Kaleem Nawaz Khan

Rochester, NY 14623

Enabling autonomous vehicles to perceive beyond line-of-sight accurately.

I am a Ph.D. candidate (View CV) in the Department of Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology, where I work with Dr. Fawad Ahmad in the Networked Sensing Systems Lab.

Research. My research focuses on collaborative perception between vehicles and roadside infrastructure. It enables sensing beyond line-of-sight. I study the co-design of perception, communication, and computation. The goal is reliable and safe autonomous decision-making. My work has appeared in top mobile and sensing systems venues, including MobiSys and SenSys.

Background. I received my B.S. (2015) and M.S. (2018) degrees in Computer Science with honors from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Pakistan. Before starting my Ph.D., I was a Research Team Lead at the Intelligent Information Processing Lab under the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) and served as a Lecturer at Bahria University Islamabad and the University of Engineering and Technology, Mardan.

news

Feb 26, 2026	Honored to serve on the AEC for MobiSys 2026.
Feb 23, 2026	🎉 Milestone achieved: Dissertation Proposal defended!
Feb 15, 2026	ARC accepted at ACM/IEEE SenSys 2026.
Oct 25, 2025	Serving on the EuroSys 2026 Shadow TPC.
Sep 21, 2025	Our work ARC has been conditionally accepted at ACM/IEEE SenSys 2026.
Apr 26, 2025	I’ll be presenting one of my research works on cooperative perception at ImagineRIT, hosted at RIT.
Jun 02, 2024	I will be attending MobiSys2024 in Tokyo, Japan from June 3 to 7, 2024, where I will present our work titled VRF-Vehicle Roadside Point Cloud Fusion.
May 20, 2024	Joined the Ketting Research Development Center at General Motors as a Research Intern.
Apr 16, 2024	Our work VRF has been accepted at ACM MobiSys 2024.

Selected Publications

SenSys

ARC: Accurate, Real-Time, and Scalable Multi-Vehicle Cooperative Perception

Kaleem Nawaz Khan, and Fawad Ahmad

In The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems (ACM/IEEE SenSys 2026) , 2025

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{khan2025arc,
  title = {ARC: Accurate, Real-Time, and Scalable Multi-Vehicle Cooperative Perception},
  author = {Khan, Kaleem Nawaz and Ahmad, Fawad},
  booktitle = {The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems (ACM/IEEE SenSys 2026)},
  year = {2025},
  pdf = {https://kaleemnwzkhan.github.io/assets/pdf/ARC.pdf},
  code = {https://github.com/KaleemNwzKhan/ARC_2025},
}

MobiSys

VRF: Vehicle Road-side Point Cloud Fusion

Kaleem Nawaz Khan, Ali Khalid, Yash Turkar, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services , 2024

Bib HTML PDF Video Code

@inproceedings{khan2024vrf,
  title = {VRF: Vehicle Road-side Point Cloud Fusion},
  author = {Khan, Kaleem Nawaz and Khalid, Ali and Turkar, Yash and Dantu, Karthik and Ahmad, Fawad},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services},
  pages = {547--560},
  year = {2024},
  html = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3643832.3661874},
  pdf = {https://kaleemnwzkhan.github.io/assets/pdf/VRFusion_Mobisys_24.pdf},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6kXyca23g0&ab_channel=VRF-Mobisys24},
  code = {https://github.com/nsslofficial/VRF},
}