Shahriar Nirjon

Research Interest

I am interested in Embedded Intelligence – the general idea of which is to make resource constrained real-time and embedded sensing systems capable of learning, adapting, and evolving.

In recent past, I have worked on – Networked Embedded Sensor Systems (HW/SW Co-Design and Wearables), Wireless Networks and Sensing (Mobile, WSN, and other RF), Mobile Systems (OS, Services, and Applications), , and Internet of Things (IoT devices, privacy, data analytics, and mobile Health).

Before joining the UNC Chapel Hill (2015), I was a researcher in the Networking and Mobility Lab at the HP Labs (2014-2015). I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, under the supervision of Jack Stankovic (August 2014).

Teaching

• COMP 433 – Mobile Computing Systems: [Spring '17] [Fall '17]. [Spring '19].
• COMP 790.136 – Embedded Intelligent Systems: [Fall '19].
• COMP 790.136 – Smart and Connected Systems: [Spring '18] [Fall '18].
• COMP 790.136 – The Internet of Things: [Fall '15] [Fall '16] .
• COMP 790.136 – Mobile Health Systems: [Spring '23].

Grants

• Concealed Weapon Localization Using mmWave Radar.
  Sponsor: Athena Security Inc., Amount: $78K, Role: Lead PI.
• NSF CAREER: Toward Embedding Perpetual Intelligence into Ultra-Low-Power Sensing and Inference Systems.
  Award #2047461, Amount: $561K, Role: Lead PI.
• NSF SCH: INT: AURA - Connecting Audio and Radio Sensing Systems to lmprove Care at Home.
  Award #1R01LM013329-01 (NIH/NLM), Amount: $941K, Role: Lead PI.
• NSF CSR: Small: Overheard at Home - Mitigating Overhearing of Continuous Listening Devices.
  Award #1816213, Amount: $252K, Role: Lead PI.
• NSF CSR: CHS: Medium: Improving Pedestrian Safety in Urban Cities using Intelligent Wearable Systems.
  Award #1704469, Amount: $320K, Role: PI.
• NSF EAGER: Predictive Maintenance of HVAC Systems using Audio Sensing.
  Award #1619967, Amount: $20K, Role: PI.
• National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) Data Fellows Award.
  Amount: $40K, Role: PI.
• IBM/RJ Reynolds Junior Faculty Development Award, UNC Chapel Hill.
  Amount: $7K, Role: PI.

Awards

• Best Paper Award, Challenges in AI and Machine Learning for IoT (AIChallengeIoT '20).
• Best Presentation Award, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp '20).
• Best Paper Award, Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '19).
• Best Presentation Award, Vehicular Networking Conference App Contest (VNC '18).
• Best Demo Runner Up, Vehicular Networking Conference App Contest (VNC '18).
• Best Paper Nomination, Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN '17).
• Best Demo Runner Up Award, Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '16).
• Best Paper Award, Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS '14).
• Best Paper Award, Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '12).

Students

• Chong Shao (PhD 2018, Google)
• Shiwei Fang (PhD 2021, Assistant Professor at Augusta University, GA, USA)
• Tamzeed Islam (PhD 2021, Reserach Staff at Amazon, MA, USA)
• Bashima Islam (PhD 2021, Assistant Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA)
• Seulki Lee (PhD 2021, Assistant Professor at UNIST, Korea)
• Yubo Luo (PhD 2023, Black Sesame Technologies Inc.)
• Mahathir Monjur (3nd year PhD)
• Zhenyu Wang (2nd year PhD)
• Louie Lu (2nd year PhD)

Services

• 2023 TPC: IoTDI (General Chair), SenSys.
• 2022 TPC: IoTDI (TPC Chair), INFOCOM, RTAS, IPSN.
• 2021 TPC: INFOCOM, RTAS, ICCPS, IPSN, IoTDI.
• 2020 TPC: SENSYS (Workshops Chair), CPS-IoT Week (Workshops Chair), MOBISYS, IoTDI, CHASE.
• 2019 TPC: RTAS, FG, CHASE, SENSYS (Demo/Poster Chair), ICCCN (IoT Track Chair).
• 2018 TPC: SENSYS, WEARSYS, PerIoT, CHASE, FG.
• 2017 TPC: RTAS, IPSN, PerIoT, SENSORCOMM, FG.
• 2016 TPC: RTSS, IPSN, DCOSS, SENSORCOMM, IT4RIs, NSYSS.
• 2015 TPC: RTSS, RTAS, NSYSS
• Journal: TECS, TOSN, TAFFC, TCPS, TIIS, TON, Sensors, IJMI.