Research Interests
- Networked, wireless and computer systems
- Wireless systems
- Optical wireless
- Spectrum sharing
- Cloud networking
- Network economics
- Network architectures
Professional Activities
- Editor-at-Large, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2025-Present
- Editorial Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2023-Present
- Editorial Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, 2022-Present
- Editorial Board Member, IEEE Networking Letters; 2018-Present
- Editorial Board Member, Computer Networks, Elsevier; 2014-Present
- Lead Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, feature topic on Optical Wireless in Space, 6G, and X-haul Networks, 2023.
- NSF panelist
- Steering Committee Member; IEEE LANMAN Symposium (2015- Present) ACM CoNEXT CAN Workshop (2017-2018)
- TPC Area Chair: IEEE INFOCOM 2026
- Chair, ACM CoNEXT CAN 2016, IEEE LANMAN 2014
- TPC Co-Chair, IEEE DySPAN 2024,, IEEE ICC ONS 2023, IEEE LANMAN 2013
- TPC Track Chair, IEEE MILCOM 2019, IEEE/ACM NAS 2012
- TPC Member; ACM MOBIHOC, IEEE ICNP, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE ICCCN, IEEE SECON, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, ACM VLCS,
Honors & Awards
- First Prize, Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions Challenge, Category 2 – Community Policing, National Institute of Justice, 2023
- Best Paper Award, IFIP International Internet-of-Things Conference, Dallas, TX, 2023
- AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2023
- Distinguished TPC Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2019, 2021, 2023
- IEEE-HKN Best Student Paper Award, IEEE SoutheastCon, Orlando, FL, 2023.
- Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, received student Shahzeb Mustafa, UCF, 2022
- William Petak Best Paper Award, American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Conference, 2021
- Research Incentive Award, UCF, 2021
- Best Paper Runner-up Award, IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC), Hangzhou, China, 2019
- Prize Paper Award, Best Paper Award: IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, 2019
- Best Demo Award, IEEE LANMAN 2018
- Faculty Excellence Award, College of Engineering, UNR, 2016
- Senior Member, ACM, 2015
- Best CSE Researcher Award, Computer Science and Engineering, UNR, 2014
- Senior Scholar Award, College of Engineering, UNR, May 2014
- Senior Member, IEEE, 2011
- Best Paper Award, IEEE LANMAN 2008
- Best Paper Nominee, IEEE ISCC 2003
- Achievement Award, Sun Labs, 2001
Ongoing Funded Research Projects
- FAN4Science: Flow-Aware Networking for Data-Intensive Science (by NSF)
- INWADE: INtelligent Waveform Adaptation with DEep Learning (by AFRL)
- 3D RF/FSO Mesh Networking with Challenged Infrastructure (by NSF)
- Directional Software-Defined Radio (by NSF)