Nirwan Ansari, PhD, is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology whose research focuses on broadband networks and multimedia communications. The National Science Foundation (NSF) supported his work to provide services to a growing set of traffic classes in next- generation networks. He was leading an international collaboration between Japan and the U.S. to find advanced security technologies for next-generation ubiquitous networks under NSF’s Strategic International Cooperative Program with Japan’s Science and Technology Agency. NSF currently supports his effort to provision energy-efficient communications by powering wireless networks with renewal energy.

Ansari co-authored Computational Intelligence for Optimization (Springer, 1997) and co-edited Neural Networks in Telecommunications (Springer, 1994). He has served on the Editorial Board and Advisory Board of eight journals, including as a Senior Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine (2006-2009). 

He has co-authored more than 150 refereed journal articles and is the co-inventor of ten issued U.S. patents. Recent honors include an IEEE Leadership Award from the Central Jersey/Princeton Section (2007), an IEEE Fellow (class of 2009), the NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award in Outstanding Professional Development (2008), and IEEE MGA Leadership Award (2008), the NCE Excellence in Teaching Award (2009), a couple of best paper awards (IC-NIDC 2009 and IEEE GLOBECOM 2010), and a 2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award. He was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society (2006-2009, two terms)..

Ansari received his doctorate from Purdue University.