Grants and Awards
Grants
Current
INL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) grant titled “Artificial-Intelligence-based Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of Wirelessly Transmitted Data in Nuclear Industry”, 12/15/2022 to 09/30/2024, Role: PI (UofU), Co-PI (UofU): Sneha Kumar Kasera. PI (INL): Vivek Agarwal, Co-PI (INL): Joshua E. Daw, Shannon L. Eggers.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Decentralized Intelligent Spectrum Sharing in UAV Networks (DISH-uNET) via Hardware-software Co-design, 10/01/2022 to 09/30/2025, Role: PI, Co-PI: Cunxi Yu, Rong-Rong Chen, Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo).
National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S.-Ireland R & D Partnership: Smart Radio Environments with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces – Communications Through Blockage in Millimeter-wave Systems (REFLECT-MMWAVE), 08/15/2022 to 08/14/2025, Role: Co-PI, PI: Rong-Rong Chen.
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award titled “CAREER: Heterogeneous Elastic Computing over the Cloud - from Theory to Practice”, 02/01/2022 – 01/31/2027, Role: PI.
DOE grant titled “Visual-Enhanced Cooperative Traffic Operations (VECTOR) System”, 10/01/2022 – 12/31/2025, Role: Co-PI, Utah PI: Mingxi Liu, Co-PI: Ken Stevens; Leading institution: University of South Florida.
DOE Advanced Research Project Aency-Energy (ARPA-E) grant titled Low‐Cost Ultra‐Low‐Power Wireless Chemical Sensor Networks for Early Detection of Invasive Parasitic Weeds and Herbivores in BioFuel Crops, 07/01/2019 to 12/31/2022, Role: Co-PI, PI: Hanseup Kim, Co-PI: Lin Zang, Carlos Mastrangelo, James Schnable.
Completed
National Science Foundation (NSF), CIF: Small: Fundamental Limits of Caching Networks with General Topologies, 10/01/2018 to 09/30/2022, Role: PI, Co-PI: Rong-Rong Chen.
National Science Foundation (NSF), SpecEES: Dynamic Space Frequency Multiplexing - A New Paradigm for Filterbank Multicarrier Spectrum Access, 09/01/2018 to 08/31/2022, Role: Co-PI, PI: Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, Co-PIs: Rong-Rong Chen, Sneha Kesera.
INL Wireless Security Institute grant titled “Secure mmWave Spectrum Sharing with Autonomous Beam Scheduling”, 11/01/2019 to 10/30/2021, Role: Co-PI, PI: Sneha Kesera, Co-PI: Jacobus van der Merwe.
National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), Connected Vehicle System Design for Signalized Arterials, 09/01/2018 to 11/30/2019, Role: Co-PI, PI: Xianfeng (Terry) Yang.
University of Utah Research Foundation, Coded Machine Learning in Large Scale Systems, 07/01/2018 to 11/01/2019, Role: PI
Selected Academic Awards:
The 2022 Outstanding ECE Teaching Award.
Listed as one of the Top 15% Undergraduate Teachers of the College of Engineering at the University of Utah for Fall 2021.
Best Paper Award at IEEE Globecom 2021.
Listed as one of the Top 15% Undergraduate Teachers of the College of Engineering at the University of Utah for Fall 2020.
IEEE 2019 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award for best paper in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) 2019.
Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Communications (2016-2018).
Best Paper Award for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015.
Best Student Paper Award for IEEE European Wireless (EW) 2010 conference.
Student Travel Grant Award for IEEE INFOCOM 2010
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