Gil Zussman

Gil Zussman’s research interests are in the area of networking, with a particular focus on wireless, mobile, and resilient networks. As one of the Columbia Engineering leads on the $22 million, NSF-funded COSMOS 5G research test-bed, Zussman is working with his counterparts at Rutgers University and NYU Tandon School of Engineering to build a set of wireless networks for US researchers to test new ways of boosting internet speed to support data-intensive applications in robotics, immersive virtual reality, and traffic safety.

Zussman joined the Department of Electrical Engineering faculty in 2008 and is a professor. He has been an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and Ad Hoc Networks, the Technical Program Committee (TPC) co-chair of ACM MobiHoc'15, IFIP Performance 2011, and a member of a number of TPCs (including the INFOCOM, MobiCom, SIGMETRICS, and MobiHoc committees).

Zussman has received the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) award for distinguished students, the Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship, the Fulbright Fellowship, the DTRA Young Investigator Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He was the PI of a team that won the 1st place in the 2009 Vodafone Foundation Wireless Innovation Project competition, and is a co-recipient of seven best paper awards, including the ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance’06 Best Paper Award, the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication, and the ACM CoNext'16 Best Paper Award

He received the B.Sc. degree in industrial engineering and management and the B.A. degree in Economics (both summa cum laude) from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1995. He received the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in operations research from Tel-Aviv University in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2004. From 1995 to 1998, he served as an engineer in the Israel Defense Forces. He was a postdoctoral associate in LIDS and CNRG at MIT. from 2004 to 2007.