Speaker Series: "Artificial Intelligence, Wireless Communications, and Software-Defined Radio"
Chatham Marconi Welcomes Alexander Wyglinski, PhD to its Speaker Series
The past decade has witnessed a significant growth cycle in Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances as new knowledge and new techniques have emerged that are revolutionizing this domain. One of the many application spaces being affected by these latest advances is wireless communication networking, where the process of system/network optimization as well as system/network feature detection, extraction, and classification are dramatically being enhanced relative to the current state-of-the-art defined approximately 5-10 years ago. Furthermore, not only are existing applications for supporting wireless communication systems/networks being improved upon, but these latest AI advances are also being used to assist the community in realizing new approaches and techniques that were not feasible only a few years ago. Software-defined radio (SDR) is well-suited to realize many of the resulting wireless communication systems and networking designs generated by AI due to its flexibility and ability to adapt to changes in the operating environment. However, as with all hardware implementations, there are practical limitations that impose constraints on how realizable some AI-generated designs are given the latest SDR technology and supporting computational resources. Nevertheless, the potential of AI coupled with SDR technology has the ability to change how society communicates with one another. In this talk, we explore how AI and SDR can be co-designed together to realize communication system and networking solutions that address challenging use cases. We then delve into several use cases studied extensively at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), including cognitive radio-based satellite communications, radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting, and smart jamming of 5G networks.
About Our Speaker
Alexander M. Wyglinski is the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Mass, USA, as well as the Director of the Wireless Innovation Laboratory at WPI. Dr. Wyglinski served as the President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society during 2018-2019. He received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1999 and 2005, and his M.Sc.(Eng.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada in 2000. Dr. Wyglinski’s current research interests are in wireless communications, cognitive radio, machine learning for wireless systems, software defined radio prototyping, connected and autonomous vehicles, and dynamic spectrum sensing. Dr. Wyglinski has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal papers, over 135 peer-reviewed conference papers, and 3 textbooks throughout his academic career. He has been sponsored by both government agencies and industry such as the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA, Verizon, MITRE, Analog Devices, and Raytheon.
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Programs are usually presented on the first Thursday of each month from September through June, and on alternate Thursday evenings during the Summer. Subjects are drawn from the resources of the Marconi-RCA Wireless Museum, the Education Center's STEM programs, or member-suggested topics related to our mission.
Date and Time
Thursday May 1, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EDT
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General Admission is $10 either per person attending or for Zoom webinar access for one linked computer. In-person seating is limited. Reservations may be made at ChathamMarconi.org/speakerseries .
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