Zhi Tian, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Yue Wang, Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, are set to receive $125,000 from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority for the project: "Securing Multi-access Edge Computing using Artificial Intelligence."
The researchers will conduct their research in three thrusts:
• Thrust 1: Enhancing the network security of mobile edge computing;
• Thrust 2: Enhancing the efficiency of collaborative machine learning for secure edge computing; and
• Thrust 3: Feasibility analysis and testbed validation.
Funding for this project will begin in December 2021 and will end in December 2022.
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