Current Ph.D. Students

Niloofar Didar (August 2019 - Present): She is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at Wayne State University. 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. Her research interest areas are Internet of Things, Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Smart City.
Contact: niloofar_didar@wayne.edu

Akshar Chavan (August 2020 - Present): He is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at Wayne 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: aksharchavan@wayne.edu

Syeda Tanjila Atik (August 2020 - Present): 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: tanjilaatik@wayne.edu