Research Projects

Wireless Intelligently Networked Edges: AI-Native Networks

 
 End-to-end network slicing. [News] [News1] [News2]

• End-to-End Network Slicing and Orchestration in Future Programmable Converged Wireless-Optical Networks, National Science Foundation, September 2022. 
   

Past Projects

• Evaluating Connected and Secure Edge Infrastructure for Scalable Hardware-in-the-Loop CAV Testbeds, NCDOT: NC Transportation Center of Excellence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology, March 2023 - March 2026. 
   
• Non-Terrestrial Integrated Access and Backhaul for 6G LEO Satellite MVNO, Cisco Systems, Inc., February 2023 - August 2024. 
   
• DRL-ORAN Platform for Large-Scale Networking Resource Management, Meta 2022 AI4AI Research, October 2022 - September 2024. 
   
• In-Network Processing for Timely Federated Multi-Task Learning over Wireless Edges, Cisco Systems, Inc., August 2021 - December 2022. 
   
• Assessing North Carolina Readiness for CAVs in Traditional and Emerging Infrastructure Needs, NCDOT: NC Transportation Center of Excellence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology, May 2020 - February 2023. [News]
   
• Application-Defined Networks for AI Systems, Cisco Systems, Inc., October 2019 - September 2020. 
   

Artificial Intelligence of Things: Non-Terrestrial Networks

 
 5G&B key enabling technologies. 

• Enabling Zero-Touch Prioritized Traffic Steering for Self-Healing Satellite Swarms, Lockheed Martin Corporation, November 2022. 
   
• Towards Eigen-Spatial Filtering and Spreading for Anti-Jammed MIMO p-LEO Satellites, Lockheed Martin Corporation, June 2022. 
   
• vSpace: Enabling Access Equality for 6G Serverless p-LEO Satellite Networks, Lockheed Martin Corporation, December 2021. 
   

Past Projects

• Phase-Array Antenna Control Unit Implementation on Reduced LEO Satellite Payloads, TASA, June 2025 - April 2026. 
   
• Traffic Engineering Control System for On-Demand Cross-Constellation Broadband Access, Department of the Air Force, March 2023 - July 2024. 
   
• 6G Serverless Computing Architecture with SLA Assurance for Cross-Constellation C3, NASA: North Carolina Space Grant, June 2022 - May 2024. 
   

Wireless Underground Sensor Networks: Integrated Sensing and Communications

 
 Underground sensor network deployment. 

Past Projects

• PAISAR: Predictive Antijam Artificial Intelligence Scanned Array Receivers, Department of the Army, April 2025 - October 2025. 
   
• MISA: Magnetic Induction Scanned Array for Self-Contained Long-Range Communications, Department of the Army, June 2024 - December 2024. 
   

Next-Generation Underwater Communication: Swarm Autonomy

 
 SoftWater system architecture. 

• SKIDDLE: Swarm Coherence in DDIL Environments, Air Force Research Laboratory, July 2025.