Fatemeh Jalali

Biography

Fatemeh Jalali is a research scientist at IBM Research in Melbourne since 2015. Fatemeh received the Ph.D. degree from Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) at The University of Melbourne. Her main research interests include Cloud and Fog/Edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, energy consumption and energy harvesting wireless sensor networks, in which she has authored a number of research papers and patents. Aside from technical activities, she is actively involved in encouraging and inspiring young people, especially women, in engineering and ICT through collaborations with non-profit professional organizations such as IEEE. Both her technical activities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) promotion activities are recognized by various professional organizations. Here is a list of some awards and grants she has received in the last few years: Selected as one of the 200 Most Qualified Young Researchers by the Scientific Committee of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, 2017. Travel Grant to attend ACM SIGCOMM 2017. Monash Engineering Women’s Leadership Award 2017. IBM Regional Journal of Eminence (RJoE) award winner in 2016. IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group of the Year in 2015 (team award). IEEE Best Paper award by IEEE Victorian Section in 2015. ACM Student Research Competition Grant awarded by ACM in 2015. Travel Grant to attend IEEE WIE Leadership Conference 2014 & 2015. IEEE WIE Student Affinity Group of the Year in 2013 (team award). IEEE WIE Inspiring Student Member of the Year Award in 2013. Full PhD Scholarship from CEET (2011-2015). CEET was an industry-academic research centre with Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs and the University of Melbourne. Fatemeh Jalali is a research scientist at IBM Research in Melbourne since 2015. Fatemeh received the Ph.D. degree from Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) at The University of Melbourne. Her main research interests include Cloud and Fog/Edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, energy consumption and energy harvesting wireless sensor networks, in which she has authored a number of research papers and patents. Aside from technical activities, she is actively involved in encouraging and inspiring young people, especially women, in engineering and ICT through collaborations with non-profit professional organizations such as IEEE. Both her technical activities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) promotion activities are recognized by various professional organizations. Here is a list of some awards and grants she has received in the last few years: Selected as one of the 200 Most Qualified Young Researchers by the Scientific Committee of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, 2017. Travel Grant to attend ACM SIGCOMM 2017. Monash Engineering Women’s Leadership Award 2017. IBM Regional Journal of Eminence (RJoE) award winner in 2016. IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group of the Year in 2015 (team award). IEEE Best Paper award by IEEE Victorian Section in 2015. ACM Student Research Competition Grant awarded by ACM in 2015. Travel Grant to attend IEEE WIE Leadership Conference 2014 & 2015. IEEE WIE Student Affinity Group of the Year in 2013 (team award). IEEE WIE Inspiring Student Member of the Year Award in 2013. Full PhD Scholarship from CEET (2011-2015). CEET was an industry-academic research centre with Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs and the University of Melbourne.

Research Interest

Edge computing