Electrical Engineering

Research Areas


  • Computer Systems and Computer Engineering
  • Networking
  • Photonics
  • Quantum Communications
  • Silicon Photonics

Additional information


  • Professional Experience
    • 2023 – Present - Director, SRC/JUMP 2 Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC)
    • 2011 – Present - Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering
    • 2014 – Present - Founder and Faculty Director, Columbia Nano Initiative
    • 2016 – Present  - AIM Photonics Institute, Leadership Council
    • 2002 – Present - Director, Lightwave Research Laboratory, Columbia University
    • 2011 – 2017     - Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
    • 2006 – 2010     - Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
    • 2007 – 2008     - Visiting Research Fellow IBM T. J. Watson Research Labs
    • 2002 – 2006     - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
    • 1999 – 2002     - Senior Member of Technical Staff, Tellium, Inc.
    • 1998 – 2007     - Senior Technical Advisor, National Security Agency
    • 1995 – 2000     - Technical Consultant, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
    • 1994 – 1999    - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    • Fellow, Optica
  • Honors & Awards
    • Applied Physics Reviews Editors choice feature 2023
    • HPCwire People to Watch Award 2022
    • Meta (Facebook) Faculty Award 2021
    • Bucknell University Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award 2019
    • IEEE Photonics Engineering Award 2016
    • 2016 Herman Haus Distinguished Lecture, MIT
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow, 2009
    • IBM Faculty Award, 2008
    • Optical Society of America Fellow, 2003
    • CalTech President's Award, 1997
    • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, 1996–1999
    • National Science Foundation CAREER Program Investigator, 1995–1998
    • AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellowship, 1991–1994
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MS, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • BS, Electrical Engineering, Bucknell University

Research Areas


  • Analog Devices
  • Communications
  • Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Very large-scale integration (VLSI)

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Senior Lecturer, Columbia University 2005-
    • Senior Member of Technical Staff, PMC-Sierra 2005
    • Senior Member of Technical Staff, Vitesse Semiconductor 2003-2005
    • Senior Member of Technical Staff, Texas Instruments 2000-2003
    • Senior Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories 1996-2000
    • Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Microelectronics 1992-1996
    • Faculty Intern, Analog Devices (summer 1988)
    • Assistant Professor, Columbia University 1987-1992
    • Intern, Motorola (summer 1984)
    • Member of Technical Staff, Hewlett-Packard 1981-1984
  • Professional Affiliations
    • IEEE
  • Honors & Awards
    • Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award (2013)
    • Engineering Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (2007, 2013)
    • AT&T Bell Labs Outstanding Achievement Award
    • Lucent Technologies Worldwide Team Award
       
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
    • MS, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
    • BS, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Research Areas


  • Analog Devices
  • Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
  • Analog Computing
  • Hybrid Computing

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2014-present.
    • Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 1998-2014.
    • Visiting Professor, University of Paris Marie Curie (now part of Sorbonne universities), 2008.
    • Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1990-1994.
    • Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, Columbia University, 1976-1998.
    • Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1983.
    • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980.
    • Resident Visitor, VLSI Design Group, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, 1977-1987.
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
  • Honors & Awards
    • IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award for the best IEEE publication, 1984.
    • Best Paper Award, European Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1986.
    • Fellow, IEEE, since 1986.
    • Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2003 (co-recipient).
    • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal, 2000.
    • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award, 1987 (co-recipient).
    • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award, 1998 and 2008.
    • Great Teacher Award, Society of Columbia Graduates, 1991.
    • Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association, 1998 and 2010.
    • Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University, 2003.
    • IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2005.
    • IEEE Circuits and Systems Education Award, 2010.
    • Professor Honoris Causa, University of Patras, Greece, 2012- present.
    • Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Minnesota, 2013.
    • IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award, given annually for an outstanding contribution to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems that has a long-term significance or impact, 2007.
    • Elected member, US National Academy of Engineering.
    • His life and work were the subject of a cover story of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, “Yannis Tsividis: Path-Breaking Researcher and Educator”, Fall 2014.
  • Education
    • Ph.D., Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.
    • M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.
    • B.S., in Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
       

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience

    • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2018 -
    • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2013 - 2018
  • Honors & Awards

    • Best Paper Award, Signal Processing Journal (Elsevier), European Association for Signal
    • Processing, 2020
    • Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Columbia Engineering Alumni Association, 2017
    • Top 10% Paper Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2013
    • Notable Paper Award, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2011
  • Education

    • PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University
    • BSEE, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University

Research Areas


  • Networks and Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Computing
  • Edge Computing
  • Cybersecurity
  • Computer Systems and Computer Engineering
  • Networking

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2017-
    • Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair, University of Southern California, 2016-2017
    • Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2012-2017
    • Software Engineer, Mobile performance, Google Inc., 2011-2012
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • ACM SIGCOMM
  • Honors & Awards
    • Best of ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 2023: Who Squats IPv4 Addresses?
    • Best Short Paper, ACM IMC, 2022: The Best of Both Worlds: High Availability CDN Routing Without Compromising Control
    • Best Paper, ACM SIGCOMM, 2021: Seven Years in the Life of Hypergiants' Off-Nets
    • Best Paper Runner-Up, IFIP Networking, 2020: Tracking Down Sources of Spoofed IP Packets
    • SIGCOMM Rising Star Award 2019
    • IETF Applied Networking Research Prize, 2019: Engineering Egress with Edge Fabric: Steering Oceans of Content to the World
    • Best of SIGCOMM CCR, 2018: Towards a Rigorous Methodology for Measuring Adoption of RPKI Route Validation and Filtering
    • Facebook Faculty Research Award, 2017 and 2018
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2015: Flexible Internet Routing for Cloud Tenants
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2016: Longitudinal Study of Adoption of RPKI-Based Route Filtering
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2015: Flexible Internet Routing for Cloud Tenants
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2014: Measuring and Improving Web Performance
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2013: Mapping Today's Internet
    • NSF CAREER Award, 2014: Routing for the Emerging Topologies of Modern Internet Services
    • IETF Applied Networking Research Prize, 2014: Reducing Web Latency: the Virtue of Gentle Aggression
    • Best Paper, ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2013: Don't Trust Traceroute (Completely)
    • William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award, 2012
    • Finalist (4 total), Western Association of Graduate Schools Innovation in Technology Award, 2012
    • Best Paper, NSDI, 2010: Reverse Traceroute
    • Madrona Prize runner-up, Madrona Venture Group, 2009: Reverse Traceroute
    • Best Paper, NSDI, 2008: Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System
  • Education
    • Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
    • B.A., Computer Science & Mathematics, Williams College

Research Areas


  • Communications
  • Embedded Systems
  • Hardware Accelerators
  • Networking
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision and Speech Processing
  • Sensor Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internet of Things
  • Parallel Computing
  • Systems

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2014-
    • Principal Scientist, Architecture Design Lead, Mobile System on Chip, Broadcom Inc.
    • Principal Engineer, The Mathworks
    • Principal MTS, AT&T Wireless Research
    • Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories Cellular Mobile Communications
    • Academic Instructor, graduate level and executive courses, UCLA, UCSD, CU
    • Founder, startup InnovICs , third generation cellular system design
    • Intellectual Property Consulting
  • Honors & Awards
    • IEEE, Senior Member
    • Three dozen patents on signal processing, wireless and mobile communications (database link) 
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester
    • MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester
    • Dipl. Ing. Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad

Research Areas


  • Power Electronics
  • Motor Drives
  • Battery Systems
  • Energy Storage
  • Control Systems
  • Electromagnetics
  • Embedded Systems
  • Power Systems
  • Smart Electric Energy (Smart Grids)
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Energy Efficiency and Conservation Technology
  • Renewable Energy
  • Robotics and Automation

Additional information


  • Professional Experience
    • Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2016–
    • Sessional Professor, Computer and Electrical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada, 2015
    • R&D Engineer in Power Electronics and Drives, Electrical Engineering Group, Leitwind AG, Sterzing, Italy, 2010 - 2012
  • Honors & Awards
    • CAREER Award NSF, 2017
    • Career Award, Futura Foundation, Italy, 2016
    • PhD Fellowship, University of Padua, 2012 – 2013
    • Postgraduate Fellowship, Bozen, Italy, 2011
    • Prize for Outstanding Achievements During Academic Studies, Bozen, Italy, 2011
    • Best Presentation Award, Conference for MSc Energy Students (CES), Aalborg University, Denmark, 2009
    • Merit Scholarship for Graduate Students, Bozen, Italy, 2009 – 2010
    • Merit Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, Bozen, Italy, 2007, 2008
  • Professional Affiliations
    • IEEE

Research Areas


  • Natural Language Processing and Speech
  • Security and Privacy
  • Computer Architecture and Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Design Automation
  • Edge Computing
  • Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0
  • Analog Devices
  • Computer Systems and Computer Engineering
  • Control Systems
  • Digital Devices
  • Embedded Systems
  • Hardware Accelerators
  • Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
  • Computer Vision and Speech Processing
  • Energy Efficiency and Conservation Technology
  • Neuromorphic Computing
  • Sensor Systems
  • Silicon Photonics
  • Sustainable Computing (Green Computing)

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2018-
    • Chair, Computer Engineering, 2023-
    • Visiting Associate Professor, Seoul National University, 2022-2023
    • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2012-2018
  • Honors & Awards
    • NSF CAREER Award, 2015
  • Professional Affiliations
    • IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Distinguished Lecturer, 2023-2025
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan
    • MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan
    • BS, Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University

Additional information


Research Areas


  • Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) Physics
  • Photonics and Optics
  • Quantum Information Science
  • Quantum Materials
  • Communications
  • Electromagnetics
  • Photonics
  • Signal Processing
  • Energy Efficiency and Conservation Technology
  • Quantum Communications
  • Quantum Computing

Additional information


  • Professional Experience

    • David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Columbia University, 2015 –
    • Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2013 – 2015
    • Founding Editor-in-Chief, Optica, Optical Society of America, 2013 –
    • Director, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2011 – 2014
    • Co-founded PicoLuz, Inc. (with Michal Lipson and Alex Cable), 2010
    • Director, NSF Center for Nanoscale Systems in Information Technologies, Cornell University, 2007-2012
    • Associate Director, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2006 – 2007
    • Editorial Board, Laser Physics Letters, 2005 - 2009
    • Editorial Board, New Journal of Physics, 2005 - 2008
    • Professor, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2004 – 2013
    • Director of Graduate Studies, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1999 – 2004
    • Associate Professor, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1998 – 2004
    • Assistant Professor, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1992 – 1998
  • Professional Affiliations

    • Member, Long-Term Publications Group, Optical Society of America, 2010-2012
    • Director-at-Large, Board of Directors, Optical Society of America, 2008-2010
    • I. Rabi Prize Committee of the American Physical Society, 2007-2010
    • Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Optical Society of America, 2006-2008
    • Chair, Science and Engineering Council Optical Society of America, 2004-2006
    • Executive Committee, Member-at-Large, Division of Laser Science, American Physical Society, 2004-2005
    • Chair, Division of Quantum Electronics, Optical Society of America, term 2000-2002
  • Honors & Awards

    • Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award, Optica, 2023
    • Highly Cited Researcher for 2019
    • Charles H. Townes Award, Optical Society of America, 2019
    • Fellow of the IEEE
    • Fellow of the American Physical Society
    • Fellow of the Optical Society of America
    • College of Engineering Teaching Award, 1997, 2000, 2003, and 2007
    • Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 1995
    • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1993
       

Research Areas


  • Networking and Communications
  • Systems Biology
  • Neuroengineering

Research Areas


  • Electromagnetics
  • Nanoelectronics
  • Photonics
  • Quantum Computing
  • Renewable Energy

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Professor of electrical engineering and applied physics and applied mathematics, Columbia Engineering, 1987
    • Visiting associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, MIT, Fall 1986
    • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 1982-1987
  • Honors & Awards
    • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    • Fellow, American Physical Society
    • Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
    • Distinguished Lecturer, Electron Device Society