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Saleh Soltan, Varun Gupta, Tingjun Chen, and Steven Alfano Receive Awards

Saleh Soltan, Varun Gupta, Tingjun Chen, and Steven Alfano Receive Awards

WiMNet former Ph.D. students Saleh Soltan and Varun Gupta, current Ph.D. student Tingjun Chen, and former M.S. student Steven Alfano received four awards from the Department of Electrical Engineering: Saleh received the Jury Award – “Established in 1991, this award is presented to…

Andy (Lianghua) Xu Received the Russell C. Mills Award

Andy (Lianghua) Xu Received the Russell C. Mills Award

Andy (Lianghua) Xu, a WiMNet Lab B.S./M.S. Computer Science student, received the Russell C. Mills Award from the Department of Computer Science. This annual award, established by the Computer Science Department in 1992 in memory of Russell C. Mills, a…

Tingjun Chen received the Oscar and Verna Byron Fellowship

Tingjun Chen received the Oscar and Verna Byron Fellowship

Ph.D. student Tingjun Chen received the Oscar and Verna Byron Fellowship from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science for the 2017-2018 academic year. The fellowship is awarded to Columbia Engineering Ph.D. students based on their academic achievements…

Saleh Soltan Defended his Ph.D. Thesis

Saleh Soltan Defended his Ph.D. Thesis

Saleh Soltan successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis titled “Computational and Analytical Tools for Resilient and Secure Power Grids”. Over the past few years, Saleh has led WiMNet lab’s efforts in the area of power grid resilience to cyber attacks and…

Varun Gupta defended his Ph.D. thesis

Varun Gupta defended his Ph.D. thesis

Varun Gupta successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis titled “Measurement-Driven Algorithm and System Design for Wireless and Datacenter Networks”. Varun’s thesis focused on the design of architectures and algorithms for wireless and data center network. In particular, he led the AMuSe project where…

IEEE INFOCOM’17 Runner-up for Best Paper Award

IEEE INFOCOM’17 Runner-up for Best Paper Award

The following paper by WiMNet Ph.D. students Varun Gupta and Craig Gutterman, Research Scientist Dr. Yigal Bejerano, Prof. Gil Zussman, and collaborators from Nokia Bell Labs and Verizon was selected as a Runner-up for the Best Paper Award in IEEE INFOCOM’17….