Two Princeton Engineering professors, Kyle Jamieson and Prateek Mittal, have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, one of the highest honors in the field.
Jamieson, a professor of computer science and expert in next-generation wireless systems, was recognized “for contributions to indoor localization and sensing, and physics-inspired wireless network design.”
Mittal, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and expert in internet privacy and security, was recognized “for contributions to privacy-preserving and secure systems, including creating societal impact.”
IEEE Fellows are recognized for their outstanding accomplishments and contributions to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Approximately 300 fellows are named each year, less than 0.1% of the total IEEE membership.
Kyle Jamieson
Jamieson’s work focuses on expanding the efficiency of wireless systems to meet increasing demand for connectivity. His lab, Princeton Advanced Wireless Systems (PAWS), uses classical, quantum and physics-inspired computation to design next-generation wireless systems that can improve performance across networks and applications.
In some of his early work, Jamieson opened the door to modern wireless sensing approaches for dynamic indoor environments. He used a phased array-based approach that leveraged the nature of radio reflection to improve accuracy from levels measured in meters to levels measured in tens of centimeters.
In later work, Jamieson designed and evaluated practical systems that leveraged novel computing devices, like quantum computers and Ising machines, and resulted in new, more efficient architectures and algorithms for wireless communication. His group has also created new intelligent surfaces that can refract and steer high frequency 5G signals, which are easily blocked indoors. The device dynamically steers the signal, allowing them to reach every corner of a large indoor space.
Jamieson is part of the Princeton NextG initiative and the Princeton Quantum Initiative. He joined the Princeton faculty in 2015 after seven years on the faculty at University College London. He was named a Distinguished Member of the ACM in 2024 and his work has been recognized by a fellowship from the European Research Council, multiple Test-of-Time paper awards, and the ACM SIGMOBILE Early Career Award. He completed his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at MIT.
Prateek Mittal
Mittal has reshaped key aspects of the internet by uncovering security risks and creating tools to protect users’ data. One project identified a major loophole in encryption protocols and introduced a tool to squash the threat — now a universal security standard protecting over 350 million websites worldwide.
Earlier work from Mittal showed how attackers can compromise Tor, a tool for anonymous web browsing often used by journalists, lawyers and others who need extra protection from surveillance, revealing the surprising depth of its vulnerabilities. He showed the power of internet routing and encryption attacks, pushing the research community to think of it as a central security threat.
Mittal’s research has also helped shape our understanding of privacy and security risks in artificial intelligence, uncovered universal weaknesses in AI chatbots that make them susceptible to jailbreaking, and proposed ways to make chatbots safer through strict training protocols.
Mittal joined Princeton University in 2013. He won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2024. He has won faculty research awards from OpenAI, Google, IBM, Intel, Facebook, Cisco and Siemens, and received the Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Award, the Army Research Organization’s Young Investigator Prize, and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is an associated faculty member in computer science and in the Center for Information Technology Policy, where he served as interim director from 2022 to 2023.
