Faculty Profile

Lena Mashayekhy

Lena Mashayekhy

Associate Professor
434 Smith Hall
Newark, Delaware 19716
P: 302-831-1944
mlena@udel.edu

Personal Website


EDUCATION

PhD | 2015 | Wayne State University

SHORT BIO

My research interests include Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, Energy-Efficient Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, and Game Theory.

Awards

2022, NSF Early Career Development Award

2017, IEEE Awards for Excellence for Early Career Researchers

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Optimal Routing for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles * (pdf)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, D. Grosu, and R. Chinnam
    INFORMS Transportation Science, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 1304-1325, 2017 (Impact Factor: 3.753)

    • * Best Student Paper Award, INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section (ENRE), 2014.
    • * Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), College of Sustainable Operations, 2014.
  2. Online Scheduling and Pricing for Electric Vehicle Charging * (pdf)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, R. Chinnam, and D. Grosu
    IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 178-193, 2017 (Impact Factor: 1.463)

    • * IBM Research Service Science Best Student Paper Award Finalist, INFORMS 2015.
  3. Truthful Mechanisms for Competitive Reward-Based Scheduling (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, N. Fisher, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 65, No. 7, pp. 2299-2312, 2016 (Impact Factor: 1.723)
  4. An Online Mechanism for Resource Allocation and Pricing in Clouds (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, D. Grosu, and A. Vasilakosu
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 1172-1184, 2016 (Impact Factor: 1.723)
  5. Hierarchical Time-Dependent Shortest Path Algorithms for Vehicle Routing under ITS * (pdf, link)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, R. Chinnam, and A. Phillips
    IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 158-169, 2016 (Impact Factor: 1.463).

    • * Best Application Paper Honorable Mention (2nd place), Best Paper Award Competition in IIE Transactions, 2017 (2nd place among all journal papers published in issues 47:7 through 48:6)
    • * Featured Article for the IIE Industrial Engineer Magazine January 2016 Issue
  6. Energy-aware Scheduling of MapReduce Jobs for Big Data Applications (pdf,link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, D. Grosu, Q. Zhang, and W. Shi
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 26, No.10, pp. 2720-2733, 2015 (Impact Factor: 4.181)
  7. A PTAS Mechanism for Provisioning and Allocation of Heterogeneous Cloud Resources (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 26, No.9, pp. 2386-2399, 2015 (Impact Factor: 4.181)
  8. Cloud Federations in the Sky: Formation Game and Mechanism (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 14-27, 2015.
  9. Truthful Greedy Mechanisms for Dynamic Virtual Machine Provisioning and Allocation in Clouds * (pdf, link) (Supplemental Material)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 594-603, 2015 (Impact Factor: 4.181)

    • * Best Paper Runner-Up Award – 2014 INFORMS Service Science
    • * Featured in the April-June 2015 Issue of Cloud-Link (presented by the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative)
  10. Physical Machine Resource Management in Clouds: A Mechanism Design Approach (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Special Issue on Economics and Market Mechanisms for Cloud Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 247-260, 2015.
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