Portfolio

Research Grants

Clemson VIPR-GS Program, “Anomaly Detection for Resilient Autonomy-Enabled Vehicle Systems”, Duration: Jan 2024 – Dec 2024, Role: Lead-PI, Amount: $75K

BMW Research, “I-based Energy Management Enterprise for Complex Industrial Setups BMW Research”, Duration: Sep 2022 – Aug 2023, Role: Sole-PI, Amount: $75K

MIT Lincoln Lab, “Leveraging Learning-Based Networking for Mission-Critical Autonomous Systems”, Duration: Jan 2023 – Dec 2023, Role: Lead-PI, Amount: $100K

NSF CCRI Program, “New distributed Sensing and Computing Over Sparse Environments (Discover) platform”, Duration: Sep 2021 – Aug 2024, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $1.36M

NSF CPS Program, “Wildland Fire Observation, Management, and Evacuation using Intelligent Collaborative Flying and Ground Systems”, Duration: May 2021 – April 2024, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $174,787

USDA AFRI Program, “Secure Traceability in the Food Supply Chain Using Cell Phone Readable Dendritic Identifiers”, Duration: Jan 2021 – Dec 2022, Role: Sub-contractor, Amount: $480,000 (145,000)

NSF CNS NeTS Program, “CNS Core: Small: PilotPC: Proactive Inverse Learning of Network Topology for Predictive Communication among Unmanned Vehicles”, Duration: Sep 2020 - Aug 2023, Role: Sole PI, Amount: $480,000

NSF NeTS CRII Program, “Towards Predictive Communications for UAV based IoT Networks”, Duration: Sep 2018 – Aug 2020, Role: Sole PI, Amount: $174,787

NSF PFI Program, “Design and Fabrication of Memory-based Physical Unclonable Functions for Robust Key Generation”, Duration: Sep 2018 – Aug 2021, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $803,000

Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), “Exploiting Nanomaterials for end-to-end Cybersecurity Solutions: Extension Grant”, Duration: Jun 2016-Dec 2019, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $1,000,000

US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), “Dynamic Spectrum Leasing in Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks”, Duration: Jan 2018-Dec 2018, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $129,000

US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), “Predictive and Adaptive Communications for Real-time Dynamic Network Management in Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks”, Duration: Jan 2020-Dec 2021,Role: Co-PI, Amount: $150,000

Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA), “Advanced Video Analytics for Metric-Based Network Safety Performance Prediction”, Duration: Jun 2020- May 2021, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $1,000,000, $150 K (State-wide Traffic Analysis)

US AFRL Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP), “Predictive Communications for UAV Systems”, Duration: Jun 2016-Aug 2016, Role: Sole PI, Amount: $11,000

US AFRL Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP), “Predictive Network Topology Discovery and Communication Design for Autonomous Airborne Networks”, Duration: Jun 2017-Aug 2017,Role: Sole PI, Amount: $15,930

NIH U54 program, “Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC)”, Duration: Sep 2017-Aug 2022, Role: Senior Personnel, Amount: $21,400,000

NAU Interns to Scholars (I2S) program, “Multi-modal Signal Processing to Identify Heart Abnormalities using Wireless Health Monitoring Device project”, Duration: Sep 2016-May 2017, Role: Sole PI, Amount: $2,000 Direct cost

NAU Research Development Grant (RDG) program, “Smart Health Monitoring and Information Processing Platform”, Duration: Oct 2015-May 2016, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $49,950

NIH U54 SHERC: Pilot Projects: NAU Internal Competition, “Remote Heart Monitoring Platform for Early Prediction of Arterial Fibrillation for Under-served Populations”, Duration: Jan 2018-Dec 2019, Role: Co-PI, Amount: $60,000

Awards

Selected Poster Award

Graduate Expo, University of Maine (2012)

Member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Phi Kappa Phi Society (2012)

Best Graduate Research Assistant

University of Maine (2011)

International Graduate Student Tuition Scholarship

University of Maine (2009-2012)

Best Paper Award

for "Interference Reduction in Wireless Passive Sensor Networks Using Directional Antennas" CANEUS/IEEE FBW'11 Conference (2011)

Best Researcher of The Year Award

MCI (2008)

Selected Proposal Award

for "Implementation of VAS Based on S@T Technology for Mobile Networks" MCI (2007)

Selected Proposal Award

for "Multi-IMSI JAVA SIM CARD Development" MCI (2006)

Elite Student Award

Rank 204 in The Countrywide University Entrance Exam at BS Level

Training Certificates

School of Information Theory

IEEE Information Theory Society, Austin University, 2011

ERICSSON Certificates

MSC/VLR operation

OSS R9.1 Overview and Maintenance

NOKIA Certificates

BSS Network parameter optimization

EGPRS Explanation

GPRS BSS Parameters

AIRCOM Certificate

Mobile SS7 Signaling

ST Certificates

SIM Card Structure, Standards and Test

GEMPLUS Certificates

SIM Card Structure

JAVA SIM

V.A.S and OTA Platform

MCI Certificates

Mobile Network Design Principles

CDMA Fundamentals

SQL Data developing

JAVA programming

Network monitoring with TEMS Investigation

BSS Network optimization

Professional Activities

IEEE Maine Section PACE Chair

PACE: Professional Activities Committees for Engineers (2009 to 2012)

Technical Program Committee/ Organizing Committee/ Session Chair

WiSEE 2019: IEEE Conference, Montreal, Canada, TPC Co-Chair

CCNC 2019: IEEE Conference, Las Vegas, Poster Session Chair

VTC 2017-19: IEEE Conference, TPC Member

KES2019,: International Conference, Invited Session Chair

CCNC2018: IEEE Conference, Program Committee

SECON 2018, IEEE Conference, CPC-UAV Workshop TPC Memeber

WiOPT 2016: International Conference on Wireless Networks, Arizona State University, Session Chair

CISS 2015: International Conference on Information Science and Systems, John Hopkins University, USA, Session Chair

WiSEE 2015: IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Conditions, Orlando, USA, TPC

WiSEE 2014: IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Conditions , Maryland, USA, TPC

FBW 2010: IEEE/CANEUS Workshop on Fly by Wireless, Orono, ME, USA, Organizing Committee

IEEE Maine Section: Seminar on Interference Alignment, Orono, ME, USA, Organizing Committee

Cooperation with Industry

with SPX/Dielectric Company, Mentum Planet ver 4.5, remote software management, 2010

Mentoring Program

EE Senior Students mentorship under NASA MERIT program, WiseNet Lab, summer 2010 and 2011

Paper review

for IEEE conferences including: ISWCS 2010, QBSC 2010,WCNC2010, ICC2012, ICNC 2013, Globecom 2012, WiSEE 2014/2015, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Communications and IEEE Trans. on Communications, BMC Research note.