Workshop: Escaping Gravity: The End of Gs | Spectrum Innovations Initiative | Jan 7 to 8

The Ohio State University is leading national collaborative efforts to set the research agenda over the next decade when it comes to wireless spectrum innovations.

Supported by the National Science Foundation, the planning efforts includes eight research universities taking part in a two-day workshop bringing government, federal and state entities, industry and academia stakeholders for exchange of ideas.

Leading the effort is Aylin Yener, Ohio State Roy and Lois Chope Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). She said the overall initiative “Escaping Gravity: The End of Gs,” aims to design the next generation wireless systems with equitable spectrum use and access. It involves an ambitious research agenda complemented by education and workforce development efforts.

The interdisciplinary team involves researchers from diverse disciplines of circuits research to policy and ethics from Ohio State, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of California Berkeley, Boston University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California San Diego, and University of Florida, and has expanded significantly since the planning effort started approximately six months ago.

“I’m looking forward to our collaboration. This will be a decade worth of efforts to address a multi-faceted technology problem," Yener said. "It needs expertise from devices and antennas, communications and networking design, and network economics. As is the case for all grand challenges, it also has a human interaction component, and a significant expected broader impact on society at large. Wireless connectivity is nowhere it needs to be yet for our societal needs (especially now), and our collective research vision aims to make that happen.”

Ohio State collaborative faculty involved includes Computer Science and Engineering Chair Anish Arora, ECE Professor Eylem Ekici, ECE Chair Hesham El Gamal, Civil Environmental and Geodetic Engineering Professor Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska; Law Professor and Director of the Program on Data and Governance, Dennis Hirsch; ECE Professor Joel Johnson; Integrated Systems and ECE Professor Parinaz Naghizadeh; ECE Professor Lee Potter; ElectroScience Laboratory Director Dick Ridgway; and ECE Professor Ness Shroff.

Find details on the planning workshop at: https://go.osu.edu/escaping-gravity.