Rate My Professor Fatemeh Afghah

Fatemeh Afghah is a tenured McQueen Quattlebaum Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department within Engineering at Clemson University, serving as Director of the Intelligent Systems and Wireless Networking (IS-WiN) Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maine in 2013, along with M.Sc. (first rank) and B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Khajeh Nassir Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, in 2008 and 2005, respectively. Her academic career includes prior tenured associate professor (2020-2021) and assistant professor (2015-2020) positions at Northern Arizona University's School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, where she directed the WiNIP Laboratory, as well as assistant professor roles at North Carolina A&T State University (2013-2015). Afghah is also a Faculty Scholar at Clemson University School of Health Research (2022-2025).

Afghah's research interests encompass wireless communication networks, radio spectrum management, UAV networks and communications, security in autonomous systems, multi-agent decision-making, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in wireless systems and healthcare, and biomedical signal processing. As principal investigator or sole PI, she has obtained over $4.8 million in grants from NSF, AFRL, AFOSR, NIH, and Arizona Board of Regents, plus $5 million as co-PI. She has received prestigious awards such as the NSF CAREER Award (2020), Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award (2019), Northern Arizona University Most Promising New Scholar Award (2020), NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award (2017), and AFRL Visiting Faculty Awards (2016, 2017). An IEEE Senior Member and inventor/co-inventor of five patents, she has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including "LB-OPAR: Load Balanced Optimized Predictive and Adaptive Routing for Cooperative UAV Networks" (Ad Hoc Networks, 2022), "A Review of AI-enabled Routing Protocols for UAV Networks: Trends, Challenges, and Future Outlook" (Ad Hoc Networks, 2022), and "Electromagnetic Spectrum Contribution in Astronomy, Health, Atmospheric, Geology and Environment Applications" (International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, 2022). Afghah contributes to the field as an associate editor for journals including Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Computer Networks, and Springer Neural Processing Letters, and has organized workshops such as IEEE INFOCOM WiSARN'19 and IEEE WOWMOM SwarmNet'20&'21. Her scholarship is evidenced by over 7,300 citations on Google Scholar.