Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: medium access control, routing, inter-layer interactions, modeling and performance evaluation.

Wireless Sensor Networks: multi-sensor collaboration, routing, medium access control, localization schemes, experimental testbed development and applications.

Statistical Signal Processing: distributed detection, non-parametric detection techniques, multi-stage and sequential detection.

Wireless Communications: channel characterization and modeling, mitigation of multi-path fading effects, source and channel coding, wireless CDMA.

Professional Affiliations

Member, IEEE Communications Society.

Member of Faculty Council, UNCC, 2004-2005.

Member of the Graduate Council, UNCC, 2002-2004.

Member of University Research Computing Steering Committee, UNCC, 2003-2005.

Chair of Reassignment of Duties Committee, College of Engineering, UNCC, 2004-2005.

Member of Academic Policy and Curriculum Committee, College of Engineering, UNCC, 2004-2005.

Member of Graduate Committee, Electrical & Computer Engineering, UNCC, 2004-2005.

Chair of Faculty Search Committee, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UNCC, 2001-2002.

Member of Library Committee, UNCC, 2001.

Member of Computer Committee, College of Engineering, UNCC, 2000-2002.

Recent Publications

Asis Nasipuri and Ribal El Najjar, "Experimental Evaluation of an Angle Based Indoor Localization System", Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee 2006), co-located with WiOpt 2006, April 3, 2006, Boston, MA.

Hadi Alasti, William A. Armstrong, and Asis Nasipuri, "Performance of a Robust Filter-based Approach for Contour Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks", to be presented at the 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN-07), August 13-16, 2007.

Asis Nasipuri and Samir R. Das, "Performance of Multi-channel Ad Hoc Networks", International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, special issue on Medium Access Control for WLANs, WPANs, Ad Hoc Networks, and Sensor Networks, vol. 1, nos. 3/4, pp. 191-203, 2006.

Research Grants

National Science Foundation grant EIA-013079 "CISE Research Resources: Experimental Testbed for Mobile Network Protocols", T. Dahlberg (PI), A. Nasipuri, E. El-Kwae, and G. Ahn, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, $100,000, Sept. 2001 to February 2005.

National Science Foundation grant ANI-9973147 "Collaborative Proposal: Protocols for Mobile, Ad Hoc Networks", S. R. Das (PI) and A. Nasipuri, University of Texas at San Antonio, $157,772, Oct. 1999 to Sept. 2003 (a sub-award of $54,784 was made out to UNC Charlotte from this grant under the title "Multi-channel CSMA Protocols", A. Nasipuri (PI), when Dr. Nasipuri joined UNC Charlotte in August 2000).

National Science Foundation supplement to "Collaborative Proposal: Protocols for Mobile, Ad Hoc Networks" under the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Scheme, $14,250, July 2001 to Sept. 2002. (The entire portion of $14,250 was sub-awarded by the University of Cincinnati to the proposing institution UNC Charlotte under the title "Supplement to Multi-channel CSMA Protocols", A. Nasipuri (PI), July 2001 to Sept. 2002.

Junior Faculty Grant from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, "Development of a Wireless Sensor Network Prototype for Supervision and Control of Bioreactor Landfills", A. Nasipuri (PI) and V. Ogunro, $6000, 2004-2005.

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Bangalore, India, on "Studies of the Interplay of Source & Channel Coder Parameters for use in Digital Satellite Communications", INR 500,000, March 1998 to Feb 2000, Asis Nasipuri (PI), Saswat Chakrabarti and Ranjan Gangopadhyay, at I.I.T. Kharagpur, India.

Educational Background

Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993

M.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990

B.Tech. (Hons), Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 1987