© Jens Leicht
Welcome to my academic
Since July 2024, conducting research as a post-doc at Salzburg Research GmbH (SRFG) ,
In March 2024, obtained a doctoral degree in technical science of informatics,
From Jan. 2021 until Dec. 2023, being a researcher/developer in the EU DataCloud project.
From Mar. 2018 until Nov. 2022, as a lecturer and research assistant,
In May 2016, obtained an M.Eng. degree under the supervision of Prof. N. Movahhedinia ,
In July 2012, obtained a B.Eng. degree under the supervision of Prof. M.R. Khayyambashi ,
Wondering why my webpage URL does not match my name?
'SiNa' is derived from the names of my parents, Si avash and Na srin.
EXDIGIT
Our paper is accepted at PES ISGT'26 conference for oral presentation in October.
Serving as a publicity co-chair at IoT 2026 conference .
Our paper, so-called X4-Match, is accepted for oral presentation at the IPDPS'26 conference; [Paper ].
This work extends our research conducted in the Gaia project .
Serving as a co-chair of the doctoral symposium and early-career research track at the CCGrid 2026 conference .
Presenting CF-PV paper at PES-ISGT Europe 2025 conference ; [Event ]; [Paper ]; [News ].
Presenting EPreMatch paper at IC2E 2025 conference ; [Event ]; [Paper ].
Presenting ADApt paper at ICFEC 2025 conference ; [Event ]; [Presentation ]; [Paper ].
Presenting the metadata creation procedure for an OpenSVP tool; [Event ].
Our DEEP paper investigates how to properly manage data and containerized microservice storage,
expanding the Docker Hub registry to the edge, using an AWS S3-compatible MinIO-based object storage service
that was mainly developed throughout the DataCloud EU project; [Paper on IEEE website ]; [Preprint ].
Presenting PreMatch paper at the Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems track of,
Our work, named ADApt, got accepted at IEEE ICFEC 2025 conference ; [Paper ].
ADApt presents an ML-based method for edge-device anomaly detection and microservice replica prediction.
This method is an extension of the ADA-PIPE framework developed throughout the DataCloud EU project.
Presenting at the i-Day 2025 event at the University of Salzburg, about:
Nachhaltige Digitalisierung durch grünes Bewusstsein; [Event ], [Vorträge ].
On 9-10th Dec. 2024, we had a two-day workshop with external advisory board in Salzburg, AT; [Event ].
Our prediction-based scheduler paper, named PreMatch, got accepted.
Exploring the digitalization of Smart Grid: [Ref-1 , Ref-2 ]
Plenary meeting of the exdigit cooperators for interdisciplinary research: [Event ].
GAIA SHOW / HIDE
GAIA
Contributing to devising a scheduling model for green video encoding services in the Cloud and Edge computing; [1 ], [2 ].
Contributing to providing a dataset for streaming from the server to the client device; [ref ].
Contributing to review of the recent works in energy-, and emission-aware video streaming; [ref ].
On 21st of November 2023, AAU held a workshop at Bitmovin ; [Event ].
KaerntnerFog
In March 2024, I contributed to the second deliverable for microservices orchestration of Smart-City and Virtual-Reality use cases.
Smart city use case, designed by FH-Kaernten University and Kurt Horvath ,
Virtual reality use case, designed by Selina Isak, focuses on a 360-degree video streaming framework.
DataCloud
On 25th Jun. 2024 , we presented the final demo of DataCloud to the EU project officer and reviewers.
On behalf of AAU, I represented and defended the ADA-PIPE tool.
On 30th Dec. 2023, we submitted the project's final deliverables. I contributed to the D6.6, D7.4, and D8.3 from the AAU side.
On 4th Dec. 2023, we held the second session of the ADA-PIPE toolkit tutorial and validation workshop in DCI course at AAU ; [Slides ].
AAU led one of the last deliverables and submitted Deliverable - 5.4 : Monitoring and resource behavior analysis.
DataCloud held a one-day toolbox-validation workshop in ICPM2023 conference in Rome; [Event ], [Certificate ].
ADA-PIPE v3 is released! ADA-PIPE v2 is released! On 14th Jul. 2023, my colleague Zahra Najafabadi Samani successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at AAU, [Event ].
On 30th Jun. 2023, my colleague Christian Bauer successfully defended his Master thesis at AAU, [Event ].
He collaborates in the DataCloud project to set up a resource utilization-aware prediction model in ADA-PIPE.
On 19th-22nd Jun. 2023, DataCloud meeting was held by iExec in Lyon, France, [Event ], [GroupPicture ], [Slides ].
On 23rd Feb. 2023, DataCloud passed the second review, [Event ], [StanaloneTool ].
ADA-PIPE v1 is released! Deliverable - 6.3 : DataCloud Integrated Toolbox v1.Deliverable - 4.3 : Applications and appliances repository.Deliverable - 5.3 : Event-detection and infrastructure and deployment adaptation.Deliverable - 5.1 : Data-aware resource provisioning across the computing continuum.
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2013-2015
Data Communication (undergraduate course)
Performance and Evaluation of Computer Networks (graduate course)
Internet Engineering (undergraduate course)
Advanced Distributed Systems (graduate course)
Incremental Multilayer Resource Partitioning for Application Placement in Dynamic Fog IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 1877-1896, 2023. Mobility-Aware IoT Applications Placement in the Cloud Edge Continuum IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 3358-3371, 2021. Randomized_SVD based Probabilistic Caching Strategy in Named Data Networks Journal of Computing and Security, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 217-231, 2018. Non-uniform EWMA-PCA based cache size allocation scheme in Named Data Networks Sci China Inf Sci, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 012104: 1-13, 2018. Performance Evaluation of Authentication-Encryption and Confidentiality Block Cipher Modes of Operation on Digital Image International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security (IJCNIS), Vol.9, No.9, pp. 30-37, 2017.
ADApt: Edge Device Anomaly Detection and Microservice Replica Prediction 2025 IEEE 9th International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC), May 2025 .PreMatch: A Prediction-based Scheduler for Dataflow Asynchronous Processing on the Computing Continuum Proceedings of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Mar-Apr. 2025 .Proactive SLA-aware Application Placement in the Computing Continuum 2023 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2023 , [Event ].MPEC2: Multilayer and Pipeline Video Encoding on the Computing Continuum IEEE 21st International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), December 2022 , [Event ].Matching-based Scheduling of Asynchronous Data Processing Workflows on the Computing Continuum IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), September 2022, [Event ].A Two-Sided Matching Model for Data Stream Processing in the Cloud – Fog Continuum 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), February 2021, [Presentation ], [Slides ].MAPO: A Multi-Objective Model for IoT Application Placement in a Fog Environment 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT2019), October 2019, [Slides ], [Event ].Towards Multi-metric Cache Replacement Policies in Vehicular Named Data Networks IEEE International Symposium on Person, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'18), 2018. A non-uniform cache size allocation scheme in Named Data Networks (in Persian) 21st Iranian National CSI Computer Conference (CSICC), 2016.
DEEP: Edge-Based Dataflow Processing with Hybrid Docker Hub and Regional Registries 2025 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), June 2025 .Scheduling of Distributed Applications on the Computing Continuum: A Survey 2nd Workshop on Intelligent and Adaptive Edge-Cloud Operations and Services, December 2023, [Event ].Comparison of Microservice Call Rate Predictions for Replication in the Cloud 3rd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum, December 2023, [Recorded presentation ].VE-Match: Video Encoding Matching-based Model for Cloud and Edge Computing Instances 1st International ACM Green Multimedia Systems Workshop, MMSys, 2023, [Event ].CNN-assisted Road Sign Inspection on the Computing Continuum 2nd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum, December 2022, [Event ], [Recorded presentation ].
Traces of Edge Device Utilization and Microservice Requirements/Replicas Dataset (version 1), Zenodo, March 2025. A trace of microservice time, call rate, and number of replicas Dataset (version 3), Zenodo, November 2024. A trace on microservice time and call rates Dataset (version 1), Zenodo, October 2023. Edge infrastructure traces Dataset (version 1), Zenodo, November 2022.
SC18, SC21, SC22, SC23.
UCC18 , UCC21, UCC22, UCC23.PDP19 , PDP22, PDP23.CCGrid19, CCGrid20, CCGrid21, CCGrid24, CCGrid25.
Europar20, Europar21, Europar22, Europar23.
ICFEC21, ICFEC22, ICFEC23, ICFEC25.
IPDPS23, IPDPS24.
GECON18, GECON24.
BPOD2024 (at BigData24).Intel4EC22 (at UCC22), Intel4EC23 (at UCC23).
