Monisha Ghosh

Monisha Ghosh completed a term as the Chief Technology Officer at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on June 14, 2021. In this role she reported to the Chairman of the FCC and was closely involved with setting national strategy and technology specifications related to the explosive growth of broadband wireless communications technologies.

Prof. Ghosh previously served in the NSF as a rotating Program Director (IPA) within the Directorate of Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) where she managed wireless networking research. At the NSF, she initiated one of the first large-scale programs that targets applications of machine learning to wireless networks.

From 2015 to 2021, she also was a Research Professor at the University of Chicago, where she conducted research on wireless technologies for the 5G cellular, next-generation Wi-Fi systems, IoT, coexistence and spectrum sharing. She previously worked in industrial research and development at Interdigital, Philips Research, and Bell Laboratories on wireless systems such as the HDTV broadcast standard, cable standardization, and cognitive radio for the TV White Spaces.

She is a Fellow of the IEEE.

To bolster its commitment to driving innovative spectrum research, SpectrumX, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Spectrum Innovation Center, routinely supports seed projects. NSF SpectrumX seed projects are small-to-moderate projects […]

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.
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) SpectrumX is pleased to announce that IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Innovation (DySPAN) 2025 has accepted multiple papers and tutorials authored by its expert center members.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million, grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a data platform to enable measurements and experiments in the electromagnetic spectrum. These measurements will contribute to academic and industry stakeholders’ research to drive spectrum sharing policy in existing bands, such as 3-4 GHz, as well as potential new bands, such as 7-8 GHz.

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 […]

Obtaining accurate wireless broadband maps is important for a multitude of commercial and scientific reasons, including determining the actual broadband coverage provided by wireless carriers, monitoring the health of broadband […]

The second SpectrumX flagship project will focus on creating models, measurements, and analysis that are relevant to the coexistence of scientific and critical systems with satellite systems and constellations. The […]

The first NSF SpectrumX flagship project focuses on developing a combination of tools, infrastructure, and team capabilities to enable the execution of a series of increasingly complex flagship project experiments. […]