Students

Dr. Xie is looking for self-motived PhD students interested in doing research in the areas of wireless networks, mobile computing, edge computing, mobile augmented reality (AR) / mixed reality (MR) / virtual reality (VR), intelligent and connected vehicles, and energy-efficient/carbon-efficient system design.

Current Students:

• Munmun Talukder

• Md Toufiqur Rahman

• Jingchen Yan

Graduated Students:

• Anik Mallik (Ph.D., August 2024)

  • Thesis Title: Performance Analysis and Enhancement of Delay-sensitive and Energy-hungry Mobile AI Applications with Edge Computing

  • Received ECE Outstanding Graduate Student Award

  • Initial Employment: Assistant Professor in CIS Department at Towson University in Towson, MA

  • Current Employment: Assistant Professor in CIS Department at Towson University in Towson, MA

• Siqi Huang (Ph.D., May 2022) (Co-Advise with Dr. Tao Han)

  • Thesis Title: Analysis and Enhancement of Resource-hungry Applications

  • Initial Employment: Assistant Professor in AI and Advanced Computing School at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China

  • Current Employment: Assistant Professor in AI and Advanced Computing School at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China

• Haoxin Wang (Ph.D., December 2020)

  • Thesis Title: Fast and Energy-efficient Mobility Management in Mobile Edge Computing Networks

  • Initial Employment: Research Scientist at Toyota Motor North America InfoTech Labs in Mountain View, CA

  • Current Employment: Assistant Professor in Computer Science Department at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA

• Moinul Hossain (Ph.D., August 2020)

  • Thesis Title: Security Assessment of Dynamic Spectrum Access in Emerging Wireless Networks

  • Received Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award and ECE Outstanding Graduate Student Award

  • Initial Employment: Assistant Professor in CIS Department at Towson University in Towson, MA

  • Current Employment: Assistant Professor in Cyber Security Engineering Department at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA

• Wahida Nasrin (Ph.D., December 2018)

  • Thesis Title: Adaptive Mobility Management for Next-generation Small Cell Networks

  • Received Best Paper Award from IEEE Global Communicatons Conference (GLOBECOM 2017)

  • Initial Employment: Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, CA

  • Current Employment: Software Development Engineer at Amazon Lab126 in Sunnyvale, CA

• Xingya Liu (Ph.D., June 2017)

  • Thesis Title: Cognitive Spectrum Access for D2D Communications in Emerging Networks

  • Initial Employment: Assistant Professor in CS Department at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX

  • Current Employment: Associate Professor in CS Department at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX

• Ji Li (Ph.D., May 2017)

  • Thesis Title: Efficient Distributed Rendezvous Schemes and Spectrum Management for Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Initial Employment: Software Engineer at Twilio Inc. in San Francisco, CA

  • Current Employment: Software Engineer at Google in Mountain View, CA

• Yi Song (Ph.D., June 2013)

  • Thesis Title: Distributed Intelligent Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

  • Received Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award and ECE Outstanding Research Assistant Award

  • Initial Employment: Assistant Professor in EECS Department at Wichita State University in Wichita, KS

  • Current Employment: Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon in Sunnyvale, CA

• Haopeng Li (Ph.D., December 2012)

  • Thesis Title: Medium Access Control for Inter-gateway Handoff Support in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Initial Employment: Senior Software Engineer at Qualcomm Atheros in San Jose, CA

  • Current Employment: Software Engineer at Amazon Lab126 in Sunnyvale, CA

• Weiyi Zhao (Ph.D., December 2011)

  • Thesis Title: Architectural and Mobility Management Designs in Internet-based Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Received ECE Outstanding Research Assistant Award

  • Initial Employment: Senior Research Engineer at Sony Electronics Inc. U.S. Research Center in San Jose, CA

  • Current Employment: RF System Integration Engineer at Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA

• Tamer Samak (M.S.E.E., May 2017)

  • Thesis Title: Multi-destination Rendezvous in Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Current Employment: Senior IP Network Design Consultant at Rogers Communications in Toronto, Canada

• Shilpa Bhave (M.S.E.E., December 2010)

  • Thesis Title: An Analytical Study of IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function in Co-channel Interference Environments

  • Current Employment: Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego, CA

• Aditya Pathak (M.S.E.E., December 2008)

  • Thesis Title: Overhead Analysis of Handoffs in Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Current Employment: Senior RF Engineer at Ericsson Inc. in Plano, TX

• Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa (M.S.E.E., December 2007)

  • Thesis Title: A Performance Study of Mobile Handoff Delay in IEEE 802.11-based Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Current Employment: Bluetooth Software Engineer at Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA

• Uday Narayanan (M.S.E.E., December 2007)

  • Thesis Title: Performance Analysis of Mobility Support in IPv4/IPv6 Mixed Networks

  • Current Employment: Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services in Boston, MA

• Izzeldin Shibeika (M.S.E.E., May 2006)

  • Thesis Title: An Analytical Tool to Evaluate Mobile IP Handoff Delay

  • Current Employment: Senior Technical Architect at Verizon Enterprise Solutions in Charlotte, NC

News:

• July 2, 2024: Anik Mallik successfully defended his PhD dissertation.

• April 19, 2024: Anik Mallik received the ECE Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award. [Photo on Anik being recognized at the ECE Student Achievement Award Reception on April 29, 2024.]

• April 12, 2024: Anik Mallik's paper was accepted by the very competitive IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2024).

• March 2024: Anik Mallik accepted a tenure-track faculty offer from Towson University. Anik will join the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2024. We wish the best for Anik!

• June 22, 2022: Moinul Hossain won UNC-Charlotte 2022 Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the category of Math, Science and Engineering (one doctoral student selected every two years in the entire UNCC campus).

• May 20, 2022: Moinul Hossain accepted a tenure-track faculty offer from George Mason University (GMU). Moinul will join the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2022. We wish the best for Moinul!

• April 21, 2022: Haoxin Wang accepted a tenure-track faculty offer from Georgia State University (GSU). Haoxin will join the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2022. We wish the best for Haoxin!

• April 2022: Siqi Huang accepted a tenure-track faculty offer from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). Siqi will join the School of AI and Advanced Computing at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in September 2022. We wish the best for Siqi!

• June 29, 2021: Moinul Hossain received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CRII Award. This award is from the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative program. It will support Moinul's research on "Security Assessment of Spectrum Coexistence in Co-located Heterogeneous Wireless IoT Networks".

• June 9, 2020: Moinul Hossain and Haoxin Wang successfully defended their PhD dissertations.

• June 2, 2020: Moinul Hossain received the ECE Outstanding Graduate Student Award. The 2019-2020 ECE Student Achievement awards have been announced on the ECE website.

• March 23, 2020: Moinul Hossain accepted a tenure-track faculty offer from Towson University. Moinul will join the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2020. We wish the best for Moinul!

• December 5, 2019: Haoxin Wang's paper was accepted by the very competitive IEEE INFOCOM conference (INFOCOM 2020).

• July 27, 2019: Moinul Hossain won a Best-in-Session Presentation Award from IEEE INFOCOM 2019, in technical session Network Economics and Pricing. [Award Certificate from INFOCOM 2019 TPC Chairs]

• November 29, 2018: Moinul Hossain's paper was accepted by the very competitive IEEE INFOCOM conference (INFOCOM 2019).

• May 21, 2018: Moinul Hossain won a Best-in-Session Presentation Award from IEEE INFOCOM 2018, in technical session Cognitive Radio Networks 1. [Award Certificate from INFOCOM 2018 TPC Chairs]

• December 5, 2017: Wahida Nasrin won a Best Paper Award from IEEE Global Communicatons Conference (GLOBECOM 2017). [Photo on Wahida receiving award certificate from Globecom 2017 TPC Chair and Co-Chair]

• November 27, 2017: Moinul Hossain's paper was accepted by the very competitive IEEE INFOCOM conference (INFOCOM 2018).

• May 25, 2017: Xingya Liu accepted a tenure-track faculty offer from Lamar University. Xingya will join the Department of Computer Science (CS) at Lamar University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in September 2017. We wish the best for Xingya!

• November 26, 2016: Xingya Liu's paper was accepted by the very competitive IEEE INFOCOM conference (INFOCOM 2017).

• July 3, 2014: Yi Song won UNC-Charlotte 2014 Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the category of Math, Science and Engineering (one doctoral student selected every two years in the entire UNCC campus).

• November 24, 2013: Xingya Liu's paper was accepted by the very competitive IEEE INFOCOM conference (INFOCOM 2014).

• April 25, 2013: Yi Song accepted a tenure-track faculty offer from Wichita State University. Yi will join the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Wichita State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2013. We wish the best for Yi!

• November 18, 2012: Haopeng Li's paper was accepted by the very competitive IEEE INFOCOM conference (INFOCOM 2013).

• March 22, 2012: Yi Song received the ECE Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award. Yi is recognized at the College of Engineering Celebration of Student Achievement Event on April 24, 2012. 

• November 17, 2011: Haopeng Li and Yi Song's papers were accepted by the very competitive IEEE INFOCOM conference (INFOCOM 2012).

• March 22, 2011: Weiyi Zhao received the ECE Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award. Weiyi is recognized at the College of Engineering Celebration of Student Achievement Event on April 29, 2011. 

• November 19, 2010: Yi Song's paper was accepted by the very competitive IEEE INFOCOM conference (INFOCOM 2011).

• November 22, 2009: Weiyi Zhao's paper was accepted by the very competitive IEEE INFOCOM conference (INFOCOM 2010).

• March 31, 2007: Uday Narayanan received the 3rd place award for his excellent poster presentation at The 7th UNCC Annual Graduate Research Fair.