Project Grant DESC0017743

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will fund the design, implementation, and evaluation of a practical electromagnetic (EM) sensing system called EMRADAR. This system will enable research on EM side-channel attacks and defenses for Internet of Things (IoT) devices in realistic environments. The $197,463 award from the NSF's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will...

This $250,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Florida International University to develop artificial intelligence techniques for radio frequency machine learning and spectrum situational awareness. Led by FIU, the research team will create lifelong incremental learning approaches to spectrum management and dynamic spectrum access enabled by advanced hardware innovations. The team aims to improve spectrum utilization and coexistence of competing users through a...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $719,758 provides funding from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025 to develop a spintronic spectrum analyzer and limiter based on tunable magnetic tunnel junction arrays. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award supports research at Northwestern University to address the challenge of radio frequency interference exacerbated by growing internet-connected devices. The project aims to develop a spintronic spectrum analyzer...

This $360,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to advance graph signal processing techniques for electric power distribution system monitoring and control from July 2022 through June 2025. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the awardee Cornell University will develop a novel mathematical approach incorporating physical grid modeling into machine learning algorithms. The approach interprets system states as graph signals to extract features...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award to New York University (NYU) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop an advanced software tool that automates the design and optimization of electromagnetic (EM) systems, with a focus on improving the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices. The $1,164,641 award, effective from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, will create a software pipeline that combines geometry...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $254,145 to develop a new hypergraph signal processing framework based on tensor representations. The University of Kentucky Research Foundation will receive funding to support collaborative research between multiple researchers aiming to advance the use of tensor...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,902 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support the development of an adaptive incremental deep learning architecture to infer radio frequency signals in dynamic spectrum sharing environments in real time. The proposed research aims to advance self-learning of spectrum sensing, signal classification, and radio frequency parameter characterization through an online...

This three-year, $345,853 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations will support the development of a new hypergraph signal processing framework via tensor representations. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the collaborative research aims to advance tools for exploiting multi-way interactions in complex data using hypergraphs rather than solely pairwise relationships as in simple graphs....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop a groundbreaking broadband probe-based RF and microwave measurement system. This novel technology enables highly localized, non-invasive characterization of the electromagnetic response of receiving systems, representing a significant advancement in electromagnetic measurement capabilities. The proposed probe can precisely...