NYU Wireless Pioneers Honored by IEEE (IMAGE) NYU Tandon School of Engineering Caption The IEEE Communications Society honored papers written by two research pioneers at New York University. Thomas L. Marzetta, the originator of Massive MIMO antenna technology, won the Fred W. Ellersick Prize and Elza Erkip received the Best Tutorial Paper Award for a work addressing energy harvesting for wireless communications. Both are faculty at the NYU WIRELESS research center and NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Credit NYU Tandon: Marian Goldman Usage Restrictions for editorial use only, with coverage of NYU License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.