Gil Zussman

Gil Zussman received the BSc degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and the BA degree in Economics (both summa cum laude) from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1995. He received the MSc degree (summa cum laude) in Operations Research from Tel-Aviv University in 1999 and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2004. Between 1995 and 1998, he served as an engineer in the Israel Defense Forces. Between 2004 and 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT.

Since 2007, he has been with Columbia University, where he is now a Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, Professor (affiliated) of Computer Science, and member of the Data Science Institute. His research interests are in the area of networking, and in particular in the areas of wireless, mobile, and resilient networks. He has been the Columbia PI of the ~$18M NSF COSMOS testbed, which is a national wireless infrastructure that is being deployed in West Harlem and enables experimentation in wireless and optical networks, edge cloud computing, and smart cities. The testbed has served as a foundation for the NSF Center for Smart Streetscapes (CS3) Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Columbia.

Zussman is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. He was an associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and the Technical Program Committee (TPC) co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM’23, ACM MobiHoc’15, and IFIP Performance 2011. He received the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) award for distinguished students, two Marie Curie International Fellowships, the Fulbright Fellowship, the DTRA Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and is a co-recipient of eight best paper awards.

Research Areas

• Networks and Distributed Systems
• Edge Computing
• Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0
• Networked and Distributed Systems
• Wireless, Embedded & Sensor Systems
• Communications
• Networking
• Power Systems
• Smart Electric Energy (Smart Grids)
• Wireless Communication
• Networking
• Internet of Things (IoT)