Nirwan Ansari
Distinguished Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
343 Electrical and Computer Engineering Center (ECEC)
Education
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

2026 Fall Courses
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

Past Courses
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

ECE 788: ST: ADVANCED TOPICS IN NETWORKING

ECE 788: ST:ADV TOPICS BROADBAND NETWORK

ECE 788: ST:ADV TOPICS BROADBAND NETWORKS

ECE 788: ST:ADV TOPICS BROADBAND NETWRK

ECE 788: ST:ADV TOPICS IN BROADBAND NETWORKS

ECE 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR

Patents
Rail Transit Communication Method and System (US Patent Number 11252630)

Journal Article
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.

Navid Heydarishahreza, Tao Han, Nirwan Ansari. 2026. "Energy-Efficient Link Optimization for RIS-Assisted LEO Satellite Communications in NTN." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , vol. 75 , no. 4 , pp. 6313-6322.

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Other
"Toward Communication-Efficient Data Transmission for Autonomous Driving Systems: Techniques, Challenges, and Trends"
IEEE Communications Magazine, September, 2026.

"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.

"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.

"Recent advances on security and privacy in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs)"
Ad Hoc Networks, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2019.

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Conference Proceeding
"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.

"Federated Learning Aided Deep Convolutional Neural Network Solution for Smart Traffic Management"
2023.

"Federated Learning Aided Deep Convolutional Neural Network Solution for Smart Traffic Management"
IEEE, May, 2023.

"Message from SmartCity 2022 General Chairs"
IEEE, December, 2022.

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Book
Nirwan Ansari, Tao Han. "Green Mobile Networks." John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017. ISBN 9781119125099.

Nirwan Ansari, Jingjing Zhang. "Media Access Control and Resource Allocation." Springer New York, 2013. ISBN 9781461439387.

Nirwan Ansari, Jingjing Zhang. "Media Access Control and Resource Allocation for Next Generation Passive Optical Networks." 2013. ISBN ISBN-13: 978-1461439387.

Nirwan Ansari, Sui-Hoi Edwin Hou. "Computational intelligence for optimization." 225 pp. Kluwer Academic, 1991. ISBN 978-0792398387.

Chapter
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.

Chun-Hao Lo, Nirwan Ansari. "Chapter 4: IEEE 802.15.4 Based Wireless Sensor Network Design for Smart Grid Communications." In in Handbook of Green Information and Communication Systems, (M Obaidat, A. Anpalagan, and I. Woungan, ed.), eds., pp. 91-114. Academic Press, 2013.

Tao Han, Jingjing Zhang, Nirwan Ansari. "“Chapter 17: Green Broadband Access." In in Handbook of Green Information and Communication Systems, (M Obaidat, A. Anpalagan, and I. Woungan, ed.), eds., pp. 441-465. Academic Press, 2013.

Nirwan Ansari, Amey Shevtekar. "Chapter 12: On the New Breed of Denial of Service Attacks in the Internet." In Cyber Infrastructure Protection, Tarek Saadawi and Louis Jordan, eds., pp. 279-305. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011.

Chao Zhang, Edwin Edwin Hou, Nirwan Ansari. "Chapter 6: Node Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks." In J. Zheng and A. Jamalipour , eds., pp. 173-209. Wireless Sensor Networks: A Networking Perspective, Wiley/IEEE Press, 2009.

Newsletter
"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.

Edited Collection
"Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education"
IEEE Communications Society, 2003.

Professional
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

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