Fawad Ahmad
Assistant Professor
Fawad Ahmad
Assistant Professor
Bio
Fawad Ahmad is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his PhD and MSc degrees from the University of Southern California in 2022, and his BSc from the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar in 2014. His research interests are in mobile systems, computer vision, and robotics.
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- AeroTraj: Trajectory Planning for Fast, and Accurate 3D Reconstruction Using a Drone-based LiDAR. Fawad Ahmad, Christina Shin, John D’Ambrosio, Eugene Chai, Karthik Sundaresan, and Ramesh Govindan. In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp/IMWUT 2023).
- UbiPose: Towards Ubiquitous Outdoor AR Pose Tracking Using Aerial Meshes. Weiwu Pang, Chunyu Xia, Branden Leong, Fawad Ahmad, Jeongyeup Paek, and Ramesh Govindan. In 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 23) 2023
- CarMap: Fast 3D Feature Map Updates for Automobiles. Fawad Ahmad, Hang Qiu, Ray Eells, Fan Bai, and Ramesh Govindan. In 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 20)
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April 25, 2024
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Cybersecurity professor and Ph.D. students to present autonomous driving research at ACM MobiSys ’24 Conference
Fawad Ahmad, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute at RIT, along with computing and information sciences Ph.D. candidates Kaleem Nawaz Khan and Ali Khalid, will present new research at the prestigious ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys’24 Conference) in June.
