PhD Researcher

Elahe Delavari

RL-driven O-RAN control

Anticipated graduation: Expected 2030

Elahe Delavari is a Ph.D. researcher focused on reinforcement-learning-driven control for open radio access networks. Her work includes jamming-resilient physical resource block (PRB) reservation and resilient network slicing for latency-critical industrial 5G systems.

In the news

Apr 2026

Lab members presented their research posters at the CECS Research Poster Competition.

Mar 2026

The CyReN Lab and Elahe Delavari featured in UM-Dearborn's Campus in Focus: March Maize-ness.

Feb 2026

Elahe Delavari participated in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Conference papers

2026

Jamming-Resilient PRB Reservation for Latency-Critical O-RAN Network Slicing

E. Delavari and J. Farooq

in IEEE DySPAN 2026 ML-Spec Workshop, Washington D.C., USA

@inproceedings{delavari2026jammingresilient,
  author = {E. Delavari and J. Farooq},
  title = {Jamming-Resilient PRB Reservation for Latency-Critical O-RAN Network Slicing},
  booktitle = {IEEE DySPAN 2026 ML-Spec Workshop, Washington D.C., USA},
  year = {2026},
}

2026

Temporally Encoded Double DQN for Proactive PRB Allocation in O-RAN Enabled Industrial Networks

E. Delavari, X. Wu, and J. Farooq

in IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2026 Workshop on Resilience in Next Generation Network Management (NGResNet), Rome, Italy

@inproceedings{delavari2026temporally,
  author = {E. Delavari and X. Wu and J. Farooq},
  title = {Temporally Encoded Double DQN for Proactive PRB Allocation in O-RAN Enabled Industrial Networks},
  booktitle = {IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2026 Workshop on Resilience in Next Generation Network Management (NGResNet), Rome, Italy},
  year = {2026},
}