Dr Yehia Elkhatib

Reader (School of Computing Science)

Biography

I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, where I lead research in distributed systems that traverse infrastructural boundaries. My research group develops data-driven approaches to improve the performance and programmability of distributed systems. We tackle complex challenges in cloud interoperability, intent-driven networking, systems of systems composition, and edge computing - creating technologies that enable seamless application deployment across diverse computing infrastructures.

I earned my PhD in Network Measurement & Grid Computing from Lancaster University in 2011, following my MSc with Distinction in Networking and Internet Systems from the same institution.

Interested in joining my research group? I am accepting PhD students to supervise, and there are some studentships available from the university. Please read this information before getting in touch with me.

Research interests

I develop data-driven solutions to optimise complex systems.

My research has a particular emphasis on addressing resource utilisation challenges from a user-centric perspective, building tools to support decision making, modelling, and monitoring activities. This includes developing decision-support systems for cost-effective cloud deployment, memory-aware ML scheduling to reduce training errors and GPU resource requirements, and exploring energy-efficnet scheduling of scientific workflows.

I also work on enabling seamless interoperability between services, and to make the development and deployment of distributed systems easier. I have experience working on developing system of systems in IoT environments, designing intent-driven network architectures, and caching in information-centric networks.

Research groups

Glasgow Systems

Publications

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Number of items: 34.

2026

West, Kathleen, Moawad, Youssef, Lehmann, Fabian, Bountris, Vasilis, Leser, Ulf, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2026) A systematic evaluation of the potential of carbon-aware execution for scientific workflows. Future Generation Computer Systems, 182, 108453. (doi: 10.1016/j.future.2026.108453)

West, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Bountris, Vasilis, Thamm, Philipp, Leser, Ulf, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2026) Augur: Pre-Execution Energy Prediction for Workflow Tasks in Heterogeneous Clusters. In: IEEE CLOUD 2026, Sydney, Australia, 13-18 Jul 2026, pp. 214-224. ISBN 9798319511973 (doi: 10.1109/CLOUD72782.2026.00073)

Moawad, Youssef, West, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Bountris, Vasilis, Thamm, Philipp, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2026) How Accurately Can the Energy Use of Spark Applications Be Estimated Based on Resource Utilisation? In: 6th International Workshop on Performance and Energy Efficiency in Concurrent and Distributed Systems (PECS 2026), Pisa, Italy, 24 Aug 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

Lyko, Tomasz, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X, Ramdhany, Rajiv and Race, Nicholas (2026) Beyond bitrate: understanding the QoE impact of playback rate and seeking in adaptive video streaming. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 22(4), 98. (doi: 10.1145/3796724)

West, Kathleen, Reid, Magnus, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2026) Ichnos: a Carbon Footprint Estimator for Scientific Workflows. In: Post-Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 3 December 2024,

Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X, Harvey, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1243-938X, Nabi, Syed Waqar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3835-4851, Singer, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Vanderbauwhede, Wim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-0037 (2026) Energy-aware workflow execution: an overview of techniques for saving energy and emissions in scientific compute clusters. In: Ulf, Leser, Hilbrich, Marcus, Wilkinson, Sean R. and Ferreira da Silva, Rafael (eds.) Workflow Systems for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analysis. Berlin Universities Publishing, pp. 621-652. ISBN 9783987810671 (doi: 10.14279/depositonce-25838)

2025

Shi, Jiabo, Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X and Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X (2025) xMem: A CPU-Based Approach for Accurate Estimation of GPU Memory in Deep Learning Training Workloads. In: 26th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, Nashville, TN, USA, 15-19 December 2025, pp. 256-269. ISBN 9798400715549 (doi: 10.1145/3721462.3770773)

Lyko, Tomasz, Austin, Edward, Lee, Alexander, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Race, Nicholas (2025) The Double-Edged Impact of User Customisation on QoE in Personalised Media Experiences. In: 17th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX’25), Madrid, Spain, 30 September - 2 October 2025, ISBN 9798331554354 (doi: 10.1109/QoMEX65720.2025.11219986)

Warburton, Ewan, Elhabbash, Abdessalam, Ezzini, Saad and Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X (2025) The IoT Whisperer: a Framework for Intelligent IoT Service Composition through LLMs. In: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2025), Helsinki, Finland, 7-12 July 2025, pp. 54-64. ISBN 9798331555573 (doi: 10.1109/CLOUD67622.2025.00016)

West, Kathleen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Lehmann, Fabian, Bountris, Vasilis, Leser, Ulf, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2025) Exploring the Potential of Carbon-Aware Execution for Scientific Workflows. In: 25th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid2025), Tromsø, Norway, 19-22 May 2025, pp. 325-328. ISBN 9798331509347 (doi: 10.1109/CCGRID64434.2025.00056)

Wang, Huanting, Jacob, Dejice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4137-0353, Kelly, David, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X, Singer, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Wang, Zheng (2025) SecureMind: a Framework for Benchmarking Large Language Models in Memory Bug Detection and Repair. In: 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2025), Seoul, South Korea, 17 June 2025, pp. 27-40. ISBN 9798400716102 (doi: 10.1145/3735950.3735954)

Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X, Harvey, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1243-938X, Nabi, Syed Waqar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3835-4851, Singer, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Vanderbauwhede, Wim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-0037 (2025) Energy-aware workflow execution: an overview of techniques for saving energy and emissions in scientific compute clusters. arXiv, 2506.04062. (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.04062)

Wafi, Afiq, Elhabbash, Abdessalam and Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X (2025) TRANSITIVE: opTimising netwoRk trAnsfer aNd planS In mulTI-cloud enVironmEnts. In: 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 16-19 Dec 2024, pp. 336-345. ISBN 9798350367201 (doi: 10.1109/UCC63386.2024.00054)

2024

Djouela Kamgang, Ines Raissa, Elhabbash, Abdessalam and Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X (2024) PricingTheCloud: A Pricing Estimator for an Informed Cloud-Migration Process. In: 20th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2024), Rome, Italy, 27-26 Sep 2024, pp. 100-111. ISBN 9783031812262 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-81226-2_10)

Elhabbash, Abdessalam, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X, Nundloll, Vatsala, Sanz Marco, Vicent and Blair, Gordon S. (2024) Principled and automated system of systems composition using an ontological architecture. Future Generation Computer Systems, 157, pp. 499-515. (doi: 10.1016/j.future.2024.03.034)

Lyko, Tomasz, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X, Ramdhany, Rajiv and Race, Nicholas (2024) Drop or Stop: Investigating the Impact of Playback Rate on QoE in Adaptive Video Streaming. In: 16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX’24), Karlshamn, Sweden, 18-20 Jun 2024, pp. 111-117. ISBN 9798350361582 (doi: 10.1109/QoMEX61742.2024.10598252)

do Carmo Alves, Matheus Aparecido, Varma, Amokh, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Marcolino, Leandro Soriano (2024) It Is Among Us: Identifying Adversaries in Ad-hoc Domains Using Q-valued Bayesian Estimations. In: 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Auckland, New Zealand, 06-10 May 2024, pp. 472-480. ISBN 9798400704864

2023

Hasan, Soyaba and Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X (2023) On the interplay between self-adaptation and energy efficiency. In: Hassanien, AboulElla, Rizk, Rawya Y., Pamucar, Dragan, Darwish, Ashraf and Chang, Kuo-Chi (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2023. Series: Lecture notes on data engineering and communications technologies, 184. Springer, pp. 130-139. ISBN 9783031432460 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-43247-7_12)

Elhabbash, Abdessalam, Rogoda, Kamil and Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X (2023) MARTIN: An End-to-end Microservice Architecture for Predictive Maintenance in Industry 4.0. In: IEEE International Conference on Software Services Engineering (IEEE SSE 2023), Chicago, IL, USA, 02-08 Jul 2023, ISBN 9798350340754 (doi: 10.1109/SSE60056.2023.00013)

Lyko, Tomasz, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X, Ramdhany, Rajiv and Race, Nicholas (2023) Differential QoE in Picture-in-Picture Gaming Videos: A Subjective Study. In: 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2023), Ghent, Belgium, 20-22 June 2023, ISBN 9798350311730 (doi: 10.1109/QoMEX58391.2023.10178572)

Zhang, Ziyu, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Elhabbash, Abdessalam (2023) NLP-based Generation of Ontological System Descriptions for Composition of Smart Home Devices. In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2023), Chicago, IL, USA, 02-08 Jul 2023, pp. 360-370. ISBN 9798350304855 (doi: 10.1109/ICWS60048.2023.00055)

Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Povedano Poyato, Jose (2023) An Evaluation of Service Mesh Frameworks for Edge Systems. In: The 6th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys 2023), Rome, Italy, 08 May 2023, ISBN 9798400700828 (doi: 10.1145/3578354.3592867)

do Carmo Alves, Matheus Aparecido, Varma, Amokh, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Marcolino, Leandro Soriano (2023) Information-Guided Planning: An Online Approach for Partially Observable Problems. In: NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, USA, 10-16 December 2023,

2022

Tian, Jihua, Elhabbash, Abdessalam and Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X (2022) Predicting Cloud Performance Using Real-time VM-level Metrics. In: 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing & Communications (HPCC-2022), Chengdu, China, 18-21 Dec 2022, pp. 1165-1172. ISBN 9798350319934 (doi: 10.1109/HPCC-DSS-SmartCity-DependSys57074.2022.00184)

Elhabbash, Abdessalam, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X, Bouloukakis, Georgios and Salama, Maria (2022) A Middleware for Automatic Composition and Mediation in IoT Systems. In: 12th International Conference on the Internet of Things, Delft, The Netherlands, 07-10 Nov 2022, pp. 127-134. ISBN 9781450396653 (doi: 10.1145/3567445.3567451)

Wang, Zhuo, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Elhabbash, Abdessalam (2022) HolonCraft – an Architecture for Dynamic Construction of Smart Home Workflows. In: 2022 9th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), Rome, Italy, 22-24 Aug 2022, pp. 213-220. ISBN 9781665493505 (doi: 10.1109/FiCloud57274.2022.00036)

Adoga, Haruna Umar, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Pezaros, Dimitrios P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2022) On the Performance Benefits of Heterogeneous Virtual Network Function Execution Frameworks. In: 4th International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Next Generation Virtualized Environments and Software-Defined Networks, Milan, Italy, 27 Jun - 1 Jul 2022, pp. 109-114. ISBN 9781665406949 (doi: 10.1109/NetSoft54395.2022.9844115)

Aparecido do Carmo Alves, Matheus, Varma, Amokh, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Soriano Marcolino, Leandro (2022) AdLeap-MAS: An Open-source Multi-Agent Simulator for Ad-hoc Reasoning. In: 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022), Auckland, New Zealand, 9-13 May 2022, pp. 1893-1895. ISBN 9781450392136

Lyko, Tomasz, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X, Sparks, Michael, Race, Nicholas and Ramdhany, Rajiv (2022) QoE Assessment for Multi-Video Object Based Media. In: 2022 14th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Lippstadt, Germany, 05-07 Sep 2022, ISBN 9781665487948 (doi: 10.1109/QoMEX55416.2022.9900905)

2021

Elhabbash, Abdessalam and Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X (2021) Energy-Aware Placement of Device-to-Device Mediation Services in IoT System. In: 19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2021), Virtual Event, 22–25 November 2021, pp. 335-350. ISBN 9783030914301 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-91431-8_21)

Lindsay, Dominic, Yeung, Gingfung, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Garraghan, Peter (2021) An Empirical Study of Inter-cluster Resource Orchestration within Federated Cloud Clusters. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Joint Cloud Computing (JCC), Oxford, UK, 23-26 Aug 2021, ISBN 9781665434805 (doi: 10.1109/JCC53141.2021.00019)

Elhabbash, Abdessalam, Bahsoon, Rami, Tino, Peter, Lewis, Peter and Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X (2021) Attaining Meta-Self-Awareness Through Assessment of Quality-of-Knowledge. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Chicago, IL, USA, 05-10 Sep 2021, pp. 712-723. ISBN 9781665416818 (doi: 10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00099)

Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Elhabbash, Abdessalam (2021) If a System is Learning to Self-adapt, Who's Teaching? In: 16th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2021), Madrid, Spain, 18-24 May 2021, pp. 256-257. ISBN 9781665402897 (doi: 10.1109/SEAMS51251.2021.00043)

Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Hill, Kieran (2021) Memes to an End: A Look Into What Makes a Meme Offensive. In: MISINFO 2021 Workshop on Misinformation Integrity in Social Networks, 15 Apr 2021,

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Articles

Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X, Harvey, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1243-938X, Nabi, Syed Waqar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3835-4851, Singer, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Vanderbauwhede, Wim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-0037 (2025) Energy-aware workflow execution: an overview of techniques for saving energy and emissions in scientific compute clusters. arXiv, 2506.04062. (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.04062)

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Grants

AI4ME (EPSRC) £3.8m
ABC (EPSRC) £775k
DIONASYS (CHIST-ERA) €1.03m

More info here: https://yelkhatib.github.io/p_research.html

Supervision

Boswell, Elizabeth
Improving the Security of the AS112 Network
Shi, Jiabo
A Deep-Learning Tailored Scheduler for Out-Of-Memory Awareness in Shared Clusters
West, Kathleen
Carbon-Aware Execution of Scientific Workflows on Heterogeneous Clusters

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Cloud Systems
Systems Programming
Advanced Programming
Building Big Data Systems
Distributed Systems
Data Science Fundamentals

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