On 23 Nov, 2017
WiMNet Lab takes part in a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) project titled “Scalable Forecasting for Improving Grid Efficiency and Resiliency”. The project’s PI is Dr. Andrey Bernstein and Prof. Gil Zussman is one of the co-PIs. The main goal…
On 15 Jul, 2017
Saleh Soltan successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis titled “Computational and Analytical Tools for Resilient and Secure Power Grids”. Over the past few years, Saleh has led WiMNet lab’s efforts in the area of power grid resilience to cyber attacks and…
On 10 Jun, 2017
Fero Labs, a startup co-founded by former WiMNet Ph.D. student Dr. Berk Birand, recently raised $1.6M in seed funding from investors led by Mike Brown (CC’06), managing partner at Bowery Capital and Sinovation Ventures, founded by Kai-Fu Lee (CC’83). Fero…
On 30 May, 2017
Varun Gupta successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis titled “Measurement-Driven Algorithm and System Design for Wireless and Datacenter Networks”. Varun’s thesis focused on the design of architectures and algorithms for wireless and data center network. In particular, he led the AMuSe project where…
On 20 May, 2017
Research results on kinetic energy harvesting that were obtained within the EnHANTs project were discussed in a story in The New Yorker: “If Donald Trump were Actually a Battery“. The paper summarizing the results was written by former students and postdocs Dr. Maria…
On 16 May, 2017
A recent article in the Columbia Engineering Magazine unveiled the vision of Columbia Engineering for Humanity. It highlights five focus areas and discusses WiMNet lab’s research (in collaboration with Prof. Dan Bienstock) as an example of the research in the…