A team of faculty from the NYU School of Engineering, including Ozgur Sinanoglu, Ramesh Karri, and Davood Shahrjerdi, has received a $450K research grant from Semiconductor Research Corporation. The overall goal of this research is to investigate novel aspects of NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS) for applications in hardware security. Prof. Shahrjerdi’s group at NYU WIRELESS will …
NYU WIRELESS Associate Director Receives NSF Funding
Dennis Shasha, Associate Director of NYU WIRELESS, has received $700,000 in funding from the NSF(National Science Foundation). Shasha is exploring the genomic basis for how plants use Nitrogen. His projects aim to figure out how to make farming more efficient, as well as minimize the impact of fertilizer on the environment. The recent NSF funding …
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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 …
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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5G Research Rides mmWaves
“By 2020 this is going to be in full-fledged development if not deployment”, NYU WIRELESS director Theodore Rappaport tells EE Times in an interview sharing the exciting new work being done at the wireless research center of NYU. The center has been testing next-generation communications for several years, measuring and modeling millimeter waves, especially at 28 …
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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