IGOR KADOTA
I am a PhD candidate at MIT in LIDS, advised by Prof. Eytan Modiano. My research aims to establish the theoretical foundations for modern communication networks, and leverage them towards the design of practical systems tailored to the needs of emerging data-driven applications such as shared augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, smart factories and distributed SGD. Towards this goal, I draw from the fields of stochastic control, mathematical optimization, machine learning, and network algorithms to develop theoretical solutions with provable performance guarantees. Then, I use programmable radios and computing platforms (figure below) to deploy my solutions and demonstrate their impact in real operating scenarios.
Here you can find additional information: Publications, Teaching, Talks and Service.
Awards and Honors
- Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2018 for our paper entitled Optimizing Age of Information in Wireless Networks with Throughput Constraints.
- Pictures of the Ceremony and of the Award Plaque.
- Announcement in LIDS News.
- Best Paper Award Finalist at ACM MobiHoc 2019 for our paper entitled Minimizing the Age of Information in Wireless Networks with Stochastic Arrivals.
- Thomas G. Stockham Jr. Fellowship of 2019-2020 - given annually to a graduate student in "recognition of outstanding academic record, exceptional background, and promising future".
- AeroAstro Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award of 2018 - given annually to a graduate student "who has demonstrated conspicuous dedication and skill in helping fulfill a subject's educational objectives".
- Pictures of the Ceremony (photo 1 and photo 2) and of the Award.
- Spotlight at the MIT Teaching & Learning Lab.
- Announcement in LIDS News.
- Best Presentation Awards at the:
- 2020 MIT LIDS Student Conference with the talk WiFresh: Age-of-Information from Theory to Implementation
- 2017 MIT LIDS Student Conference with the talk Minimizing Age of Information in Broadcast Wireless Networks.
- Best Senior Thesis of the Department of Electronic Engineering of ITA in 2010 for our work entitled Throughput and Jitter Optimization of the IEEE 802.11 DCF Standard (Wi-Fi).
- MIT News article "Keeping Data Fresh for Wireless Networks" featuring our research on information freshness. This research was also featured at ACM Technews, Science Daily, Campus Technology and others.
News
- Jan, 2020: talk "WiFresh: Age-of-Information from Theory to Implementation" received the Best Presentation Award at the MIT LIDS Student Conference. Please find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfvWxujud8.
- Dec, 2019: our book entitled Age of Information: A New Metric for Information Freshness has been published
- Dec, 2019: our IEEE TMC paper has been accepted
- Nov, 2019: talk "WiFresh: Age-of-Information from Theory to Implementation" at MIT Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Nov, 2019: talk "WiFresh: Age-of-Information from Theory to Implementation" at MIT LIDS & Stats Tea Talk
- Oct, 2019: talk "WiFresh: Age-of-Information from Theory to Implementation" at Harvard University ISS Seminar, hosted by Prof. Flavio du Pin Calmon
- Oct, 2019: talk "WiFresh: Age-of-Information from Theory to Implementation" at Worcester Polytechnic Institute ECE Graduate Seminar, hosted by Prof. D. Richard Brown
- July, 2019: launch of CNRG's programmable radio lab. Excited about upcoming experiments in the new platform
- July, 2019: Best Paper Award Finalist at ACM MobiHoc 2019
- July, 2019: presented our paper entitled Minimizing the Age of Information in Wireless Networks with Stochastic Arrivals at ACM MobiHoc, Italy
- Mar, 2019: selected by the MIT School of Engineering for the competitive 2019-2020 Thomas G. Stockham Jr. Fellowship
- Mar, 2019: IDSS News article "Three questions with Igor Kadota, LIDS PhD candidate"
- Feb, 2019: TAing the third edition of the radio laboratory for the MIT course 16.36-Communications Systems & Networks
- Jan, 2019: looking for two talented undergraduates for our MIT UROP project entitled "Achieving information freshness in large-scale IoT networks". Welcome to the team Tim and Shahir!
- June, 2018: our work was featured in the MIT News article Keeping Data Fresh for Wireless Networks
- May, 2018: received the annual AeroAstro Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award
- Apr, 2018: presented our paper entitled Optimizing Age of Information in Wireless Networks with Throughput Constraints at IEEE INFOCOM, Hawaii
- Apr, 2018: served as a panelist in the event Recruiting Strategies to Attract MIT Graduate Students and Postdocs organized by MIT GECD
- Mar, 2018: received the Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2018
- Feb, 2018: served as the moderator for the Career Panel in the 2018 LIDS Student Conference at MIT
- Dec, 2017: featured in the annual news magazine [in Portuguese] from Curso Poliedro, the preparatory school in Brazil that was essential for my admission to ITA in 2006
- Dec, 2017: talk "Optimizing Age of Information in Wireless Networks with Throughput Constraints" at Carnegie Mellon University, SQUALL Seminar, hosted by Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter
