Assistant Professor

Saikat Ray received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Boston University, Boston, MA, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. In summer 2001, he worked with Fujitsu Network Communications, Acton, MA, and in summer 2003, with Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K. From September 2005 to December 2006, he was a post-doctoral researcher with University of Pennsylvania. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at University of Bridgeport. His research interests are in information processing and control of large-scale distributed networks including wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks and high-speed networks. His recent topics of investigations include scheduled and random medium access control; network coding; distributed control of multi-agent systems and distributed optimization. more

Ph.D. Student & Adjunct Faculty

Abdelshakour Abuzneid is a part-time Ph.D. student of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. Abdelshakour received his M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Bridgeport, graduating with a GPA of 3.9. Mr. Abuzneid worked as the Director of Systems Operations in the School of Engineering since 1997. He helped the department of Computer Science maintain ABET accreditation during the last three comprehensive visits. He   is a very capable networks/systems engineer, MCP and MCSE certified. He is also a PMP candidate. He teaches undergraduate/graduate-level courses in the University of Bridgeport’s School of Engineering as an adjunct instructor.more

Former Master Student

Sharifa Dalvi, recently graduated from the University of Bridgeport where she was pursuing her Masters in Electrical Engineering. She was a graduate assistant in the Computer Science and Engineering Department in the academic year fall 2005 to fall 2006. She has a Bachelors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Mumbai. Her study was principally focused on assembling a Mobile Communications lab at the university Campus. Her primary role in the Wireless Communications Laboratory was to do the real-time configuration of a WLAN where she dealt with CISCO Access Points, Bridges and wireless adapters. She compiled a series of labs for the fellow students to practically perform.

Assistant Professor

Aasia Riasat is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science department at Institute of Business Management (IOBM), Pakistan, where she has been working since May 2006. She received an M.S.C. in Computer Science from the University of Sindh in 1998, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, in 2006.  From 1999 to 2004 she worked as a lecturer at the computer science department of Preston Institute of Management Science and Technology (PIMSAT).Her research interests include distributed simulation, web-based visualization, virtual reality, data compression, and algorithm analysis and optimization. She is currently an active member of WMC research group where she is mainly responsible for designing and implementing the large distributed simulation models and algorithms. 

Ph.D. Student & Adjunct Faculty

Syed S. Rizvi is a full-time Ph.D. student of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bridgeport.  He received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology in 2001 and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, in 2005. His current research focuses on the design, implementation and comparisons of algorithms in the areas of multi-user communications, multi-path signals detection, multi-access interference estimation, computational complexity and combinatorial optimization of multi-user receivers, peer-to-peer networking, reconfigurable coprocessors and FPGA based architectures. more

Former M.S. Students

Ajay Shrestha

Sandeep Talwar

Nutan Kantha

Suleiman Altawarah