Mehrgan Mostowfi
Associate Professor of CIS
Computer Information Systems
Monfort College of Business
Contact Information
Office Hours
Monday/Wednesday: 1:30 - 3:30 PM (every other week), Tuesday/Thursday: 9:30-11:00
AM
Mailing Address
University of Northern Colorado
Computer Information Systems
Campus Box 128
Greeley, CO 80639
Education
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
- Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, August 2013
- Dissertation Title: "Packet Coalescing and Server Substitution for Energy-Proportional
Operation of Network Links and Data Servers"
- Advisor: Ken Christensen
- M.S. in Computer Science, July 2010
- Thesis Title: "Improving the Energy Efficiency of IEEE 802.3az EEE and Periodically
Paused Switched Ethernet"
- Advisor: Ken Christensen
Professional/Academic Experience
Academic Appointments
- University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado
- Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems (Summer 2018 – Present)
- Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems (Fall 2016 – Spring 2018)
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Fall 2013 – Summer 2016)
- University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
- Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant (Fall 2008 – Summer 2013)
Teaching Experience
- BACS 380: Network and Data Communication Systems – Fall 2019 [syllabus][evaluation]
- BACS 487-028: Systems Analysis and Design – Fall 2019 [syllabus][evaluation]
- BACS 487-029: Systems Analysis and Design – Fall 2019 [syllabus][evaluation]
- BACS 300: Information Systems – Summer 2019 [syllabus][evaluation]
- (At the University of Trieste, Italy as a part of the UNC Global program)
- BACS 380: Network and Data Communication Systems – Fall 2018 [syllabus][evaluation]
- BACS 487-028: Systems Analysis and Design – Fall 2018 [syllabus]
- BACS 487-039: Systems Analysis and Design – Fall 2018 [syllabus]
- UIBE 2018052: Business Analysis and Modeling with Spreadsheets – Summer 2018 [syllabus][evaluation]
- (At the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China as a visiting instructor)
Student Supervision
- Ph.D. Committees
- Niloofar Ramezani, Department of Applied Statistics and Research Methods, Graduated:
Summer 2017. (Research Advisor: Trent Lalonde)
- Chittanun Sitthisan, Department of Applied Statistics and Research Methods, Graduated:
Fall 2016. (Research Advisor: Khalil Shafie)
- Undergraduate Students
- Erica Garner, "Design and Development of a novel Automatic Attendance Tracking System,"
Software Engineering Senior Project, Spring 2015.
Research/Areas of Interest
Computer networks: performance evaluation, analytical and simulation modeling.
Green networks: reducing the energy consumption of wired networks with emphasis on individual
end devices and intermediate equipment.
Publications/Creative Works
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Mehrgan Mostowfi and Khalil Shafie, "Dual-Mode Energy Efficient Ethernet with Packet
Coalescing: Analysis and Simulation, " Journal of Sustainable Computing - Informatics
and Systems, Vol. 18, pp. 149–162, June 2018.. [ScienceDirect]
- Mehrgan Mostowfi and Khalil Shafie, "Average Packet Delay in Dual-Mode EEE: An Analytical
Model," IET Electronics Letters, Vol. 52, No. 21, pp. 1759–1761, October 2016. [IEEE Xplore]
- Mehrgan Mostowfi and Khalil Shafie, "An Analytical Model for the Power Consumption
of Dual-Mode EEE," IET Electronics Letters, Vol. 52, No. 15, pp. 1308–1310, April 2016. [IEEE Xplore]
- Mehrgan Mostowfi, "A Simulation Study of Energy Efficient Ethernet with Two Modes
of Low-Power Operation," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 19, No. 10, July 2015.
[IEEE Xplore]
- Mehrgan Mostowfi, Ken Christensen, SangHak Lee, and Jungmee Yun, "SME Web Energy Efficient
Platform (SWEEP): A New Architecture for a Hybrid Web Server," Journal of Sustainable
Computing - Informatics and Systems, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 2013, pp. 249-261. [ScienceDirect]
- Allen Roginsky, Ken Christensen, and Mehrgan Mostowfi, "Extending Idle Periods: An
Analysis of On-Off Scheduling," Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences, Vol. 7,
No. 6, pp. 2123-2136, November 2013.
- Ken Christensen, Pedro Reviriego, Bruce Nordman, Michael Bennett, Mehrgan Mostowfi,
and Juan Antonio Maestro, "IEEE 802.3az: The Road to Energy Efficient Ethernet," IEEE
Communications, Vol. 48, No. 11, pp. 50-56, November 2010. [IEEE Xplore]
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
-
Melanie Peffer, David Quigley, and Mehrgan Mostowfi, "Clustering Analysis Reveals
Authentic Science Inquiry Trajectories Among Undergraduates," Proceedings of the Ninth
Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, Tempe, AZ, March 2019. [ACM DL]
-
Mehrgan Mostowfi, "HTTP Timed Redirection to Reduce the Energy Use of Servers," Proceedings
of the Eighth IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, Las
Vegas, NV, January 2018. [IEEE Xplore]
- Mehrgan Mostowfi, "Packet Coalescing for Dual-Mode Energy Efficient Ethernet: A Simulation
Study," Proceedings of the Eighth EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools
and Techniques (SIMUTools '15), Athens, Greece, August 2015. [ACM DL]
- Mehrgan Mostowfi, "Major Dynamic Power Management Methods in Wired Networks: A New
Taxonomy," Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2015, Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 2015.
[IEEE Xplore]
- Mehrgan Mostowfi, Ken Christensen, SangHak Lee, and Jungmee Yun, "Timed Redirection:
HTTP Request Coalescing to Reduce Energy Use of Hybrid Web Servers," Proceedings of
the 37th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Clearwater, FL, October
2012. [IEEE Xplore]
- Mehrgan Mostowfi and Ken Christensen, "An Energy-Delay Model for a Packet Coalescer,"
Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2012, March 2012. [IEEE Xplore]
- Mehrgan Mostowfi and Ken Christensen, "Saving Energy in LAN Switches: New Methods
of Packet Coalescing for Energy Efficient Ethernet," Proceedings of the International
Green Computing Conference (IGCC'11), Orlando, FL, July 2011. [IEEE Xplore]
Patents/Technical Disclosures
- Ingo Mclean, Mehrgan Mostowfi, and Ken Christensen, "Systems And Methods For Automatically
Selecting A Communication Channel," U.S. Patent 9,106,559 filed to the US Patents
and Trademark Office on January 16, 2013, granted on August 11, 2015. [USPTO]
Book Chapters
- Anna Ursyn and Mehrgan Mostowfi, "Visualization by Coding: Drawing Simple Shapes and
Forms in Various Programming Languages," Chapter in "Maximizing Cognitive Learning
Through Knowledge Visualization", Edited by Anna Ursyn, released in February 2015.
[igi-global]
Funding
- (Research Grant) "MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Computing Cluster for Multidisciplinary
Research and Education at the University of Northern Colorado" National Science Foundation
Major Research Instrument Award No. ACI-1429003, September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2017,
Amount: $199,926 ($139,948 from NSF and $59,978 in matching from UNCO), co-PIs: Seth
Frietze, David Lerach, David Hydock, and Wendilyn Flynn. [NSF]
- Fellowship in the UNC Sponsored Research Fellowship Program (SRFP), 2016 to 2018,
Amount: $12,000 in the form of a course release, summer support and travel funding.
- (Research Grant) "A Testbed for Evaluating Energy-Efficient Internet Protocols: Performance
Evaluation of HTTP Timed Redirection," UNCO Internal RDFD Award No. QR043, April 2014
to October 2016, Amount: $9,800. (Sole PI)
- (Teaching Grant) "Developing and Delivering an Interdisciplinary Course: Problem Solving
with Supercomputers," UNCO Internal Program for Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional
Course Creation (PIC), Fall 2015 to Fall 2016, Amount: $10,000 in the form of two
course releases. (Sole PI)
- (Service Grant) "Travel Support for Participation in the ABET Fundamentals of Assessment
Workshop," UNCO Internal Assessment Mini-Grant, Fall 2014 and Spring 2015, Amount:
$3,000. (Other PI: Charmayne Cullom)
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