Senior academic leaders at NYU Tandon earn prestigious honors in their fields
Three Tandon faculty were recognized by ASCE and IEEE for vital contributions in civil engineering education, hardware security, and wireless technology.
Magued Iskander receives inaugural educator’s award from the American Society of Civil Engineers
Professor Magued Iskander, Chair of NYU Tandon’s Department of Civil and Urban Engineering, is known throughout the civil engineering world for his (literally) groundbreaking research on piles, which are driven into the Earth to support skyscrapers and other structures with deep foundations, and for his development of transparent soil surrogates, invaluable in studying soil-structure interactions.
While his work in the lab has attracted numerous accolades, it is his dedication to teaching and mentorship that earned him his latest honor.
This month, Iskander, the Chair of NYU Tandon’s Department of Civil and Urban Engineering, was presented with the inaugural American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Metropolitan Section Educator of the Year Award.
NYU Tandon Professor Ramesh Karri inducted into IEEE HOST Hall of Fame
Professor Ramesh Karri, chair of NYU Tandon’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been named to the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Hall of Fame. The honor recognizes Karri’s broader impact on the field of hardware security.
HOST is the premier annual conference focused on hardware-based security research and development. Since 2008, it has served as the globally recognized event for advancing knowledge and technologies related to hardware security and assurance.
Karri has spent more than two decades studying how to secure the physical foundations of modern computing systems. His research has shaped approaches to safeguarding integrated circuits, processors, and cyber-physical systems, and has explored emerging challenges in areas such as biochip and additive manufacturing security. He is an IEEE Fellow and the author of over 350 peer-reviewed publications, with multiple best-paper awards from leading conferences, including the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security and IEEE events.
NYU WIRELESS Director Thomas Marzetta receives the 2025 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for outstanding contributions to communications technology
The IEEE Board of Directors selected Distinguished Industry Professor and NYU WIRELESS Director Tom Marzetta to receive the 2025 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for outstanding contributions to communications technology. The award recognizes his role in originating Massive MIMO technology in wireless communications.
Marzetta’s most recent recognition follows a series of achievements acknowledging his seminal work to prove the ability of numerous small, individually controlled, low-power antennas to direct streams of information, selectively and simultaneously, to many users. Massive MIMO is the most spectrally efficient wireless technology yet devised. It provides high-quality service throughout the cell, simplicity and scalability, and outstanding radiated energy efficiency. His other recent awards include the 2024 IEEE Communications Society Radio Communications Committee Technical Recognition Award, 2023 IEEE SPS Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award, the 2022 Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing (SIGMOBILE) “Test of Time” award, and his election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
