Fatima Anwar

Fatima Anwar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, affiliated with the College of Engineering. She leads the EMTECH Lab, focusing on trustworthy, time-aware systems for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), IoT, and emerging technologies like AR/VR. Her research emphasizes security, privacy, and fairness in distributed embedded systems.

Education: PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering (UCLA, 2019), advised by Prof. Mani Srivastava. Bachelor's from UET Lahore (Pakistan) and Master's from Ajou University (South Korea).

Research Interests: Designing secure time-aware systems, mitigating biases in federated learning, ensuring safety in mixed reality, and advancing edge computing. Key projects include TimeGuard for secure timing, Haest for IoT synchronization, and Holoset for VR pose estimation.

Grants/Awards: NSF CAREER Grant (2022), MIT EECS Rising Star (2024), ADVANCE Faculty Fellow (2024-2025). Her work has been featured in venues like IEEE RTAS, ACM FAccT, and IEEE TVCG.

Advising: Supervises PhD students Yasra Chandio, Adeel Nasrullah, Khotso Selialia, and Momin Khan. Active in diversity initiatives like the CRA-E Graduate Fellowship program.

Lab Activities: Open-source contributions, collaboration on human-centric systems, and outreach programs for underrepresented groups in STEM.