Current PhD Students
Akshar Chavan (August 2020 – Present): He is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. He earned his Masters of Science degree in Industrial Engineering at Wayne State University, USA, in 2020. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India in 2014. While doing his Masters he was working with Dr. Murat Yildirim in Cyber-Physical Analytics Lab at Wayne State, where his research work was on Opportunistic maintenance scheduling of connected vehicles. He has three years of experience as a lecturer in St. John College of Engineering and Management, Palghar, India. His research interest areas are Computer Networks, Autonomous Mobile Robots, Mobile Computing, and Cloud Computing.
Contact: chavan.43@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Syeda Tanjila Atik (August 2020 – Present): She is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. She has completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Information Technology from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh in 2015 and 2017 respectively. During her Master Thesis, she worked on improving the performance of routing algorithms for Network-on-Chip. She has served for three years as a lecturer in the CS Department at Daffodil International University, Bangladesh. Her current research area includes performance optimization of smart systems in cloud/edge computing, Internet of Things, and Machine learning.
Contact: atik.4@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Erfan Foorginejad (August 2024 – Present): He is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. He earned his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 2018, where he designed and built a shift-by-wire system for an FSAE car as his senior project. He completed an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2021, focusing on a robust discrete-time sliding mode controller for a steer-by-wire system, considering communication delays. In 2024, he graduated with a Master’s in Computer Science from Wayne State University, concentrating on autonomous driving systems. Currently, his research focuses on enhancing the real-time performance and reducing the power consumption of image processing AI models, with interests in real-time object detection, scheduling, and parallel programming.
Contact: foorginejad.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Ze Li (August 2024 – Present): He is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. He earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024 and a Bachelor of Engineering in Internet of Things Engineering from Taiyuan University of Technology, China, in 2022. His current research focuses on edge computing, the Internet of Things, and machine learning.
Contact: li.15045@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Graduated PhD Students
Niloofar Didar (August 2019 – December 2023): Graduated in December 2023, she has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Wayne State University. Her Ph.D. thesis is titled “Improving Energy-efficiency and Performance in Mobile Augmented Reality”, which led to several publications in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE MetaCom, and IEEE ICDCS. She earned her M.E. degree in Computer Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, in 2017. She received her B.E. degree in Computer Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, in 2015. As her Master Thesis, she was working on IoT-based Intelligent Emergency Response System.
Contact: niloofar_didar@wayne.edu
Master Thesis/Reports Supervised
- 2024: Miraclin F. Charles, “Optimizing electric vehicle performance and battery degradation: Insights from SUMO simulation analysis”
- 2022: Luay Jawad, “Autonomous Camera Control for da Vinci Surgical Systems: A Deep Learning Approach”
Honors Thesis Supervised
- 2022: Joseph Bommarito, “Profiling Performance of Concurrent AI model Inference in Mobile Augmented Reality Apps”
- 2022: Syed Safwaan, “Profiling Interference Between AI and AR Tasks in Mobile Augmented Reality Apps”
- 2021: Affan Atif, “Profiling GPU Utilization in Mobile Augmented Reality”
- 2020: Anmol Multani, “Simulating the Energy Consumption of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)”
- 2020: Nitisha Omkar, “Simulating the State of Charge of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) Using Optimization Technologies”
- 2020: Saloni Gupta, “Prediction of User Position in Augmented Reality App”