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Alon S. Levin

Ph.D. Student
NDSEG Fellow and Columbia University Byron Fellow

Electrical Engineering
Columbia University

Office: 801 CEPSR
Email: alon.s.levin[at]columbia.edu

Alon S. Levin received a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering (magna cum laude) in 2020 and a M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering in 2021, both from The Cooper Union. His research interests are in full-duplex wireless, compressed sensing, PHY layer algorithms, and cognitive radio.

[Curriculum Vitae]

Education

Columbia University

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

  • ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition (SRC) Winner – First Place (2023)
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2022 – Present)
  • 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)

Demos and Presentations

  1. Alon S. Levin, Igor Kadota, Sasank Garikapati, Bo Zhang, Aditya Jolly, Manav Kohli, Ahuva Bechhofer, Mingoo Seok, Harish Krishnaswamy, and Gil Zussman, “Experimentation with Wideband Real-Time Adaptive Full-Duplex Radios,” Brooklyn 6G Summit 2023, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 2023.
  2. 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.
  3. 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,” ACM SIGCOMM’23, New York, NY, Sept. 2023. ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition (SRC) Winner – First Place
  4. Alon S. Levin, Igor Kadota, Aditya Jolly, Sasank Garikapati, Bo Zhang, Manav Kohli, Mingoo Seok, Harish Krishnaswamy, and Gil Zussman, “Towards a Real-Time Adaptive Full-Duplex Wireless Radio,” presented at Columbia Data Science Day, Columbia University, New York, NY, Apr. 2023.
  5. 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)
  6. Alon S. Levin, Igor Kadota, Sasank Garikapati, Harish Krishnaswamy, and Gil Zussman, “Adaptive Configuration of a Variable-Gain, Variable-Delay Self-Interference Canceller for Full-Duplex Wireless,” presented at Columbia Data Science Day, Columbia University, New York, NY, Apr. 2022.

Professional Service

Committe Appointments

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.