Puya Ghazizadeh, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Puya Ghazizadeh is Assistant Professor of computer science at Division of Computer Science, Mathematics and Science, St. John's University, Queens, New York. Ghazizadeh completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia in 2014.
Presently Ghazizadeh serves as Co-Chair for the Fourth International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things (PerIoT 2020) (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2020). He is acting as Co-Chair for the IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee: Intelligence and Security Information for Transportation Systems. Ghazizadeh served as Associate Editor for The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2020 (ITSC 2020).
He is being a regular reviewer for several international journals and international conferences in the field of Mobile Computing, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Ghazizadeh conducts research on Mobile Computing and Intelligent Transportation Systems focusing on Vehicular Clouds. Applications of vehicular cloud include content delivery network (CDN), traffic control, and natural disaster management. His research interest also includes Database Security and Algorithm Optimization.
He has widely published his research with more than 20 international conferences and journal articles.

Courses Taught

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1115
COMPUTER PROG FUND I
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1116
COMPUTER PROG FUND II
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1126
INTRO TO DATA STRUCTURES
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1156
SOFTWARE DESIGN METHODS
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1166
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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1194
SPEC TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCI