Faculty
Dr. Muhammad Shahzad
Muhamad Shahzad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University (NCSU). He is also a member of the Networking Research Group at NCSU. His research interests lie in the broad areas of Networking, Internet of Things, and Security, with a focus on network measurements and modeling, RFID based systems, activity recognition, and user/device authentication.
Lab Members
Raghav Hampapur Venkatnarayan
Raghav H. Venkatnarayan received his Master of Technology degree from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India in Computer Science and Engineering. He is currently a 4th year PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. His research interests include design, modeling, and implementation of data driven applications in human sensing, wireless communications and mobile computing. He received the prestigious National Talent Search Scholarship from the Government of India in 2006 and the Outstanding Doctoral Scholar of the Year Award at NC State University in 2019.
Shaohu Zhang
Shaohu is a second year Ph.D. student. He got a masters degree from South Dakota State
University in 2017. Before that, he was a logistics engineer in Shanghai, China. He had worked on a number of projects on mobile sensor systems for
Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is fascinated with the designing, analyzing and modeling of mobile applications or wireless networks to explore
how to implement computation and how best to pass what he have learned to others. Currently, I work with Dr. Muhammad Shahzad focusing on sensor sensing
and mobile computing.
Hassan Iqbal
Hassan Iqbal is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at North
Carolina State University. Hassan joined WISN lab in 2018. His research interests include measurement, design and modeling of computer networks
as well as wireless networking in IoT. His current focus is on network performance measurement of clouds. Before joining NC State, he received M.S.
degree in Electrical Engineering from LUMS, Pakistan.
Hassan Ali Khan
I am a first year PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, North Carlina State University. I am being advised by Dr. Muhammad Shahazad.
I received my Master's and Bachelor's Degrees in Computer Science from Lahore University of Management Science (Lahore, Pakistan) and National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (Lahore, Pakistan), respectively.
Anirudh Ganji
I received my Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering. After working in the wireless industry for a couple of years, I am back to academics and am currently enrolled as a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. My research interests include performance studies of network protocols in distributed and wireless networks. I received the Goralal Syngal Merit Scholarship from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India from 2010 to 2014.
Usman Mahmood Khan
Usman Khan graduated from National University of Sciences and Techology (Pakistan) in 2017 with a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. Later, he enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He is currently a graduate research assistant with broad interests in wireless sensing, deep learning and wearable computing. He has been involved in various open source efforts including participating in Google Summer of Code.