
Igor Kadota
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern University
Affiliations:
– Communications and Networking Lab
– SpectrumX
– Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy
Links to Google Scholar and Academic CV.

Research:
– Optimizing Information Freshness– Resource Allocation in Drone Networks
– Adaptive Config of Integrated Circuits
– Millimeter-Wave Networks and Systems

Honors and Awards:
– Research Awards– Teaching and Mentoring Awards
– Presentation Awards

Service:
– Organizing Committee Member– Technical Program Committee Member
– Outreach
Academic Background
Recent News:
- June 2025: Grant Davies Griffin received the best electrical engineering Undergraduate researcher award of 2025 for his thesis entitled “A Distributed Low-Complexity Spectrum Sharing Algorithm for Large-Scale Time-Varying Networks”. Congratulations Grant!
- June 2025: Zhuoyi Zhao received the best electrical engineering MS thesis award of 2025 for his thesis entitled “Optimizing Age-of-Information in Real-World Networks”. Congratulations Zhuoyi!
- May 2025: best student paper award at WiOpt 2025 for our paper entitled “Fair Dynamic Spectrum Access via Fully Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning“. Congratulations to Yubo Zhang, Pedro Botelho, and Trevor Gordon! This is joint work with Prof. Gil Zussman.
- Mar 2025: our (invited) paper entitled “Optimizing Age of Information in Networks with Large and Small Updates” will be presented at WiOpt.
- Mar 2025: our paper entitled “Fair Dynamic Spectrum Access via Fully Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted to WiOpt.
- Mar 2025: our paper entitled “Automating Spectrum Sharing: a Bottom-up Approach and Research Agenda” has been accepted to Telecommunications Policy.
- Feb 2025: our paper entitled “Compete or Coordinate? Analysis of Spectrum Sharing Strategies for Local Wireless Services” has been accepted to IEEE DySPAN 2025.
- Dec 2024: our paper entitled “Optimizing Age of Information without Knowing the Age of Information” has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2025.
- Oct 2024: best student paper award at WiOpt 2024 for our paper entitled “Impact of Geographical Separation on Spectrum Sharing Markets“. Congratulations to Kangle Mu and Zongyun Xie! This is joint work with Prof. Randall Berry.
- Oct 2024: our paper on Spectrum Sharing Algorithms has been accepted to IEEE VCC. This is joint work with Randall Berry and four high-school students (Ankit, Aidan, Colin, and Eduardo) from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA)
- Oct 2024: co-organized (together with Ahmed Arafa) a Special Session on Semantics and Age of Information at Asilomar Conference 2024 held at Pacific Grove, CA.
- Oct 2024: elevated to Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
- Sept 2024: invited talk “Do You Know How Your Phone Works? Principles of 5G Communication” at the RF Talk Series hosted by the Rose Tech Radio Club from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
- Aug 2024: our paper on Spectrum Sharing Markets has been accepted to WiOpt.
- Aug 2024: our invited paper on Full Duplex technology appeared in the Proceedings of the IEEE and was featured in the Columbia University news article Researchers Break New Ground in Full-Duplex Wireless Systems .
- May 2024: our paper on Automating Spectrum Sharing appeared in TPRC.
- Apr 2024: served as a panelist in the Career Day at Poliedro Colégio in SJC, Brazil.
- Mar 2024: our poster on Economic and Market Design Challenges of Spectrum Sharing has been accepted to IEEE DySPAN.
- Jan 2024: our paper on Outdoor-to-Indoor mmWave Wireless Measurements has been accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET).
- Dec 2023: our paper on Wideband Self-Interference Cancellation for Full-Duplex Systems has been accepted to IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC).
- Nov 2023: invited talk “WiSwarm at the Edge: Wireless Networking for Collaborative Teams of UAVs” at IFIP Performance Workshop on Intelligent Edge Computing for Data-Rich Applications.
- Nov 2023: co-organizing (together with Ermin Wei) a workshop on Decision-making in Networked Systems (DeNetS) at IFIP Performance 2023 to be held at Northwestern University, Chicago campus. Invited speakers below. Please consider attending!
- Steven H. Low (Caltech)
- Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California)
- Guannan Qu (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Alejandro Ribeiro (University of Pennsylvania)
- Sanjay Shakkottai (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Vijay G. Subramanian (University of Michigan)
- Sept 2023: Alon Levin (Columbia University) and co-authors received the 1st place award in the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Student Research Competition (SRC) for their demo “Experimentation with Wideband Real-Time Adaptive Full-Duplex Radios“, which is joint work with Prof. Igor Kadota, Prof. Gil Zussman (Columbia), Prof. Mingoo Seok (Columbia), and Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy (Columbia).

- Aug 2023: grateful to the National Science Foundation for supporting our research on “Bridging the techno-economic gap for the design of spectrum Zone Management Systems” with an NSF SII-NRDZ-SBE grant.
- July 2023: serving on the TPC of ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance 2024. Please consider submitting your best work!
- June 2023: presented our paper entitled Switching in the Rain: Predictive Wireless x-haul Network Reconfiguration at ACM SIGMETRICS. Grateful to collaborators at Columbia University and Tel Aviv University. Thanks Ericsson for the dataset!
- June 2023: the COSMOS outreach team hosted 20+ Hamilton Grange middle school students in a visit to the NSF PAWR COSMOS testbed.
- May 2023: volunteered at the TSC’s STEAM Expo, demonstrating wireless communications concepts to K-12 students.
- May 2023: serving as a Session Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2023 in the millimeter-wave session.
- April 2023: serving on the TPC of IEEE INFOCOM 2024. Please consider submitting your best work!
- April 2023: selected as a Distinguished Member of the 2023 INFOCOM TPC.
- Mar 2023: our work was featured in the MIT News article New “traffic cop” algorithm helps a drone swarm stay on task
- Mar 2023: our paper on Frequency-Domain-Equalization-based Full-Duplex Receiver with Passive-Frequency-Shifting N-Path Filters has been accepted to IEEE RFIC 2023.
- Jan, Feb, and Mar 2023: Invited talk “Wireless Networks for Future Applications: from Networks of Drones to Adaptive Control of Integrated Circuits” at:
- University of California Los Angeles, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
- Northeastern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- University of Virginia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Northwestern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- New York University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
- Dec 2022: grateful to the National Science Foundation for supporting our research on “Spectrum Sharing via Consumption Models and Telemetry – Prototyping and Field Testing in an Urban FCC Innovation Zone” with an NSF SII-NRDZ grant. WiMNet news item here.
- Dec 2022: our paper on Time-Sensitive Wireless Networking for Collaborative Teams of UAVs has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2023. Video with UAV flight tests below. [Acceptance rate 19.2%] [link to the paper here]

- Dec 2022: talk “Spectrum Sharing via Consumption Models” at Rutgers University, WINLAB Research Review.
- Dec 2022: our paper on Large-Scale Dynamic Spectrum Access using SCMs has been accepted to IEEE WCNC 2023.
- Oct 2022: our paper on Predictive Weather-Aware Rerouting and Admission Control for mmWave x-haul Networks has been accepted to ACM SIGMETRICS 2023. [Acceptance rate 18.3%] [link to the paper here]

- July 2022: selected as a member of the 2022 cohort of LATinE Trailblazers in Engineering Fellows by Purdue’s College of Engineering. Columbia University news item here.
- July 2022: our paper on Outdoor-to-Indoor mmWave Wireless Measurements has been accepted to ACM MobiHoc 2022. [Acceptance rate 19.8%] [link to the paper here]
- May 2022: served as a panelist in the Career Day at Columbia Secondary School.
- April 2022: serving on the TPC of IEEE INFOCOM 2023. Please consider submitting your best work!

- April 2022: grateful to the National Science Foundation for supporting our research on “Enabling Wireless Edge-cloud Services via Autonomous Resource Allocation and Robust Physical Layer Technologies” with an NSF-RINGS grant. WiMNet news item here.
- Feb and Mar 2022: Invited talk “Wireless Networks for Emerging Time-Sensitive Applications: Theory and Systems” at:
- University of Washington, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Cornell Tech and Cornell University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Columbia University, CS Systems Seminar