Team
AIRBORNE COMPUTING NETWORKS
(NSF CCRI: 2235157, 2235158, 2235159, 2235160)
(NSF CRI: 1730675, 1730589, 1730570, 1730325)
PI Team
Dr. Yan Wan is currently a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in 2009 and then did postdoctoral training at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests lie in the modeling, evaluation, and control of large-scale dynamical networks, cyber-physical system, stochastic networks, decentralized control, learning control, networking, uncertainty analysis, algebraic graph theory, and their applications to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networking, UAV traffic management, epidemic spread, complex information networks, and air traffic management. She received research grants from NSF, ONR, ARO, NIST, IEEE, Ford, Lockheed, and MITRE Corporation as subcontracts from the FAA. Her research has led to over 180 publications and successful technology transfer outcomes. She has received several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, RTCA William E. Jackson Award, U.S. Ignite and GENI demonstration awards, IEEE WCNC and ICCA Best Paper Awards, UTA Outstanding Research Achievement or Creative Accomplishment Award, UNT Early Career Award for Research and Creativity, UTA STARS Award, and Tech Titan of the Future – University Level Award. She currently serves as the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Unmanned Systems, and Journal of Advanced Control for Applications. She also serves as a Conference Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and Technical Committee Member of AIAA Intelligent Systems, IEEE CSS Nonlinear Systems and Control, and IEEE CSS Networks and Communication Systems.
Shengli Fu: Personal Website
Dr. Fu is currently a Professor and Chair in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of North Texas. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Delaware in August 2005, and M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Wright State University in August 2002 and another M.S. degree in Communication and Electronic System from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in April 1997. His research interests can be categorized into three major areas: 1) coding and information theory: space-time coding and decoding, distributed coding, network coding, joint encryption and error-correction coding; 2) wireless communications: cooperative communications, wireless sensor networks, and security in wireless networks; 3) speech and visual signal processing: speech driven facial animation and speaker location.
Kejie Lu: Personal Website
Dr. Lu is currently a Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (major in Telecommunications) from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2003. His research interests can be categorized into two major areas: 1) computer and communications networks: architecture and protocol design, performance evaluation, network security, and network coding; 2) wireless communications: space-time coding, channel capacity, and cooperative communication.
Junfei Xie: Personal Website
Dr. Junfei Xie is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the San Diego State University (SDSU). She received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2012. She received her M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2013 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of North Texas (UNT), Denton, TX, in 2016. Before joining SDSU, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC). Her research interests include large-scale dynamic system design and control, uncertainty quantification, networked airborne computing, mobile edge computing, unmanned aerial systems, air traffic flow management, spatiotemporal data analysis, and complex information systems, etc. She is the recipient of multiple prestigious awards such as the NSF CAREER Award, SDSU Presidential Research Faculty Fellow Award, Top 50 Women of Influence in Engineering by San Diego Business Journal, etc. She currently serves as the Guest Editor of Unmanned Systems, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Systems, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. She is a senior member of IEEE and AIAA.
Advisory Board
Robert Health, Cullen Trust Endowed Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin.
Frank Lewis, Moncrief-O’Donnell Endowed Chair, UT Arlington Research Institute.
Wenjing Lou, Professor, W. C. English Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Jonathan P. How, Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Taskin Padir, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University.