Ferdous Pervej

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor


Ferdous Pervej

Contact Information

Email: ferdous.pervej@usu.edu
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Educational Background

PhD, Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2023
Collaborative Edge and On-Device Learning in Wireless Networks Under Resource Constraints
MS, Electrical Engineering, Utah State University, 2019
BS, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, 2014

Biography

Ferdous Pervej received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, in 2014; the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University (USU), Logan, UT, USA, in 2019; and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 2023. From August 2023 to July 2025, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at USU. His primary research interests are distributed machine learning, wireless communication networks, edge caching/computing, and machine learning for wireless communications.

Teaching Interests

Wireless Communication and Networking, Machine Learning, Optimization, and Distributed Machine Learning

Research Interests

Wireless Communication and Networking, Distributed Machine Learning, Edge Computing, and Optimization

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Rizwan, A., Han, D., Pervej, F., Brinton, C.G, Molisch, A.F, Minseok Choi, M., (2026). Efficient Split Learning With Overlapping Areas: Handling Distribution Shift in Multi-Cell Networks. IEEE Transactions on Networking, 34, 2834-2849. doi: 10.1109/TON.2026.3654381
  • Pervej, F., Molisch, A.F, (2024). Resource-aware hierarchical federated learning in wireless video caching networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 24:1, 165-180. doi: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3489578
  • Pervej, F., Jin, R., Dai, H., (2024). Hierarchical Federated Learning in Wireless Networks: Pruning Tackles Bandwidth Scarcity and System Heterogeneity. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 23:9, 11417 - 11432. doi: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3382093
  • Pervej, F., Jin, R., Lin, S., Dai, H., (2023). Efficient Content Delivery in User-Centric and Cache-Enabled Vehicular Edge Networks with Deadline-Constrained Heterogeneous Demands. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , 73:1, 1129 - 1145. doi: 10.1109/TVT.2023.3300954
  • Pervej, F., Jin, R., Dai, H., (2023). Resource Constrained Vehicular Edge Federated Learning With Highly Mobile Connected Vehicles. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 41:6, 1825 - 1844. doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2023.3273700

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Teaching

ECE 5930 - Distributed Machine Learning, Fall 2026
ECE 6930 - Distributed Machine Learning, Fall 2026
ECE 5600 - Introduction to Computer Networks, Fall 2026
ECE 5610 - Wireless and Mobile Networking, Spring 2026
ECE 6600 - Wireless and Mobile Networking, Spring 2026
ECE 5600 - Introduction to Computer Networks, Fall 2025

Graduate Students Mentored

Richmond Boamah, Electrical & Computer Engr, June 2025
Iman Pourmohammadi Shahrbabaki, Electrical & Computer Engr, June 2025