NYU WIRELESS was pleased to welcome NSF Program Directors Gerry Tian and John Zavada to campus on November 21st. Dr. Tian’s program responsibilities at NSF involve Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS), Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum (EARS), and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC). Dr. Zabada works together with Dr. Tian in the ECCS division …
Led by Professors Dennis Shasha and Theodore Rappaport, and supported by theNYU WIRELESS Industrial Affiliate companies, NYU WIRELESS students have created a first-of-its-kind millimeter wave (mmWave) propagation database of all measurements made throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan at 28 and 73 GHz in 2012 and 2013. This database shall be augmented with additional propagation measurements in upcoming years. The NYU WIRELESS mmWave propagation …
NSN joins NYU WIRELESS research center Will jointly organize Brooklyn 5G Summit in 2014 Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) has made a multi-year commitment to actively participate in 5G research activities together with the NYU WIRELESS research center. NSN joins NYU WIRELESS as an affiliate sponsor and advisory board member. In addition to supporting the center’s research …
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 …
NYU WIRELESS Professor Jonathan Viventi and NYU Medical School Professor Robert Froemke, were recently awarded $250,000 by NYU in its newly created “Grand Challenge” competition to promote significant research that has the potential to solve major national or global problems. Viventi and Froemke’s project, entitled “Smart Neuroprosthetics: Brain-Machine Interfaces for the 21st Century” seeks to …
“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 …