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Dr. Ferheen Ayaz Research
Fellow, University of Sussex School
of Engineering and Informatics Richmond
Building, Brighton, Falmer, BN1 9RH, UK |
Dr. Ferheen Ayaz is a Research Fellow at University of Sussex working on the project of Green, Connected and Prosperous Britain
funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She is formulating energy-efficient
solutions for electric vehicle charging utilising vehicle-to-grid (V2G)
networks. She works with project collaborators from London South Bank
University, Imperial College London and University of
Essex. Her research aims to investigate and strengthen links between 5G
platforms and energy sector to improve flexibility and resilience, cut consumer
costs and carbon emissions.
She was an Associate Researcher working on Multimodal AI-based Security at the Edge (MAISE) with
University of Glasgow in partnership with ST Microelectronics and funded by Petras in 2021-2022. The project was aimed to ensure
security of intelligent IoT devices. She worked closely with officials of
STMicroelectronics to achieve research objectives.
Besides her main research projects, she has also worked as a part-time
research fellow in University of Sussex on the project of environmental
sustainability through IoT based flood monitoring and green and autonomous UAVs
in March and July 2022, respectively.
She completed her PhD
thesis on the topic of blockchain solutions for the security and privacy of
vehicular networks particularly message dissemination in 2022. The research
utilised blockchain for security in vehicular communications, thereby ensuring
safe transportation. The research was funded by University of Sussex and
partially supported by SEED
project funded by H2020 EPSRC Marie Skłodowska-Curie
grant. She also has research experience of physical layer communication
technologies including Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) and Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communications.
She received funding from IEEE for industrial placement at Kinseed.
She was the recipient of N2Women Fellowship 2020. She served in the Technical
Program Committee of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2021. She is
currently serving as the Lead Guest Editor for Research Topic "Sustainable Future of Transportation through Electric and
Connected Vehicles" in Frontiers in Future Transportation.
Research Areas
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Electric vehicular and vehicular
Communications
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Energy efficiency and environment
sustainability
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Security, privacy, blockchain
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Machine learning, deep neural networks and federated learning
Teaching Experience
Certified as AFHEA.
Designed experiments, manuals, conducted labs, workshops and performed assessment for the following
subjects:
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C Programming language
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Embedded Systems
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Introduction to Computer Science
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Electricity and Electronics