Service

Organizing Committee

• Poster and Demo co-chair (together with Tingjun Chen) for ACM MobiHoc 2026.
• Co-TPC chair (together with Yoshiaki Inoue) of the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 Workshop on Age and Semantics of Information (ASoI).
• Co-chair (together with Nivedita Arora, Mahdi Hosseini, and Stephen Xia) of the Northwestern 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 ECE Seminar Series
  Hosted Speakers:
• Avrim Blum (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), Spring 2026 (upcoming)
• Ness B. Shroff (Ohio State University), Spring 2026 (upcoming)
• Pai-Yen Chen (University of Illinois Chicago), Winter 2026 (upcoming)
• Rajkumar Kettimuthu (Argonne National Laboratory), Winter 2026 (upcoming)
• Edward Hartley Sargent (Northwestern), Winter 2026 (upcoming)
• Ermin Wei (Northwestern), Winter 2026 (upcoming)
• Yiping Lu (Northwestern), Fall 2025
• Christopher G. Brinton (Purdue), Fall 2025
• Kevin M Lynch (Northwestern), Spring 2025
• Pete Beckman (Argonne National Laboratory), Spring 2025
• Arthur Noronha Montanari (Northwestern), Fall 2024
• Hulya Seferoglu (University of Illinois Chicago), Fall 2024
• Izzy Grosof (Northwestern), Fall 2024
• Co-chair (together with Ahmed Arafa) of the Asilomar Conference 2024 Special Session on Semantics and Age of Information
  Invited Papers:
• “Timely Inference with Memory at the Receiver” by Sirin Chakraborty and Yin Sun (Auburn University)
• “Timely and Energy-Efficient Multi-Step Update Processing” by Vishakha Ramani, Ivan Seskar, and Roy Yates (WINLAB, Rutgers University)
• “Symbolic Logic and Category Theory for Reasoning-Enabled Semantic Communications” by Christo Thomas and Walid Saad (Virginia Tech)
• “Second-Order Analysis of CSMA Protocols for Age-of-Information Minimization” by Siqi Fan and I-Hong Hou (Texas A&M University)
• Co-chair (together with Ermin Wei) of the IFIP Performance 2023 Workshop on Decision-making in Networked Systems (DeNetS)
  Invited Speakers:
• 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)
• Co-chair, MIT LIDS Student Conference 2018
  Invited Speakers:
• Francesco Borrelli (University of California, Berkeley)
• Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley)
• Nancy A. Lynch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Gilbert Strang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

• ACM Sigmetrics TPC member in 2024, 2025 and 2026
• IEEE INFOCOM TPC member in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. Selected as a Distinguished Member in 2023
• ACM MobiHoc TPC member in 2025 and 2026
• WiOpt TPC member in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2026
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) TPC member in 2019 and 2020

Outreach

• Class visit to Lindblom Math & Science Academy in Chicago, hosted by the Baxter Center for Science Education, Oct. 2024
• Faculty volunteer at the Chicagoland Diverse STEM Postdoc Recruitment Initiative, Oct 2024.
• Guest talk at the RF Talk Series hosted by the Rose Tech Radio Club from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Talk was entitled Do You Know How Your Phone Works? Principles of 5G Communication, Sept 2024.
• Panelist in the Career Day at Poliedro Colégio in Brazil, Apr 2024.
• Co-Mentored (together with Randall Berry) four high-school students from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Spring 2023 and Winter 2024.
  • A paper entitled “Evaluation of Spectrum Sharing Algorithms for Networks with Heterogeneous Wireless Devices” with the students was published in IEEE VCC, 2024.
  • Ankit received the Best Poster Award at the Illinois Junior Science and Humanities Symposium 2024
• Guest speaker at the podcast Desmoca o Bizu [in Portuguese] invited by ITA CEE to discuss the US Academic Career with Brazilian students, Aug 2023
• Member of the NSF PAWR COSMOS outreach team, Sept 2021 – July 2023:
  • Hosted 20+ Hamilton Grange middle school students in a visit to the NSF PAWR COSMOS city-scale wireless testbed, June 2023
  • Demonstration at the TSC’s STEAM Expo introducing wireless communications concepts to K-12 students, May 2023 [Picture –>]
  • Class visit to Columbia Secondary School in West Harlem, NYC, as part of the NSF COSMOS-NewLAW Research Experience and Mentoring for Teachers (REM/RET) program, Dec 2022
  • Panelist in the Career Day at Columbia Secondary School, NYC, May 2022
  • Class visit to Beacon High School, NYC, as part of the NSF COSMOS-NewLAW Research Experience and Mentoring for Teachers (REM/RET) program, Dec 2021
• Panelist in the event PhD 101, July 2020
• Panel Moderator for the Career Panel during the 2018 MIT LIDS Student Conference, Feb 2018