Vijay K Shah
He/Him/His
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
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Ph.D.
2019
Computer Science
University of Kentucky -
Bachelor's
2013
Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
Involvement
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WiSights Lab
Co-Founder and CEO -
NeuralSmith
Co-Founder and CEO
Highlighted Awards
- NSF CAREER Award (2025)
Awards & Honors
- Goodnight Early Career Innovator Award 2025-26
- NSF CAREER Award 2025
- ACM WiSec 2025 Best Poster/Demo Award
- IEEE MILCOM 2023 Best Demo Award
- 2019 Tau Beta Phi College of Engineering Outstanding CS PhD Student Award
