Shazal Irshad

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Intelligent Systems and Wireless Networking (IS-WiN) Lab at Clemson University, working with Dr. Fatemeh Afghah. My research focuses on foundation models and world models for wireless systems, with an emphasis on self-supervised representation learning, multimodal RF and vision sensing, and intelligent wireless network control.

Previously, I was a Software Engineer on the Wireless AI/ML Systems team at Cisco Meraki, where I worked on ML-driven diagnostics and intelligent systems for enterprise wireless networks. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023, advised by Dr. Eric Rozner, where my research combined wireless networking and computer vision for localization, sensing, and privacy-aware systems.

My research interests include systems and networking, distributed and intelligent networked systems, ML for system diagnostics and operations, mobile and wireless computing, networked sensing, privacy-aware systems, and foundation and world models for networked systems. I am broadly motivated by building scalable, reliable, and context-aware systems that bridge research and real-world deployments.

I received my M.S. in Computer Science from LUMS (Lahore, Pakistan) in 2017, and my B.S. in Computer Science from FAST-NUCES in 2014.

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