Nasir Ghani

Nasir Ghani
Associate Professor

Contact Information:
(505) 277-1475
nghani@ece.unm.edu
faculty website

Degrees: PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1997 ME EE, McMaster University, Canada, 1992 BE, Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1991

Dr. Ghani has gained a wide range of academic and industrial experience in the telecommunications field. Prior to joining UNM he was an associate professor in ECE at Tennessee Tech University and also held a joint position as a Collaborating Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab. In the past he has also held senior technical positions at Nokia, IBM, Motorola and Sorrento Networks. Dr. Ghani has made significant contributions in optical networking, and his earlier work on IP-optical integration was one of the first to develop a comprehensive control architecture for modern transport networks. He has published more than 100 archival publications (including journals, conferences, book chapters, and standardization contributions) and holds two U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Dr. Ghani is advising several doctoral students and teaches courses in networking and software engineering. He is also involved with various high-school outreach activities.

Current Research
Dr. Ghani has built an advanced High Speed Networks Laboratory at UNM, and his current research interests include network virtualization and services, hybrid inter-networking and metro/access networks. He is actively funded by several large grants from the NSF and Department of Energy Office of Science, focusing on the design of new architectures and algorithms for multi-domain, multi-layer networks.

Notable Publications
• N. Ghani, et al, “Control Plane Design in Multi-Domain/Multi-Granularity Optical Networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 8, July 2008 • N. Ghani, S. Dixit, T. Wang, “On IP-Over-WDM Integration,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 3, March 2000, pp. 72-84

Invited Speaker
“Multi-Layer Federated Network Provisioning,” DOE expert panel meeting on Advanced Networking for Distributed Petascale Science: R&D Challenges and Opportunities, Washington D.C., April 2008

Professional Contributions
Dr. Ghani is the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on High Speed Networks and has organized numerous international conferences. Most notably he is the lead chair of an upcoming symposium at IEEE Globecom 2009 and has served as a co-chair for the optical networking symposia for IEEE ICC 2006 and IEEE GLOBECOM 2006. Dr. Ghani also serves on the program committee for IEEE/OSA OFC. He is currently an associate editor for IEEE Communications Letters and has guest-edited special issues of IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Magazine, and Cluster Computing.