ECE Professors have received an $8 million Department of Defense grant for developing an Autonomous and Secure Heterogeneous Integrated (AASHI) System of Systems, an AI-driven framework for managing vast, fast-changing networks of devices across land, air, sea, cyberspace. The project is led by Professor Amit Roy-Chowdhury of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and includes ECE Professors Yingbo Hua, Basak Guler, and Hang Qiu, whose expertise is in communication and intelligent systems. Along with collaborators from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering as well as University of California, San Diego, the project will develop AI tools that integrate devices with varying capabilites, determine where critical data should be processed, and maintain robust cybersecurity even as networks reconfigure on the fly. By leveraging the semantics of data streams, AAISHI aims to dynamically reconfigure system resources, with applications ranging from battlefield coordination to disaster response to commercial 6G and Internet of Things. The four-year project will also support multiple graduate and undergraduate students, and offer hands-on experience at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and communications. 

Link to the UCR News Article: AAISHI