Research Team

Working with Us

If you are interested in our research areas and interests, please contact any of the staff whose interests match your own. For admission into VUW's postgraduate programme, please refer to Postgraduates Study for details and links to the Faculty of Graduate Research to apply for admission. The details for funding and other scholarship sources are also available there.

Staff

  • Prof Winston Seah - Quantum Networking, Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks, 6G/5G Networks and Sustainable Networks
  • Dr Alvin Valera - Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks, Ad hoc Networks and Routing
  • Dr Yau Hee Kho - Wireless Communications, Signal & Image Processing and Electronics
  • Dr Jyoti Sahni - Elastic Resource Provisioning, Distributed Graph Processing and Autonomic Computing
  • A/Prof Ramesh Rayudu - Energy Harvesting and Smart Grid Communication Networks

Thesis Students

PhD

  • Duncan Cameron - Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Performance of WISPs Through Self-Driving Networks
  • Xiaohan Hu - Scalable Trust and Secured Sharing of Big Data using Blockchains
  • Buddhima Amarathunga - Adaptive Sampling of Heterogeneous Sensors in IoT
  • Rajesh Vuppala - Privacy and Trust in Industrial IoT

Master of Engineering/Science

  • Terry Xu - Optimizing Content Delivery in Cache Networks: An Auction-Based Approach
  • Steve Cosgrove - Wireless Mesh Networking for IoT Sensors with Selectable Quality of Service

Co-supervision with collaborators

  • College of Computer Science (Software Engineering), Inner Mongolia University, China.
    • Qian Qian Chen (2nd Year Masters degree)
    • Zhihui Chen (2nd Year Masters degree)
    • Jia Hao (2nd Year Masters degree)
    • Yiwen Ma (1st Year Masters degree)

Honours Project

Collaborators and Sponsors

Industry (in alphabetical order)

  • API Talent
  • Aviat Networks NZ
  • Earthquake Commission (EQC) NZ
  • Huawei NZ
  • InternetNZ
  • ISIF Asia
  • Linewize

Academia

  • Professor Colin Simpson, School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
  • Professor Baoqi Huang, College of Computer Science/College of Software, Inner Mongolia University, China.
  • Professor Y.D. Lin, Network Benchmarking Lab, Dept of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, on analytical modelling and design of SDN/OpenFlow switches, Mobile Edge Computing and Trust in the IoT.
  • Professor Y.C. Lai, Dept of Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, on analytical modelling and design of SDN/OpenFlow switches.
  • Professor A.C. Pang, Graduate Institude of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University, on modelling and analysis of CSMA/CA with Energy Harvesting for IoT.
  • Professor Y. Takahashi, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, on performance analysis of SDN and OpenFlow systems.
  • Associate Professor Wuyungerile Li, College of Computer Science/College of Software, Inner Mongolia University, China.
  • Associate Professor Eugen Dedu, Franche-Comté Electronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique — Sciences et Technologies (FEMTO-ST), France.
  • Associate Professor Peng Huang, Sichuan Agricultural University, China.
  • Associate Professor Linus K.L. Wang, Department of Civil Engineering, National Chi Nan University, on land movement monitoring with wireless sensor networks powered by ambient energy harvesting.
  • Associate Professor Tao Zheng, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China.
  • Associate Professor Gang Xu, College of Computer Science/College of Software, Inner Mongolia University, China.
  • Associate Professor Y.L. Guan, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, on handover optimization in IEEE802.11p using SDN.
  • Associate Professor Adrian Pekar, Department of Networked Systems and Services, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).
  • Dr Normalia Samian, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Cooperation and Trust in Wireless Networks and IoT.
  • Dr Azizol Abdullah, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Cooperation and Trust in Wireless Networks and IoT.
  • Dr Bryan Ng - Performance Analysis of Communication Networks and Modelling Networking Protocols

Visitors

  • Associate Professor Peng Huang, Sichuan Agricultural University, China. (2019/2020)
  • Prof. Dr. Björn Scheuermann, Professor of Computer Engineering at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and research director at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). (2019)
  • Alejandra Duque Torres (Masters student, University of Cauca, Popayan, Colombia) - An Adaptive Threshold to Identify Elephants and Mice Flows in SDN. (2018/19)
  • Professor Joel Sommers, Colgate University, hamilton, NY, USA. (2016/17)
  • Adrian Pekar (Postdoc) - Network Flow Classification using Dynamic Bayesian Networks. (2016/17)
  • Jozef Mocnej (PhD student, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia) - Multi-Network Architecture for Event-Driven IoT Environments. (2016/17)
  • Sophie Yu-Hsuan Chen (Masters student, National Taiwan University) - Modeling and Analysis : Energy Harvesting in the Internet of Things. (2015)

Alumni

  • Atefeh Talebian - Mobility Induced Migration in Fog Computing (PhD/2024)
  • Xing Yun He - Probabilistic Caching Strategy Based on Node Popularity and Network Energy Consumption in NDNoT (MSc/2024)
  • Shu Tao Lu - RPL Routing Strategy based on Network and Packet Attribute Awareness in IoT (ME/2024)
  • Ye Zhang - Access Control and Resource Allocation for 5G Communications (MSc/2023)
  • Jian Guo - Data Forwarding Strategy for NDN UAV Network in Disaster Scenarios (ME/2023)
  • Farah Hoteit, Computer Science (DISC) department, OMNI team, FEMTO-ST, France - Methodologies and cross-layer protocols in electromagnetic nanonetworks and ultra-dense wireless ad hoc networks (PhD/2022)
  • Muru Raj Odiathevar - A Framework for Anomaly Detection under Dynamic and Distributed Scenarios (PhD/2022)
  • Janel Huang - Modelling BGP Updates for Anomaly Detection using Machine Learning (ENGR489/2021)
  • Chung Yup Kim - Towards Blockchain Network Platform for IoT Data Integrity and Scalability (ME/2020)
  • Jakob Pfender - Lightweight Caching and Load Balancing for Efficient Content Delivery in Information-Centric IoT (PhD/2020)
  • Duncan Cameron - ElasticWISP: Energy-Proportional WISP Backhaul Networks (ME/2020)
  • Andrew Thompson - Mobile App for Better WiFi Mobility (ENGR489/2019)
  • James Watt - Internet of Wildlife (IoW) (ENGR489/2019)
  • Jesse Williams - Hospital Wayfinding Mobile Application for Visually-Impaired Users (ENGR489/2019)
  • Kyle Claudio - Smartwatch Indoor Localisation (ENGR489/2019)
  • Lina Hao - Self-Organizing Network (SON) Functionalities for Mobility Management in WiFi Networks (PhD/2019)
  • Deepak Singh - Modelling and Performance Analysis of OpenFlow Switches in Software-Defined Networking (PhD Graduated 2019)
  • Adrian Pekar - Network Traffic Classification and Management (Postdoctoral Fellow 2017~2019)
  • Hang Yu - Data Acquisition and Dissemination for the Internet of Nano Things (PhD Graduated 2018)
  • Liang Yang - Forwarding Table Entries in Software Defined Networks: Representation and Uses in Network Engineering (PhD Graduated 2018)
  • David Harrison - Connected Coverage with Rapid Forwarding in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks for Critical Rare Events (PhD Graduated 2017)
  • Alexander Deng - Topology Control for Resource Management in Microwave Backhaul Networks (ME Graduated 2017)
  • Jordan Ansell - Assessing the Accuracy of Performance Modelling in Software Defined Networks (ME Graduated 2017)
  • Jarrod Bakker - Intelligent Traffic Classification for Detecting DDoS attacks using SDN/OpenFLOW (ME Graduated 2017)
  • Elliott Jiaqi Wen - Providing Acceleration for Mobile Gaming as A Service (ME Graduated 2017)
  • Matthew Hayes - Scalability and Performance Considerations for Traffic Classification in Software-Defined Networks (ME Graduated 2016)
  • Jonathan P. Olds - Small batteryless wireless solar powered GPS receivers for subcentimeter land deformation monitoring (ME Graduated 2015)
  • Kandice McLean - Accurate Traffic Classification in SDN
  • Reuben Puketapu - Internet Connected Beehives (Industry Project, in collaboration with API Talent)
  • Marc Laroza - SDN Local Redundant Routing Decisions (Industry Project, in collaboration with Aviat Networks NZ)
  • Maria Libunao - Network Aware Channel Control (ENGR489/2016)
  • Shreyas Ramasubramanian - Internet of Things Arduino-based Location Tracker (ENGR489/2016)

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