Assistant Professor
University of Maryland, College Park
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: zhambyl@umd.edu
Office: 2305 A.V. Williams
Zhambyl Shaikhanov is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Rice University in 2024 and 2020, respectively, under the supervision of Dr. Edward Knightly, and his B.S. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Zhambyl worked in the industry at the Dell Server Networking lab before his graduate school. His research has been featured in many top-tier ACM/IEEE conferences and journals and has won multiple awards, including Best Demo Awards at ACM HotMobile and ACM WiSec. Zhambyl has been honored as a Texas Instruments Distinguished Fellow, a Rice ECE Fellow, and a recipient of the "Bolashak" International Scholar award, among many others.
I am seeking motivated Ph.D. students passionate about wireless systems. If you are interested in joining my team, please contact me.
My research focuses on a broad spectrum of next-generation (6G and beyond) wireless. Building on strong theoretical foundations, I design, prototype, and demonstrate in-the-field next-generation wireless systems and architectures with applications in networking, security, and sensing. My research is multi-disciplinary, cutting across electromagnetics, protocols, signal processing, robotics, and end-to-end systems.
Next Generation Wireless
Networking
[Millimeter-wave and Sub-THz]
Security
[Smart Devices and Systems]
Recent News
Our paper "Audio Misinformation Encoding via an On-Phone Sub-Terahertz Metasurface" has been accepted to Optica Memoranda, a venue that publishes brief announcements of breakthroughs or innovations deserving extremely rapid publication and dissemination, 2024
Our paper "MetaFly: Wireless Backhaul Interception via Aerial Wavefront Manipulation" has been accepted by the top security conference - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2024
Our paper "Toward Accurate Environmental Mapping using Balloon-based UAVs" was presented at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking (CCNC) conference, 2024
We have been awarded 🏆 $1.8M from the U.S. Army Research Office to enhance security against "MetaSurface-in-the-Middle" attacks, 2023
We won the Best Demo Award 🏆 at ACM HotMobile for our work "Adversarial Aerial MetaSurfaces," 2023
Our paper "RMDM: Using Random Meta-Atoms to Send Directional Misinformation to Eavesdroppers" has been accepted to the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2023
We won the Best Demo Award 🏆 at ACM WiSec for our work "Metasurface-in-the-Middle Attack: From Theory to Experiment," 2022
