Dr. Nikki Pissinou
Professor & Director of Telecommunications and Information Technology Institute
Dr. Pissinou has published over 250 research papers on networking, telecommunications, distributed systems, mobile computing, security, and nontraditional data management, including co-editing four texts and over fourteen IEEE and ACM conference volumes. Her research has been funded by NSF, DHS, NASA, DOT, DoD, and industry. She has graduated over nineteen Ph.D. students now in academia, government, and industry. She has served as chair or committee member in many ACM and IEEE conferences, and as editor of journals including IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering. She has founded forums like ACM GIS and received numerous awards and honors.
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Dr. Christian Poellabauer
Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Dr. Christian Poellabauer is a Professor at FIU's Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech and previously served at the University of Notre Dame. He directs the MOSAIC Lab, developing mobile and wearable sensing solutions for healthcare, including concussion diagnosis and monitoring of neurological conditions. His work spans IoT, wireless networks, and edge AI. He is a Fulbright Scholar, co-author of a textbook on Wireless Sensor Networks, and supports student startup efforts. His research is funded by NIH, NSF, DoD, and partners like IBM, Ford, the NFL, and National Geographic.
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Dr. Deng Pan
Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences
Dr. Pan received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2007. His research interests are generally in high performance switch design and high speed networking. His current research focuses on network function virtualization, data center networking, and energy efficient networking. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed papers in leading refereed journals and conferences, including the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. He has served as local arrangement co-chair or technical program committee member in many international conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, and ICPP.
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Dr. Xuyu Wang
Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences
Dr. Xuyu Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Auburn University in 2018 and was previously an Assistant Professor at California State University, Sacramento. His research interests include wireless sensing, Internet of Things, wireless localization, smart health, wireless networks, and AI security. He received the NSF CRII Award in 2021 and several IEEE best paper and demo awards. He has organized tutorials at CVPR and ICC and served as a keynote speaker. He is editor of Contactless Vital Signs Monitoring and serves as associate editor for Elsevier’s Digital Communications and Networks and guest editor for ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
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Dr. Mo Sha
Associate Professor
Dr. Mo Sha is an Associate Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU). Before joining FIU, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Binghamton University - State University of New York. His research interests include wireless networking, Internet of Things, applied machine learning, network security, and cyber-physical systems. He published more than 50 research papers, served on the technical program committees of 16 premier conferences, and reviewed paper for 21 journals. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2021, the NSF CRII award in 2017, and the Educator of the Year in Computer Science award and the Career Champion award at Binghamton University in 2018. He is a senior member of IEEE, a senior and lifetime member of ACM, and a member of Sigma Xi.
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Dr. Bogdan Carbunar
Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences
Bogdan Carbunar is an Associate Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at FIU, and directs the Cyber Security and Privacy Research (CaSPR) Lab, where he develops secure and usable systems. His research interests are at the intersection of security, privacy and distributed systems, where he derives novel insights through the use of machine learning, applied cryptography and user studies. His recent interests include fraud and abuse detection in online systems (e.g., Google, Facebook, Yelp), mobile authentication and cryptocurrency-based censorship resistance. He has published papers in top tier conferences and journals some of which have received best paper awards. He holds a PhD in computer science from Purdue University and a BS from Politehnica University Bucharest.
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Dr. Farhad Shirani
Assistant Professor
Dr. Farhad Shirani received his Ph.D. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2016. He was a Research Assistant Professor at New York University in 2016-2020. His research focuses in the areas of privacy and security, wireless communications, and machine learning.
