NYU WIRELESS SOM Faculty Participate In New Research Center

Various faculty at NYU Langone Medical Center, including NYU WIRELESS professors from the department of Radiology, have joined the newly-funded national Biomedical Technology Resource Center: The Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI²R).  The Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research combines three interrelated areas of novel imaging technology development with a unique new model …

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NYU WIRELESS Research Featured in Microwave Journal

The NYU WIRELESS research group was recently featured in the Microwave Journal with their paper titled “Small Wavelengths – Big Potential: Millimeter Wave Propagation Measurements for 5G.” Ph.D. students Sijia Deng, Christopher Slezak, and George MacCartney collaborated with Prof. Rappaport on this research, introducing wideband millimeter-wave propagation measurements and the sliding correlator channel sounder system …

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NSF Supports NYU WIRELESS Researchers’ Use of Psychology to Detect Software Vulnerabilities

Most software bug finding tools focus on a known type of problem and then look for it.  In essence, a developer knows that a problem exists and writes code to check for bugs.  Researchers at NYU WIRELESS are working to develop a new type of bug finding software that focuses on areas that developers are …

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NYU WIRELESS Welcomes Post-Doctoral Fellow Marco Mezzavilla

NYU WIRELESS is pleased to welcome Dr. Marco Mezzavilla, a new post-doctoral fellow who joined the center in July. Marco brings extensive UHF/microwave wireless communications knowledge to NYU WIRELESS, having made contributions to 3GPP standards activities while working with Qualcomm.  Marco received his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Padova in 2014, specializing …

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New Text on Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications

Prentice-Hall has just released an exciting new comprehensive text on the relatively unexplored field of Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communications. MmWave is a breakthrough frontier for emerging wireless mobile cellular networks, wireless local area networks, personal area networks, and vehicular communications. In the near future, mmWave applications, devices, and networks will change our world. Dr. Ali …

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Prof. Davood Shahrjerdi joins NYU WIRELESS Faculty

NYU WIRELESS is thrilled to welcome Prof. Davood Shahrjerdi, a new NYU WIRELESS faculty member who recently joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the NYU School of Engineering as an assistant professor.  He earned his Ph.D. in solid-state electronics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Subsequently, he joined IBM T. …

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Prof. Erkip is Listed Among Highly Cited Researchers

Elza Erkip is listed among the 2014 Thomson Reuters “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”. She earned the distinction by being one of the 117 Highly Cited Researchers in Computer Science between 2002-2012.  Thomson Reuters compiled the 2014 list of Highly Cited Researchers by using the company’s Web of Science platform, the premier search and …

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Prof. Theodore Rappaport: At the Forefront of 5G

The number of smartphone users around the world climbed to about 1.75 billion this year, and that number is expected to rise rapidly in the next three years as the phones’ prices drop, according to a report by eMarketer, a market research firm. Add to that the billions of sensor-embedded devices expected to be connected to theInternet …

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Prof. Shiv Panwar Named New ECE Department Chairman

Professor Shivendra (“Shiv”) S. Panwar, an NYU WIRELESS faculty member, became the department chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at NYU Tandon on July 1, for a three-year period. Announcing this change, Dean Katepalli R. Sreenivasan said, “I am confident that the department will continue to move along its upward trajectory under …

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