Lena Mashayekhy

I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Delaware and the Founder and Director of the Intelligent Edge Systems Lab. I am also an Associate Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Center (SSC) (technological dimension) and an affiliated faculty member of the Data Science Institute. My research interests include Edge Intelligence, Distributed AI, Internet of Things, Edge/Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, and Game Theory.

I serve as associate editor and member of the editorial boards of ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
I am a General Co-Chair (with Khalid Elgazzar) for ICFEC 2025, the 9th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing. We welcome your submission and participation!

Multiple open positions are available: If you are interested in joining my group as a PhD student or a postdoc, please email me a recent copy of your CV.

• May, 2025: Paper accepted for publication at IEEE EDGE 2025.
• April, 2025: Paper accepted for publication at the 10th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2025).
• March, 2025: Paper accepted for publication at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC), 2025.
• September, 2024: Serving as a General Co-Chair for ICFEC 2025.
• February, 2024: Two papers accepted for publication at SPIE 2024.
• February, 2024: Paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
• January, 2024: Paper accepted for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC).
• January, 2024: Paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
• December, 2023: Weibin successfully defended his PhD dissertation.
• December, 2023: Outstanding Service Award, ACM/IEEE SEC 2023.
• September, 2023: Serving as a Program Co-Chair for ICFEC 2024.
• August, 2023: Erfan successfully defended his PhD dissertation.
• August, 2023: Appointed as an Associate Editor for ACM Computing Surveys.
• February, 2023: Paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems.
• January, 2023: Elevated to ACM Senior Member.
• November, 2022: Appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
• September, 2022: Paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC).
• September, 2022: Paper accepted at ICSOC.
• June, 2022: Dixit, my first PhD student, successfully defended his PhD dissertation.
• April, 2022: Received an NSF CAREER Award. News!
• April, 2022: Paper accepted at the IEEE EDGE 2022.
• January, 2022: Received a grant from UDRF-SI.
• January, 2022: Paper on bifactor approximation algorithm for cloudlet placement (co-authored with Dixit) ranked in top 50 most popular articles published in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
• January, 2022: Paper on trust-aware cloud federation formation (co-authored with Mark and Dan) ranked in top 50 most popular articles published in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
• October, 2021: Paper received a Code Reviewed badge from TPDS.
• October, 2021: Paper accepted at the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC'21).
• September, 2021: Faculty mentor at GHC'21.
• July, 2021: Paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
• July, 2021: Two papers accepted for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2021).
• May, 2021: Paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
• May, 2021: Outstanding Service Award, CCGrid/ICFEC 2021.
• September, 2020: Faculty mentor at GHC'20.
• July, 2020: Received a grant from UDRF Grant Initiative.
• June, 2020: Paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC).
• June, 2020: Received a grant from Cisco Research.
• May, 2020: Paper accepted at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud (EdgeCom 2020).
• March, 2020: The Sociotechnical Systems Center (SSC), a new UD interdisciplinary research center, has launched. News!
• February, 2020: Paper accepted at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2020).
• January, 2020: Paper accepted at the 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020).
• December, 2019: Received the Best Paper Award of CloudCom 2019.
• October, 2019: Paper accepted at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom'19).
• October, 2019: Paper accepted at the 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC'19).
• September, 2019: Paper accepted at the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC'19).
• September, 2019: Faculty mentor at GHC'19.
• June, 2019: Elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
• April, 2019: Paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC).
• April, 2019: Paper accepted at the IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT'19).
• October, 2018: Paper accepted at the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC'18).
• September, 2018: Faculty mentor at GHC'18.
• September, 2018: Paper accepted at the 37th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'18).
• August, 2018: Participating in the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2018: Systems | Fueling future disruptions.
• July, 2018: Paper accepted at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC’18).
• June, 2018: Received a grant from UDRF.
• March, 2018: Received an NSF CRII award.
• December, 2017: Received the 2017 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researcher). News!
• February, 2017: Best Application Paper Honorable Mention in IIE Transactions on Scheduling & Logistics (2nd place among all journal papers published in issues 47:7 through 48:6).
• November, 2016: Received the 2016 IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award for my dissertation: ''Resource Management in Cloud and Big Data Systems''. News!
• June, 2016: Paper accepted for publication in Transportation Science.
• May, 2016: Paper accepted for publication in IIE Transactions.
• March, 2016: Member of Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization.
• February, 2016: UDaily article on our collaborative research.
• December, 2015: Paper selected as the Featured Article for the IIE Industrial Engineer Magazine January 2016 Issue.
• November, 2015: Co-Chair and organizer: Invited Session on Cloud Computing at the 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
• September, 2015: Paper selected as a finalist in the IBM Research Service Science Best Student Paper Award competition, INFORMS 2015. (The winner will be announced at the 2015 INFORMS annual meeting in Philadelphia in November)
• September, 2015: Paper featured in the April-June 2015 issue of Cloud-Link (presented by the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative).
• September, 2015: Joined UD.
• August, 2015: Paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computers.
• July, 2015: Defended my PhD dissertation.
• June, 2015: Selected to participate in the NSF NeTS Early-Career Investigators Workshop.
• April, 2015: Selected to participate in the CRA-W 2015 Early-Career Mentoring Workshop (CMW-R) at FCRC, June 2015.
• November, 2014: Paper selected as the Featured Article for the IEEE TPDS December 2014 Issue.
• November, 2014: Paper received the 2014 INFORMS Service Science Best Paper Runner-Up Award.
• October, 2014: Paper received the 2014 INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award.
• May, 2014: Our paper received the Runner-Up Award in the Best Student Paper Competition of the 2014 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) - College of Sustainable Operations. News!
• July, 2013: Selected to participate in the 2013 NextProf Workshop at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
• August, 2012: Participant, Summer School on Algorithmic Economics at Carnegie Mellon University.