2008-2009 ECE Distinguished Researcher Award, Univ. of New Mexico
Recipient of Bellcore fellow-advisor award, Stanford University, 1999
Selected News
President Obama names the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Sept. 26, 2011 Press Release
Dr. Mostofi's lab featured on the KNME (New Mexico PBS) premiere of "Connect", which showcases great ideas in science, medicine, arts, and history, Jan. 19 2012
Dr. Mostofi's accomplishments become the number one UNM news of 2011 according to UNM's Communications and Marketing Department article
President Schmidly, the President of UNM, recognizes Professor Mostofi for her research accomplishments in the Board of Regents meeting on Dec. 13, 2011
IEEE Control Systems Magazine's interview with Dr. Mostofi, June 2010 article
Research group highlighted in the UNM Engineering Magazine, Spring 2008 article
Funded Projects
Total amount granted as PI to date (excludes the amount received as co-PI): $1,850,000
Total amount granted as PI/Co-PI to date: $2,240,000
NSF CAREER, "Compressive Cooperative Sensing and Navigation in Mobile Networks," June 2009-June 2014, Amount: $400,000
NSF, "An Integrative Framework for Communication and Motion-planning in Robotic Networks Operating in Fading Environments," PI, Sept. 2008 - Sept. 2011, Amount: $350,000
ARO Collaborative Technology Alliance, "Autonomous Multifunctional Mobile Microsystems," UNM PI, multi-University project (lead university: UPenn), May 2008 - May 2013, Amount: $1,100,000
DTRA, "Robust Functionality and Active Data Management in Cooperative Networks," Sept. 2008 - July 2011 (PI: Majeed Hayat)
DTRA, "Modeling and Mitigating Cascading Failures in Coupled
Distributed Power Grid and Communication Networks," Aug. 2010 - March 2012, (PI: Majeed Hayat)
Research
Dr. Mostofi's current research is multi-disciplinary and lies at the intersection of the two areas of communications and control/robotics in mobile sensor networks.
With a Ph.D. in wireless communications and a postdoctoral experience in control and dynamical systems, the current work of her research lab,
Cooperative Network Lab, tightly integrates the two areas. Current research thrusts of her lab include:
Communication-Aware Motion-Planning in Robotic Networks
Compressive and Cooperative Sensing and Navigation in Mobile Networks
Cooperative Robotic Obstacle/Object Mapping and See-through Capabilities using Sparse Wireless Measurements
Robotic Router Formation and Optimization in Realistic Communication Environments
We have several exciting projects going on in our lab and I am always looking for highly-motivated Ph.D. students. If you have emailed me and have not heard back, however, do not get discouraged. I receive several emails in this regard every day and it would be hard to write back to you all. It helps if you can summarize a few things about your background (your past schools, awards, publication list, etc) in the body of the email itself. Also, if you are interested in working with me, please do not apply to UNM before you hear from me. I will contact you if there is a matching opening. Thanks for your interest.
Leanne Storey, M.S. 2007, now at Sandia National Labs
Thesis title: Effects of Fading Channels on Motion Planning in Mobile Sensor Networks
Alejandro Gonzalez-Ruiz, M.S. 2009, now Ph.D. student of Dr. Mostofi
Thesis title: Distributed Load Balancing over Directed Network Topologies
Undergraduates:
Aman Agarwal (summer 2007, from IIT Madras), Zhenhua Gong and Xuhan Peng (Fall 2006, from Shanghai Jiaotong University), Wenzhuo Ouyang, Xinchen Zhang and Ye Yuan (Fall 2007, from Shanghai Jiaotong University)
Teaching
Theory of Linear Systems
Fall 2008, Fall 2009
Networked Control Systems
Fall 2007
Wireless Communications
Spring 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
Hobbies
The excitements of junior faculty lifestyle barely leave time for anything outside of work. Over the years, I have enjoyed the following: playing piano,
learning Santur (an ancient Persian musical instrument), writing and reading Persian poems (modern style), painting and Tae Kwon Do.
