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. 

Education

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

Recent Publications

• ORAN-Bench-13K: An open source benchmark for assessing LLMs in open radio access networks (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)
• Experience in Real-Time Simulation of the Power System with 5G Communication (2024)
• Experimental Validation of a 3GPP compliant 5G-based Positioning System (2024)
• Milli-O-RAN: A Flexible, Reconfigurable O-RAN enabled mmWave Network Testbed (2024)
• Preserving Data Privacy for ML-driven Applications in Open Radio Access Networks (2024)
• Reviewing wireless broadband technologies in the peak smartphone era: 6G versus Wi-Fi 7 and 8 (2024)