Research Grants (External)

Active

• Co-PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys (ECCS) core program, “Integrating Federated Split Neural Network with Artificial Stereoscopic Compound Eyes for Optical Flow Sensing in 3D Space with Precision”, 2024 – 2027.

• PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) core program, “Collaborative Research: CPS Medium: Learning through the Air: Cross-Layer UAV Orchestration for Online Federated Optimization”, 2023 – 2026.

• PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), CAREER program, “CAREER: Towards a Communication Foundation for Distributed and Decentralized Machine Learning”, 2022 – 2027.

• PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies (SWIFT) program, “Learning-Efficient Spectrum Access for No-Sensing Devices in Shared Spectrum”, 2020 – 2024.

• PI, National Science Foundation (NSF), Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS) core program, “Towards a Resource Rationing Framework for Wireless Federated Learning”, 2020 – 2024.

• PI, National Science Foundation (NSF) and Intel, Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS) program, “Dino-RL: A Domain Knowledge Enriched Reinforcement Learning Framework for Wireless Network Optimization”, 2020 – 2024.

• PI, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), Innovation and Commercialization Grant, “Towards Real-Time Federated Learning over Wireless Communications”, 2022 – 2024.

• PI, Kneron Inc., “Low-resolution Machine Learning Model Representation in Distributed Learning,” 2022 – 2024.

• Co-PI, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), CATAPULT program, “Privacy-preserving Synthetic Data Generation”, 2024 – 2025.

• Co-PI, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), Cybersecurity Research Continuation, “Smart Cities”, 2022 – 2024.

• Senior Personnel, National Science Foundation (NSF), Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SII) Program, “SII-Center: SpectrumX – An NSF Spectrum Innovation Center,” 2021 – 2026.

Completed

• Senior Personnel, National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) Program, Supplement to “NRT: A Graduate Traineeship in Cyber Physical Systems”, 2022 – 2023

• PI, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), Cybersecurity Research Collaboration Grants, “Open-source, Multi-band, Multi-dimensional Spectrum Access system with Interfaces to Wireless Testbeds and Network Simulation Software”, 2021 – 2023.

• Senior Personnel, National Science Foundation (NSF), Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SII) Program, “SII Planning: WHISPERS: Wireless Hardware Innovations and Signal Processing for Enhanced Radio-astronomy and Scientific Spectrum Sharing,” 2021 – 2022.

• Co-PI, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), Cybersecurity Research Collaboration Grants, “Secure and Privacy 5G Network for Connected Vehicles”, 2021 – 2022.

• PI, Kneron Inc., “Efficient Deep Learning Architecture in Mobile Edge Computing,” 2020 – 2021.

• Co-PI, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), “SmallSat Cybersecurity and Resiliency”, 2021.

• PI, subcontract from VT-ARC, “Towards low-latency, energy-efficient and resilient 5G network for smart warehouse,” 2021 – 2023.

• Co-PI, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), Commercialization Fund, “Connected Vehicle Identification System and Cybersecurity Assessment Testbed”, 2023.