Professional/Academic Background

• Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT (August 2025 - Present) 

• Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate, Wireless Devices and Systems Group, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (August 2023 - July 2025) 

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (July 2023)

  • Graduate (Research/Teaching) Assistant, Department of ECE, NC State University, Raleigh, NC (August 2019 - July 2023)

  • Research Intern - Machine Learning for 5G Next Generation Radio Access Networks, Wireless Research and Standards, Futurewei Technologies, Inc. Schaumburg, IL (May 2022 - December 2022)

  • Research Intern - Advanced Vehicular Technologies, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA (May 2021 - August 2021)

• MS in Electrical Engineering, Utah State University (June 2019)

  • Graduate (Research/Teaching) Assistant, Department of ECE, Utah State University, Logan, UT (August 2017 - June 2019)

• B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Rajshahi, Bangladesh (December 2014)

Short Bio

Ferdous Pervej received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, in 2014; the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA, in 2019; and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 2023.

He was with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA, in summer 2021 and with Futurewei Wireless Research and Standards, Schaumburg, IL, USA, from May 2022 to December 2022. From August 2023 to July 2025, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering within the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at USU. His primary research interests are distributed machine learning, wireless networks, vehicle-to-everything communication, edge caching/computing, and machine learning for wireless networks.

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