NextG Founding Faculty Leaders
Yasaman Ghasempour
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andrea Goldsmith
Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kaushik Sengupta
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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.
Andrea Goldsmith is the Stephen Harris professor in the School of Engineering and a professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Her pioneering research significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in wireless communication system design, and that work has been recognized with top honors such as the Marconi Prize and election to the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. She co-founded and served as Chief Technical Officer and Board Member of Plume WiFi and of Quantenna Communications (QTNA), and she currently serves on the Board of Directors for Medtronic (MDT) and Crown Castle Inc. (CCI). She has also been affiliated with the technical advisory boards of Quantenna (QTNA), Sequans (SQNS), Interdigital (IDCC) and Cohere.
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.