AI Edge Deputy Director Professor Yingbin Liang Recently Won a $1 Million NSF Award

OSU ECE Prof. Yingbin Liang, jointly with Prof. Junshan Zhang (UC-Davis), Prof. Hai (Helen) Li (Duke U.) and Prof. Qinru Qiu (Syracuse U.), recently won a $1 Million NSF Award on "RINGS: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Large-scale UAV Network with Distributed Navigation, Mobility Control, and Resilience". This project is part of the NSF Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS) program, which aims to accelerate research in emerging Next Generation (NextG) wireless networks and systems. The goal of the project is to develop various foundational technologies in order to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to have strong sensing, communications, and on-board computing capabilities, to adapt rapidly to the dynamically changing environment, to be resilient to extreme environmental conditions, and to be secure against data contamination and malicious attacks. By leveraging and advancing the recent breakthroughs in NextG wireless communications, deep machine learning, hardware-aware model generation, and robust and trustworthy artificial intelligence, the project is anticipated to design a NextG resilient UAV navigation system, with high-performance communication, computation, automation and adaptivity during missions.