Hi!
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at UMass Amherst, advised by Taqi Raza, where I work at the intersection of AI and network systems.
My research asks how cellular and edge infrastructure must evolve to support AI inference that is stateful, resource-intensive, and mobile. I design systems for network-aware LLM serving, including mechanisms for placing, transferring, and reconstructing inference state as users move across edge servers. More broadly, I develop new abstractions and architectures that jointly manage models, compute, memory, and network state to make edge inference efficient, adaptive, and reliable.
Previously, I was a Research Intern at Nokia Bell Labs, where I worked on intelligent mobility optimization for 5G networks and developed an RL-based handover mechanism that resulted in a filed patent. I hold a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from NUST, where I graduated with a Gold Medal.
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! |
| Sept 21, 2025 | Happy to share that SynchroNB was accepted at ACM SenSys 2026! |
| Feb 03, 2025 | Excited to join Nokia Bell Labs as a Network System Intern — I'll be working on mobility management for O-RAN |
| Dec 10, 2024 | Honored to receive a travel grant to attend CoNEXT'24 at UCLA! |
| Aug 25, 2024 | Honored to receive a travel grant for AraFest at ISU, Ames — got to analyze data from Skylark's MIMOs on how environment variables affect 5G services |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Had a great time organizing a masterclass on wireless communication for K-12 students under the SENGI program at UMass Amherst |
| Jun 01, 2024 | Happy to be selected for the Young Gladiators 2024 workshop at Northeastern University! |
| Sept 5, 2023 | Excited to join Khwarizmi Lab at UMass Amherst as a graduate student 🎓 |
| Jun 03, 2023 | Graduated with a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and received the gold medal for best capstone project 🥇 |