Muhammad Waqas, Doctoral student


Muhammad Waqas is a PhD student at the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering at Mälardalen University. He holds a master’s degree in Intelligent Embedded Systems. His research focuses on industrial communication, containerization, and modular automation.

Waqas is currently a part of FLEXATION - Flexible and Secure Modular Automation project. The objective of this project is to build and develop a design methodology for the next generation automaion systems.

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Latest publications:

Towards Integration of Legacy and Modular Automation Systems with Containerization (Sep 2025)
Muhammad Waqas, Per Erik Strandberg, Johan Furunäs-Åkesson, Saad Mubeen, Mohammad Ashjaei
ETFA'25 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'25)

Deployment of Real-Time Containers in TSN-based Distributed Embedded Systems
Muhammad Waqas, Per Erik Strandberg, Johan Furunas Åkesson , Saad Mubeen, Mohammad Ashjaei
International Workshop on Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Cloud (RT-Cloud '26)

Performance-Aware Deployment of Real-Time Containers in Distributed Embedded Systems
Muhammad Waqas, Per Erik Strandberg, Johan Furunas Åkesson , Saad Mubeen, Mohammad Ashjaei
34th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2026)