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2026 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

9:15 am

Welcome Remarks

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

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

9:15 am

9:30 am

Dean Welcome Remarks

Andrew Houck, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science. Anthony H.P. Lee ’79 P11 P14 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

9:30 am

10:00 am

Keynote 1:

Chris Monroe, Professor of ECE and Physics, Duke University; co-Founder and Chief Scientist, IonQ

10:00 am

11:00 am

Panel 1

Ali Khayrallah, Senior Technical Advisor, Ericsson Inc.

Kuntal Chowdhury, AI-RAN and 6G Developer Relations, NVIDIA

Ozge Koymen, Vice President of Technology, Qualcomm

Jinfeng Du, Department Head, Radio Systems USA, Nokia

11:00 am

11:15 am

Coffee Break

11:15 am

12:00 pm

Fireside Chat

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

Arielle Roth, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

12:00 pm

1:30 pm

Lunch and Student Poster Session

1:30 pm

2:30 pm

Panel 2: NextG Policy and Technology Frontiers

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

Ed Knapp, CTO, American Tower Corporation

Ari Fitzgerald, Partner, Hogan Lovells

Mike Schmidt, Distinguished visitor, Princeton’s Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, ex-director of the CHIPS Program Office (CPO) , US Department of Commerce

Rob Soni, Vice President, Radio Access Network (RAN) Technology, AT&T Services, Inc.

2:30 pm

3:15 pm

Faculty Flash Talks

Prateek Mittal, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

Barry P. Rand, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University

Zachary Kincaid, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies-Admissions, Princeton University Computer Science

3:15 pm

3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 pm

4:00 pm

PhD Lightning Talks

Mingkun Zhao, Ph.D. Candidate in Computational Imaging, Princeton University (Cohort 2022)

4:00 pm

5:00 pm

Panel 3: Technology Fabric for NextG

5:00 pm

5:15 pm

Closing Remarks and Poster Session Awards

5:15 pm

6:30 pm

Reception and Optional Lab Demos

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