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The Wireless Institute (WI) is a research center within the prestigious College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. The Wireless Institute was established in January 2010 to leverage Notre Dame’s extensive experience, tackle important interdisciplinary problems involving both radio technologies and spectrum policy, and broaden the University’s impact on the world. WI engages faculty from the departments of electrical engineering, computer science, and engineering, sociology, law, and finance. WI created the first NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) program at Notre Dame and now leads the NSF Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SII) Center.

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NSF SpectrumX Wins Multiple IEEE DySPAN 2025 Best Paper Awards
At this year’s Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (IEEE DySPAN) event, research partners from SpectrumX, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Spectrum Innovation Center, were honored to receive both Best Paper Awards and a Best Paper Runner-Up Award.
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Open Postdoctoral Researcher Role to Support NSF SpectrumX, ND Wireless Institute

On Monday, May 12, the University of Notre Dame opened a Postdoctoral Researcher Associate role in the Electrical Engineering Department. This role will support both SpectrumX, the NSF Spectrum Innovation […]

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Notre Dame researchers, led by NSF SpectrumX research partner, develop new, ultra-power-efficient 5G antenna
Globally, two billion people use fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks. But the rollout of 5G technology has also come with a steep energy cost.
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Summer 2025 undergraduate student research opportunity deadline February 28
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) SpectrumX is excited to invite undergraduate students interested in wireless and radio frequency research to participate in its Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU+) program this summer.
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Policy Comments and Congressional Testimonies

NSF SpectrumX actively encourages and supports its members to contribute to regulatory and policy proceedings on radio spectrum issues. Center members submit policy comments and testify at congressional hearings to […]

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M. I. Rochman, W. Ye, Z. -L. Zhang and M. Ghosh, "A Comprehensive Real-World Evaluation of 5G Improvements over 4G in Low-and Mid-Bands," in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, doi: 10.1109/TCCN.2025.3558062.

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April 4, 2025

M. Ghosh, "New Regulatory Activities for Sharing in the 3.1–3.45 GHz and 7.125–8.4 GHz Frequency Bands," in IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 14-15, February 2025, doi: 10.1109/MWC.2025.10872770.

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February 4, 2025

Nasiri, H., Tusha, S., Rochman, M. I., & Ghosh, M. (2024, December). Data Driven Environment Classification Using Wireless Signals. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (pp. 1906-1913).

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