News
June 2022: Dr. Afghah was a
panelist on "Dataset generation barriers: software and
human factors" panel during NSF workshop on Radio
Frequency Dataset Generation, Access, and Sharing.
May
2022: Our patent on 'Cooperative
target execution system for unmanned aerial vehicle networks'
was granted.
May 2022: Dr. Afghah was selected
as a Faculty Scholar in Clemson University School of Health
Research.
May 2022: We received an
REU supplement funding from NSF-CPS program to support
undergraduate research on drone-based fire monitoring.
May 2022: Dr. Afghah serves as a
TPC member for PIRMC 2022.
April 2022: We received an
REU supplement funding from NSF-SWIFT program to support
undergraduate research AI-assisted communication.
April 2022: Dr. Afghah serves as a
TPC member for CCNC 2023.
February 2022: We are
organizing the first IEEE International Workshop on Test and
Evaluation of Programmable Networks (TEPN
2022). Submission deadline: Macrh 15, 2022.
February 2022: Dr. Afghah serves as
an Associate editor for ACM Transactions on Computing for
Healthcare.
Feburary 2022: Dr. Afghah serves as
a TPC member for ACM MobiSys Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle
Networks, Systems and Applications (DroNet 2022).
January 2022: Welcome to Mr. Ali Owfi. He is a
PhD student in Computer Engineering program working on
AI-assisted communications.
January 2022: CPF:
IEEE WOWMOM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning and
Computing for UAV Swarms (SwarmNet
2022). Submission deadline: Macrh 1, 2022.
January 2022: Welcome to Mr. Ashish Chittimilla .
He is a MS student working on UAV systems.
January 2022: Welcome to Mr. Bryce Hopkins . He
is a senior EE student working on UAV systems.
November 2021: Welcome to Mr. Amir Ali Pour. He is
a visiting PhD student from France working on hardware
security.
November 2021: Dr. Afghah presented a talk on "UAV
Communications: Challenges and Opportunities" at 3rd Buffalo
Day for 5G and Wireless Internet of Things.
October 2021: Dr. Afghah serves on the editorial
board of "Journal of Networks and Computer Applications".
September
2021:
We received a planning grant from NSF Smart Connected
Community program to develop remote heart monitoring
solutions for rural patients.
August
2021: WiNIP
lab moved t o the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Clemson
University.
August
2021: Dr. Afghah leads a
collaborative project titled " Distributed Sensing and
Computing over Sparse Enviroments"
funded
by National Science Foundation.
July 2021: Dr. Afghah serves on the editorial
board of "Computer Networks" Journal.
June 2021: Congratulations to Dr.
Alireza Shamsoshoara for successfully defending his PhD thesis
on "Communications and Spectrum Sharing in UAV Networks". He
Joined the Volkswagen Group of America Innovation and
Engineering Center as an AI Engineer.
March
2021: Dr. Afghah's research on autonomous UAVs was
featured on "Arizona
TechConnect Magazine".
March 2021: Dr. Afghah moderated
the panel on "AI in Health and Biomedical Research-Challenges
and Opportunities" during NSF Smart Health Workshop.
March 2021: Dr. Afghah spoke as a
panelist on "Expert panel: Research during a
Pandemic-Lessons Learned" during NSF Smart Health Workshop.
February
2021: Dr. Afghah is leading a collaborative grant
titled "CPS: Medium: Wildland Fire Observation, Management, and
Evacuation using Intelligent collaborative Flying and Ground
Systems" funded by the National Science Foundation. The project
is a collaboration between NAU, Georgia Tech, UCAR and DRI.
October 2020: Dr. Afghah is the
co-organizer of 2021 NSF Smart Connected Health PI meeting in
collaboration with Prof. Jerzy
Rozenblit.
August
2020: Our collaborative proposal with the MSU and
SUNY Buffalo tilted "AI-enabled Spectrum Coexistence between
Active Communications and Passive Radio Services: Fundamentals,
Testbed and Data" was funded by NSF.
August 2020: Dr. Afghah serves as
an editorial board member of Elsevier Ad hoc Networks Journal.
August 2020:
Dr. Afghah spoke as a panelist on "Expert Panel: Novel Spectrum
Uses" panel during National Science Foundation Workshop on
Wireless, Spectrum and Innovation.
July 2020:
Welcome
to our new group member, Dr. Nima Namvar. He is a research
specialist working on UAV communications and networking.
June
2020: Dr. Afghah received the NSF CAREER Award!
June 2020: Dr. Afghah serves as an
Associate Editor for the Aerial and Space Networks, Frontiers in
Communications and Networks Journal.
May 2020: Congratulations to Dr.
Sajad Mousavi for successfully defending his PhD thesis. Sajad
joined the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard
University as a postdoctoral researcher.
April
2020: Dr. Afghah received the NAU's Most
Promising New Scholar Award.
April 2020: Welcome
to our new group member, Dr. Mohammed Algharib. He is a
postdoctoral associate working on UAV communications and
networking.
April
2020: Our patent titles "Authentication based on a Challenge and
Response using a PUF and a Machine Learning Engine" was
issued.
April
2020: Dr. Afghah serves as an Associate Editor for the Springer
Neural Processing Letters.
March
2020: Dr. Afghah was promoted to an
Associate Professor with Tenure (effective August 2020).
March 2020: Our
patent titled "Multi-state Unclonable Functions and Related
Systems" was issued.
March 2020: Our
patent titled "False Alarm Suppression in Intensive Care Units"
was approved.
February 2020: CPF:
IEEE WOWMOM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning and
Computing for UAV Swarms (SwarmNet
2020). Submission deadline: Macrh 30, 2020.
February 2020: Our
patent titled "Authentication Based on a Challenge and Response
Using a PUF" was approved.
January 2020: Dr. Afghah served as
a panelist on the "Expert Panel: AI Needs for the Future of
Smart Health" during the NSF Smart and Connected Health (SCH)
Principal Investigator Meeting, discussing the challenges and
opportunities of smart healthcare systems.
October
2019: Dr. Afghah received the Air
Force Young Investigator Award.
September
2019: We received an INTERN supplement grant from
NSF with the amount of $53,000. Thank you NSF!
August 2019: Welcome to our new
group member, Sixian Zhang. He started his PhD program in Fall
2019 and will work on computer-assisted decision making
algorithms for biomedical applications.
August 2019: Welcome to our new
group member, Mahsa Keshavarz. She is a PhD student working on
trust-management and security of multi-agent systems.
May 2019: Congratulations to
Ashwija for receiving NSF Travel Grant to attend IEEE SECON
2019.
March 2019: Dr. Afghah serves as a
TPC member for several UAV related workshops including SwarmNet
co-located with IEEE WoWMoM 2019, DroNet co-located with ACM
MobiSys 2019 and WiDroIT colocated with IEEE DCOSS 2019.
May 2019: Congratulations to
Ashwija for receiving iREDEFINE Professional Development Award.
February 2019: Dr. Afghah was
elevated to an IEEE senior member.
January 2019: Dr. Afghah serves as
a TPC member for several IEEE conferences including SECON'19,
PIRMC'19 and CCNC'19.
January 2019: Dr. Afghah serves as
the N2Women Mentoring Co-chair during 2019 to 2021.
November 2018: CPF: IEEE INFOCOM
Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor, UAV, and Robot
Networking (MiSARN
2019). Submission deadline: December 31, 2018.
October
2018: Our project on developing PUF-based security
solutions for IoT was featured on NSF website (Link)
October
2018: Our project on developing a signal processing
framework for early detection of Atrial Fibrillation was funded
by NIH Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC)
Center .
September
2018: Our project "PFI-RP: Design and Fabrication of
Hardware-based Security Platform using Fabrication Variability
of Ultra Low Power Memories" was funded by National Science
Foundation.
September 2018: Dr. Afghah
presented an invited talk " Game Theory in Machine Learning:
Applications in Detection of Cardiovascular Events" in Workshop
on Challenges for Using Electronic Health Data for Continuous
Monitoring for Cardiac and Pulmonary Disease at 2018 NSF
Connections in Smart Health, Arlington VA.
September 2018: Dr. Afghah served
as a panelist on "Accelerating into the Future Panel" as a part
of Flagstaff Science Festival, September 2018.
September 2018: Dr. Afghah served
as a panelist on "Ethics of Automation and Artificial
Intelligence Panel" held in Museum of Northern Arizona,
Flagstaff, September 2018.
September 2018: Dr. Afghah will
serve on the Editorial Board for IET Wireless Sensor Systems
during 2018-2021.
September 2018: Dr. Afghah will
serve as TCP chair for the 12th International Workshop on
Wireless Sensor, Robot, and UAV Networks, in conjunction with
IEEE INFOCOM 2019, Paris, France.
August 2018: Welcome
to our new group members, Nathan Payton-McCauslin and
James Todd. There are NSF REU students working in the area of
biomedical signal processing.
August 2018: Welcome
to our new group member, Atiyeh Fotoohinasab. She is a PhD
student working in the area of biomedical signal processing.
August 2018: Welcome
to our new group member, Sixian Zhang. He is a Msc student
working in the area of multi-agent systems.
August 2018: Welcome
to our new group member, Qian Zhao. He is a Msc student
working in the area communication and networking of UAV
networks.
June 2018: Special thanks to NVIDIA
to support our research with donation of a Quadro P6000 GPU.
May 2018: We received an
REU supplement funding from National Science Foundation to
support undergraduate research for False alarm reduction
project.
April 2018: Congratulations to
Ashwija Korenda on successfully defending her MSc thesis. She
will stay with us as a PhD student staring on Fall 2018.
April 2018: Dr. Afghah served as a
mentor at N2Women event held at IEEE INFOCOM 2018 (link).
January 2018: Welcome
to our new group member, Behzad Ghazanfari. He is a PhD
student working in the area of decision-making for autonomous
multi-agent systems.
November
2017: Our project for dynamic spectrum leasing in autonomous
multi-agent networks was funded by Air Force Research
Laboratory.
November 2017: Welcome to our new
group member, Dr. Mehrdad Khaledi. He joined us a postdoctoral
researcher to work on security and spectrum management in IoT
networks.
October 2017: We organize the first
workshop on Small Satellites as a part of IEEE International
Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE
2018) in December 2018. Check out the Call for Paper at:
http://sites.ieee.org/wisee/
September 2017: Call for paper:
Special Issue on Machine Learning for Biomedical Informatics,
Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology. For
more information, please visit:
https://insights.sagepub.com/la_press_news.php?pa=view&news_item_id=4111
August 2017: Our
project on False alarm reduction was featured by Daily
Sun.
August 2017: Welcome
to our new group members, Seyed Sajad Mousavi. Sajad is a PhD
student working on control, data mining and biomedical signal
processing.
August 2017: Welcome
to our new group members, Alireza Shamsoshoara. He is a PhD
student working on security of wireless communication networks.
July 2017: The
extension of our project on "Exploiting Nanomaterials for
end-to-end Cybersecurity Solutions"
was funded by Arizona Board of Regents for $500,000.
Jan. 2017: Dr. Afghah received NSF
CISE Research Initiation Initiative (NSF-CRII) award for her
research on developing a Computational Framework to False Alarm
Suppression in Intensive Care Units.
April 2017:
Dr. Afghah received Visiting Faculty Research Program award by
Air Force Research Lab for Summer 2017.
Jun. 2016: Our
project "Exploiting Nanomaterials for end-to-end Cybersecurity
Solutions"
was funded by Arizona Board of Regents for $500,000. This is a
collaborative project among Northern Arizona University, Arizona
State University and University of Arizona.
May
2016: Dr. Afghah received Visiting Faculty Research Program
award by Air Force Research Lab for Summer 2016.
May. 2016: Congratulations to
Abdullah Shamsuddin on successfully defending his master's
dissertation. He is now with Raytheon.
March 2016: Dr. Afghah presented an
invited talk "Small Satellites: Communication, Networks, and
Operation", in NAPSA Workshop on Exoplanets and Habitability:
Connecting the Very Large to the Very Small, at Lowell
Observatory.
Jan. 2016: Dr.
Afghah has been selected as the representative of IEEE Regions
1-6 on membership
board standing committee of IEEE signal processing society.
Jan. 2016: Welcome
to our new group member, Mohammad Zaeri Amirani.
Oct. 2015: Paper titled ""A Shapley
Value Solution to Game Theoretic-based Feature Reduction in
False Alarm Detection" got accepted in Workshop on Machine
Learning in Healthcare, Neural
Information Processing Systems (NIPS'15).
Oct. 2015: Paper titled "A Game
Theoretic Predictive Modeling Approach to Reduction of False
Alarm" got accepted in International Conference for Smart Health
(ICSH'15), Mayo Clinic.
Sep. 2015: Welcome to our new group
members, Jared Park, Abdulllah Shamsuddin and Ashwija
Korenda.
Sep. 2015: Paper titled "Software
Defined Radio Implementation of DS-CDMA in Inter-Satellite
Communications for Small Satellites" got accepted in 2015 IEEE
International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme
Environments (WiSEE'15).
Aug. 2015: Dr. Afghah gave an
invited talk on "Small Satellite Communications" at North
Carolina Museum of Natural Science, Raleigh.
Jul. 2015: Paper titled
"Context-Aware D2D Peer Selection for Load Distribution in LTE
Networks" got accepted in 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals,
Systems and Computers (Asilomar'15).
Jun. 2015: Paper titled
"Identifying Gene Subnetworks Associated with Clinical Outcome
in Ovarian Cancer Using Network Based Coalition Game" got
accepted in 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC'15).
Mar. 2015: Dr. Afghah is the Co-PI and the lead
for "Demonstration, Implementation, and Integration" on a $5M TECHLAV Center
funded by US. Air Force. (link)
Mar. 2015: Congratulations to
Christopher, his paper entitled "Design and Implementation of an
Autonomous Wireless Sensor-based Smart Home" was accepted in
24th International Conference on Computer Communications and
Networks (ICCCN'15), International Workshop on wireless Mesh and
Ad hoc Networks (WiMAN).
Mar. 2015: Dr. Afghah serves on the
technical committee for IEEE International Conference on
Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE 2015),
Florida, USA.
Mar. 2015: Congratulations to Frank
Pinto on successfully defending his master's dissertation. He is
now with Department of Defense.
Mar. 2015: Dr. Afghah was the
session chair in the 49th Annual Conference on Information
Sciences and Systems (CISS 2015), John Hopkins University.
Mar. 2015: Congratulations to
Christopher Osigbu on successfully defending his master's
dissertation. He is now with IBM.
Mar. 2015: Dr. Afghah serves on the
technical committee for the 49th Annual Conference on
Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2015), John Hopkins
University.
Feb. 2015: Dr. Afghah established a
joint IEEE
Communication and Signal Processing Chapter at IEEE
Central North Carolina Section. (link)
Feb. 2015: Dr. Afghah serves on 2015 N2women board as the
Advocate Co-chair. (link)
Feb. 2015: Congratulation to Nima,
his paper titled "Spectrum Sharing in Cooperative Cognitive
Radio Networks: A Matching Game Framework" got accepted in 49th
Annual Conference on Information on Sciences and systems
(CISS'15).
Feb. 2015: Paper
titled "MIMO-OFDM Non-regenerative Relay Channel Estimation
using Compressed Sensing" got accepted in 49th Annual Conference on
Information on Sciences and systems (CISS'15).
Feb. 2015: Dr.
Afghah is a program committee member for International
Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS
2015), France.
Feb. 2015: Congratulations to
Jabari Stegall on receiving the NSF travel grant to present his
work at "2015 NSF Emerging Researcher National (ERN) Conference
in Washington, DC.
Jan. 2015: Welcome to our new group
member, Niloofar Bahadori. She is a PhD student working on D2D
communications.
Jan. 2015: Welcome to our new group
member, Rafiya Chowdhury. She is a senior students in electrical
engineering working on inter-satellite communications in
small satellite networks.
Jan. 2015: The WiNIP member,
Boubacar Abou Tchossou is nominated for "2014-2015
Chancellor Award for Academic Excellence" in North
Carolina A&T State university.
Jan. 2015: Welcome to our new group
member, Denis Yolinga. He is a senior students in electrical
engineering working on channel coding for inter-satellite links
in small satellite networks.
Dec. 2014: The WiNIP member,
Boubacar Abou Tchossou received the "2014-2015
College of Art and Science Outstanding Undergraduate Student
of the Year" in North Carolina A&T State
university, Congratulation Boubacar!
Nov.
2014: Jabari Stegall presented his poster in
"Implementation of Smart House with Wireless Sensor Networks" in
10th Annual State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and
Creativity Symposium (SNCURS), Raleigh,
NC.
Nov.
2014: Boubacar Abou Tchoussou presented
his poster in "Investigation and Evaluation of
Performance Metrics in Dynamic Spectrum Access " in 10th Annual
State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity
Symposium (SNCURS), Raleigh,
NC.
Sep. 2014: Welcome to our new group
member, Nima Namvar. He is a PhD student working on big data
analytics and cognitive radio networks.
Sep. 2014: Congratulations to
Christopher Osiegbu for successfully completing
his internship as a software engineer at IBM.
Sep. 2014: Congratulations to Frank
Pinto for successfully completing
his internship at the National Security Agency (NSA).
Sep. 2014: Congratulations
to WiNIP lab's undergraduate research assistant, Boubacar
Abdou Tchoussou for successfully completing his summer
research in Cognitive Communications at Virginia Tech.
Sep.
2014: Welcome to our new group member, Howard Taylor. He is a
master's student in ECE department.
Sep. 2014: Welcome to our new group
member, Jabari Stegall. He is a senior student in ECE department
working on wireless sensor networks.
Aug. 2014: Dr. Afghah serves on the
technical committee for the 2014 IEEE International Conference
on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE 2014),
the Netherlands.
Jul. 2014: Paper titled "Game
Theoretic Study of Cooperative Spectrum Leasing in Cognitive
Radio Networks" got accepted in International Journal of
Handheld Computing Research.
May 2014: Dr Afghah gave a
talk in National Wireless Research Collaboration Symposium on
cooperative spectrum leasing in Cognitive Radio Networks.
Apr. 2014: Welcome to our
new group member, Frank Pinto. Frank is a master's student in
ECE department and he is working on inter-satellite
communications for small satellites.
Apr. 2014: Paper titled
"Optimal Multiple Access Protocol for Inter-satellite
Communication in Small Satellite Systems" got accepted in 4S
Small Satellite Systems and Services Symposium.
Apr. 2014: Welcome to our
new group member, Christopher Osiegbu. Chris is a
master's student in ECE department and he is working on
designing a smart home using wireless sensors.
Apr. 2014: Dr Afghah serves as
judge at 3rd Annual Graduate Research Poster Competition,
College of Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University.
Mar. 2014: Dr. Afghah
received the New
Investigator Award from North Carolina Space consortium
for her work in Inter-satellite Communications in Autonomous
Small Satellite Networks.
Mar. 2014: Paper titled
"Blood Loss Severity Prediction using Game Theoretic Based
Feature Selection" got accepted in IEEE-EMBS International
Conferences on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI'14).
Mar. 2014: Congratulations to WiNIP
lab's undergraduate research assistant, Boubacar
Abdou Tchoussou on being admitted to Virginia Tech REU
program on Cognitive Communications during summer 2014. (link)
Mar. 2014: Dr Afghah serves as
Technical committee member for IEEE International Conference on
Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE 2014).
Mar. 2014: Paper titled
"Cooperative Spectrum Leasing in Cognitive Radio Networks" got
accepted in IEEE-NSF National Wireless Research Collaboration
Symposium (NWRCS).
Feb. 2014: Paper titled "Power
Allocation in Parallel Relay Channels using a Near-Potential
Game Theoretical Approach" got accepted in 48th Annual
Conference on Information on Sciences and systems (CISS'14).