Narayan B. Mandayam is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. He received the B.Tech (Hons.) degree in 1989 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1991 and 1994 from Rice University, Houston, TX, all in electrical engineering. From 1994 to 1996, he was a Research Associate at the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB), Rutgers University. In September 1996, he joined the faculty of the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Rutgers where he became Associate Professor in 2001 and Professor in 2003. Currently, he also serves as Chair of the ECE Department and Associate Director at WINLAB. He was a visiting faculty fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University in Fall 2002 and a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Science in Spring 2003.

His research interests are broadly in various aspects of smart city design and Internet of Things (IoT) with emphasis on techniques for resource allocation and communications. Using constructs from game theory, communications and networking, his work has focussed on system modeling and performance, signal processing as well as radio resource management for cognitive and software defined networks including their implications for spectrum policy. He has also been working recently on aspects related to noncontiguous spectrum access, visual MIMO networks and the use of prospect theory in understanding the psychophysics of data pricing for wireless networks, the smart grid as well as modeling and analysis of trustworthy knowledge creation on the internet. Recent papers on these topics can be found here

Dr. Mandayam is a recipient of several awards, notably the 2015 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications with C. Saraydar and D. Goodman for their seminal paper on power control for wireless data titled Efficient Power Control via Pricing in Wireless Data Networks; the 2014 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award with D. Raychaudhuri for their IEEE Proceedings paper titled Frontiers of Wireless and Mobile Communications; and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society in 2009 along with O. Ileri for their work on dynamic spectrum access models and spectrum policy. He is also the recipient of the Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar Award from Rutgers University (2010), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1998, the Institute Silver Medal from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1989 and its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2018.

Dr. Mandayam has had the honor of being selected by the National Academy of Engineering for the NAKFI: Informed Brain in a Digital World Conference in 2012 and the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in 1999. He is a coauthor of the books "Principles of Cognitive Radio," Cambridge and "Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design," Springer. He has served as an Editor for the journals IEEE Communication Letters (1999-2002) and  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2002-2004). He has served as a guest editor of the IEEE JSAC Special Issues on Adaptive, Spectrum Agile and Cognitive Radio Networks (2007) and Game Theory in Communication Systems (2008). He was elected Fellow of the IEEE for "contributions to wireless data transmission". He is currently serving as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has introduced with R. Frenkiel a multidisciplinary undergraduate course on "strategic and systems-thinking" titled Forces and Strategies that Shaped the Wireless Revolution