NYU WIRELESS was honored to welcome Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs as he visited the NYU-Tandon campus last Monday, November 18.  NYU WIRELESS Director Ted Rappaport led Jacobs on a tour of NYU WIRELESS’ state of the art facility which includes 13,000 square feet of research space for labs, offices and student work areas.  “There is …

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant under the extremely competitive NetS program to Professor Theodore (Ted) Rappaport, the David Lee/Ernst Weber Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU-Tandon, and Prof. Shiwen Mao, the McWane Associate Professor at Auburn University.  Rappaport and Mao are working together to create new approaches to support …

Source: NYU.edu  Prof. Justin Cappos joins an elite group of ten young researchers named by Popular Science magazine as this year’s “Brilliant 10.” For the past 12 years, Popular Science has been searching out the nation’s most promising researchers under age 40 and profiling them in the magazine’s annual “Brilliant 10” issue, on newsstands now and at popsci.com. Cappos, an assistant …

“Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!,” a recent journal survey paper co-authored by NYU WIRELESS Director Theodore (Ted) Rappaport and his students, was among the top 50 papers downloaded from the entire library of IEEE in the month of June 2013, the first month it appeared in print.  Throughout late 2013 …

NYU WIRELESS Professor Sundeep Rangan has been given the honor of representing NYU-Tandon at the National Academy of Engineering’s “Frontiers of Engineering Program,” to be held in Chantilly, France this November.  The Frontiers of Engineering program brings together a prestigious group of emerging leaders from industry, academia, and government labs to discuss technical work and …

  Several NYU WIRELESS students are processing the world’s first backhaul and mobile data at 72 GHz from Manhattan, and will augment this channel knowledge with recent work at 28, 38, and 60 GHz.  The Millimeter wave communication channels offer a viable solution to current bandwidth congestion. The millimeter wave frequency spectrum can support high bandwidths, thus …

Predicting future trends is an essential skill for companies.  To help them discover new trends that may be disruptive to existing Internet bandwidth,Time Warner Cable, in conjunction with the NYC Media Lab, has provided a $40k grant to NYU WIRELESS Professor Justin Cappos.  Prof. Cappos is working with his post-doc, Dr. Yanyan Zhuang, to study potential new …

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has joined the NYU WIRELESS research center as its fifth industrial affiliate sponsor and board member. NYU WIRELESS is a new research center at NYU and Tandon Institute of New York University (NYU-Tandon) that includes more than 20 faculty and 100 graduate students in engineering, computer science, and medicine.  Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., …

L-3 Communications has joined the NYU WIRELESS research center as an industrial affiliate sponsor and board member. L-3 is a leading aerospace and defense company with technical expertise and best-in-class products in many areas, including secure and networked communications, microwave, RF, and telemetry.  According to Dr. Randal Sylvester, Chief Technologist for L-3’s Communication Systems-West unit, …