Yasaman Ghasempour is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. and master’s degree from Rice University and her bachelor’s degree from Sharif University of Technology. Yasaman is the recipient of the 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2026 Zhenyi Wang Prize, the 2024 Princeton Early-Career Faculty Award, the 2024 AFOSR YIP Award, the 2022 NSF CAREER Award, the 2020 Marconi Young Scholar Award, and the Excellence in Teaching Award from Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (two times). Yasaman is listed as one of 10 rising stars worldwide in Computer Networking and Communications in 2022. has been named as one of the nation’s brightest young engineers by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to take part in the NAE’s annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Her group received several Best Paper Awards, including at USENIX NSDI, ACM MobiCom, ACM Sensys, and IEEE WCNC. Yasaman is the co-director of Princeton NextG industry affiliates program. She serves on the TPC of several ACM and IEEE conferences and is on the editorial board of Nature Communications Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, IEEE Communications Magazine, and Springer Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves. Yasaman is featured in the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History as a change-making innovator in wireless technology. Her research is focused on next-generation wireless networks and sensing systems, including novel devices and protocols for millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz wireless systems.

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.