Hi!
I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass Amherst, advised by Taqi Raza. I build systems for next-generation mobile networks and AI infrastructure.
My research rethinks the cellular core as a cloud-native, AI-native distributed system. I work on correctness, scalability, state management, and low-latency AI inference at the mobile edge.
I have worked at Nokia Bell Labs on AI-driven 5G mobility optimization, leading to a patent filing accepted by Nokia's patent board. Before my Ph.D., I studied Electrical Engineering at SEECS, NUST, where I graduated with a gold medal for the best capstone project.
Email: mnazeer@umass.edu
Latest News
| Jun 11, 2026 | Excited to receive the UMass teaching fellowship for Fall 2026! I'll be teaching Computer Networks: From the First Bit Sent to Internet of Agents 🎉 |
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| Jun 2026 | Great news — ORACLE was accepted at IEEE ICC 2026 and I got to present it in Glasgow, UK! |
| May 2026 | Our FMsys paper on federated human activity recognition was accepted at ACM SenSys 2026 and presented in St. Malo, France 🇫🇷 |
| Mar 2026 | Thrilled that our patent was accepted by the Nokia patents board! |