People

Anna Choromanska

Assistant Professor
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/2019-03/CV_0.pdf
Email: ac5455@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.0269

Research Description:

Professor Anna Choromanska did her Post-Doctoral studies in the Computer Science Department at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in NYU and joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Spring 2017 as an Assistant Professor. She is affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science.

Prof. Choromanska’s research interests focus on machine learning both theoretical and applicable to the variety of real-life phenomena. Currently, her main research projects focus on optimization (deep learning landscape, deep learning optimization, and general machine learning optimization), large data analysis (extreme multi-class and multi-label classification and density estimation), and machine learning for robotics and autonomy (autonomous driving systems, self-driving cars, AI-based robotics). Prof. Choromanska collaborates with NVIDIA (New Jersey lab) on the autonomous car driving project.

Prof. Choromanska was a recipient of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Presidential Fellowship at Columbia University in the City of New York. She co-authored several international conference papers and refereed journal publications, as well as book chapters. The results her works are used in production by Facebook (training production vision systems and entry to COCO competition) and Baidu, and in product development by NVIDIA. She is also a contributor to the open source fast out-of-core learning system Vowpal Wabbit (aka VW). Prof. Choromanska gave over 50 invited and conference talks and serves as a book editor (MIT Press volume), organizer of top machine learning events (workshops at conferences such as the  International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems), and a reviewer and area chair for several top machine learning conferences and journals.

Boris Aronov

Professor Computer Science and Engineering
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/boris-aronov
Email: boris.aronov@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3092

Research Description:

Area of Expertise: Algorithms

Claudio Silva

Professor Computer Science and Engineering
Website: http://vgc.poly.edu/~csilva/
Email: csilva@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.4093

Research Description:

Cláudio Silva is a professor of computer science and engineering and data science at New York University. His primary research interests are in visualization, geometric computing, data science, sports analytics, and urban computing. He received a BS in mathematics from the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil) in 1990, and a PhD in computer science from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1996. He was also a postdoc in applied mathematics at Stony Brook in 1996-7.

He has held positions in academia and industry, including at AT&T, IBM, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, and the University of Utah. Cláudio has made contributions to visualization and graphics, notably in the areas of point-based modeling, surface reconstruction, isosurface generation, out-of-core and streaming techniques, visibility computations, volume rendering, and urban data visualization. Having participated in interdisciplinary projects, his work has had impact in multiple scientific domains. Cláudio has advised 15 PhD and 8 MS students, and mentored 6 post-doctoral associates; he currently advises over 8 PhD and MS students. He has published over 200 journal and conference papers, is an inventor of 12 US patents, and co-authored 12 papers that have received “Best Paper Awards” (including honorable mention) in visualization and geometric computing conferences. He has over 9,900 citations according to Google Scholar. He is an IEEE Fellow and was the recipient of the 2014 Visualization Technical Achievement Award “in recognition of seminal advances in geometric computing for visualization and for contributions to the development of the VisTrails data exploration system.”

Dariusz Czarkowski

Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20160921165729/http://engineering.nyu.edu/people/dariusz-czarkowski
Email: dc1677@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3256

Research Description:

David Goodman

NYU School of Engineering Presidential Fellow and Professor Emeritus
Website: http://wireless.engineering.nyu.edu/david-goodman/
Email: david.goodman@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3221

Research Description:

David Goodman is a Presidential Fellow of Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) and has been a Professor Emeritus in its Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2008. He was previously a Professor, Head of the department from 1999 to 2001, and Director of the Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT), an industry-academic research center at Poly.

His research has made fundamental contributions to digital signal processing, speech coding and wireless information networks.

In 2006 and 2007, he was a Program Director in the Computer and Network Systems Division of the National Science Foundation.

Prior to joining Polytechnic University in 1999, he founded and directed the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) at Rutgers University. He was previously a Research Associate at the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University. In 1997, he chaired the National Research Council Committee studying “The Evolution of Untethered Communications.” From 1967 to 1988 he was at Bell Laboratories, where his final position was Head of the Radio Research Department.

Davood Shahrjerdi

Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/nanolab/
Email: davood@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.4140

Research Description:

Edward Wong

Associate Professor

Email: ewong@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3523

Research Description:

Edward K. Wong received his B.  E.  degree  from  the  State University of New York  at Stony Brook,  his Sc. M. degree from Brown University, and his Ph. D. degree from Purdue University,  all in Electrical  Engineering.  He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. His research interests are in the areas of image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition. He has published extensively and his research had been funded by federal and state government agencies, as well as private industry. He was a technical consultant to several companies in the New York area. He is currently an associate editor for the journal Springer LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security. Dr. Wong had also served on the organizing and technical program committees of several major conferences.

Elza Erkip

Institute Professor
Website: https://wp.nyu.edu/elza_erkip/
Email: elza@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3361

Research Description:

Elza Erkip an Institute Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Her research interests are in information theory, communication theory, and wireless communications.

Dr. Erkip is a member of the Science Academy Society of Turkey and is among the 2014 and 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers. She received the NSF CAREER award in 2001, the IEEE Communications Society WICE Outstanding Achievement Award in 2016 and the IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Technical Achievement Award in 2018. Her paper awards include the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Paper Prize in 2004, and the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication in 2013. She has been a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society since 2012 where she is currently the Society President. She was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2013 to 2014.

Francisco deLeon

Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/power/
Email: fdeleon@nyu.edu
Phone: Office (200G): (646) 997 3961 Cell: (347) 385 0601

Research Description:

I received the B.Sc. degree and the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico, in 1983 and 1986, respectively. In 1992 I have obtained the Ph.D. degree also in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada. From 1992 to 1997 I was with the Graduate Division of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the IPN, Mexico. From September 1997 to August 1998 I was on a sabbatical leave at McGill University in Montreal, and from September 1998 to April 1999 I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Toronto.

From 1999 to 2007 I held several academic positions in Mexico and worked for the Canadian electric industry in the research and development of standard and special motors and transformers. From 2004 to 2007 I was the Director of R&D at CYME International T&D in St. Bruno (Quebec) developing professional grade software for the analysis of power and distribution systems and cable ampacity. In September 2007 I have joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Polytechnic University (the old Brooklyn Poly and now the NYU School of Engineering) as Associate Professor and obtained tenure in 2013.

Henning Schulzrinne

Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science;
Website: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/

Research Description:

Internet real-time and multimedia services and protocols; Internet economics and policy; ubiquitous computing; mobile systems; quality of service; modeling and analysis of computer-communication networks; operating systems; network security.

Henry Bertoni

Professor Emeritus
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/henry-bertoni
Email: hb752@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3478

Research Description:

Electromagnetics
Acoustics

I-Tai Lu

Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/people/i-tai-lu
Email: itl211@nyu.edu

Research Description:

Area of Expertise: Acoustics, Electromagnetics, Wireless Communications Projects 3GPP-LTE (Phase 2) Sponsor: InterDigital, Inc. 3GPP-LTE(Phase 1) Sponsor: InterDigital, Inc. 3GPP-R7&R8; Sponsor: InterDigital, Inc. Analysis of Advanced Multicarrier Waveforms Sponsor: InterDigital, Inc. CoMP for 3GPP LTE Sponsor: InterDigital, Inc. MIMO OFDM Physical Layer Study and Simulation Development : Phase 1 Sponsor: InterDigital, Inc. MIMO OFDM Physical Layer Study and Simulation Development : Phase 2 Sponsor: InterDigital, Inc.

Ivan Selesnick

Department Chair and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology
Website: http://eeweb.poly.edu/iselesni/
Email: iws211@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3416

Research Description:

Research Interests: Signal Processing, Sparse Signal Models and Optimization, Biomedical Signal Processing, Wavelet Analysis

Jason Nieh

Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of the Software Systems Laboratory
Website: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/contact.shtml
Email: nieh@cs.columbia.edu
Phone: (212)939-7160 (office)

Research Description:

Jason Nieh is a Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of the Software Systems Laboratory at Columbia University. He has served as a consultant to both government and industry, including as the technical advisor to nine States on the Microsoft Antitrust Settlement, and as an expert witness before the US International Trade Commission. He was previously Chief Scientist of Cellrox and Desktone, acquired by VMware. Nieh has made research contributions across a broad range of areas, including operating systems, virtualization, computer architecture, thin-client computing, cloud computing, mobile computing, multimedia, web technologies, and performance evaluation. Technologies he developed are now widely used in major operating system platforms, including Android and Linux, and are built into ARM processors, billions of which ship each year. Nieh is an IEEE Fellow. Honors for his research work include the Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award, awarded once every two years in the physical sciences and engineering, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Department of Energy Early Career Award, five IBM Faculty Awards and two IBM Shared University Research Awards, six Google Research Awards, and various best paper awards, including those from MobiCom, SIGCSE, SIGMETRICS, and SOSP. A dedicated teacher, he received the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award for his innovations in teaching operating systems and for introducing virtualization as a pedagogical tool, which has become common practice at universities around the world. Nieh earned his B.S. from MIT and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering. He is married to Belinda Nieh and they have four children, Joanna, Caleb, Emma, and Zachary. They live in New York City.

Jonathan Chao

Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/people/jonathan-chao
Email: jonathan.chao@nyu.edu

Research Description:

H. Jonathan Chao, a recognized expert in networking, datacenters, and switches/routers, is professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). He joined the NYU-Poly faculty in January 1992. He was Head of ECE Department from 2004 to 2014.

He is currently Director of High-Speed Networking Lab, leading a team of a Research Associate Professor, 6 PhD students, and 10 Master Students. He has been doing research in the areas of software defined networking, network function virtualization, datacenter networks, high-speed packet processing, switching, routing, network security, quality of service control, and network on chip. He holds 58 patents and has published over 200 journal and conference papers.

Chao is the co-founder and former CTO of Coree Networks, where he led a team in implementing a multi-terabit Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) switch router with carrier-class reliability. He helped raise $30 million for the first round of implementation. From 1985 to 1992, he was a member of technical staff at Telcordia, where he was involved in transport and switching system architecture designs and Application-specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) implementations. He was a senior engineer at Telecommunication Labs of Taiwan performing circuit designs for a digital telephone switching system from 1977 to 1981.

He is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for “having demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.” He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to the architecture and application of VLSI circuits in high-speed packet networks and was elected Speaker of the Year by IEEE New Jersey Coast Section in 2003. Chao was the 1987 recipient of the Telcordia Excellence Award and a co-recipient of the 2001 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.  He coauthored three networking books, Broadband Packet Switching Technologies—A Practical Guide to ATM Switches and IP Routers (New York: Wiley, 2001), Quality of Service Control in High-speed Networks (New York: Wiley, 2001), and High-performance Switches and Routers (New York: Wiley, 2007).

He has served as a guest editor for the IEEE’s Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) on the special topics of  “Advances in ATM Switching Systems for B-ISDN” (June 1997), “Next Generation IP Switches and Routers” (June 1999), two issues on “High-performance Optical/Electronic Switches/Routers for High-speed Internet” (May and September 2003), and “High-speed Network Security” (October 2006). He also served as an editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 1997–2000.

Juliana Freire

Professor
Website: http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/
Email: juliana.freire@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.4128

Research Description:

Research Interests: Big Data
Data analysis and visualization
Provenance management
Large-scale information integration
Data management
Web crawling

Justin Cappos

Associate Professor
Website: https://ssl.engineering.nyu.edu/personalpages/jcappos/
Email: jcappos@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3116

Research Description:

Research Interests: Practical security, virtualization, cloud computing, software update systems, testbeds

Keith Ross

Leonard J. Shustek Professor
Website: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/keithwross/
Email: keithwross@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3859

Research Description:

Lakshmi Subramanian

Professor
Website: https://cs.nyu.edu/~lakshmi/Lakshmi/Home.html
Email: lakshmi@cs.nyu.edu
Phone: (212) 998-3485

Research Description:

Lakshminarayanan Subramanian is a Professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. His research interests are in the areas of networked systems and data science with applications in computing for development (also referred by the acronymn ICTD). He leads the Open Networks and Big Data Lab and is a member of the NYU Systems group. He is associated with the Center for Technology and Economic Development, Center for Data Science and NYU WIRELESS.

He is a Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Entrupy Inc, a startup that uses machine vision algorithms and microscopy to authenticate physical goods and enable trustworthy commerce.

Lisa Hellerstein

Professor
Website: http://cse.poly.edu/~hstein
Email: lisa.hellerstein@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3689

Research Description:

Research Interests: Computational learning theory Machine learning Algorithms Complexity theory Discrete mathematics

Ludovic Righetti

Associate Professor
Website: https://wp.nyu.edu/machinesinmotion/
Email: ludovic.righetti@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3602

Research Description:

Research Interests: Computational learning theory Machine learning Algorithms Complexity theory Discrete mathematics

Michael Knox

Industry Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/people/michael-knox
Email: mikeknox@nyu.edu

Research Description:

Area of Expertise: Antennas, Circuits, RF and Microwave, Wireless Communications

Nasir Memon

Associate Dean for Online Learning; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Website: http://isis.poly.edu/memon
Email: memon@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3970

Research Description:

Research Interests: Data Compression
Biometrics
Security and Human Behavior
Computer and Network Security
Multimedia Security and Forensics

Nirod Das

Associate Professor
Website: http://wp.nyu.edu/nkdas
Email: nkd217@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3192

Research Description:

Research Interests: Electromagnetics, Antennas, RF/Microwave Circuits

Ozgur Sinanoglu

Associate Dean of Engineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering


Phone: ozgursin@nyu.edu

Research Description:

Ozgur Sinanoglu is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi. He earned his BS degrees, one in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and one in Computer Engineering, both from Bogazici University, Turkey in 1999. He obtained his MS and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California San Diego in 2001 and 2004, respectively. During his PhD, he won the IBM PhD fellowship award twice. He has industry experience at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Qualcomm, and has been with NYU Abu Dhabi as an assistant professor during 2010-2014, associate professor with tenure during 2014-2018, and full professor with tenure since 2018.

Professor Sinanoglu’s research interests include design-for-test, design-for-security, and design-for-trust for VLSI circuits, where he has more than 170 conference and journal papers, and 20 issued and pending US Patents. He is the recipient of the best paper awards at IEEE VLSI Test Symposium 2011 and ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security 2013. Sinanoglu has given around two dozen tutorials on hardware security and trust in leading CAD and test conferences, such as DAC, DATE, ITC, VTS, ETS, ICCD, ISQED, etc. He is serving or has served as general/program/track/topic chair or technical program committee member in about 20 conferences, and as (guest) associate editor for IEEE TIFS, IEEE TETC, IEEE TCAD, ACM JETC, Elsevier MEJ, JETTA, and IET CDT journals. He chaired and hosted the top cybersecurity conference in Asia, ACM ASIACCS 2017, in Abu Dhabi.

Professor Sinanoglu is the director of the Design-for-Excellence Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi. His recent research in hardware security and trust has been funded by US National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense (Army Research Office and DARPA), Intel Corporation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, and Mubadala Technology.

Pei Liu

Research Assistant Professor
Website: http://archive.engineering.nyu.edu/people/pei-liu
Email: peiliu@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3600

Research Description:

Research Assistant Professor, Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Peter Voltz

Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Academics
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/peter-voltz
Email: voltz@nyu.edu
Phone: 646-997-3659

Research Description:

Research Interests: Communications and Signal Processing

Quanyan Zhu

Assistant Professor
Website: http://wp.nyu.edu/quanyan
Email: quanyan.zhu@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3371

Research Description:

Research Interests: Game Theory and Applications
Resilient and Secure Socio-Cyber-Physical Systems
Adversarial Machine Learning and Signal Processing
Human-Robot Interactions
Internet of Things
Game and Decision Theory for Cyber Security
Economics and Optimization of Infrastructure Systems
Resource Allocations in Communication Networks

Ramesh Karri

Professor; Co-founder and co-chair NYU Center for Cyber Security; Founder and Organizer: Annual CSAW Embedded Security Challenge
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/ramesh-karri
Email: rkarri@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3596

Research Description:

Ramesh Karri is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, from the University of California at San Diego. His research and education activities span hardware cybersecurity including trustworthy ICs, processors and cyberphysical systems; security-aware computer aided design, test, verification, validation and reliability; nano meets security; metrics; benchmarks; hardware cybersecurity competitions; additive manufacturing security.

He has over 200 journal and conference publications including tutorials on Trustworthy Hardware in IEEE Computer (2) and Proceedings of the IEEE (5). His groups work on hardware cybersecurity was nominated for best paper awards (ICCD 2015 and DFTS 2015) and received awards at conferences (ITC 2014, CCS 2013, DFTS 2013 and VLSI Design 2012) and at competitions (ACM Student Research Competition at DAC 2012, ICCAD 2013, DAC 2014, ACM Grand Finals 2013, Kaspersky Challenge and Embedded Security Challenge).

Rumi Chunara

Assistant Professor
Website: http://chunaralab.org
Email: rumi.chunara@nyu.edu
Phone: +1 (212) 992-6338

Research Description:

S. Farokh Atashzar

Assistant Professor
Website: https://wp.nyu.edu/meriit/
Email: f.atashzar@nyu.edu
Phone: 6469973541

Research Description:

S. Farokh Atashzar is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at New York University (NYU). Prior to joining NYU, Atashzar was a senior postdoctoral scientist in the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK, sponsored by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. From February 2017 to August 2018, he served as a postdoctoral research associate at Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) center. From 2015 to 2018, he conducted research for the Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) of Canada program “Aging Gracefully across Environments using Technology to Support Wellness, Engagement and Long Life (AGE-WELL)”.

Shivendra Panwar

Director
Website: http://catt.nyu.edu
Email: spanwar@nyu.edu
Phone: 555-555-555

Research Description:

Shivendra S. Panwar is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1983 and 1986, respectively.

He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn (now Polytechnic Institute of New York University). He is currently the Director of the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), and member of NYU WIRELESS. He spent the summer of 1987 as a Visiting Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, and has been a Consultant to AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ. His research interests include the performance analysis and design of networks. Current work includes cooperative wireless networks, switch performance and multimedia transport over networks.

Siddharth Garg

Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/people/siddharth-garg
Email: sg175@nyu.edu

Research Description:

Area of Expertise: Algorithms, Circuits, Computer Architectures, Nano-scale Architectures, VLSI Systems

Sundeep Rangan

Professor, Associate Director NYU WIRELESS
Website: http://wireless.engineering.nyu.edu/sundeep-rangan/
Email: srangan@nyu.edu
Phone: 201.984.5904

Research Description:

Dr. Rangan received the B.A.Sc. at the University of Waterloo, Canada and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. He has held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Bell Labs.  In 2000, he co-founded (with four others) Flarion Technologies, a spin-off of Bell Labs, that developed Flash OFDM, the first cellular OFDM data system and pre-cursor to 4G cellular systems including LTE and WiMAX. In 2006, Flarion was acquired by Qualcomm Technologies.  Dr. Rangan was a Director of Engineering at Qualcomm involved in OFDM infrastructure products.  He joined the ECE department at NYU Tandon (formerly NYU Polytechnic) in 2010.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Associate Director of NYU WIRELESS, an industry-academic research center on next-generation wireless systems.

Thanasis Korakis

Research Assistant Professor
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/thanasis-korakis

Phone: 646.997.3871

Research Description:

Thanasis Korakis was born on December 4, 1972 in Ioannina, Greece. He obtained the Bachelor and the M.S. degree in Informatics and Telecommunications from the University of Athens, Greece, in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer and Communication Engineering from the University of Thessaly, Greece in 2005, under the supervision of Professor Leandros Tassiulas. In the summer of 2004 he was a visiting researcher at the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of California, Riverside. From 2005 to 2006 he was a Research Scientist associated with the New York State Center for Advanced Technologies in Telecommunications (CATT).

Dr. Korakis is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Polytechnic Institute of NYU. He is also affiliated with CATT at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. His research interests are in the field of wireless networks with emphasis on access layer protocols, cooperative networks, directional antennas, quality of service provisioning and network management. He leads the Wireless Implementation Testbed Laboratory (Witest Lab) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU.

Thomas Marzetta

Distinguished Industry Professor
Website: https://wireless.engineering.nyu.edu/thomas-marzetta/
Email: tlm8@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3028

Research Description:

Thomas Marzetta is Distinguished Industry Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and an Associate Director of NYU Wireless. Born in Washington, D.C., he received the Ph.D. and SB in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and 1972, and the MS in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 1973. Prior to joining NYU in 2017, he had three industrial research careers: petroleum exploration (Schlumberger-Doll Research, 1978 – 1987), defense (Nichols Research Corporation, 1987 – 1995), and telecommunications (Bell Labs, 1995 – 2017). At Bell Labs, he directed the Communications and Statistical Sciences Department within the former Mathematical Sciences Research Center, and he was elected a Bell Labs Fellow. He originated Massive MIMO, one of the cornerstones of fifth-generation wireless technology. He is lead author of the book Fundamentals of Massive MIMO.

Torsten Suel

Professor
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/~suel
Email: torsten.suel@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3354

Research Description:

Research Interests: Web search engines
Scalable information retrieval
Databases
Distributed computation
Algorithms
Data compression
Parallel Computation
Experimental Algorithmics

Vishal Misra

Dept. of Computer Science Columbia University
Website: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~misra/
Email: misra@cs.columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 939 7061

Research Description:

Vishal Misra is an Indian-American scientist at Columbia University, New York, NY and known for his numerous contributions to Computer Networking. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016^[1] for contributions to network traffic modeling, congestion control and Internet economics. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018.^[2]

He is a Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at Columbia University. He is also an entrepreneur, having co-founded the world’s most popular single sport portal ESPNCricinfo, where he designed and implemented the world’s ^[3] in 1996. In 2011 he founded the data center storage company Infinio.

As a researcher, he developed the first stochastic differential equation (fluid) model of TCP that led to formal control theoretic analysis of congestion control mechanisms on the Internet. Based on his work a team at Cisco developed the PIE (PI enhanced) controller that is being used to solve the problem of bufferbloat (excessive delays on the Internet because of larger than needed buffers). The PIE controller has become a part of the DOCSIS 3.1.

He has also worked on the topic of Network neutrality, and worked actively with both the citizen’s movement and the regulators in India. The pro-net neutrality citizen’s movement adopted his definition of Net Neutrality, and eventually the regulators in India passed regulations that are consistent with his definition, recognized as the strongest Net Neutrality protections anywhere in the world.^[4]

Yao Wang

Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/people/yao-wang
Email: yw523@nyu.edu

Research Description:

Area of Expertise: Image and Video Processing, Medical Imaging, Video Compression and Transport

Yi-Jen Chiang

Associate Professor
Website: http://cse.poly.edu/chiang/
Email: chiang@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3395

Research Description:

Research Interests: Computer Graphics and Visualization: big data analysis and visualization, out-of-core graphics and scientific visualization, isosurface extraction, surface simplification and view-dependent rendering, volume simplification, graphics compression, volume rendering, computational topology and topology-driven visualization, robot motion planning.

Computer Algorithms: out-of-core algorithms, computational geometry, algorithmic motion planning, graph algorithms, approximation algorithms, data structures, computational topology.

Yong Liu

Associate Professor
Website: http://eeweb.poly.edu/faculty/yongliu/
Email: yongliu@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3959

Research Description:

Research Interests: Design, Analysis and Simulation of Communication Networks
Modeling, Control and Optimization of Complex Systems

Zhong-Ping Jiang

Professor
Website: http://eeweb.poly.edu/~canlab/
Email: zjiang@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3646

Research Description:

Research Interests: Basic stability problems for interconnected systems
Nonlinear control theory and applications
Robust adaptive dynamic programming
Control of underactuated mechanical systems – for example, mobile robots, ships,underwater systems
Energy and power systems
Tools for cyber-physical systems
Systems neuroscience