Nabeel Nasir
Assistant Teaching Professor
nabeeln@ucsb.edu
1115 Harold Frank Hall
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Education
Ph.D Computer Science, University of Virginia
MTech Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
BTech Computer Science, Cochin University
Research Areas
Operating Systems and Distributed Systems
Bio

Dr. Nabeel Nasir is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2024. Before his PhD, he worked as an Android Developer at Adobe for the Lightroom and Photoshop Mix teams. He also worked as a Software Developer for an IoT startup, EnLite Research, developing solutions to reduce energy consumption in office spaces.

He is passionate about teaching and broadening participation in Computer Science, and supporting undergraduate research in Cyber Physical Systems and CS Education.

Research

Dr. Nasir’s research is at the intersection of Cyber Physical Systems, Internet of Things (IoT), and Distributed Systems. His work aims to democratize Edge Computing for the IoT by distributing workloads on inexpensive edge hardware, and to empower users in shared IoT environments with better control over their data privacy.