Academy Member
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Gil Zussman

Columbia University

Gil Zussman is Kenneth Brayer Professor and chair of electrical engineering at Columbia University. His research interests are in the area of networking, with a particular focus on wireless, mobile, and resilient networks. Among other honors, he has received a Fulbright Fellowship, a Defense Threat Reduction Agency Young Investigator Award, two Marie Curie International Fellowships, and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is a co-recipient of eight best paper awards, and he is the Columbia principal investigator of the NSF COSMOS advanced wireless testbed (about $18 million) and a fellow of the Institution of Electric and Electronic Engineers.

November 2025

Gil Zussman is Kenneth Brayer Professor and chair of electrical engineering at Columbia University. His research interests are in the area of networking, with a particular focus on wireless, mobile, and resilient networks. Among other honors, he has received a Fulbright Fellowship, a Defense Threat Reduction Agency Young Investigator Award, two Marie Curie International Fellowships, and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is a co-recipient of eight best paper awards, and he is the Columbia principal investigator of the NSF COSMOS advanced wireless testbed (about $18 million) and a fellow of the Institution of Electric and Electronic Engineers.

November 2025