Kiren Nayak
Managing Director
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/staff/kiren-nayak
Email: kkn216@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3856
Biography:
Mr. Kiren Nayak has been Managing Director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) since 2012. He works closely with the Center Director, Department Chair, faculty, and research leadership. He brings expertise in advancing and leading interdisciplinary research efforts, building partnerships across schools, institutes and units, and securing funding from government agencies, industry, philanthropic donors, and foundations.
He has extensive experience in higher education policies and processes with a thorough understanding of academic department functioning, fiscal budget and planning, human resources, and various administrative systems. His responsibilities also span from industry outreach, day to day center administration, to meeting the reporting requirements of New York State’s Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) for the CATT. Previously, he was Program Manager with Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT). created and managed relationships with companies and research labs, including contracts and intellectual property agreements between corporations and university research and technology officials. Mr. Nayak holds a Masters in Management of Technology (2005) and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Information Systems (2002) from NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. He also holds a Diploma in Plastic Engineering (1993) from Gujarat Government Polytechnic, India.
Ramesh Karri
Cyber Security Area Director
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/ramesh-karri
Email: rkarri@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3596
Biography:
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 2013, ACM Grand Finals 2013, Kaspersky Challenge and Embedded Security Challenge).
Torsten Suel
Network Applications Area Director
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/~suel
Email: torsten.suel@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3354
Biography:
Torsten Suel is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, where he directs a research group working on search engines and web mining technology. He holds a Diplom degree from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the department in 1998 after postdoctoral and visiting positions at the NEC Research Institute, UC Berkeley, and Bell Labs. During 2008, he was a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara, CA, while on leave from NYU Poly.
Elza Erkip
Wireless Area Director
Website: https://wp.nyu.edu/elza_erkip/
Email: elza@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3361
Biography:
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.
Kiren Nayak
Managing Director
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/staff/kiren-nayak
Email: kkn216@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3856
Biography:
Mr. Kiren Nayak has been Managing Director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) since 2012. He works closely with the Center Director, Department Chair, faculty, and research leadership. He brings expertise in advancing and leading interdisciplinary research efforts, building partnerships across schools, institutes and units, and securing funding from government agencies, industry, philanthropic donors, and foundations.
He has extensive experience in higher education policies and processes with a thorough understanding of academic department functioning, fiscal budget and planning, human resources, and various administrative systems. His responsibilities also span from industry outreach, day to day center administration, to meeting the reporting requirements of New York State’s Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) for the CATT. Previously, he was Program Manager with Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT). created and managed relationships with companies and research labs, including contracts and intellectual property agreements between corporations and university research and technology officials. Mr. Nayak holds a Masters in Management of Technology (2005) and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Information Systems (2002) from NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. He also holds a Diploma in Plastic Engineering (1993) from Gujarat Government Polytechnic, India.
Ramesh Karri
Cyber Security Area Director
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/ramesh-karri
Email: rkarri@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3596
Biography:
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 2013, ACM Grand Finals 2013, Kaspersky Challenge and Embedded Security Challenge).
Torsten Suel
Network Applications Area Director
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/~suel
Email: torsten.suel@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3354
Biography:
Torsten Suel is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, where he directs a research group working on search engines and web mining technology. He holds a Diplom degree from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the department in 1998 after postdoctoral and visiting positions at the NEC Research Institute, UC Berkeley, and Bell Labs. During 2008, he was a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara, CA, while on leave from NYU Poly.
Elza Erkip
Wireless Area Director
Website: https://wp.nyu.edu/elza_erkip/
Email: elza@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3361
Biography:
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.
Kiren Nayak
Managing Director
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/staff/kiren-nayak
Email: kkn216@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3856
Biography:
Mr. Kiren Nayak has been Managing Director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) since 2012. He works closely with the Center Director, Department Chair, faculty, and research leadership. He brings expertise in advancing and leading interdisciplinary research efforts, building partnerships across schools, institutes and units, and securing funding from government agencies, industry, philanthropic donors, and foundations.
He has extensive experience in higher education policies and processes with a thorough understanding of academic department functioning, fiscal budget and planning, human resources, and various administrative systems. His responsibilities also span from industry outreach, day to day center administration, to meeting the reporting requirements of New York State’s Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) for the CATT. Previously, he was Program Manager with Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT). created and managed relationships with companies and research labs, including contracts and intellectual property agreements between corporations and university research and technology officials. Mr. Nayak holds a Masters in Management of Technology (2005) and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Information Systems (2002) from NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. He also holds a Diploma in Plastic Engineering (1993) from Gujarat Government Polytechnic, India.
Ramesh Karri
Cyber Security Area Director
Website: https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/ramesh-karri
Email: rkarri@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3596
Biography:
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 2013, ACM Grand Finals 2013, Kaspersky Challenge and Embedded Security Challenge).
Torsten Suel
Network Applications Area Director
Website: http://engineering.nyu.edu/~suel
Email: torsten.suel@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3354
Biography:
Torsten Suel is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, where he directs a research group working on search engines and web mining technology. He holds a Diplom degree from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the department in 1998 after postdoctoral and visiting positions at the NEC Research Institute, UC Berkeley, and Bell Labs. During 2008, he was a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara, CA, while on leave from NYU Poly.
Elza Erkip
Wireless Area Director
Website: https://wp.nyu.edu/elza_erkip/
Email: elza@nyu.edu
Phone: 646.997.3361
Biography:
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.
