This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE, CFDA 47.070) Project Grant awarded to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey provides $599,986 from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to develop an alternative distributed radio frequency (RF) sensing paradigm that can "look around corners" using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). The project aims to advance fundamental theory and practical methods...
This $399,947 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (CFDA Program 47.041 - Engineering) will fund research to develop a new paradigm for efficient and reliable wireless communication in congested and contested spectrum environments. The key objectives are to: 1) Enable computationally lightweight time-frequency signal alignment to mitigate unpredictable interference; 2) Improve ultra-reliable low latency communications...
This $700,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of cutting-edge circuit designs and signal processing algorithms to enhance the resilience of radio telescopes against radio frequency interference (RFI) from satellite transmissions. The primary goal is to enable the continued operation of radio astronomy service (RAS) in the presence of unavoidable RFI through a modulo sampling-based approach. The research...
This $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will fund research at Duke University to develop new approaches for enabling predictable wireless communication and radar sensing for 6G wireless technology. The key research thrusts include: 1) designing modulation schemes to simplify prediction of the wireless input-output relationship, 2) developing signal processing filters in the...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research to enable autonomous fine-grained spatial spectrum sensing and sharing. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SII-NRDZ: SWEEPSPACE", investigates new methods to mitigate radio-frequency interference and improve efficient use of the electromagnetic spectrum. The research team at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) will...
This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to enhance the security of Wi-Fi localization systems. The University of South Florida, the prime awardee, will conduct a comprehensive investigation of attack surfaces and vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi localization systems, focusing on spoofing attacks that could enable mobile devices to obtain fake location information. The researchers aim...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) wireless testbed and training curriculum at the Stevens Institute of Technology. The key products and services include: 1) Extending the abilities of wireless professionals by providing public and remote access to an O-RAN-based wireless cyberinfrastructure, which integrates...
This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop advanced analog circuits and systems for dense, in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) Ultra-efficient, single-shot analog cross-correlators capable of rapidly computing cross-correlations between input signals and template waveforms. This enables low-latency spectrum sensing...
This $450,115 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology aims to establish foundational high-frequency electronics for extremely high-temperature sensing and communications capabilities beyond 1000°C. The research will focus on developing innovative methods to overcome radio interference challenges associated with hypersonic vehicles, including 3D printed all-ceramic meta-structures,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, provided through the NSF's Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, will support research and development for next-generation wireless network technologies operating in the sub-THz spectrum. The $400,000 award to William Marsh Rice University, valid from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2027, will deliver three key research thrusts: Developing a multi-user sub-THz spectrum access architecture using reconfigurable metasurfaces to...
This $360,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of coherent processing techniques for passive localization of RF-silent mobile objects using bandwidth-rich wireless signals. The grantee, The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, will pursue three research thrusts. Thrust A will develop passive localization and mapping techniques employing signals from multiple wireless base stations, providing multi-perspective sensing. Thrust B will extend this work to distributed privacy-preserving algorithms. Thrust C will establish a software-defined radio testbed for experimental data collection, testing, and clutter/interference removal methods evaluation. Outcomes may integrate with existing wireless networks to offer both communication and RF sensing services, with potential substantial economic and societal impacts. The grant also supports related educational opportunities.