Ayat Jafari
Title: Professor
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science
Campus: Long Island
Area(s) of Expertise: Computer Communications, Cybersecurity, Fuzzy Logic
Education Credentials: Ph.D.
Joined New York Tech: 1986
Ayat Jafari’s research interests span computer networks, cyber security, fuzzy logic, and neural networks. He has managed several projects in these areas at New York Tech. Jafari is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member.
Recent Projects & Research
- U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research Grant to establish the Network and Information Security Lab at New York Tech, as well as the curriculum for the graduate degree program in Information, Network, and Computer Security
- NSA Contract for Managing Group that Built a High Security Information Assurance Virtual Data Center, Virtual Data Center Wizard, and Copy/Backup Utility
- LILCO Project for Building a Practical and Intelligent Fuzzy Logic Control Prototype System to Improve Overall System Performance of Electric Generation Facilities
Publications
- H. Chin, Jafari A., “Intelligent Hybrid Vehicle Management Systems”, Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Symposium on System Theory, Waco, Texas, March 11-13, PP. 115-123, 2013.
- H. Chin, A. Jafari, “A selection algorithm for power controller of hybrid vehicles”, 2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), PP. 324 – 328, 2011.
- Tao Zhang, Kejie Lu, Ayat Jafari, Shengli Fu, and Yi Qian, “On the capacity Bounds of Large-Scale Wireless Network with Physical-Layer Network Coding Under the Generalized Physical Model", in Proc. IEEE ICC 2010 - Workshop on Cooperative and Cognitive Mobile Networks, Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27, 2010.
- H. Chin and A. Jafari, “Design of Power Controller for Hybrid Vehicle”, Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on System Theory, Tyler, Texas, March 7-9, PP. 165-170, 2010.
- H. Chin and A Jafari, “Using Game Model for Optimal Control of Hybrid Vehicle”, International Game Workshop of Chicago, September 7-8, PP. 1-17, 2009.
Honors & Awards
- NYIT Presidential Service Award
- Philips Laboratory Scholarship
- Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, IEEE/LI Section, 1993
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- Signals and Systems
- Probability and Stochastic Processes
- Theoretical Concepts in Computers and Computation