Shideh Yavary received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). She was the network administrator of the Ministry of Road and Transportation (MRT), Tehran, Iran, from 1999 to 2007. At MRT, she was instrumental in leading the networking and wireless operations and responsible for design, development, consulting, and training services in 4G/LTE and multi-gigabit wireless technologies.
Her research philosophy is grounded in the fact that application-centric networks resulting from seamless collaboration between the application layer and network layer have a marked impact on network management, security, policy frameworks, network services, and big data analytics. Importantly, she focuses on cross-layer approaches to optimize and secure networks rather than layer-3 approaches that are unaware of the applications’ service and resource requirements. Thus, her research seeks to uncover application-aware networking and its impact on security, service differentiation, and efficient data transfers in distributed data-intensive applications.
Research Interests
SDN and Programmable Networks
SDON; Optical Network
Network Security
Network Virtualization
Cloud-native Infrastructure
Al/ML for Networks
Research Focus
Network Intelligence through Application-awareness