Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Rong-Rong Chen has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a communications project.
The U.S.-Ireland NSF grant, totaling $224,999, is for a project titled “Collaborative Research: U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership: Integrated Sensing and Telecommunications for Intelligent Connection and Transmission (INSTINCT).”
Chen says that the project advances Integrated Sensing and Communication, a transformative technology that enables wireless systems to function simultaneously as communication networks and sensing platforms.
The research conducted by Chen and her team is investigating advanced signal processing in the wavenumber-delay-Doppler domain and employs continuous-aperture phased MIMO (CAP-MIMO) technology to support dynamic, real-time data transmission and environmental sensing.
Prof. Chen’s team is creating electromagnetic-informed channel models, designing optimized signaling strategies for CAP-MIMO, and developing AI-driven neural network architectures for adaptive beamforming and radar sensing with reconfigurable hardware. These innovations are expected to make future wireless systems more intelligent, efficient, and resilient in complex environments.