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