WiMNet Ph.D. student Tingjun Chen received the Armstrong Memorial Award – “Awarded to one outstanding candidate for the M.S. to honor the late Edwin Howard Armstrong, professor of Electrical Engineering and inventor of wideband FM broadcasting, the regenerative circuit, and other basic circuits of…
A demo presented in the NYC Media Lab Summit by WiMNet students Raphael Norwitz, Savvas Petridis, Craig Gutterman, and Varun Gupta along with Dr. Yigal Bejerano (from Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs) received the second place prize (selected from about 100…
Incoming WiMNet Ph.D. Student Alex Loh received a Presidential Fellowship from Columbia University and a Fellowship from the From Data to Solutions NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT). The Presidential Fellowship recognizes distinguished incoming Ph.D. students and the objective of…
Former WiMNet Ph.D. student Berk Birand received the Jury Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering for his Ph.D. thesis “Cross-layer resource allocation algorithms in wireless and optical networks”. This is the highest recognition awarded by the department to a Ph.D. student (“Established…
WiMNet Ph.D. student Jelena Marasevic and Jin Zhou (a Ph.D. student of Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy) received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2015 ($100,000). Jelena and Jin are among 8 winning teams selected from 146 proposals submitted from 18 universities. Their project is…
Saleh Soltan (WiMNet Ph.D. student) and Dr. Guy Grebla (a postdoc co-advised with Prof. Daniel Bienstock) received the Best Poster Award in the yearly program review of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The poster entitled “Cascading Failures in the Power Grid – Analytical Properties and…
