NYU WIRELESS medical students win $128,000 in grant and venture competitions

NYU WIRELESS medical students Leeor Alon, Gene Young Cho, and Cem Murat Deniz received the first place award in three competitions/grants for their startup RF Test Labs, Inc. The team first went on to win the NYU Stern School of Business’s (NYU Stern) Entrepreneurs Challenge; this Challenge is one of the largest university startup competitions in the …

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Prof. Ted Rappaport named a 2013 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of Purdue University

NYU WIRELESS professor Theodore (Ted) Rappaport has been named a 2013 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of Purdue University.  The Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae Award is presented to men and women who have distinguished themselves in any field in ways that reflect favorably on Purdue University, the engineering profession, or society in general. Purdue’s College of Engineering has over 84,000 living alumni. …

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NYU WIRELESS opens world-class research space

NYU WIRELESS has opened 13,500 square feet of research space, which combines research in wireless technologies, computing and medical applications. The space was designed to create a collaborative environment where state-of-the-art wireless research can be conducted amongst faculty and student researchers. Located on the 9th floor of the NYU-Tandon 2 MetroTech building, Brooklyn campus visitors are …

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Prof. Elza Erkip named an IEEE 
Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer

NYU WIRELESS professor Elza Erkip has been invited to be an IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer.  The IEEE Information Theory Society is an international organization whose purpose is to connect people interested in processing, transmission, storage, and use of information, as well as theoretical and applied aspects of coding, communications, and communications networks. Distinguished Lecturers are selected by the …

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Cisco Systems awards Prof. Yao Wang $75,000 to fund video web streaming research project

NYU WIRELESS Professor Yao Wang has received $75,000 from Cisco Systems, Inc., to support a research project on “Video Adaptation for HTTP Live Streaming Using Perceptual Quality and Rate Models Considering the Impact of Temporal Variation of Frame Rate and Quantization”. In video streaming, the video coding rate has to be changed dynamically in response to changes …

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Intel awards $1.05 Million to NYU WIRELESS, Princeton, and Univ. of Southern California for 5G cellular development

Intel Corporation has awarded NYU WIRELESS with research funding for fifth generation (5G) cellular development. NYU-Tandon Professor Theodore (Ted) Rappaport and Professor Mung Chiang from Princeton University received $250,000 distributed over three years. Additionally, Professor Andy Molisch and Professor Giuseppe Caire from the University of Southern California received $550,000 distributed over three years. Collaboration between NYU-Tandon’s NYU WIRELESS, Princeton University, and the University of Southern California totals …

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Prof. Elza Erkip Elected to the Science Academy Society of Turkey

Source: NYU.edu NYU WIRELESS  Prof. Elza Erkip, has been elected to the inaugural class of the Science Academy Society of Turkey, a self-governing organization that aims to promote scientific merit, freedom and integrity. Inductees into the society, which was founded in late 2011, are elected according to the highest standards of research and scholarship in the natural sciences, …

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NYU-Tandon’s Online Engineering Degrees Ranked in Top 10 by US News & World Report

New York University Tandon was ranked ninth place in the 2013 U.S News and World Report’s rankings for Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs. NYU-Tandon’s digital learning program, NYU-Tandon, is one of nearly 860 programs surveyed; only regionally accredited schools that meet federal standards of entirely online delivery were evaluated. “It’s thanks to our acclaimed faculty’s creative virtual instruction …

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Wireless Communications in the Massively Broadband Era

Theodore S. Rappaport for Microwave Journal December 14th, 2012 Source: Microwavejournal.com As the cellular industry rolls out fourth-generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) across the world, one has to believe that we are witnessing the dawn of an amazing new era, where wireless becomes so pervasive and intertwined with everything we do in life, just as the pen and paper …

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InterDigital joins National Instruments and Samsung in NYU WIRELESS

Source: NYU.edu  InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDCC) today announced that the company has joined NYU WIRELESS as an Industrial Affiliate.  The company joins National Instruments (NASDAQ: NATI) and Samsung as members of the new research center that was announced in August. Founded by New York University and Tandon School of Engineering (NYU-Tandon), NYU WIRELESS is the …

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