Ruth Gebremedhin, 2025

Young Scholar Award recipient

"The award gives me a platform to share my work and collaborate with researchers who build hardware and design algorithms. I am excited to learn from fellow scholars and mentors who have experience with the full path from modelling to deployment. The award also gives me the opportunity to connect with the wider signal processing community. I want to work on projects that use wireless for good, especially in low bandwidth and resource constrained settings. I am grateful for the recognition and ready to contribute."
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Ruth Gebremedhin, 2025

Research Area

Physics-based channel modeling, specifically thermal conduction for communication and near-field MIMO using plane-wave spectrum methods.

Current Position

PhD Electrical Engineering Candidate

Education

  • New York University Brooklyn, NY
    • PhD Electrical Engineering
  • New York University Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • BS Electrical Engineering and Minor in Computer Science

Young Scholar Research

Ruth builds physics-based models of wireless communication that start from first principles. She turns these models into simpler rules of thumb and simulation tools that wireless system designers can use. She explores a thermal communication medium that uses controlled changes in temperature for places where radio waves struggle, like inside chips. She focuses on bridging rigorous theory to system-level impact, so the math maps to capacity, energy use, and reliability. Ruth also studies how wireless communication physically behaves when devices are close, and the usual assumptions of far-away antennas don’t hold. In this near regime, we can focus signals to serve each user separately, similar to a camera lens.

Other Honors

  • 2024 Panelist: Brooklyn 6G Summit, 6G Graduate Students Panel moderated by Peter Vetter
  • 2024 Outstanding Innovation Award: Nokia Bell Labs Internship
  • 2024 Tandon ECE Student Travel Grant: EuCAP 2024
  • 2022 Best Paper Award: IEEE Global Communications (GLOBECOM) 2022 Conference
  • 2022 Outstanding Innovation Award: Nokia Bell Labs Internship
  • 2022 Winner of Mozilla’s Common Voice for Low-bandwidth Challenge: Mozilla and NVIDIA
  • 2020-2023 School of Engineering (SoE) Fellowship NYU Tandon School of Engineering
  • 2016-2020 Full Scholarship New York University Abu Dhabi