Recipient of Department Award
Awarded the 2024/2025 Doctoral Acheivement Award from BU ECE Department
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My research interests lie in how advances in technologies and economic and policy objectives can compliment each other when considering decisions on how to define utilization within the wireless space, especially within a Dynamic Spectrum Access world. Given the interconnectivity of the modern world, access to wireless bandwidth is an essential pillar for ensuring access to rural communities for applications requiring broadband-class speeds. In addition, various Smart City technologies ranging from Positive Train Control to Vehicle-to-Vehicle/Vehicle-to-Grid communication to Smart (energy) Grid IoT sensors utilize wireless spectrum to improve traffic flows, reduce congestion, and improve quality of life through energy and carbon conservation. Considerations of use, however, involve delicate balancing acts, carefully accounting for essential Public Interest scientific uses: these include, but are hardly limited to, the Earth Exploration Satellite Service-passive remote sensors for weather forecasting and climate monitoring. Additionally, technology such as Mobile Edge Computing to power mobile applications introduces new vectors for attacks on the applications within the distributed (and/or cloud) space, particularly Economic Denial of Sustainability attacks which weaponize DDoS defenses into an attack on the ability to pay to sustain the resources necessary to maintain computing power for both legitimate and hostile traffic.
My published academic works as a member of BU NISLAB include a number of papers published in collaboration with a team from the Ohio State ElectroScience Laboratory establishing the economic feasibility of sharing for wholesale commercial markets yielding priority to mission critical EESS-passive radiometers. This includes a 2024 IEEE DySpan paper which received the Runner-Up accolade for Best Paper on the Policy Track. I also have engaged in active collaboration with the FROOT Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park on problems related to monitoring of cloud computing clusters in mobile networks. My particular focus has been in formalizing models on scalable container networks operating in Mobile Edge environments being targeted by the EDoS attack. This collaboration has yielded one accepted SIGMETRICS paper thus far - a related VLDB paper proposes a means to enhance monitoring at scale which is potentially applicable to attack defense.
As a graduate student I was involved in multiple service roles, including serving on the executive board of the Boston University Student Association of Graduate Engineers in various roles, membering on an advisory committee providing feedback for university initiatives and proposed policy updates to the Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs, and co-organized the 10th and 11th editions of the BU Center for Information and Systems Engineering Graduate Student Workshops in 2024 and 2025. For these efforts, as well as my work mentoring students both within the NISLAB and in other projects as well as my published research, I was recognized with the BU ECE Department Doctoral Acheivement Award for the 2024-25 academic year. I additionally had the privilege of participating in the 2025 NSF NeTS Early Career Investigators workshop.
Research Interests: Operations Research, Management Science, Network Economics and Econometrics of Network Performance Analysis, Dynamic Spectrum Access, Remote Sensing Coexistence, Mobile Edge, Scalable Networks, Network and Systems Security, Public Policy
Awarded the 2024/2025 Doctoral Acheivement Award from BU ECE Department
Joint work has been accepted into the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment and has been invited for presentation at the VLDB 2025 conference in London in September
Joint work has been accepted into the SIGMETRICS conference in Stony Brook in June
I successfully defended my PhD dissertation.
My dissertation defense has been officially scheduled.