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Igor Kadota
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern University

Affiliations:
– Communications and Networking Lab
– SpectrumX
– Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy

Links to Google Scholar and Academic CV.

Recent News:

• Dec 2024: our paper entitled “Optimizing Age of Information without Knowing the Age of Information” has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2025.
• Oct 2024: best student paper award at WiOpt 2024 for our paper entitled “Impact of Geographical Separation on Spectrum Sharing Markets“. Congratulations to Kangle Mu and Zongyun Xie!
• Oct 2024: our paper on Spectrum Sharing Algorithms has been accepted to IEEE VCC. This is joint work with Randall Berry and four high-school students (Ankit, Aidan, Colin, and Eduardo) from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA)
• Oct 2024: co-organized (together with Ahmed Arafa) a Special Session on Semantics and Age of Information at Asilomar Conference 2024 held at Pacific Grove, CA.
• Oct 2024: elevated to Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• Sept 2024: invited talk “Do You Know How Your Phone Works? Principles of 5G Communication” at the RF Talk Series hosted by the Rose Tech Radio Club from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

• Aug 2024: our paper on Spectrum Sharing Markets has been accepted to WiOpt.
• Aug 2024: our invited paper on Full Duplex technology appeared in the Proceedings of the IEEE and was featured in the Columbia University news article Researchers Break New Ground in Full-Duplex Wireless Systems .
• May 2024: our paper on Automating Spectrum Sharing appeared in TPRC.
• Apr 2024: served as a panelist in the Career Day at Poliedro Colégio in SJC, Brazil.
• Mar 2024: our poster on Economic and Market Design Challenges of Spectrum Sharing has been accepted to IEEE DySPAN.
• Jan 2024: our paper on Outdoor-to-Indoor mmWave Wireless Measurements has been accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET).
• Dec 2023: our paper on Wideband Self-Interference Cancellation for Full-Duplex Systems has been accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC).
• Nov 2023: invited talk “WiSwarm at the Edge: Wireless Networking for Collaborative Teams of UAVs” at IFIP Performance Workshop on Intelligent Edge Computing for Data-Rich Applications.
• Nov 2023: co-organizing (together with Ermin Wei) a workshop on Decision-making in Networked Systems (DeNetS) at IFIP Performance 2023 to be held at Northwestern University, Chicago campus. Invited speakers below. Please consider attending!
  • Steven H. Low (Caltech)
  • Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California)
  • Guannan Qu (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Alejandro Ribeiro (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Sanjay Shakkottai (The University of Texas at Austin)
  • Vijay G. Subramanian (University of Michigan)
• Sept 2023: Alon Levin (Columbia University) and co-authors received the 1st place award in the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Student Research Competition (SRC) for their demo “Experimentation with Wideband Real-Time Adaptive Full-Duplex Radios“, which is joint work with Prof. Igor Kadota, Prof. Gil Zussman (Columbia), Prof. Mingoo Seok (Columbia), and Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy (Columbia).

• Aug 2023: grateful to the National Science Foundation for supporting our research on “Bridging the techno-economic gap for the design of spectrum Zone Management Systems” with an NSF SII-NRDZ-SBE grant.
• July 2023: serving on the TPC of ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance 2024. Please consider submitting your best work!
• June 2023: presented our paper entitled Switching in the Rain: Predictive Wireless x-haul Network Reconfiguration at ACM SIGMETRICS. Grateful to collaborators at Columbia University and Tel Aviv University. Thanks Ericsson for the dataset!
• June 2023: the COSMOS outreach team hosted 20+ Hamilton Grange middle school students in a visit to the NSF PAWR COSMOS testbed.
• May 2023: volunteered at the TSC’s STEAM Expo, demonstrating wireless communications concepts to K-12 students.
• May 2023: serving as a Session Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2023 in the millimeter-wave session.
• April 2023: serving on the TPC of IEEE INFOCOM 2024. Please consider submitting your best work!
• April 2023: selected as a Distinguished Member of the 2023 INFOCOM TPC.
• Mar 2023: our work was featured in the MIT News article New “traffic cop” algorithm helps a drone swarm stay on task
• Mar 2023: our paper on Frequency-Domain-Equalization-based Full-Duplex Receiver with Passive-Frequency-Shifting N-Path Filters has been accepted to IEEE RFIC 2023.
• Jan, Feb, and Mar 2023: Invited talk “Wireless Networks for Future Applications: from Networks of Drones to Adaptive Control of Integrated Circuits” at:
  • University of California Los Angeles, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
  • Northeastern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • University of Virginia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Northwestern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • New York University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering

  

• Dec 2022: grateful to the National Science Foundation for supporting our research on “Spectrum Sharing via Consumption Models and Telemetry – Prototyping and Field Testing in an Urban FCC Innovation Zone” with an NSF SII-NRDZ grant. WiMNet news item here.
• Dec 2022: our paper on Time-Sensitive Wireless Networking for Collaborative Teams of UAVs has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2023. Video with UAV flight tests below. [Acceptance rate 19.2%] [link to the paper here]

• Dec 2022: talk “Spectrum Sharing via Consumption Models” at Rutgers University, WINLAB Research Review.
• Dec 2022: our paper on Large-Scale Dynamic Spectrum Access using SCMs has been accepted to IEEE WCNC 2023.
• Oct 2022: our paper on Predictive Weather-Aware Rerouting and Admission Control for mmWave x-haul Networks has been accepted to ACM SIGMETRICS 2023. [Acceptance rate 18.3%] [link to the paper here]

• July 2022: selected as a member of the 2022 cohort of LATinE Trailblazers in Engineering Fellows by Purdue’s College of Engineering. Columbia University news item here.
• July 2022: our paper on Outdoor-to-Indoor mmWave Wireless Measurements has been accepted to ACM MobiHoc 2022. [Acceptance rate 19.8%] [link to the paper here]
• May 2022: served as a panelist in the Career Day at Columbia Secondary School.
• April 2022: serving on the TPC of IEEE INFOCOM 2023. Please consider submitting your best work!

• April 2022: grateful to the National Science Foundation for supporting our research on “Enabling Wireless Edge-cloud Services via Autonomous Resource Allocation and Robust Physical Layer Technologies” with an NSF-RINGS grant. WiMNet news item here.
• Feb and Mar 2022: Invited talk “Wireless Networks for Emerging Time-Sensitive Applications: Theory and Systems” at:
  • University of Washington, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Cornell Tech and Cornell University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Columbia University, CS Systems Seminar