School of Engineering and Computer Science Te Kura Mātai Pūkaha, Pūrorohiko

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

  • Atefeh Talebian - Mobility Induced Migration in Fog Computing
  • 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

Co-supervision with collaborators

  • Tian Liang Li, College of Computer Science (Software Engineering), Inner Mongolia University, China.

Master of Engineering/Science

Co-supervision with collaborators

  • College of Computer Science (Software Engineering), Inner Mongolia University, China.
    • Jian Guo (graduated in June 2023)
    • Ye Zhang (graduated in June 2023)
    • Xing Yun He (3rd Year Masters degree)
    • Shu Tao Lu (3rd Year Masters degree)
    • 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)
  • Sichuan Agricultural University, China.
    • Rui Fang (graduated in June 2023)
    • Qiwei Xiang (graduated in June 2023)

Summer Scholarship 2021/2022

  • Jacob Bly - A Flying Base Station for a NOMA-based IoT system
  • Marino Doyle - Controlling IoT Devices using Smart Contracts on Ethereum

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.
  • Dr Normalia Samian, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Cooperation and Trust in Wireless Networks and IoT.
  • Dr Adrian Pekar, Department of Networked Systems and Services, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).
  • 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

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