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Education

Columbia University

• Ph.D in Electrical Engineering (2021 – Present)
  Advisor: Prof. Gil Zussman

The Cooper Union

• M.E. in Electrical Engineering (2021)
  Advisor: Prof. Fred Fontaine
  Thesis: “Hierarchical Semantic Segmentation of Histopathological Whole Slide Images by Means of Sparse Dictionary Learning”
• B.E. in Electrical Engineering (2020)
  Capstone: “A Near Real-Time Algorithm for Drosophilidae Neural Compass Analysis”

Awards and Honors

• Fulbright Israel Research Fellowship (2026 – Present)
  Best Presentation Award (2026)
  ACM MobiSys 2026 Rising Stars Forum
• Best Poster Award (2026)
  NEWSDR’26, Publicly Voted
• Best Poster Award (2026)
  Pioneering Israeli Science Abroad Conference 2026
  Engineering, Physics, Computing & Materials Science Category
  
• Jacob Millman Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistants (2026)
  Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
• ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition (SRC) Winner – First Place (2023)
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2022 – 2025)
• Columbia Engineering Byron Fellowship (2022)
• Radio Club of America Scholarship Award (2020)
  Barone-DeBlasi-Facella Fund
• IEEE Eta Kappa Nu, Delta Chi (2019 – 2021)
  Chapter Vice President
• Tau Beta Pi, New York Iota (2019 – 2021)
  Chapter Corresponding Secretary
• Invention Factory Best Invention Award (2017)
  Second Prize
• Cooper Union Dean’s List (2016 – 2020)
• Cooper Union Innovator Merit Scholarship (2016 – 2020)

Journal Articles

1. Aravind Nagulu, Negar Reiskarimian, Tingjun Chen, Sasank Garikapati, Igor Kadota, Tolga Dinc, Sastry Lakshmi Garimella, Manav Kohli, Alon S. Levin, Gil Zussman, and Harish Krishnaswamy. 2024. “Doubling Down on Wireless Capacity: A Review of Integrated Circuits, Systems, and Networks for Full Duplex.” Proc. IEEE 112, 5 (2024), 405–432.

Conference Proceedings

1. Arav Sharma, Lei Chi, Ari Gebhardt, Alon S. Levin, Timothy R. Hoerning, and Sam Keene, “BeamSeek: Deep Learning-based DOA Estimation for Low-Complexity mmWave Phased Arrays,” in Proc. GLOBECOM’25, Taipei, Taiwan, 2025.
2. Alon S. Levin, Manav Kohli, Igor Kadota, Tingjun Chen, Sasank Garikapati, Aravind Nagulu, Mahmood Baraani Dastjerdi, Jin Zhou, Ivan Seskar, Harish Krishnaswamy, and Gil Zussman, “Enabling Integrated Circuit-Based Full-Duplex Wireless in GNU Radio,” in Proc. GRCon’24, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2024.

Workshops and Special Sessions

1. Alon S. Levin, “Enabling Practical Full-Duplex Wireless: From Circuits to Software,” in Proc. ACM MobiSys Rising Stars Forum, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2026. Best Presentation Award

Selected Demos and Presentations

1. Kevin Hermstein*, Alon S. Levin*, Manav Kohli, and Gil Zussman, New England Workshop on Software-Defined Radio (NEWSDR), Boston, Massachusetts, 2026. Best Poster Award – Publicly Voted
2. Alon S. Levin, Manav Kohli, Igor Kadota, and Gil Zussman, “Enabling Practical Full-Duplex Wireless: From Circuits to Software,” Pioneering Israeli Science Conference, New York, New York, 2026. Best Poster Award, “Engineering, Physics, Computing & Materials Science”
3. Alon S. Levin, Eliot Flores Portillo, Sasank Garikapati, Ahuva Bechhofer, Bo Zhang, Manav Kohli, Igor Kadota, Harish Krishnaswamy, Mingoo Seok, and Gil Zussman, “Demo: Achieving Self-Interference Cancellation Across Different Environments,” in Proc. ACM Mobicom’24, Washington, D.C., 2024.
4. Ahuva Bechhofer, Alon S. Levin, Igor Kadota, Sasank Garikapati, Bo Zhang, Aditya Jolly, Manav Kohli, Mingoo Seok, Harish Krishnaswamy, and Gil Zussman, “System Integration of Wideband Real-Time Adaptive Full-Duplex Radios,” N2Women’23, New York, NY, Sept. 2023.
5. Alon S. Levin, Igor Kadota, Sasank Garikapati, Bo Zhang, Aditya Jolly, Manav Kohli, Mingoo Seok, Harish Krishnaswamy, and Gil Zussman, “Demo: Experimentation with Wideband Real-Time Adaptive Full Duplex Radios,” in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM’23, New York, NY, Sept. 2023. ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition (SRC) Winner – First Place
6. Igor Kadota*, Alon S. Levin*, Bo Zhang*, Sasank Garikapati, Aditya Jolly, Manav Kohli, Tingjun Chen, Mingoo Seok, Harish Krishnaswamy, and Gil Zussman, “Adaptive Configuration of a Variable-Gain, Variable-Delay Self-Interference Canceller for a Full-Duplex System,” DARPA MTO WARP End of Phase Review, Fort Worth, TX, Jun. 2022. (* indicate equal contributions)

Professional Service

Committe Appointments

• Industry Liaison (Student Leadership Council), NSF ERC Center for Smart Streetscapes

Outreach & Education

• COSMOS Educational Toolkit Demo, Columbia Secondary School (December 2022 – media)
• Guest Evaluator, Cooper Union Invention Factory (July 2022)
• Panelist, NYIT REU: Ph.D. Q&A (July 2022)
• Panelist, Columbia Secondary School Career Day (May 2022)
• Panelist, Working in Columbia Labs: Tips Tricks & Insights (June 2022)
• COSMOS Educational Toolkit Demo, Silicon Harlem Gigabit Innovation Center Grand Opening (February 2022 – media)

Industry and Project Experience

Security & Controls Intern, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering (Summer 2020)

• Established a centralized logging system to aggregate security logs, antivirus activity, and critical event data across all machines on processing plants’ L3 computer networks.
• Automated cybersecurity analysis techniques to increase the efficiency of security event investigation processes.
• Developed forensic monitoring and reporting protocols for industrial control systems.

Senior Capstone Project, The Cooper Union (Fall 2019 – Spring 2020)

• Collaborated with the laboratory of Dr. Gaby Maimon at Rockefeller University in designing a near real-time computer vision and digital image processing algorithm to identify active compass-heading glomeruli in neural scans of flies.
• Led three-person team as primary algorithm designer to produce viable proof-of-concept, meeting all hardware constraints.

NSF REU Fellow, New York Institute of Technology (Summer 2019)

• Worked with Dr. Anand Santhanakrishnan to design a statistical model for inter-user relationships in the context of heterogeneous networks to investigate the impact of net neutrality on the churning rates of internet service providers.
• Simulated a 20-user, 20-ISP heterogeneous network both in the presence of and absence of net neutrality.