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Intel, NEC, Western Digital Join WNCG Industrial Affiliates

May 15, 2018
This Spring, WNCG welcomes Intel, NEC, and Western Digital as the newest WNCG Industrial Affiliates Program members. All three companies enter as Level 2 members. Since WNCG’s founding, the Industrial Affiliates Program has played a vital role in the group’s success. It facilitates “cooperation and mutual assistance” between WNCG and Affiliate companies. This collaboration between academia and industry embodies the group’s mission to “support research, provide highly relevant education and opportunities, [and] promote technical innovation, imagination and entrepreneurship.”
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Postdoc Javad Ghaderi to join Columbia Faculty

June 30, 2014
WNCG Postdoctoral Associate Javad Ghaderi will join Columbia University this fall as a new tenure-track assistant professor in electrical engineering with a focus on communications and networking. Prof. Ghaderi, who received the offer last year as a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) deferred the offer until 2014 for the opportunity to study as a Postdoctoral Associate with WNCG.