BROOKLYN, N.Y., May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Two New York University Tandon School of Engineering
faculty members won multi-year 2019 best paper awards from the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications
Society (IEEE ComSoc) — a prestigious and unusual double accolade
for faculty members from the same university.
Thomas L. Marzetta, widely
credited as the originator of Massive MIMO antenna technology, is
the winner of the 2019 Fred W. Ellersick Prize, which recognizes
one outstanding paper published in an IEEE ComSoc magazine over a
three-year period, and communications and networking pioneer Elza
Erkip received the 2019 Best Tutorial Paper Award, which honors an
exceptional tutorial published by IEEE ComSoc in the previous five
years.
Erkip is a founding member of the pioneering interdisciplinary
research center NYU WIRELESS, and Marzetta is an associate
director. NYU WIRELESS develops future-generation wireless
protocols and technologies for 5G and 6G networks and beyond, as
well as terahertz and millimeter-wave communications. Both also
hold appointments in NYU Tandon's Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering – Marzetta is a distinguished industry
professor and Erkip is an institute professor.
They are widely recognized researchers whose contributions are
transforming the fast-changing field of wireless communications.
Both pursue research with a long-term point of view, aiming to
elucidate what is fundamentally possible rather than what is merely
practical within the framework of today's technology. Erkip's
research uses tools from information theory, communication theory,
and applied probability and statistics to understand the
theoretical foundations of wireless networks and social networks.
Marzetta looks for breakthroughs in the wireless physical layer
through a unification of electromagnetic theory and communication
theory.
In his prize-winning paper "Massive MIMO: Ten Myths and One
Critical Question," Marzetta and co-authors tackle some of the most
common misconceptions about MIMO (multi-input, multi-output) and
explore key issues that may impact widespread adoption of this
technology. This is Marzetta's second paper to win the Fred W.
Ellersick prize.
Erkip's IEEE ComSoc award-winning paper addresses the potential
of energy harvesting for wireless communications — the process of
capturing and storing ambient energy from solar, wind, water, or
other external sources to power electrical devices. "Energy
Harvesting Wireless Communications: A Review of Recent Advances"
details recent advances in the area of communication systems
powered by energy harvesting, and it reviews various models for
designing wireless networks composed of energy harvesting nodes,
including self-sustaining wireless networks.
The winners were announced yesterday at the IEEE International
Conference on Communications in Shanghai,
China.
NYU Tandon Dean Jelena Kovačević congratulated the professors,
noting that "Professors Marzetta and Erkip are celebrated
researchers and educators, and these awards are further proof of
the power of their work to inspire and challenge both their peers
and students alike. Wireless communications are shaping the future
like few other technologies, and we are proud to see our faculty
honored for their contributions at the forefront of the field."
Marzetta, who spent two decades at Bell Labs before joining NYU
Tandon in 2017, is best known for originating Massive MIMO, a
system that utilizes numerous arrays of small, individually
controlled, low-power antennas to direct streams of information to
many users simultaneously with far greater spectral efficiency than
current cellular networks. MIMO is considered an essential
technology for future wireless networks, as researchers and mobile
communications providers work to keep pace with the growing global
demand for bandwidth.
Erkip has garnered multiple IEEE ComSoc honors, including the
Stephen O. Rice Paper Prize (2004), the Award for Advances in
Communication (2013), the Women in Communications Engineering Award
(2016), and the Communication Theory Technical Committee 2018
Technical Achievement Award. A former president of the IEEE
Information Theory Society, she is an oft-cited expert in the
fields of wireless networking, communication theory, and
information theory.
In the early years of her nearly 20-year tenure at NYU Tandon,
she conducted research that would become the foundation for
cooperative wireless networking, which aims to mitigate
interference and bolster unreliable links between mobile devices
and wireless base stations by allowing devices to assist each other
in information transmission. This seminal work has impacted
industry standardization and inspired new wireless devices.
About the New York University
Tandon School of Engineering
The NYU Tandon School of Engineering dates to 1854, the
founding date for both the New York
University School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and
the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute (widely known as
Brooklyn Poly). A January 2014 merger
created a comprehensive school of education and research in
engineering and applied sciences, rooted in a tradition of
invention and entrepreneurship and dedicated to furthering
technology in service to society. In addition to its main location
in Brooklyn, NYU Tandon
collaborates with other schools within NYU, one of the country's foremost private research
universities, and is closely connected to engineering programs at
NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai. It operates Future Labs focused on
start-up businesses in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn and an award-winning online graduate
program. For more information, visit
http://engineering.nyu.edu.
About NYU WIRELESS
NYU WIRELESS is a vibrant academic research center that is
pushing the boundaries of wireless communications, sensing,
networking, and devices. Centered at NYU Tandon and involving
leaders from industry, faculty, and students throughout the entire
NYU community, NYU WIRELESS offers its
industrial affiliate sponsors, students, and faculty members a
world-class research environment that is creating fundamental
knowledge, theories, and techniques for future mass-deployable
wireless devices across a wide range of applications and markets.
Every April, NYU WIRELESS hosts a major invitation-only wireless
summit, in cooperation with Nokia Bell Laboratories, for the
center's industrial affiliates and thought leaders throughout the
global telecommunications industry. For more information, visit
wireless.engineering.nyu.edu.
www.facebook.com/nyutandon
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