Dr. Faezeh Pasandideh

Faezeh Pasandideh received her B.Sc. in Computer Engineering in 2012 and her M.Sc. in Computer Science in 2015. In February 2024, she successfully completed her Ph.D. through a dual doctoral program between the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, and Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt (HSHL), Germany.

She has over 10 years of experience in research and teaching across multiple countries.

• Sep. 2015 – Nov. 2019: Lecturer and Research Assistant, Iran. Courses taught: Databases, Algorithms, Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Software Development.
• Jan. 2018 – Feb. 2020: Research Assistant, Nasim Telecom, Iran.
• Mar. 2021 – Sep. 2022: Research Assistant in Cloud Computing and Machine Learning, Unisinos in partnership with Dell Technologies, Brazil.
• Since Sep. 2022: Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) and Lecturer (LfbA) at Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt, within the EU Horizon Europe project EdgeAI-Trust, focusing on dependable edge AI inference, fault injection for autonomous systems, and embedded systems.
  Courses taught: Systems Engineering, Embedded Systems, Electrical Engineering 1 & 3, Control Engineering, Computer Science 2, Prototyping Lab, Microcontroller Programming.

Publications:

2026

• F. Pasandideh, A. Rettberg, LLM-Generated Fault Scenarios for Evaluating Perception-Driven Lane Following in Autonomous Edge Systems, arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.07362, 2026.
• F. Pasandideh, M. Azarafza, A. Rettberg, Hardware Utilization and Inference Performance of Edge Object Detection Under Fault Injection, arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.09631, 2026.
• F. Pasandideh, VisionFault-350K: A Large-Scale Fault Injection Dataset for Robotic Vision Systems, Zenodo Dataset, 2026.
• M. Azarafza, M. Nayyeri, F. Pasandideh, S. Staab, A. Rettberg, Mathematical Reasoning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A RAG-Based Approach for Complex Arithmetic Reasoning, ICLR 2026 Workshop on Logical Reasoning of Large Language Models, 2026.
• F. Pasandideh, M. Azarafza, A. Rettberg, Hardware Utilization and Inference Performance of Edge Object Detection Under Fault Injection, Preprint, Mar. 2026.

2025

• F. Pasandideh, A. Najafzadeh, J. P. J. da Costa, E. Pignaton de Freitas, Providing an Energy Efficient UAV BS Positioning Mechanism to Improve Wireless Connectivity, Ad Hoc Networks, Feb. 2025.

2023

• P. H. M. Pereira, F. Pasandideh, M. Basso, J. P. J. da Costa, E. Pignaton de Freitas, Design and Deployment of an Efficient Communication Service for Multi-UAV Systems, Conference Paper, Jun. 2023.
• F. Pasandideh, F. E. Rodriguez Cesen, P. H. M. Pereira, C. E. Rothenberg, E. Pignaton de Freitas, An Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for UAV Base Station Placement, Wireless Personal Communications, Mar. 2023.
• F. Pasandideh, J. P. J. da Costa, R. Kunst, N. Islam, W. Hardjawana, E. Pignaton de Freitas, A Systematic Literature Review of Flying Ad Hoc Networks: State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Perspectives, Journal of Field Robotics, Jan. 2023.

2022

• F. Pasandideh, J. P. J. da Costa, R. Kunst, N. Islam, W. Hardjawana, E. Pignaton de Freitas, A Review of Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Key Characteristics, Applications, and Wireless Technologies, Remote Sensing, 14(18), 4459, 2022.
• F. Pasandideh, T. Dapper, A. S. Silva, E. Pignaton de Freitas, Topology Management for Flying Ad Hoc Networks Based on Particle Swarm Optimization and Software-Defined Networking, Wireless Networks, 28(1), 257–272, 2022.

2021

• N. Islam, M. M. Rashid, F. Pasandideh, B. Ray, S. Moore, R. Kadel, A Review of Applications and Communication Technologies for IoT and UAV Based Sustainable Smart Farming, Sustainability, 13(4), 1821, 2021.
• AA. Rezaee, F. Pasandideh, An Optimized Service Differentiated Congestion Management Protocol for Delay Constrained Traffic in Healthcare WSNs, Journal of Communication Engineering, 9(1), 126–153, 2021.
• J. Tavakoli, N. Moghim, A. Leila, F. Pasandideh, A Fuzzy Based Energy Efficient Clustering Routing Protocol in Underwater Sensor Networks, Journal of Communication Engineering, 9(1), 154–167, 2021.

2020

• N. Islam, B. Ray, F. Pasandideh, IoT Based Smart Farming: Are the LPWAN Technologies Suitable for Remote Communication?, IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT), 2020.

2018

• F. Pasandideh, AA. Rezaee, A Fuzzy Congestion Control Protocol Based on Active Queue Management in Wireless Sensor Networks with Medical Applications, Wireless Personal Communications, 98(1), 815–842, 2018.
• F. Pasandideh, AA. Rezaee, A Fuzzy Priority Based Congestion Control Scheme in Wireless Body Area Networks, International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 14(1), 1–15, 2018.
• AA. Rezaee, F. Pasandideh, Z. I. Ghodoosi, Introduce OPNET Modeler (Buch, auf Farsi), Imam Reza International University Press, Mashhad, Iran, 2018.