By the Office of Engineering Communications
Kyle Jamieson, an expert in designing and building next-generation wireless systems, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) starting January 1, 2026.
Jamieson, a professor of computer science, has been recognized by the IEEE “for contributions to indoor localization and sensing, and physics-inspired wireless network design.” He is also an associated faculty member in the electrical and computer engineering department.
IEEE Fellows are recognized for their outstanding accomplishments and contributions to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Approximately 300 fellows are named each year, less than 0.1% of the total IEEE membership.
Jamieson’s work focuses on expanding the efficiency of wireless systems to meet increasing demand for connectivity. His lab, Princeton Advanced Wireless Systems (PAWS), uses classical, quantum and physics-inspired computation to design next-generation wireless systems that can improve performance across networks and applications.
Jamieson “is a pioneer in wireless localization and sensing,” said Szymon Rusinkiewicz, chair of the computer science department. “He has conducted fundamental research on shaping future generations of the mobile phones and laptops we all rely on — to make wireless networking faster, more interference-free, more reliable, and more scalable. His emerging work on quantum computing promises transformative insights into the most demanding tasks in wireless radio receivers, impacting everything from 5G and 6G deployments to tomorrow’s local-area networks.”
In some of his early work, Jamieson opened the door to modern wireless sensing approaches for dynamic indoor environments. He used a phased array-based approach that leveraged the nature of radio reflection, both spatially and temporally, to improve accuracy by several orders of magnitude: from the meters-level accuracy of previous sensing techniques to accuracy levels measured in tens of centimeters.
In later work, Jamieson designed and evaluated practical systems to leverage novel computing devices, like quantum computers and Ising machines, to perform physical-layer baseband processing wireless communication tasks. These systems have resulted in new, more efficient architectures and algorithms for wireless communication. PAWS has also created new intelligent surfaces that can refract and steer high frequency 5G signals, which are easily blocked indoors. To overcome this, the device built by Jamieson and his students dynamically steers the signal, allowing 5G frequencies to reach every corner of a large indoor space.
Jamieson is part of the Princeton NextG initiative and the Princeton Quantum Initiative. He joined the Princeton faculty in 2015 after seven years on the faculty at University College London. He was named a Distinguished Member of the ACM in 2024 and his work has been recognized by a fellowship from the European Research Council, multiple Test-of-Time paper awards, and the ACM SIGMOBILE Early Career Award. He completed his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at MIT.