| 2017 | SENSYS | Inverting HVAC for energy efficient thermal comfort in populous emerging countries. | Khadija Hafeez, Yasra Chandio, Abu Bakar, Ayesha Ali, Affan A. Syed, Tariq M. Jadoon, Muhammad Hamad Alizai |
| 2016 | EWSN | Simulating Intermittently Powered Embedded Networks. | Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Qasim Raza, Yasra Chandio, Affan A. Syed, Tariq M. Jadoon |
| 2015 | EWSN | Recycling Corrupt Packets over Multiple Hops. | Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Muhammad Moosa Khattak, Dong Han, Omprakash Gnawali, Affan A. Syed |
| 2014 | DSN | Titan: Enabling Low Overhead and Multi-faceted Network Fingerprinting of a Bot. | Osama Haq, Waqar Ahmed, Affan A. Syed |
| 2014 | SENSYS | Low cost HVAC systems for energy management in developing countries: poster abstract. | Syed Aftab Rashid, Affan A. Syed |
| 2013 | CCS | BotFlex: a community-driven tool for botnetdetection. | Sheharbano Khattak, Zaafar Ahmed, Affan A. Syed, Syed Ali Khayam |
| 2013 | LCN | A framework to rapidly test SDN use-cases and accelerate middlebox applications. | Rajesh Narayanan, Geng Lin, Affan A. Syed, Saad Shafiq, Fahd Gilani |
| 2011 | SENSYS | Steam-powered sensing. | Chengjie Zhang, Affan A. Syed, Young Cho, John S. Heidemann |
| 2010 | SENSYS | Energy transference for sensornets. | Affan A. Syed, Young Cho, John S. Heidemann |
| 2010 | SECON | Tones for Real: Managing Multipath in Underwater Acoustic Wakeup. | Affan A. Syed, John S. Heidemann, Wei Ye |
| 2008 | INFOCOM | T-Lohi: A New Class of MAC Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks. | Affan A. Syed, Wei Ye, John S. Heidemann |
| 2008 | SENSYS | Bringing sensor networks underwater with low-power acoustic communications. | Muhammad Omar Khan, Affan A. Syed, Wei Ye, John S. Heidemann, Jack Wills |
| 2007 | MOBICOM | Understanding spatio-temporal uncertainty in medium access with ALOHA protocols. | Affan A. Syed, Wei Ye, John S. Heidemann, Bhaskar Krishnamachari |
| 2006 | INFOCOM | Time Synchronization for High Latency Acoustic Networks. | Affan A. Syed, John S. Heidemann |
| 2006 | WCNC | Research challenges and applications for underwater sensor networking. | John S. Heidemann, Wei Ye, Jack Wills, Affan A. Syed, Yuan Li |