Huawei Technologies today said it will be joining NYU Wireless as an industrial affiliate sponsor of research. Research on 5G will be one of the main initiatives.
NYU Wireless, launched by the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering in August 2012, has more than 20 faculty members and 100 graduate students from the NYU School of Engineering’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the NYU Langone School of Medicine.
Huawei will explore 5G wireless technologies that could expand network capacity significantly in the near future. Huawei announced in October 2013 that it plans to invest $600 million over the next few years to bring 5G to the marketplace.
“Our work in wireless communications systems, networks, and devices at the higher frequency bands could result in more than a thousand-fold increase in the data capacity for mobile devices in the coming years,” said Theodore (Ted) Rappaport, NYU Wireless director and founder.
Huawei is the eighth major international technology firm to join NYU Wireless as an affiliate sponsor. Each company assigns two members to the research center’s industrial affiliates’ board, ensuring an unusually deep and fruitful working relationship.
Industrial affiliate sponsors gain early access to NYU Wireless research, and often work with students and faculty on directed research projects, and frequently hire NYU School of Engineering students into positions of technical leadership.
Last year, NYU Wireless completed its move into 13,500 square feet of world-class research space on the grounds of the NYU School of Engineering in downtown Brooklyn.
