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2026 Annual Princeton NextG Symposium Program

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Program

Thursday, May 07

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: Quantum x NextG

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

10:00 am

11:00 am

Panel 1: Convergence of Communication, Sensing, and Intelligence in NextG

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

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

Edward Diaz, Senior Director of Network Infrastructure Planning and Standards, Verizon Wireless

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

Moderator Ari Fitzgerald, Partner, Hogan Lovells

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

2:00 pm

Distinguished Lecture

Sanjeev Arora, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University

2:00 pm

3:00 pm

Panel 2: NextG Policy and Technology Frontiers

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

Ed Knapp, Former – 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

Ioannis Broustis, Inventive Science, AT&T

3:00 pm

3:15 pm

Coffee Break

3:15 pm

4:00 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

4:00 pm

5:00 pm

Panel 3: Technology Fabric for NextG

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

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

Alberto Valdes-Garcia, Principal Research Scientist & Manager, IBM Research

Bhushan Asuri, Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm

Emad Farag, Principle Engineer, Samsung Research America

5:00 pm

5:15 pm

Closing Remarks and Poster Session Awards

5:15 pm

6:45 pm

Reception and Optional Lab Demos

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