Our Mission
Conduct first-class interdisciplinary research and development in wireless and information
technology; foster new enterprise development; and address the skilled technology
worker shortage.
Overview
To best capitalize on the IT revolution, spur economic growth, advance scientific
research and develop the technologies of tomorrow, the New York State Center of Excellence
in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) was created in 2003 as the anchoring
building in SUNY Stony Brook University’s Research and Development Park. The Center
is a next generation research and educational facility whose mission is three-fold:
become recognized as a world leader in interdisciplinary research in the emerging,
critical technologies of the information age, address the skilled technology worker
shortage, and foster new enterprise development. CEWIT has more than 70 associated
faculty members, and more than 400 Ph.D./M.S. students engaged in research. The Center
has created a powerful intellectual property portfolio resulting innumerous patents.
Since its inception, the Center has worked hard to build strategic alliances and business
partnerships among the academic, scientific, and business communities. Our partners
include some of the world’s best known and most sophisticated giants of wireless and
information technology. The Center is building on these achievements and has laid
the foundation for R&D partnerships with its partners and sponsors, and with other
internationally known research institutions.
The Center’s research areas are diverse and cover distributed robotics, expressive
and hybrid networks, mobile computing, wireless networks, cyber security, computer
vision and image processing, RF systems, microwave sensors, wireless sensor networks,
computational genetics and protein docking, computational neurobiology, virtual reality,
effective bandwidth utilization, wireless protocols, wireless ad hoc networks and
wireless gateways. Our research topics range from materials to components to systems
and address devices and communications, networking, software systems, and solutions/applications
for vertical markets.
By the Numbers
Over $160 M in industry commitments match $50 M state capital award
Almost 700 jobs created/saved by CEWIT and industry partners
Almost 400 industry and federal projects completed 123
Invention disclosures, 40 US patents issued, 23 licenses
Over 680 research publications
4 new startup companies based on CEWIT innovations
Successfully organized annual conference on emerging technologies over the past 9
years
70 Faculty affiliates
More than 290 graduate students
More than 50 industry, academic, and research partners
More than $150 M received from federal and industry sponsors
The Building
100,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility
40 new research laboratories
7,000 square-foot incubator space
First building in the Stony Brook University Research and Development Park
State-of-the-art Data Center
Direct 500Mbps internet connection with redundancy
20Gbps backbone over CAT7a & fiber optical network cabling
100% WiFi, WiMax coverage
VoIP unified communication
Private enterprise cloud computing and storage cloud