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WiMNet Alumna Prof. Maria Gorlatova Named 2026 Bass Chair at Duke University

WiMNet Alumna Prof. Maria Gorlatova Named 2026 Bass Chair at Duke University

Gorlatova, who earned her PhD in electrical engineering from Columbia in 2013 is advancing wearable augmented reality systems with applications in medicine, education and human-centered computing. Maria Gorlatova, the Sternberg Family Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke…

Three WiMnet Alums Receive a $3.5M NSF Grant

Three WiMnet Alums Receive a $3.5M NSF Grant

Columbia Electrical Engineering alumni and faculty are central to a new NSF-funded project solving network latency to make therapeutic AR/VR games more responsive. Research from a multi-university team, including Columbia Engineering, is tackling the network latency that can disrupt immersive…

Dror Jacoby Received the Weinstein Prize for a Scientific Publication

Dror Jacoby Received the Weinstein Prize for a Scientific Publication

WimNet PhD student Dror Jacoby (co-advised with Prof. Hagit Messer at Tel Aviv University) was awarded the Weinstein Prize for a Scientific Publication in Signal Processing from Tel Aviv University. The prize recognizes his paper “Spatio-temporal Model for Predicting Multivariate…

Prof. Tingjun Chen (WiMNet Lab alum) Receives NSF Career Award

Prof. Tingjun Chen (WiMNet Lab alum) Receives NSF Career Award

Since joining Duke University in 2021, Columbia Engineering alum Tingjun Chen (WiMNet lab alum – PhD EE’20), the Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has built a promising research portfolio exploring the limits of both wireless and…