I Obtained my PhD in 2025 from the department of Computer Science in Stony Brook University , New York under the supervision of Prof. Himanshu Gupta and Prof. Samir Das.
My doctoral thesis is titled "License-free Use of RF and Infrared Spectrum" [ Dissertation PDF ]. [ Thesis defense pptx ]
List of my publications:
(My Google Scholar link, citations: 190+, h-index: 7)
Md. Shaifur Rahman, Ayon Chakraborty, Karthikeyan Sunderasan, Himanshu Gupta, NavigateIO: Infrastructure-free Tracking for First Responders, Under review for ACM Journal on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2026.
Md. Shaifur Rahman, Ayon Chakraborty, Karthikeyan Sunderasan, Himanshu Gupta, DynoLoc: Infrastructure-free RF Tracking in Dynamic Indoor Environments, Under revision for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026. [ PDF ]
Himanshu Gupta, Md. Shaifur Rahman, Max Curran, Spectrum Allocation via Pathloss Estimation in Crowdsensed Shared Spectrum Systems, IEEE DySPAN, 2019. [ PDF ]
Md. Shaifur Rahman, Himanshu Gupta, Ayon Chakraborty, Samir Das. Creating Spatio-temporal Spectrum Maps from Sparse Crowdsensed Data, in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2019. [ PDF ]
Md. Shaifur Rahman, Kai Zheng, Himanshu Gupta. FSO-VR: Steerable Free Space Optics link for Virtual Reality Headsets, in 4th ACM Workshop on wearable systems and applications (WearSys), 2018. [ PDF ]
Max Curran, Md. Shaifur Rahman, Himanshu Gupta, Vyas Sekar. Rethinking Virtual Network Embedding in Reconfigurable Networks, in IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2018. [ PDF ]
Md. Shaifur Rahman, Max Curran, Himanshu Gupta, Kai Zheng, Samir Das, Jon Longtin, Thanvir Mohamed. FSONet: A Wireless Backhaul for Multi-Gigabit Picocells Using Steerable Free Space Optics, in ACM Conference on Mobile Computing & Networking (MobiCom), 2017. [ PDF ]
Md. Shaifur Rahman, Ayon Chakraborty, Himanshu Gupta, Samir Das. SpecSense: Crowdsensing for efficient querying of spectrum occupancy, in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2017. [ PDF ]
Md. Shaifur Rahman, Mahmuda Naznin. Efficient Routing in a Sensor Network Using Collaborative Ants, in International Conference in Swarm Intelligence, 2016. [ PDF ]
Md. Shaifur Rahman, Mahmuda Naznin. Shortening the Tour-length of a Mobile Data Collector in the WSN by the Method of Linear Shortcut, in Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), 2013. [ PDF ]
List of my US Patents
Simultaneous localization and synchronization across multiple antennas, US Patent 12,335,899 [ link ]
Device tracking with radio ranging and sensor functions, US Patent 12,207,226 [ link ]
Infrastructure-free tracking and response, US Patent 11,595,934 [ link ]
Infrastructure-free RF tracking in dynamic indoor environments, US Patent 11,388,564 [ link ]