![Igor Kadota](https://sites.northwestern.edu/kadota/files/2023/08/igor_photo-1-225x300.jpg)
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.
![Research:](https://sites.northwestern.edu/kadota/files/2023/08/ACM_Sigmetrics_2023_photo-e1691793826690-360x200.jpg)
Research:
– Optimizing Information Freshness– Resource Allocation in Drone Networks
– Adaptive Config of Integrated Circuits
– Millimeter-Wave Networks and Systems
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Honors and Awards:
– Research Awards– Teaching and Mentoring Awards
– DEI Awards
– Presentation Awards
![Demo at the TSC’s STEAM Expo](https://sites.northwestern.edu/kadota/files/2023/08/TSC_Expo-360x200.jpg)
Service:
– Organizing Committee Member– Technical Program Committee Member
– Outreach
Academic Background
Recent News:
- Oct 2024: co-organizing (together with Prof. Ahmed Arafa) a Special Session on Semantics and Age of Information at Asilomar Conference 2024 to be held at Pacific Grove, CA. Please consider attending!
- Aug 2024: our paper on Spectrum Sharing Markets has been accepted to WiOpt.
- Aug 2024: our invited review paper on Full Duplex technology appeared in the Proceedings of the IEEE.
- May 2024: our paper on 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 Prof. 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]
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- 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]
![Latine Fellows](https://sites.northwestern.edu/kadota/files/2023/08/LATinE-banner.jpg)
- 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!
![NSF](https://sites.northwestern.edu/kadota/files/2023/08/nsf-news.jpg)
- 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