Igor Kadota

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern University

Office: Tech M309
E-mail: [surname] [at] northwestern [dot] edu
Links to: Google Scholar, Academic CV, Research Statement, and Teaching Statement.

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Academic Background

- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University, EE, USA
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), LIDS, USA
- B.S., Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA), EE, Brazil

Recruiting

Looking for Ph.D. students to join my research group. If you are interested in communication networks, either from the perspective of mathematical analysis or system implementation, please apply to the ECE department (link here) and mention my name. Please feel free to reach out!

Research

The goal of my research is to contribute to the development of the next-generation wireless communication networks that will bring to reality emerging applications such as the Internet-of-Things, Smart-City Intersections, and Shared Augmented Reality. To that end, my research leverages:
- Rigorous Theory. E.g., scheduling algorithms, Lyapunov optimization, and renewal theory
- System Implementation. E.g., software-defined radios, full-duplex systems, and mmWave networks
- ML Application. E.g., multi-armed bandits, regret analysis, and deep learning

News

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• 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! [Photo here -->]
• 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: 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 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, 2023
  • Northeastern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
  • University of Virginia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
  • Northwestern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
  • New York University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
  • Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science, 2023
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, 2023
  
• 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]




• 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]

• 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!

• 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.
• Mar 2022: talk "Wireless Networks for Emerging Time-Sensitive Applications: Theory and Systems" at University of Washington, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Feb 2022: talk "Wireless Networks for Emerging Time-Sensitive Applications: Theory and Systems" at Cornell Tech and Cornell University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Feb 2022: online talk "Wireless Networks for Emerging Time-Sensitive Applications: Theory and Systems" at Columbia University, CS Systems Seminar.
• Feb 2022: online talk "WiFresh: Age-of-Information from Theory to Implementation" at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Morocco , UM6P-CS Research Seminars, hosted by Prof. El Mehdi Amhoud and Prof. Karima Echihabi