Project Team
IRIS Center Team
Dipankar Raychaudhuri
| Affiliation: | WINLAB/Rutgers The State University of New Jersey |
| Email: | ray@winlab.rutgers.edu |
| Web: | www.winlab.rutgers.edu/docs/faculty/RayBio.html and www.cosmos-lab.org |
| SII Project Focus: | New information architectures for spectrum. Investigating distributed protocol architectures and algorithms for dynamic spectrum coordination, leading to a proof-of-concept pilot system on the COSMOS/NRDZ testbed in NYC Spectrum sharing protocols; network architecture; testbeds |
Ivan Seskar
| Affiliation: | WINLAB/Rutgers The State University of New Jersey |
| Email: | seskar@winlab.rutgers.edu |
| Web: | www.cosmos-lab.org |
| SII Project Focus: | Experimental infrastructure for next-generation wireless systems, including development of dynamic spectrum capabilities in COSMOS |
Roy Yates
| Affiliation: | WINLAB/Rutgers The State University of New Jersey |
| Email: | ryates@winlab.rutgers.edu |
| Web: | www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~ryates |
| SII Project Focus: | Wireless network and protocol design and optimization to enable timely status updates for low-latency applications such as augmented reality, smart cities, and autonomous vehicles |
Waheed Bajwa
| Affiliation: | WINLAB/Rutgers The State University of New Jersey |
| Email: | waheed.bajwa@rutgers.edu |
| Web: | www.ece.rutgers.edu/Bajwa |
| SII Project Focus: | Machine learning for spectrum sharing and monitoring |
Gil Zussman
| Affiliation: | Columbia University |
| Email: | gil.zussman@columbia.edu |
| Web: | wimnet.ee.columbia.edu/people/gil-zussman/ |
| SII Project Focus: | Cross-layer design of algorithms for wireless networks, including full duplex & mmWave, pilot experiments in the COSMOS FCC innovation zone, and Education & Training |
Harish Krishnaswamy
| Affiliation: | Columbia University |
| Email: | hk2532@columbia.edu |
| Web: | cosmiccolumbia.com |
| SII Project Focus: | CoSMIC lab works on integrated devices, circuits and systems that enable new wireless paradigms that will underpin the next generation of communication networks that combine extreme data rates with massive number of users and ubiquitous sensing. |
Henning Schulzrinne
| Affiliation: | Columbia University |
| Email: | hgs@cs.columbia.edu |
| Web: | www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/ |
| SII Project Focus: | Protocols and algorithms for dynamic spectrum management; national spectrum policy and government outreach |
Tingjun Chen
| Affiliation: | Columbia University |
| Email: | tc2668@columbia.edu |
| Web: | www.Columbia.edu/~tc2668 |
| SII Project Focus: | Experimental infrastructure for spectrum research |
Theodore (Ted) Rappaport
| Affiliation: | New York University |
| Email: | tsr@nyu.edu |
| Web: | wireless.engineering.nyu.edu/tedrappaport/ |
| SII Project Focus: | Fundamentals of wireless propagation and channel modeling at millimeter wave and sub-millimeter wave (sub-THz) frequencies, including investigations into applications such as position location and spectrum sharing. |
Nicholas Economides
| Affiliation: | New York University |
| Email: | economides@stern.nyu.edu |
| Web: | www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/ |
| SII Project Focus: | Impact of network effects and positive feedback loops on telecommunications services. |
Sundeep Rangan
| Affiliation: | New York University |
| Email: | srangan@nyu.edu |
| Web: | wireless.engineering.nyu.edu/sundeep-rangan/ |
| SII Project Focus: | 5G systems, mmWave and software-defined radio technologies |
Thanasis Korakis
| Affiliation: | New York University |
| Email: | korakis@nyu.edu |
| Web: | engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/thanasis-korakis |
| SII Project Focus: | Wireless systems research and development of education and outreach programs |
Dan Kilper
| Affiliation: | University of Arizona |
| Email: | dkilper@optics.arizona.edu |
| Web: | wp.optics.arizona.edu/dkilper/ |
| SII Project Focus: | Emerging optical technologies and their integration with wireless access networks. |
Marwan Krunz
| Affiliation: | University of Arizona |
| Email: | krunz@arizona.edu |
| Web: | uweb.engr.arizona.edu/~krunz/ |
| SII Project Focus: | Coordination mechanisms for harmonious coexistence between heterogeneous wireless systems in mid and high bands, as well as spectrum sharing with wireless and passive radio astronomy receivers. |
Alyson Ford
| Affiliation: | University of Arizona |
| Email: | alysonford@arizona.edu |
| Web: | lavinia.as.arizona.edu/~alysonford |
| SII Project Focus: | Techniques for co-existence of radio astronomy with wireless communication systems |
Christopher Walker
| Affiliation: | University of Arizona |
| Email: | cwalker@as.arizona.edu |
| Web: | www.as.arizona.edu/people/faculty/ christopher-walker |
| SII Project Focus: | Spectrum use challenges for radio astronom |
Andrea Goldsmith
| Affiliation: | Princeton University |
| Email: | goldsmith@princeton.edu |
| Web: | ee.princeton.edu/people/andrea-goldsmith |
| SII Project Focus: | Advanced PHY layer techniques (modulation, coding, MIMO), multiple access strategies, and novel cellular infrastructures to support 6G communication requirements. |
Kyle Jamieson
| Affiliation: | Princeton University |
| Email: | kylej@cs.princeton.edu |
| Web: | https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~kylej/ |
| SII Project Focus: | Smart surfaces for interference suppression and unlicensed spectrum protocols. |
Yasaman Ghasempour
| Affiliation: | Rice University and Princeton University |
| Email: | ghasempour@rice.edu |
| Web: | ee.princeton.edu/people/yasaman-ghasempour and www.yghasempour.rice.edu/ |
| SII Project Focus: | Design and experimental evaluation of robust and adaptable control planes for multi-user wireless communications in mmWave and THz bands |
Jeffrey Andrews
| Affiliation: | University of Texas |
| Email: | jandrews@ece.utexas.edu |
| Web: | sites.utexas.edu/jandrews/ |
| SII Project Focus: | Mathematical guarantees on spectrum sharing and the protection of incumbents. New methodologies for shared spectrum access |
Arun Natarajan
| Affiliation: | Oregon State University |
| Email: | nataraja@eecs.oregonstate.edu |
| Web: | web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~nataraja |
| SII Project Focus: | Circuits for wireless MIMO integrated transceivers at RF, mm-wave and beyond, with a focus on (a) interferer-cancellation for dense frequency reuse, (b) extending high-performance to sub-mmwave and THz frequencies. |
Carlos Caicedo
| Affiliation: | Syracuse University |
| Email: | ccaicedo@syr.edu |
| Web: | ccaicedo.mysite.syr.edu/ |
| SII Project Focus: | Development of standardized information models and policy languages for data-driven dynamic spectrum management environments. |