Data Science Institute (DSI) affiliate Ioannis (John) Kymissis and member Gil Zussman have been selected as IEEE Fellows.

IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE Fellow is a prestigious distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments have contributed to the advancement or application of engineering, science, and technology.

Kymissis is Kenneth Brayer Professor and chair of electrical engineering at Columbia Engineering. His work focuses on the processing, integration, and application of thin-film electronics. He is active in a number of areas, including the use of piezoelectric polymers as pressure sensors, microphones, and energy harvesting elements; the use of printing to create new devices for the classification of chemicals and radiation detection; the use of piezoelectric thin films co-integrated with high performance electronics to create new devices for radio frequency filtering, vapor sensing, and detection of infrared radiation; and the development of new backplanes and integration strategies for OLED, QDLED, and microLED displays. Kymissis is an affiliated member of DSI’s Sense, Collect and Move Data center and serves on the Smart Cities committee.

Zussman is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science (affiliated) and vice chair of electrical engineering at Columbia Engineering. His research focuses on wireless, mobile, and resilient networks, and his group has made theoretical contributions in the areas of distributed throughput optimization, cross-layer network optimization, and optical network and power grid resilience to cyber-physical attacks. He developed and demonstrated algorithms and systems that deal with the unique characteristics of the communications hardware, the physical environment, and higher layer applications, including video streaming and virtual reality. Zussman is the Columbia principal investigator of the National Science Foundation Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research COSMOS testbed that is being deployed in West Harlem to support experimentation with beyond-5G wireless, optical, and edge-cloud networks. He serves on DSI’s executive committee and is an affiliated member of the Foundations of Data Science, Sense, Collect and Move Data, and Smart Cities centers.

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