Columbia University

2015

Robert Margolies defended his Ph.D. thesis

Robert Margolies defended his Ph.D. thesis

Robert Margolies successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis titled “Resource Allocation for the Internet of Everything: From Energy Harvesting Tags to Cellular Networks”. While studying towards the Ph.D., Robert received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, SMART Scholarship (declined), Egleston Doctoral Fellowship, ACM SenSys’11…

Berk Birand received the Jury Award

Berk Birand received the Jury Award

Former WiMNet Ph.D. student Berk Birand received the Jury Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering for his Ph.D. thesis “Cross-layer resource allocation algorithms in wireless and optical networks”. This is the highest recognition awarded by the department to a Ph.D. student (“Established…

Jelena Marasevic and Jin Zhou received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

Jelena Marasevic and Jin Zhou received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

WiMNet Ph.D. student Jelena Marasevic and Jin Zhou (a Ph.D. student of Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy) received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2015 ($100,000). Jelena and Jin are among 8 winning teams selected from 146 proposals submitted from 18 universities. Their project is…

Robert Margolies’ interviewed by “The Network”

Robert Margolies’ interviewed by “The Network”

An article in the Cisco Technology News Site, “the network”, is titled “The Internet of Everything Goes to School”, and discusses efforts to boost educational programs that involve skills related to the Internet of Everything (IoE). WiMNet Lab Ph.D. student Robert…