Dr Piyush Dhawankar
Lecturer

Interests

• Internet of Vehicles (IoV): Designing and Verification of Safety-Critical Applications for Driverless Vehicles.
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): Investigation of Traffic Flow theories, Control Systems, Modelling and Simulations.
• Communication: Internet of Things (IoT), Software Defined Networking (SDN), Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, and Cyber-Physical Systems.

PhD Research Supervisions

• Bhamini S Bhujun – Universite des Mascareignes, Mauritius
• Kaleem M Khodabux – Universite des Mascareignes, Mauritius
• Daniel Shala – Nottingham Trent University, UK

Qualifications

• 2021 – PhD in Communication and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, UK
• 2015 – MSc in Computer Network Technology, Northumbria University, UK
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and Professional (CCNP)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)

Membership of Professional Bodies

• IEEE Member
• IET Member

Career

• 2020 – Present, Lecturer, University of York, UK.
• 2021 – Present, Visiting Lecturer, Northumbria University, UK.
• 2017 – 2018, Associate Lecturer, Northumbria University, UK.
• 2014 – 2015, Teaching Assistant, Northumbria University, UK.

Departmental and University Roles

• Admissions Tutors / Course Convenor for the entire Online MSc Computer Science Programmes
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Representative
• UCU/Union Representative

External Activity

• Speaker: Roll of Honour for the PubhD event in Newcastle, explaining my PhD research in November 2017.

Departmental and University Roles

• Postgraduate Programme Leader (Online): Cyber