Idris Al-Wazani
(ih-Drees Al-wuh-Zah-nee)

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I’m an aspiring audio/design technologist majoring in Electrical Engineering at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. I design hardware, frontend software, real-time technology, lighting, visuals, and sound for the world of live performance, art, and public spaces in order to make people’s time anywhere meaningful. Feel free to view my work on this site.





Currently obsessed with:

 Embedded Systems, HPF/LPF Circuit Design, TouchDesigner, Ableton Live, Drum Machine Analog Circuits, Complextro, GrandMA3, Electric Energy Conversion,





As a third-year Electrical Engineering major with a minor in Integrated Design & Media (focusing on audio technology), I have had a huge interest in audio design and engineering during my lifetime, and am actively combining my major and minor to accommodate for that vision. Alongside my deep passion for music and music culture, I would love to work as an audio engineer for live performances, broadcasts, or anything that involves an audience in the future! I was born in Austin, Texas from a Belgian mother and Palestinian father. Since the age of five, I have moved to Singapore, Atlanta, Shanghai, Seoul, and now am a passionate resident of New York City.

When I was young, I often engaged in film, whether it be through attending summer film camps, or small daily iMovies on my iPad. Despite the frequent storytelling that went into these amateur films, I was most deeply in love with the science behind the audio and video that went into making films. In my mind, I found it necessary to understand how exactly these microphones, cameras, and A/V systems worked on the micro level to finally be able to apply myself the way I wanted to. It wasn’t until I joined school theater in 2018 that I fully realized my passion for A/V. After acting for a few semesters, I eventually understood that I was set in my ways of working for the A/V crew, as well as stage managing for a few productions. My passion for STEM in school eventually brought me to study engineering in college here at NYU Tandon, and I am now a major in electrical engineering. I have an extremely profound and focused interest in the electronics behind concepts we know of nowadays, and I find it even more fascinating to apply myself to audio.

For the time being, I’m currently working on many smaller-scale projects involving interactive audio technology. Many of these projects and skills have also built me up to recently become comfortable behind the audio engineering and mastering of certain music and film projects in college. My principal motivating goal, and one of my philosophical interests, is to be able to fulfill a role in which society can be geared towards urbanizing in an equitable clean, future-conscious, and entertaining way. I hope my work – for the rest of my life – continues to fulfill this goal.

I spend most of my time on the Tandon campus socializing and working with my friends and coworkers at the NYU MakerSpace. My personal passions are a little further from the technical engineering side, since I spend most of my free time skateboarding, DJing/hosting events, and producing electronic music.


NYU WIRELESS


February - June 2024
Electrical/Wireless Communications Work:


Papers:
Invited IEEE Propagation and Channel Models Paper
Wideband Penetration Loss Research Paper
Indoor Propagation Channel Measurements Paper
Outdoor Propagation Channel Measurements Paper


Some stuff I ‘exemplified’:

Calibrating Modern Channel Measurement Systems
Working with Antennas/Attenuators/RFID
Writing Post-Grad-Level Electronics Engineering Research
LateX
Premiere Pro

I worked as a research fellow for four months through gathering channel measurement data, creating film of our process, processed data terms digitally, and co-wrote multiple IEEE-certified papers for future-5G/6G wireless frequencies at ‘NYU WIRELESS’.


If I were to recommend anybody learn postgraduate-level electronics and wireless communications concepts in a practical way at a young age, I’d say this experience would be the best approach. After reaching out independently to my professor, Theodore Rappaport (founder of NYU WIRELESS), I eventually went through a process of joining a small team of doctoral student researchers that had been studying the physical nature of new wireless frequencies (6.75 and 16.95 GHz) – the same sort of research that Professor Rappaport had done before to construct what we now call 5G.

Working with the team on 6G wireless was a unique opportunity for me to understand the tangible implications of wireless data, not only physically but commercially as well. It gave me a real-world perspective on how we use wireless technology, and how exactly we’ve optimized that. Working day and night, inside or outside (we gathered hundreds of hours of data in office settings, factory settings, and outdoor NYC settings), was a blast for me to really know what exactly wireless technology in the modern day is all about. Halfway through, I had also begun researching the preliminaries for an Introduction to Electrical Engineering book that Professor Rappaport was planning on writing, and by that time I was awarded an $8,000 NSF research grant in my name under NYU WIRELESS.

Writing papers and voiceovers for the summary video was when I had fully realized I knew enough about wireless to easily communicate what exactly it is that we were doing, and that was an amazing feeling.


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