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Perform 5G STB administration functions, including participation in developing use cases, test cases and test plans. Also, subsequent test procedure development, dry runs, test execution and reporting.

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Professor Pamela Abshire (ECE/ISR) is a co-PI in the new DARPA/SRC JUMP 2.0 Center, “CogniSense: The Center on Cognitive Multispectral Sensors,” one of seven JUMP 2.0 centers that have started operations in 2023. It is funded for five years. Professor Saibal Mukhopadhyay of the Georgia Institute of Technology is the principal investigator.

CogniSense brings together 20 researchers from 13 universities:

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Michael Ball is working with a team from the University of South Florida to adapt and improve a simulation platform to quantify unused airfield capacity due to en-route convective weather while controlling for other influential factors This is a nine-month project worth $74,000.

In the US, airports are limited resources of the national airspace system (NAS). Underuse of existing airport capacity when demand is present can lead to reductions in efficiency and economic loss.

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"Ensuring Fairness via Federated Learning Beyond Consensus" is $50K in unrestricted funding from Amazon Research Awards. This is an AI/ML project.

Federated learning is a decentralized way to unlock information that feeds new AI applications and trains existing AI models without individual users’ data being seen or collected. The actual data never leave an individual mobile phone, laptop, or private server.

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Professor Jonathan Simon (ECE/ISR/Biology) has been awarded a one-year, $149,000 Seed Grant from the University of Maryland Brain and Behavior Institute (BBI).  “Toward a non-linguistic measure of auditory processing deficits in older and younger monolingual and bilingual adults” will have a dual focus on how age and bilingualism affect auditory stream segregation ability.

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D-ISN: Evolution of Global Illicit Kidney Trade Networks: Identification, Reconstruction, and Disruption

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This is a six-year, $3,749,983 contract with Office of Naval Research funding. It runs from 2017 through 2023.

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In Infrastructure for Collaborative Autonomy Testing, teams of autonomous ground robots and unmanned vehicles will be used in missions such as search-and-rescue, mining, material handling, and protecting secure facilities. Computer scientists and engineers are inventing and enhancing new algorithms that these autonomous systems will use to collaborate with each other. Better algorithms will improve team performance.

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Professor Alireza Khaligh (ECE/ISR) is the principal investigator for a new three-year, $500K National Science Foundation award, “Electro-Thermally Integrated Traction Inverter,” to design and develop an innovative and high power-density traction inverter for next generation of electric vehicles. Professor Bongtae Han (ME) is the project’s co-PI.