Kuntal Chowdhury

Kuntal Chowdhury is the 6G developer relations manager and technical evangelist at NVIDIA. In this role, he drives the relationship with the ecosystem of developers and early adopters of platform and tools offered by NVIDIA to foster a thriving research community towards 6G. Prior to this, he was the founder of BlueFusion, Inc., an innovative sensor fusion and AI startup. Most recently, Kuntal was responsible for building products and solutions at Mavenir using cutting-edge big data analytics, AI/ML-based applications for network automation, and Edge AI applications for 5G enterprise and IoT segments. Before that, Mr. Chowdhury co-founded Altiostar, a vRAN pioneer and was an early employee of Starent Networks, a 3GPP network core innovator. He is a telecommunication industry veteran with decades of experience in various roles such as product management, systems engineering, marketing, business development, standards, and strategy. Prior to Mavenir, Mr. Chowdhury held a strategic role at Cisco Systems where he defined and drove Cisco’s mobile internet strategy. He has contributed to leading standards organizations such as 3GPP, WiMAX, and IETF, authoring numerous technical standards. He also held engineering positions at Nortel and Motorola where he led systems engineering and RF optimization for large-scale deployments of cellular networks around the world. Kuntal has over 50 granted patents and many filed patent applications.

Jinfeng Du

Jinfeng received his Bachelor degree from USTC, China, and his Master, Licentiate, and PhD degrees from KTH, Sweden, all in Electrical Engineering. Before joining Bell Labs in NJ, Jinfeng spent two years at MIT as a postdoctoral researcher. Jinfeng’s research interests are in the general area of wireless communications, especially in communication theory, multi-user information theory, radio systems design and evaluation, millimeter wave propagation and channel modeling. Our department in Radio Systems Research Lab is to develop novel, superior, and disruptive technologies for wireless communication and sensing focusing on the physical and medium access layers, radio resource management, and system design. We are devoted to establishing fundamentals as well as to developing game-changing, high-impact technologies and concepts for radio connectivity in an ever-widening range of frequency bands.

Ari Fitzgerald

Ari Fitzgerald provides strategic, legal, and policy advice on a wide range of communications and spectrum policy issues to some of the world’s largest and most dynamic communications network operators and equipment manufacturers, as well as a diverse assortment of industry trade associations and investors. He especially enjoys helping to bring new and innovative communications-related products and services to market. In recognition of his path-breaking contributions to the wireless industry, he is one of only three attorneys to have ever been inducted into the Wireless History Foundation’s Wireless Hall of Fame. Ari had a distinguished career in government before joining Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) as a partner in 2001. He was a legal advisor to former FCC Chairman Bill Kennard, as well as deputy chief of the FCC’s International Bureau. He also worked as a legal advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, where he advised the White House, executive branch agencies, and the U.S. attorney general on constitutional and federal statutory interpretation matters. Ari currently serves on the board of directors of Crown Castle International, a large, publicly owned operator of towers and other communications infrastructure, and on the advisory board of several private technology companies and policy advocacy organizations. He also serves on the board of several nonprofit entities, including the Yale Law School Fund, secretary of the Multicultural Media and Telecommunications Council, and as president of the Duke Ellington Fund. Ari graduated with an A.B. from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in 1984; served as a Henry Luce Scholar in the Philippines from 1984 to 1985 and graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1990.

Yasaman Ghasempour

Yasaman Ghasempour joined Princeton University as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2021. Yasaman is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2022), the 2020 Marconi Young Scholar Award, and the Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Yasaman is listed as one of 10 stars worldwide in Computer Networking and Communications in 2022. Her group received the best paper award in USENIX NSDI 2023 and ACM MobiCom 2023. Yasaman is featured in the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History as a change-making innovator in wireless technology. She received her Ph.D. and master’s degree from Rice University and her bachelor’s degree from the Sharif University of Technology. Yasaman’s PhD Thesis received the ACM SIGMOBILE dissertation award. Her current research focuses on next-generation wireless networks and sensing systems, including novel devices and protocols for millimeter-wave and terahertz wireless networks.

Andrew Houck

Andrew Houck is dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Anthony H.P. Lee ’79 P11 P14 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was the inaugural co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative. Houck, who was valedictorian of Princeton’s undergraduate Class of 2000, earned his Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University, then worked in a prominent quantum physics lab at Yale University before joining the Princeton faculty in 2008. He played a leading role in developing one of the most promising approaches to building a quantum computer and has consulted widely across industry and government to help guide effective strategies for developing quantum technology. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and directed the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage, a federally funded national quantum research center. A highly regarded teacher and mentor, Houck has also been a leader in educational initiatives, spearheading the creation of the University’s first-year engineering curriculum.

Ali Khayrallah

Ali Khayrallah is senior technical advisor with the AdvancedTechnology Group at Ericsson in Santa Clara, CA. He has been with Ericsson invarious research positions, in Santa Clara, CA, where he led a team shaping future wireless technology, and earlier in Research Triangle Park, NC. His current focus is on 6G, and he has contributed to the development of 5G, 4G, 3G, Bluetooth, mobile satellite, land mobile radio etc. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Delaware. He received a Ph.D. and an M.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.Eng. from the American University of Beirut. He holds 120+ patents and received the Ericsson inventor of the year award.

Zachary Kincaid

Zachary Kincaid joined the department in 2016. He received his doctoral and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Toronto, and his bachelor’s degree from Western University. His main research interests are in program analysis, logic, and programming languages. He has active research projects that aim to make program analysis compositional and robust.

Ed Knapp

Ed Knapp is American Tower’s Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for leading the company’s global innovation program, technology investments and strategy. Prior to joining American Tower in 2017, Mr. Knapp served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm. He joined Qualcomm after its acquisition of Flarion Technologies. Prior to that he served as the Chief Technology Officer of PacketVideo Corporation, co-founded NextWave Telecom, Inc. and served as its Chief Technology Officer, and was Executive Director of Technical Services for Bell Atlantic/NYNEX Mobile (Verizon Wireless). Mr. Knapp serves on the Board of Directors of AST SpaceMobile and the Center for Automotive Research, as well as the Rutgers University Industry Advisory Board. Mr. Knapp currently has five granted U.S. patents and one pending application. He earned an M.B.A. from Columbia University, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University (NYU) in New York and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Stony Brook University.

Ozge Koymen

Ozge Koymen is a Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. where he has been since 2006. He has led the 5G/6G millimeter-wave program within Qualcomm R&D since early 2015, from early conceptual evaluation to commercial deployment. His previous areas as a technical contributor includes Wireless Backhaul, Small Cells, LTE-D, LTE and UMB. Prior to Qualcomm, he was a member of Flarion Technologies developing a pioneering OFDMA cellular system,Flash-OFDM, during 2003-2006. His earlier work experience includes full-time and consulting work for Impinj, Inc (2000-2003) and TRW (1996-2000). He received the B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1997 and 2003, respectively.

Mihir Kshirsagar

Mihir Kshirsagar uns CITP’s first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary technology policy clinic that gives students and scholars an opportunity to engage directly in the policy process. Most recently, he served in the New York Attorney General’s Bureau of Internet & Technology as the lead trial counsel in cutting edge matters concerning consumer protection law and technology and obtained one of the largest consumer payouts in the State’s history. Previously, he worked for Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Cahill Gordon Reindel LLP in New York City on a variety of antitrust, securities and commercial disputes involving emerging and traditional industries. Before law school he was a policy analyst at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., educating policy makers about the civil liberties implications of new surveillance technologies. Kshirsagar attended Deep Springs College and received an A.B. from Harvard College in 2000 and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.

Prateek Mittal

I am broadly interested in privacy-preserving and secure systems. My current interests include the domains of privacy enhancing technologies (such as anonymous communications, statistical data privacy), adversarial machine learning, and Internet/network security. My research draws on techniques from data science, network science/complex networks, distributed systems, and applied cryptography.

Chris Monroe

Christopher Monroe is the Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at Duke University. He is also the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of IonQ, Inc., the first public quantum computing company. Monroe has pioneered nearly all aspects of atom-based quantum computers and simulators, from demonstrations of the first quantum gate, monolithic semiconductor-chip ion trap, and photonic interconnects between physically separated qubits; to the design, fabrication, and use of full-stack ion trap quantum computer systems in both university and industrial settings. He is a key architect of the US National Quantum Initiative, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, the UK Institute of Physics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Barry P. Rand

Our research concerns the study of the optical and electrical properties of thin film materials and devices. Films range from molecular to inorganic to nanostructured and quantized materials, while devices are often those such as photovoltaic (solar) cells, photodetectors, transistors, and light emitting devices (LEDs). Our studies rely on deriving a comprehensive understanding of the optical, electronic, and structural properties of the materials and heterogeneous interfaces established within devices to enable future device performance and functionality improvements.

Arielle Roth

Arielle Roth was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information on July 30, 2025. In this role, she serves as Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the Executive Branch agency principally responsible for advising the President on communications, broadband, and internet policy. Prior to joining NTIA, Roth spent nearly a decade shaping federal communications and broadband policy, holding senior roles on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Communications Commission. She most recently served as Policy Director for Telecommunications on the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation under Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX), and previously as Legislative Counsel to former Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO). At the FCC, Roth served as Wireline Legal Advisor to former Commissioner Michael O’Rielly and as Legal Advisor to the Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau. Earlier in her career, she was a Legal Fellow with the Hudson Institute’s Center for the Economics of the Internet. Roth holds degrees from the University of Toronto and McGill University Faculty of Law. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Yaakov, and their six children.

Mike Schmidt

From September 2022 to January 2025, Mike Schmidt served as the inaugural director of the CPO, where he led the implementation of a $39 billion federal initiative to incentivize semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. Under his leadership, the office executed 20 final award agreements totaling $34 billion, unlocking more than $450 billion in total investment in U.S. chip production. Before joining the commerce department, Schmidt led the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s implementation of the expanded Child Tax Credit under the American Rescue Plan, which delivered monthly payments to over 37 million families and lifted more than 3 million children out of poverty. He previously served as commissioner of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, overseeing the state’s tax system and the collection of more than $100 billion in annual revenue; and as deputy secretary for economic development for the State of New York, where he directed policy and operations across 12 state agencies and authorities. Earlier in his career, Schmidt held roles in the Office of Domestic Finance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and as a financial analyst at the Yale Investments Office. He holds a BA in history and a JD, both from Yale University. Schmidt’s current research focuses on developing a principled framework for when industrial policy interventions are justified to advance U.S. national security. Drawing on his experience leading the CPO, he seeks to move beyond ad hoc interventions by clarifying the conditions under which government action is warranted. His goal is to articulate a framework that is both analytically rigorous and practically useful for policymakers. Schmidt also examines how U.S. industrial strategy can align with those of allies and partners to support a more coherent global approach. The Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, which supports policy-related research in the Department of Economics and fosters collaboration among members of the academic, business, and government communities, looks forward to welcoming Schmidt to Princeton. Distinguished visitors such as Schmidt enhance the intellectual and academic life in the Department of Economics through their research and collaboration with faculty and students.

Kaushik Sengupta

Kaushik Sengupta joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, as a Faculty Member, in 2013, where he is currently a Professor. His current research interests include novel chip-scale architectures for intelligent sensing and communication for a wide range of emerging applications. Dr. Sengupta received the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2018, the Bell Labs Prize in 2017, the Young Investigator Program Award from the Office of Naval Research in 2017, the E. Lawrence Keys, Jr. Emerson Electric Co. Junior Faculty Award from the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2018, and the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2018 nominated by the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Council in the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science. He was the recipient of the IIT Kharagpur Prime Minister Gold Medal Award, inaugural Young Alumni Acheivement Award in 2018, and the Caltech Charles Wilts Prize for the best PhD thesis in Electrical Engineering. He is a member of the MTT-21 Committee on Terahertz technology and served as Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society from 2019 to 2020. He is currently serving as Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques from 2021 to 2023. He is a recipient of the 2021 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Outstanding Young Engineer Award and the 2022 IEEE Solid-state Circuits New Frontier Award. He currently serves as the co-chair of the IEEE Solid-state Directions Sub-committee and, and as a technical advisor for the wireless start-up company Guru. based in Pasadena, CA.

Rob Soni

Rob is responsible for all aspects of AT&T’s RAN architecture and infrastructure technical road maps for hardware and software, including baseband units, radios, antennas and all ancillary components. In addition, his team oversees certification and development for RAN hardware, software and features. This team drives our strategy and contributions to global standards and to technical industry and government organizations. Prior to joining AT&T, he led RAN architecture at VMware, overseeing their cloud platform infrastructure technology, including product definition and portfolio strategy. Rob also held technical roles with Nokia Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, and Lucent driving architecture, innovation and strategy for their entire wireless portfolio with a more recent particular focus on cloud RAN and 5G. Through his many key roles on the product side driving cellular infrastructure, Rob has driven large teams and small teams to provide innovative solutions that have reached significant market penetration across 3G, 4G, and 5G networks in several large wireless operators around the world. He has supported and developed technologies that significantly improved performance, increased resiliency, significantly decreased power consumption and reduced total cost of ownership. Rob holds a doctorate and master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor’s in science in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and three children.

Mingkun Zhao