WiMNet student Craig Gutterman received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.

Craig received the B.S. degree (Summa Cum Laude) from Rutgers University in 2012. He was the recipient of the John. M Smith Memorial Prize which is awarded to the highest ranking graduating senior in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Upon joining the M.S. Program in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, Craig was designated a Tesla Scholar.

Since joining Columbia in the fall of 2012, he has been conducting research in the area of wireless and mobile networking. In particular, he has been developing a rate adaption framework for efficiently sending multicast traffic in WiFi networks. In the summer of 2013, Craig was an intern at BBN Technologies where he developed algorithms for content distributed networks. His research interests are in the areas of wireless communications, networks, sensors, with applications to data analysis and exploration.