George Nychis

George P. Nychis
(Nychis rhymes with stitches, Greek: Νύχι - translation)

    I am currently a PhD student in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, co-advised by Peter Steenkiste and Srinivasan Seshan.

    My research focuses in the area of wireless networks and the ever-growing problem of the coexistence between heterogeneous networks. I have also contributed to new architectures for software-defined radios, and have drawn interest in on-chip networks due to their unique properties requiring novel solutions to traditional networking problems.

    In my spare time: I'm big fan of cycling (typically along Pittsburgh's rivers), I belong to a Greek dance group, I brave the stock market, and I enjoy playing various sports.

Quick Tidbits

Our SIGCOMM 2012 paper presents on-chip networks from a networking perspective, and introduces a novel congestion controller to improve the efficiency and scalability of future on-chip networks.

I am honored to be a demonstration and poster chair for DySPAN 2012.

I gave a co-talk with Ranveer Chandra on the coexistence of wireless mics and white space devices to the Audio Engineering Society! Watch: [talk | demo]

Our work on the coexistence of wireless microphones with white space devices (CoNEXT 2011) was demonstrated directly to FCC chairman Genachowski.

I was an intern at Microsoft Research in 2009 and 2010, working on the world's first urban white space network, and wireless for the next-generation Xbox.

I founded The Comprehensive GNU Radio Archive Network (CGRAN) in 2009, which hosts many software-defined radio projects from academia and industry.

Our work on MAC protocol implementations on SDRs appeared in NSDI, 2009.

I was awarded the Vlahakis Fellowship in Spring 2008, which is given to 1 graduate ECE student at CMU every year.

Co-authors (alphabetical)

David Andersen, Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Chris Fallin, Thibaud Hottelier, Hyong Kim, Thomas Moscibroda, Rohan Murty, Onur Mutlu, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan, Peter Steenkiste, Ivan Tashev, Xiaohui Wang, Hui Zhang.

Contacting Me

E-mail: gnychis at cmu dot edu