Project Outcomes

Publications 

Journals

• Talha Bozkus and Urbashi Mitra, "Link Analysis for Solving Multiple-Access MDPs With Large State Spaces," in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 71, pp. 947-962, 2023.

Conference Proceedings 

• Zhican Chen, Kumar Vijay Mishra and Ashutosh Sabharwal, “Simulator for Opportunistic Weather Sensing with 5G Massive MIMO Communications,” to be presented at 40th Conference on Radar Meteorology. 

• Greg Fields and Tara Javidi. "Sequential Hypothesis Testing for Markov Chains." to be presented at the 2023 International Symposium in Information Theory. 

• Talha Bozkus and Urbashi Mitra, “Ensemble Graph Q-Learning for Large Scale Networks,” in ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023. 

• Jianxiu Li and Urbashi Mitra, “Channel State Information-Free Artificial Noise-Aided Location-Privacy Enhancement,” in ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.

Additional Collaborations and Presentations 

• Zhican Chen and PI Sabharwal are collaborating with Kumar Vijay Mishra at Army Research Labs on the topic of precipitation sensing. 

• Graduate student Yirong Chen presented his ongoing research to Intel Labs, one of the collaborating companies for the LARA project.

• Graduate student Talha Bozkus, USC, presented his ongoing research at UCSD and is directly collaborating with UCSD graduate student, Greg Fields, and PI Javidi.

• Graduate student Talha Bozkus has also met with colleagues from Intel to discuss the work presented by co-PI Mitra.

Internships

• Greg Fields interned at Amazon during Summer 2023.

• Yirong Chen interned at Samsung during Summer 2023.

• Talha Bozkus interned at Marvell Technology during Summer 2023.

Educational activities and Outreach

• co-PI Mitra developed and taught a course on causality and counter-factual inference which she taught in Fall 2022 at USC. The LARA graduate students as well as collaborating postdocs attended the course (in person and remotely). 

• The course provided the foundation of much of the research to be conducted as part of LARA porject. 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) 

PI Javidi is the founding co-director of UCSD's Machine Intelligence, Computing, and Security (MICS). MICS faculty has organically grown to be the world’s most gender-balanced engineering research center with a record number of diverse former PhD students and postdocs becoming stellar researchers in industry and research labs. Capitalizing on our unique record, MICS has partnered with Qualcomm to establish MICS-Qualcomm Hypatia Dissertation Fellowship. Named in honor of the ancient Greek computing scholar, engineer, and mathematician, the Hypatia Dissertation Fellowship annually recognizes a promising PhD dissertation with significant technical as well as DEI impact. The program solicits competitive nominations and provides financial support for the fellows' activities for the duration of their dissertations (up to 3 years) and consists of an integrated mentoring program for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and students. 

Housed within the MICS Collaboratory at UCSD, the program will provide a dual collaboration-space and mentoring network for our Hypatia Fellows. Building on social scientific findings on the value of role models, cohort and community, and vision and imagination, the MICS-Qualcomm Hypatia Fellowship  will create a constellation of stellar researchers whose visibility and impact will only expands the organic diversity of MICS Center at UCSD.