NexGeN Lab (CDM-009)
Summary 🟡 ~
- Owner Unit: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Sub-unit: School of Computing
- Content Type: center
- Campus/Location: Loop
- Last Verified: July 1, 2026
Description & capabilities
Networking and IoT research lab for information-centric networking and tactile internet themes.
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: NexGeN Lab is associated with a faculty page; no public access policy or open hours for lab systems were found.
- Access URL: www.depaul.edu/news/inaugural-innovation-day-2020
- Contact name: Sharief Oteafy
- Contact email: soteafy@depaul.edu
- Verification date: 2026-07-01
- Source URLs:
- www.depaul.edu/news/inaugural-innovation-day-2020
- www.depaul.edu/faculty/sharief-oteafy
Verification
- Status: likely (
~) - Confidence: 82/100
- Rationale: Legacy evidence aligned with kernel provenance (depaul/XTR-000085); primary source: www.depaul.edu/news/inaugural-innovation-day-2020
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
- Evidence:
- Sharief Oteafy discussed his project, "Next Generation Networking NexGeN Lab," which will establish the very first Internet of Things lab on campus. (www.depaul.edu/news/inaugural-innovation-day-2020)
- Supplementary lab reference: www.depaul.edu/faculty/sharief-oteafy
Equipment
Find this resource from the Equipment catalog or site search (e.g. “3D printers”, “laser cutter”, “NMR”).
| Category | Specific equipment |
|---|---|
| Networking and wireless testbeds | IoT and information-centric networking testbeds |
| Electronics benches and prototyping | IoT development kits |
Source: CDM resource map (May 2026). Last verified: May 28, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: Sharief Oteafy (NexGeN Lab)
- Email: Sharief Oteafy
Last verified: May 28, 2026.
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Sharief Oteafy (Faculty lead) — soteafy@depaul.edu · Profile
Source URL
Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.
Documented Relationships
Related to DeMobile testbeds and external networking partners.
Linked Relationship IDs
- None explicitly linked yet.
Notes
Lab profile. Internal AGIF award GRA-878 (Next Generation Networking Lab: NexGeN, $100,000, FY 2018-2019, PI Sharief Oteafy) names this facility in the ORS AGIF appendix — evidence in sources/inbox/2026-06-14-agif-reports-2018-2025/; grant→facility edge GRL-017.