Vijay K Shah

Biography

Dr. Shah is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. He heads the NextG Wireless Lab@NC State, dedicated to advancing the forefront of wireless communication and network technologies beyond current generations. Prior to joining NC State, he was an Assistant Professor in the Cybersecurity Engineering Department at George Mason University and Research Assistant Professor in the Bradley Department of ECE at Virginia Tech from 2021 - 2024 and 2019 - 2021, respectively. 

He also serves as Outreach Director for AERPAW and is the co-founder of two startups, WiSights Lab, developing customized, domain-specific LLM solutions for telecoms and other enterprise systems and All Things Intelligence, the creator of NeuralSmith, a ML engineering framework that streamlines the entire ML workflow from data engineering and model training to delivering production-ready models in minutes to hours. He co-authored a comprehensive book, entitled Fundamentals of O-RAN, published by IEEE Press/Wiley.

Education

• Ph.D. 2019
  Computer Science
  University of Kentucky
• Bachelor's 2013
  Computer Science and Engineering
  National Institute of Technology, Durgapur

Recent Publications

• Black-Box Evasion Attacks on Data-Driven Open RAN Apps: Tailored Design and Experimental Evaluation (2025)
• ORAN-Bench-13K: An Open Source Benchmark for Assessing LLMs in Open Radio Access Networks (2025)
• ORAN-Bench-13K: An open source benchmark for assessing LLMs in open radio access networks (2025)
• ORANSight-2.0: Foundational LLMs for O-RAN (2025)
• Time-Dependent Network Topology Optimization for LEO Satellite Constellations (2025)
• ZT-RIC: A Zero Trust RIC Framework for Ensuring Data Privacy and Confidentiality in Open RAN (2025)
• ZT-RIC: A Zero Trust RIC Framework for ensuring data Privacy and Confidentiality in Open RAN (2025)
• ASCENT: A Context-Aware Spectrum Coexistence Design and Implementation Toolset for Policymakers in Satellite Bands (2024)
• Context-Aware Spectrum Coexistence of Terrestrial Beyond 5G Networks in Satellite Bands (2024)
• Control coordination in inverter-based microgrids using AoI-based 5G schedulers (2024)