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Electrical Engineering
Research Areas Computer Systems and Computer Engineering Networking Photonics Quantum Communications Silicon Photonics
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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)
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Lecturer, Electron Device Society