Nirwan Ansari

Distinguished Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D.; Purdue University-Main Campus; Electrical Engineering; 1988
M.S.; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Electrical Engineering; 1983
B.S.; New Jersey Institute of Technology; 1982
ECE 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
ECE 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
ECE 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
ECE 790A - DOCTRL DISSRTN & RESEARCH
ECE 231 - CIRCUITS & SYSTEMS I
ECE 231 - CIRCUITS & SYSTEMS I - HONORS
ECE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
ECE 417 - ELECT AND COMP ENGR PROJ II
ECE 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
ECE 231: CIRCUITS & SYSTEMS I - HONORS
ECE 231: CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I
ECE 291: ELECTRICAL ENGR LAB I
ECE 636: COMPUTER NETWORKING LABORATORY
ECE 639: PRINCIPLES OF BROADBAND NETWORK
ECE 639: PRINCPL OF BRADBND NEWTWRKS
ECE 788: SELECTED TOPICS IN ECE
ECE 788: SELECTED TOPICS IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
ECE 788: ST: ADV TOPICS IN BROADBAND NE
ECE 788: ST: ADVANCED TOPICS IN BROADBAND NETWORKS
Rail Transit Communication Method and System (US Patent Number 11252630)
Jiujia Yin, Xilong Liu, Nirwan Ansari, Kun Yue. 2026. "Attention-Enhanced BiLSTM Network for Accurate Channel Estimation in High-Mobility OTFS Communications." IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 15, pp. 1529-1533.
Yves Fidele Aikoun, Gordon Owusu Boateng, Zhaolin Wang, Haonan Si, Xiansheng Guo, Nirwan Ansari. 2026. "Clutter-Aware Waveform Design for Multi-Cell Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 25, pp. 21783-21798.
Xinhao Liu, Yu Wang, Xiansheng Guo, Gordon Owusu Boateng, Yu Cao, Haonan Si, Xingchen Guo, Nirwan Ansari. 2026. "ParkingTwin: Training-free streaming 3D reconstruction for parking-lot digital twins." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 240, pp. 114-129.
Yu Wang, Xinhao Liu, Xiansheng Guo, Haonan Si, Nirwan Ansari. 2026. "O-VIP: A High-Level Semantic Map Construction Method via OSM–Visual–Inertial Fusion for Multivehicle Cooperative AVP." IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 13, no. 17, pp. 40592-40608.
Raj Adhikari, Tao Han, Nirwan Ansari. 2026. "Toward Communication-Efficient Data Transmission for Autonomous Driving Systems: Techniques, Challenges, and Trends." IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 92-98.
Mingrui Yin, Tao Han, Nirwan Ansari. 2026. "Will GenAI and World Models Give the Metaverse a Second Life?." GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 5-10.
"A Farewell Message From the Editor-in-Chief"
IEEE Wireless Communications, June, 2026.
"Intelligent, Adaptive, and Practical Next-Generation Wireless Networks: From Low-Altitude Systems and Movable Antennas to AI-Driven Solutions"
IEEE Wireless Communications, February, 2026.
"Architecting 6G: From Holographic Metasurfaces to AI-Driven Wireless Systems"
IEEE Wireless Communications, August, 2025.
"ENERGY-BASED GENERATIVE MODELS WITH MORPHOLOGICAL ATTENTION NETWORKS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION: A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK"
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), August, 2025.
"Guest Editorial: Special Section on Cyber-Physical Social Systems—Integrating Human into Computing"
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2020.
"Green/Energy‐Efficient Design for <scp>D2D</scp>"
Wiley, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2019.
"ImmersiveSlicing: An O-RAN Cross-Layer Reinforcement Learning Framework for Low-Latency Immersive Applications"
ACM, December, 2025.
"Edge-Cloud Collaborative Privacy-Preserving Motion-Based Authentication for XR Systems"
IEEE, November, 2025.
"AI/ML-Based Sensing-Assisted Energy-Efficient Communications in Next-Gen Cellular Networks"
IEEE, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2025.
"Energy-Based Generative Models with Morphological Attention Networks for Hyperspectral Image Classification: a Unified Framework"
IEEE, September, 2025.
"Federated Meta-RL for Network Slicing Aware VNFs Orchestration in 6G Core Networks"
IEEE, June, 2025.
"Multi-UAV-Assisted Green Energy Far-Field Wireless Charging for Large-Scale WRSNs"
IEEE, June, 2024.
Nirwan Ansari, Tao Han. "Green Mobile Networks." Wiley, 2017. ISBN 9781119125105.
Nirwan Ansari, Jingjing Zhang. "Media Access Control and Resource Allocation for Next Generation Passive Optical Networks." 2013. ISBN ISBN-13: 978-1461439387.
Nirwan Ansari, Edwin Hou. "Computational Intelligence for Optimization." Springer US, 1997. ISBN 9781461379072.
Nirwan Ansari, Sui-Hoi Edwin Hou. "Computational intelligence for optimization." 225 pp. Kluwer Academic, 1991. ISBN 978-0792398387.
Ahmed E. Abdulla, Hiroki Nishiyama, Nirwan Ansari, Nei Kato. "Chapter 7: Energy-Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks." In The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks Volume 1: Fundamentals (Habib M. Ammari, ed.), eds., "Signals and Communication Technology," pp. 201-234. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.
Yan Zhang, Nirwan Ansari. "Chapter 12: Green Data Centers." In in Handbook of Green Information and Communication Systems, (M Obaidat, A. Anpalagan, and I. Woungan, ed.), eds., pp. 331-352. Academic Press, 2013.
Mina Taheri, Nirwan Ansari. "Chapter 2: FiWi Networks." In in Intelligent Systems for Optical Networks Design: Advancing Techniques (Y. S. Kavian and Z. Ghassemlooy, eds.), eds., pp. 24-46. IGI Global, 2013.
Mina Taheri, Nirwan Ansari. "FiWi Networks." "Intelligent Systems for Optical Networks Design," pp. 24-46. IGI Global, 2013.
Tao Han, Jingjing Zhang, Nirwan Ansari. "Green Broadband Access Networks." "Handbook of Green Information and Communication Systems," pp. 441-465. Elsevier, 2013.
Yan Zhang, Nirwan Ansari. "Green Data Centers." "Handbook of Green Information and Communication Systems," pp. 331-352. Elsevier, 2013.
"Reducing the Channel Switching Delay in IP-based Multi-channel Streadming"
IEEE COMSOC Multimedia Communications Technical Committee E-Letter, Special Feature on Technology Advances, Vol. 5, No. 5, September 2010, September, 2010.
"On Application Layer Multicast"
Distinguished Position Paper Series, IEEE COMSOC Multimedia Communications Technical Committee E-Letter, September, 2009.
"Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education"
IEEE Communications Society, 2003.
IEEE Access
Editorial Review Board Member, 2019
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
Editor-in-Chief, 2022
The 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics (ICCCBDA 2023)
International Advisory Committee Member, 2022
IEEE Communications Society Educational Services Board
Director, 2020
IEEE Communications Society, Technical and Educational Activities Council
Council Member, 2020
12th International Conference on Sensor Networks (SENSORNETS 2023)
Chairperson, 2022