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2025 Annual Princeton NextG Symposium Program

  • Annual Inaugural Symposium
  • Program

Program

Thursday, May 01

8:30 am

9:00 am

Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am

9:30 am

Welcome Remarks

Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

Yasaman Ghasempour, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

Kaushik Sengupta, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

9:30 am

10:00 am

Keynote 1:

Thierry Klein, President, Bell Labs Solutions Research Nokia Bell Labs

10:00 am

10:30 am

Keynote 2: Recent US Spectrum Policy Developments

Ari Fitzgerald, Partner, Hogan Lovells

10:30 am

10:45 am

Coffee Break

10:45 am

11:45 am

Panel 1: NextG Policy and Technology Frontiers

Ed Knapp, CTO, American Tower Corporation

Mischa Dohler, Professor Mischa Dohler
VP Emerging Technologies, Ericsson Inc.

Giampaolo Tardioli, Vice President, Keysight

Anton Monk, SVP Strategy, Cohere

Mihir Kshirsagar, Tech Policy Clinic Lead, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

11:45 am

1:45 pm

Lunch and Student Poster Session

1:50 pm

2:10 pm

Faculty flash talk (NextG grant winner):

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Niraj Jha, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

2:10 pm

2:30 pm

Faculty flash talk (NextG grant winner): Invisible Robots in AR: Connected Intelligence in Shared Space

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Mohamed Kari, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Computer Science

2:30 pm

2:50 pm

Faculty flash talk:

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Pramod Viswanath, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

2:50 pm

3:20 pm

Keynote 3: Key 6G Technologies to Enable Differentiated User Experience

Doru Calin, AVP, Head of U.S. 6G Wireless Research Center, MediaTek

3:20 pm

3:45 pm

Coffee Break

3:45 pm

4:15 pm

Fireside Chat

Erwin Gianchandani, Assistant Director for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, National Science Foundation

4:15 pm

5:15 pm

Panel 2: How will AI impact 6G?

Chris Ng, Director, Systems Engineering, JMA Wireless

Charles Boyd, Managing Director of Innovation, Verizon

Ozge Koymen, Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm

Udayan Mukherjee, Senior Fellow, Intel Corporation

Emad Farag, Principle Engineer, Samsung Research America

5:15 pm

5:30 pm

Closing Remarks & Awards

5:30 pm

6:30 pm

Reception & Optional Lab Tours

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