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 …

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 …

With more than 50,000 members, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society  is one of the largest and most active of all the organization’s subgroups, and since its founding in 1952, it has become the major international forum for the exchange of ideas on communications and information networking. Its International Conference on …

Jonathan Viventi, an NYU WIRELESS Professor has received a $400,000 grant from the Army Research Office.  Viventi is exploring uses for high-density neural recording to understand some of the brain’s most basic capabilities.  His project aims to demystify the human auditory system, specifically examining the signals associated with paying attention and absorbing information in the presence of …

NYU WIRELESS Associate Director Dennis Shasha has been named a 2014 ACM Fellow for his technical and literary contributions to the field of data management.  ACM (The Association for Computing Machinery) is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society and delivers resources that advance computing as a science and profession. Prof. Shasha describes his research as “puzzles …

Today’s Wireless World has recognized NYU WIRELESS director Prof. Ted Rappaport as a Top 100 Wireless Technology Experts for 2014.  Prof. Rappaport was one of three professors who made the list, consisting of technology innovators and business leaders all across the wireless ecosystem, from wireless communications, phones, broadband cards, and virtually everything in between. The …