v Bochmann, "Modeling and Performance Analysis of Distributed Services", Journal Paper (Work in Progress)
Selected Conference Presentations
Conference / Workshops / Others:
· Toqeer Israr, Gregor v Bochmann, "Modeling and Performance Analysis of Distributed Services with Stochastic Delays", 16th Intern. Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems MODELS 2016, Saint-Malo, France, 2016 (submitted)
· Toqeer Israr, “Performance Analysis of Distributed Systems Involving Loops”, International Association of Conferences, Orlando, USA, 2016 (accepted)
· Pavan Kumar Kompelly, Toqeer Israr, “Design and Analysis of ‘Book a Ride’”, The Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering, Orlando, USA, 2016 (accepted)
· Bharath Donthineni, Toqeer Israr, “Design and Analysis of ‘Online Traffic Violation System’”, The Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering, Orlando, USA, 2016 (accepted)
· Pavan Kumar Kompelly, Toqeer Israr, “Book a Ride”, Student Research and Creative Discovery Conference, Graduate Student Expo Conference (EIU), Charleston, USA, 2016
· Bharath Donthineni, Toqeer Israr, “Online Traffic Violation System”, Graduate Student Expo Conference (EIU), Charleston, USA, 2016
· Pavan Kumar Kompelly, Toqeer Israr, “Book a Ride - Design”, Student Research and Creative Discovery Conference, Charleston, USA, 2016
· Bharath Donthineni, Toqeer Israr, “Online Traffic Violation System - Design”, Student Research and Creative Discovery Conference, Charleston, USA, 2016
· Arif Ali Jalbani, Toqeer Israr, Rendong Bai, Isaac Slaven, Peter Ping Liu, “A Study of Effect of Surface Condition on Energy Production of Photovoltaic Solar Arrays”, The Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering, Pittsburgh, USA, 2015
· Rishank Chandra Puram, Toqeer Israr, Peter Ping Liu, Rendong Bai, “Arduino Board and Arduino Integrated Development Environment”, The Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering, Pittsburgh, USA, 2015
· Shyam Gurram, Toqeer Israr, Peter Liu, “Research Tracking Application”, Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Charleston, IL, 2015, pp 7-8
· Shyam Gurram, Toqeer Israr, Peter Liu, “Single Line Portal”, Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Charleston, IL, 2015 pp. pg 7-8
· Toqeer Israr, Gregor v Bochmann, "Stochastic Mathematical Performance Models Simplified", 7th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering ICPE 2016, Delft, Netherlands, 2016
· Toqeer Israr, "Modeling and Performance Analysis of Distributed Services with Collaboration Behaviour Diagrams", PhD Dissertation, Dept. Elect. Eng. and Comp. Sc., University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 2014
· Toqeer Israr, Gregor von Bochmann, Performance Modeling of Distributed Collaboration Services with Independent Inputs/Outputs. Proc. of 5th Intern. Workshop on Non-functional Properties in Modeling: Analysis, Languages and Processes co-located with 16th Intern. Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, Miami, USA, September 29, 2013 pp. 16-23
· Toqeer Israr, Gregor von Bochmann: Stochastic Performance Analysis of Distributed Activities. Proc. of 5th Intern. Workshop on Non-functional Properties in Modeling: Analysis, Languages and Processes co-located with 16th Intern. Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, Miami, USA, September 29, 2013, pp. 24-31
· Toqeer Israr, Gregor von Bochmann, “Performance modeling of distributed collaboration services”, International Conference on Performance Engineering, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp: 475-480, 2011
· Dorina C. Petriu, C. Murray Woodside, Dorin Bogdan Petriu, Jing Xu, Toqeer Israr, Geri Georg, Robert B. France, James M. Bieman, Siv Hilde Houmb, Jan Jürjens: Performance analysis of security aspects in UML models. WOSP 2007: 91-102
· Toqeer Israr, "Transformation of UML 2.0 models into Core Scenario Models", MASc Thesis, Dept. Comp. Sys. Eng., Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2005
· M. Woodside, D. C. Petriu, D. B. Petriu, H. Shen, T. Israr, J. Merseguer, “Performance by Unified Model Analysis (PUMA)”, Proc. of The 5th ACM Workshop on Software and Performance, pp. 1-12, Palma, Spain, July 11-14, 2005.
· Toqeer Israr, Dorina Petriu, “Performance Analysis of UML Models”, CASTLE 2004 Technical Links Events, Ottawa, ON, Canada. December 9, 2005
· Umar Farooq, Toqeer Israr, Kashif I. Siddiqui, "Thin-Client Architecture for location dependent mobile services over short-range communications", In the proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies, Austin, TX, USA. August 14-17, 2004
Community
University Related:
· Program Committee Member of IAJC/ISAM Joint International Conference
· Member of the Council of Faculty Research
· Member of the Applied Engineering and Technology Program Committee
· Member of the Graduate Faculty Committee
· Member of the Energy Conference & Sustainability Planning Committee
· Member of the Bachelors of Science – Computer Information Technology Committee
· Advisor to the Eastern Illinois University Cricket club
· Advisor to several International Students
Personal:
· Volunteer as a Technology Specialist for CIMIC Sunday school. Responsibilities included
o setting up and maintaining the digital equipment including laptops, computers, digital signs, and website related to the CIMIC
o designing, creating, and printing of Certificates of program completions for all students
o Distributing news bulletin to concerned parties (including parents, administration etc)
o Coordinating and assisting in various activities in CIMIC Sunday school
· Assisted in organizing various recreational activities organized by Canada Pakistan Association
· Assisted in organizing various activities organized by Muslim Student Association
