Service

Organizing Committee

• Co-chair (together with Nivedita Arora, Mahdi Hosseini, and Stephen Xia) of the Northwestern 2024-2025 ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
• 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 / IFIP Performance TPC member in 2024
• IEEE INFOCOM TPC member in 2023 and 2024. Selected as a Distinguished Member in 2023
• WiOpt TPC member in 2021, 2022, and 2023
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) TPC member in 2019 and 2020

Outreach

• 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