Moe Win

Moe Z. Win is the Robert R. Taylor Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the founding director of the Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory. Prior to joining MIT, he was with AT&T Research Laboratories and with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

His research encompasses fundamental theories, algorithm design, and network experimentation for a broad range of real-world problems. His current research topics include ultra-wideband systems, network localization and navigation, network interference exploitation, and quantum information science. He has served the IEEE Communications Society as an elected Member-at-Large on the Board of Governors, as elected Chair of the Radio Communications Committee, and as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. Over the last two decades, he held various editorial positions for IEEE journals and organized numerous international conferences. He has served on the SIAM Diversity Advisory Committee.

Dr. Win is an elected Fellow of the AAAS, the EURASIP, the IEEE, and the IET. He was honored with two IEEE Technical Field Awards: the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2011) and the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2006, jointly with R. A. Scholtz). His publications, co-authored with students and colleagues, have received several awards. Other recognitions include the MIT Frank E. Perkins Award (2024), the MIT Everett Moore Baker Award (2022), the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society James Evans Avant Garde Award (2022), the IEEE Communications Society Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award (2016), the Cristoforo Colombo International Prize for Communications (2013), the Copernicus Fellowship (2011) and the Laurea Honoris Causa (2008) from the Università degli Studi di Ferrara, and the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2004).