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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NYU-Tandon Salary Potential Ranked Highest in New York City and Fourth Among All Engineering Schools

Source: Tandon.edu PayScale once again ranked NYU Tandon’s graduates among those with the highest salary potential in the country: Fourth among engineering schools, tied for eighth place among all colleges in the United States and first among all New York City institutions. The survey includes graduates with baccalaureate degrees only, and measures their mid-career salaries – $117,000 …

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Sub-Terahertz RFICs arrive at NYU-Tandon

NYU WIRELESS researcher, Felix Gutierrez, recently received a core component of his Ph.D. research: Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs) fabricated with on-chip antennas.  Using IBM’s 45nm Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology, Felix designed an 180 GHz RFIC with a phased 4-element patch antenna array to test semiconductor capabilities at millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz frequencies.  While CMOS technology …

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Role of Wireless Technologies in the Hospital

Source: Wirelesshealth.poly.edu Why wireless? There MUST be a better way. The Problems: Many independent devices, massive disparate, non-standard data, potential for RFI and ground loops, lack of interconnectivity, tethering, trip hazards. In anesthesia, interconnectivity is key and many people must interact. Potential solutions include applications (patient tracking, doctor tracking, equipment tracking, drug tracking, device status reporting, …

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Interdigital Communications joins National Instruments and Samsung partners as NYU WIRELESS’s 3rd Industrial Affiliate sponsor

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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