{"id":53,"date":"2020-02-13T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wam.ece.ufl.edu\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:21:12","slug":"mcnair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/wam\/people\/mcnair\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Janise McNair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/wam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/693\/2020\/02\/McNair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/wam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/693\/2020\/02\/McNair-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Janise McNair\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/wam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/693\/2020\/02\/McNair-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/wam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/693\/2020\/02\/McNair-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/wam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/693\/2020\/02\/McNair-768x1070.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/wam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/693\/2020\/02\/McNair-1103x1536.jpg 1103w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/wam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/693\/2020\/02\/McNair.jpg 1412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Professor, Department of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering<br \/>\nDirector, <a href=\"https:\/\/wam.ece.ufl.edu\">Wireless And Mobile Systems Laboratory<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mcnair@ece.ufl.edu\">mcnair@ece.ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/janise-mcnair-00977213\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/janise-mcnair-00977213<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0448-8723\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0448-8723<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Brief Biography<\/h5>\n<p>Dr. Janise McNair is a Professor of electrical &amp; computer engineering at the University of Florida (ECE Florida). She is a researcher in the field of wireless networks and Internet of Things applications. Currently, her research creates frameworks for integrating IoT with 5G and 6G cellular systems. She was a pioneer in early next generation mobility management for cellular systems and later has focused on the development of multi-discipline, cross-layer systems for smart grid security analysis, IoT systems for construction site safety and security, and IoT systems for agriculture and food safety. She is currently a member of the Intelligence, Science and Technology Experts Group of the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, the Integrity Committee of the IEEE Computer society, and was a participant in the 2008 DARPA Computer Science Study Group. She serves on the organizing committees of IEEE ICC 2024 and ACM CoNEXT 2022, and on the editorial boards of Nature Communications Engineering and Springer Wireless Networks Journal. Dr. McNair earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. degree in ECE from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a research focus on medium access control and mobility management in next generation wireless networks.<\/p>\n<h5>Selected honors<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"TextRun SCXW54829080 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW54829080 BCX0\">2025, Paper Recognition: Best Poster Award, IEEE Military Communications Conference, A. Rice-Bladykas, J. McNair and J. Shea, \u201cDynamic Spectral Clustering for Tactical Satellite-Aerial-Ground Integrated Networks,\u201d IEEE Military Communications Conference, Oct 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"TextRun SCXW54829080 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW54829080 BCX0\">2023, Paper Recognition: Best Paper Session, IEEE PES General Meeting, D. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW54829080 BCX0\">Agnew ,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW54829080 BCX0\"> S. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW54829080 BCX0\">Boamah ,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW54829080 BCX0\"> R. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW54829080 BCX0\">Mathieu<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW54829080 BCX0\">, A. Cooper, J. McNair, and A. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW54829080 BCX0\">Bretas<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW54829080 BCX0\">. Distributed Software-Defined Network Architecture for Smart Grid Resilience to Denial-of-Service Attacks. 2023 IEEE Power &amp; Energy Society (PES) General Meeting (GM), July 16-20, 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW54829080 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"TextRun SCXW120319123 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW120319123 BCX0\">2022, Paper Recognition: Featured Article in IET Smart Grid Journal, June 2022: A.\u202f<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW120319123 BCX0\">Starke ,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW120319123 BCX0\"> K.\u202f<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW120319123 BCX0\">Nagaraj<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW120319123 BCX0\"> ,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW120319123 BCX0\">\u202fC.\u202fRuben,\u202fN. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW120319123 BCX0\">Aljohani<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW120319123 BCX0\">, S.\u202fZou, A. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW120319123 BCX0\">Bretas<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW120319123 BCX0\">, J. McNair, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW120319123 BCX0\">and \u202fA.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW120319123 BCX0\"> Zare, \u201cCross-Layered Distributed Data-Driven Framework for Enhanced Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Security,\u201d IET Smart Grid Journal, 5(6), 398\u2013 416 (2022).<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW120319123 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>2022, Awarded Nelms Faculty Fellow, UF Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World<\/li>\n<li>2021 Star in Networking and Communications<br \/>\nAwarded as one of 13\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/n2women.comsoc.org\/2021-stars-in-computer-networking-and-communications\/\">Stars in Networking and Communications<\/a>\u202fin 2021 by the N2Women (Networking Women) group of the IEEE Communications Society. The N2Women\u2019s Stars List recognizes researchers who have displayed outstanding research outcomes and\/or service contribution in the networking and communications field.<\/li>\n<li>2019, One of three faculty in ECE nominated for the teacher of the year award by the department undergraduate students.<\/li>\n<li>2019-2021, <span style=\"font-family: gentona, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 100\">2015\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Distinguished Member, IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee.<br \/>\nThis distinction is awarded based upon ratings by peer TPC members, fairness in review scores, and promptness in meeting various deadlines during the review process.<\/li>\n<li>2014-2015, Awarded the University of Florida Doctoral Mentoring Award<\/li>\n<li>2013 Senior Membership status in the IEEE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor, Department of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering Director, Wireless And Mobile Systems Laboratory mcnair@ece.ufl.edu https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/janise-mcnair-00977213 https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0448-8723 Brief Biography Dr. Janise McNair is a Professor of electrical &amp; computer engineering at the University of Florida (ECE Florida). 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