Research

Current Projects

• “NeTS: Medium: Black-box Optimization of White-box Networks: Online Learning for Autonomous Resource Management in NextG Wireless Networks,” NSF, $1,200,000 (VT's share: $300,000), 10/1/2023 - 9/30/2026, Lead PI, joint project with Dr. Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University), Dr. Xingyu Zhou (Wayne State University), and Dr. Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University).

• “CNS Core: Medium: Information Freshness in Scalable and Energy Constrained Machine to Machine Wireless Networks,” NSF, $1,000,000 (VT's share: $250,000), 10/1/2021 - 9/30/2025, PI, joint project with Dr. Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, Lead), Dr. Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University), and Dr. Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University).

• “SaTC: CORE: Small: Securing Gaze Data from Side-Channel Attacks in Foveated Systems,” NSF, $600,000, 5/1/2025 - 4/30/2028, Co-PI. This is a joint project with Dr. Brendan David-John (Virginia Tech, PI).

• “U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership: CNS: Small: SWEET: Hardware and Software for Sustainable Wearable Edge Intelligence,” NSF, $600,000, 10/1/2023 - 9/30/2026, Co-PI. This is a joint project with Dr. Dimitrios Nikolopoulos (Virginia Tech, PI), Dr. Hans Vandierendonck (Queen's University Belfast), and Dr. Deepu John (University College Dublin).

• “EAGER: Designing Infrastructure to Probe Distributed System Configurations,” NSF, $300,000, 6/1/2020 - 5/31/2025, Co-PI. This is a joint project with Dr. Krishna Kant (Temple University, PI).

Past Projects

• “CAREER: Theory and Algorithms for Efficient Control of Wireless Networks with Jointly Optimized Performance: High Throughput, Low Delay, and Low Complexity,” NSF, $520,790 (including an REU Supplement), 5/1/2017 - 4/30/2023, sole PI.

• “CRII: CIF: Models, Theories and Algorithms for Timeliness Optimization in Information-update Systems,” NSF, $188,557 (including an REU Supplement), 2/15/2017 - 1/31/2021, sole PI.

Acknowledgement

We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support for our research from the National Science Foundation, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, Nokia Corporation, and Amazon.