“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 …
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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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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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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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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A young researcher who is leading the development of revolutionary brain sensors will be named today to the MIT Technology Review annual Innovators Under 35, a list of exceptionally talented technologists whose work holds great potential to transform the world. Jonathan Viventi, 32, an assistant professor of computer engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, …
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If you had any doubts that Brooklyn was fast becoming one of the hottest locales in the tech industry, look no further than the 5G Summit, held from April 23 to 25 at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Co-organized by the NYU WIRELESS research center and Nokia, the conference, planned to be an annual event from …
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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 …
NYU WIRELESS Professor Justin Cappos and his research group have devised a new scheme called PolyPassHash for storing password hash data so that an attacker cannot individually crack passwords. Instead of a password hash being stored directly in the database, the information is used to encode a share in a Shamir Secret Store, a form of secret sharing, where a …
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NYU WIRELESS Ph.D. students Russell Ford and George MacCartney have demonstrated the center’s first LTE-like transmissions at millimeter wave frequencies. Millimeter wave (mmW) bands between 30 and 300 GHz are a new frontier for wireless communications that offer the possibilities of orders of magnitude more spectrum than current cellular and WiFi allocations. These bands have been …
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2025 Brooklyn 6G Summit — November 5-7
Sundeep Rangan & Team Receive NTIA Award
2025 Open House
