Jelena Marasevic, a Ph.D. student in the WiMNet lab, received the “Yodel Your Thoughts” scholarship from Yahoo! for her winning essay on the role of female leaders in technology. Her essay discussed possible reasons for the low representation of women…
Prof. Gil Zussman along with co-PIs Prof. Dan Bienstock from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Prof. Eytan Modiano from MIT received a $1.05M grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The project will focus on studying the resilience of the power grid to…
The MS Award of Excellence is awarded annually by the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University to fewer than 3% of the candidates for the M.S. degree to recognize outstanding achievement. This year, out of the 6 awards given…
WiMNet Ph.D. student Maria Gorlatova has been awarded the 2012 US Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. This competitive scholarship, only 25 of which are awarded nationwide, recognizes academic achievements and demonstrated leadership. Maria Gorlatova’s research focuses on designing, developing, analyzing, and evaluating communication,…
Maria Gorlatova will co-chair the ACM MobiSys’12 Ph.D. forum that will take place in Low Wood Bay, UK in June 2012. The Ph.D. Forum provides a friendly and supportive environment for doctoral students to present and discuss their dissertation research both with…
An EnHANTs demo titled Organic Solar Cell-equipped Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tag (EnHANT) Prototypes received the Best Student Demo Award at the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys 2011), a premier sensor networking conference. The demo authors are Gerald Stanje, Paul Miller,…
