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

• Matthew Corfiatis (Honours student)
• Pierce Burt (Honours student)
• Kevin Lee (Honours student)
• Steve Cosgrove (M.Eng. student, co-supervised with Prof. Winston Seah)
• Terry Xu (M.Eng. student, co-supervised with Prof. Winston Seah)
• Buddhima Amarathunga (Ph.D. student, co-supervised with Dr. Jyoti Sahni)
• Duncan Cameron (Ph.D. student, co-supervised with Prof. Winston Seah)

Alumni

• Atefeh Talebian (Ph.D., Nov 2019-Jan 2024)
• 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)