Students
My current research interests fall under the following general areas:
- Protocols and architectures for the Internet of Things (IoT)
- Mobile edge computing and storage
- Information-centric networking
- Ultra low-power wireless ad hoc sensor network protocols
- Delay or disruption-tolerant networking
If you want to pursue doctoral studies in any of the above areas or in any computer networking topic in general under my supervision, please send me an e-mail at alvin.valera@ecs.vuw.ac.nz. Please attach a copy of your latest CV and academic transcripts.
VUW offers scholarship to applicants with excellent academic performance or publications in top-tier conferences or journals.
Current Students
- Buddhima Amarathunga (Ph.D. student, co-supervised with Dr. Jyoti Sahni)
- Duncan Cameron (Ph.D. student, co-supervised with Prof. Winston Seah)
- Atefeh Talebian (Ph.D. student, co-supervised with Prof. Winston Seah)
Alumni
- Deepkrsna Arora (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2023)
- Harrison Blackburn Churcher (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2023)
- Moe Plaso Kusay (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2023)
- Vincent Alvarez (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2023)
- Daniel Robertson (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2023)
- James Knott (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2023)
- Oscar Camplin (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2022)
- Jake Hobbs (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2022)
- William Hollywood (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2022)
- Ben Robertson (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2021)
- Toby Stayner (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2021)
- Javrielle Domingo (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2021)
- Greg Mason (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2020)
- Nevin Jojo (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2020)
- Tawera Manaena (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2020)
- Jakob Pfender (Ph.D., Mar 2017-Oct 2020)
- Niels Clayton (Summer scholar, Nov 2019-Feb 2020)
- Andrew Thompson (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2019)
- James Watt (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2019)
- Jesse Williams (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2019)
- Kyle Claudio (Honours student, Mar-Nov 2019)
- Sandeep Suresh (Postgrad Intern, Nov 2018-Feb 2019)
- Jinqiang Goh (Undegrad Intern, May-Aug 2018)
- John Lerke (Postgrad Intern, Mar-Jun 2018)
- John Espina (Postgrad Intern, Mar-Jun 2018)
- Stuart Baynes (Postgrad Intern, Mar-Jun 2018)