Aisha Syed

Before joining Bell Labs in 2021, I received my PhD and MS in Computer Science with a focus on networked systems from University of Utah in US. My advisors were Kobus Van der Merwe and Robert Ricci. 

• M. Akbari, A. Syed, W. Kennedy, M. Kantarci. “AoI and Energy Aware SFC in UAV-Aided MEC using Asynchronous Federated Learning”. 2022. (In submission)
• A. Nguyen, T. Pamuklu, A. Syed, W. Kennedy, M. Kantarci. “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task Offloading in UAV-Aided Smart Farm Networks”. 2022. (In submission)
• A. Nguyen, T. Pamuklu, A. Syed, W. Kennedy, M. Kantarci. “Reinforcement Learning-Based Deadline and Battery-Aware Offloading in Smart Farm IoT-UAV Networks”. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 2022.
• A. Syed, J. Cho, P. Sharma, J. Van der Merwe. “Orchestrating for E2E Application Performance in Uncertain Serverless Ecosystems”. (Technical Report and Thesis at University of Utah)
• A. Syed, B. Anwer, V. Gopalakrishnan, J. Van der Merwe. “DEPO: A Platform for Safe DEployment of POlicy in a Software Defined Infrastructure”. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR). 2019
• A. Syed and J. Van der Merwe. “Proteus: A network service control platform for service evolution in a mobile software defined infrastructure”. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom). 2016.
• R. Quinn, J. Kunz, A. Syed, J. Breen, S. Kasera, R. Ricci, and J. Van der Merwe. “KnowNet: Towards a Knowledge Plane for Enterprise Network Management”. In Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS). 2016.