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Bio

Eyuphan Bulut is an Associate Professor at Computer Science Department of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Before he joined VCU, he was working for Cisco Systems as a senior engineer in Mobile Internet Technology Group (MITG). He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2011. Dr. Bulut and his team is the recipient of several awards including VCU Presidential Quest Fund, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2020) best demo award, and Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Summer Faculty Fellowship. Dr. Bulut is on the Editorial Board of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and IEEE Access. CV.

Contact

Office: Engineering East Hall, Room 4254
Email: ebulut [at] vcu [dot] edu
Phone: (+1)-804-828-6382

Graduate Students

   

Md Touhiduzzaman

Touhid completed his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2016. He then continued to build up his startup on education technology, which is now expanded to telecom and health-tech sectors. He joined MoWiNG lab in Fall 2021 to pursue his Ph.D. ambition on network security and user privacy concerns, which may also benefit his entrepreneurial & industrial software engineering career.

   

Soumita Ghosh

Soumita completed her B.Sc in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology in 2019. Then she served at Dynamic Solution Innovators, a renowned software company of Dhaka as a software engineer for about 3 years. She joined MoWing lab in Fall 2022 as a PhD student.

   

Nafeez Fahad

Nafeez received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) located in Bangladesh in 2022. He then joined the MoWing lab in the Spring of 2024 to pursue his PhD. His research interest revolves around the trending topics of wireless sensing, mobile networks and machine learning.

Alumni

Ph.D. Graduates:
   

Aashish Dhungana

Dissertation: "Leveraging Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing for Resource Optimization in Mobile Social Networks" [pdf].
Position: System Engineer, Align Technologies, NC.

   

Fatih Yucel

Dissertation: "Preference-Aware Task Assignment in Mobile Crowdsensing" [pdf].
Position: Software Engineer, Bloomberg.

   

Steven M. Hernandez

Dissertation: "WiFi Sensing at the Edge Towards Scalable On-Device Scalable Wireless Sensing Systems" [pdf].
Position: Research Scientist, Google Research.

   

Amirahmed Chapnevis

Dissertation: "Efficient Connectivity Management and Path Planning for IoT and UAV Networks" [pdf].
Position: Operation Research Scientist, Dillard's Inc.


Undergraduate Researchers:
REU Summer 2023: Maya McDonough (VCU), Thomas Moomaw (UNCC), Jack Farley (Duke), Brandon Vilela (Santa Monica College), Kshitij Kokkera (VCU)
REU Summer 2022: Rachel Williams (UNCC), Joshua Foster (UNCC)
Fatma Saafan
Dimayri Romero
Deniz Erdag (now with Capital One)
Fidel Rodriguez (now with CarMax)
Rohan Ray (now with IBM)
Dongchen (Jay) Guan (first position after graduation Microsoft. Moved to Apple)
Steven Hernandez (finished PhD in MoWiNG lab - GRFP recipient. Now with Google Research)

Senior Design Projects

2023-2024: WiFi Sensing Based Occupancy Monitoring (Evan Haaland, Jack McGowan, Justin Cheng, Javeria Hanif, Dominic Mason)
                    Low-cost Soil Moisture Sensing with Wireless Signals (Fig Vishton, Anisha Vijaykumar, Stephen Liu)
2018-2019: Remote Patient Monitoring (Kevin Hall, James Peaker, Mit Amin)
2017-2018: Campus Bluetooth Tag Network (Nicholas Bennett, Jordan Mays-Rowland, Justin Yirka)
                    Sternheimer Award Winner
2016-2017: Automatic Parking Application (Will Steiner, Corey Gates, Huy Nguyen)

Lab Photos

Lab and REU Students (June 2023) Lab Members (April 2023)
Lab Lunch (Jan 2024) Lab Members (Nov 2021)