ANDRO Marconi-Rosenblatt AI/ML Innovation Lab has been awarded Direct SBIR Phase II by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). This will help us explore the boundaries of what is possible in the realm of jammer resilience for multiple communication systems and GPS.
This is a key area of interest for us because of the persistent use of jammers in the contested environment to debilitate GPS and wireless systems.
Dr. Andy Drozd, President & Chief Scientist of ANDRO, was one of the over 65 innovators, industrials & inspirational thinkers that came together this week at Innovare for a scoping session hosted by the Griffiss Institute and Cantina, on how to best respond to a recent National Science Foundation (NSF) solicitation.
The group joined forces to sharpen key messages and coalesced the business and research communities’ needs and desires to advance research, workforce development, and economic opportunity in the broad lens of #cybersecurity.
Included were representatives from SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Air Force Research Laboratory, New York State Technology Enterprise Corporation (NYSTEC), Indium Corporation, Rochester Institute of Technology, Peraton/Peraton Labs, ResilienX, Assured Information Security (AIS), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Binghamton University, Arch Street LLC, MACNY – The Manufacturers Association, FuzeHub, The Research Foundation for SUNY, Securboration, Syracuse University, ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, CNY Defense Alliance, Mohawk Valley Community College, Mohawk Valley EDGE, and more.
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ROME — The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association recently named Dr. Jithin Jagannath of ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC a recipient of the AFCEA International Meritorious Rising Star Award for Achievements in Engineering and the AFCEA 40 Under 40 Award.
Jagannath’s research led to his appointment as chief scientist of technology at ANDRO and the founding director of its Marconi-Rosenblatt AI/ML Innovation Lab in Rome, which continues to perform groundbreaking research in signal intelligence, waveform classification, and radio frequency fingerprinting towards new and innovative radio product development. One recent product developed and commercially launched by the AI/ML lab that Jagannath leads is ANDRO’s SPEARLink radio.
The AFCEA 40 Under 40 Award is given annually to 40 individuals ages 40 and younger for their significant contributions to the technical science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields by providing innovation, thought leadership, and support to their clients or organizations using information technology.
Jagannath also holds a position as part-time adjunct assistant professor at the University of Buffalo’s Electrical Engineering Department where he instructs virtual classes and shares his innovative research in wireless communications, machine learning, and data science with students pursuing STEM careers.
AFCEA is a member-based, non-profit association for professionals that provides highly sought-after thought leadership, engagement, and networking opportunities. The association has helped members advance information technology, communications, and electronics capabilities since 1946. Its main focus has been on cyber, command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence to address national and international security challenges.
Jagannath said he is proud of his lab’s accomplishments in applying innovative machine learning to solve some of the hardest problems in wireless communication and computer vision, a notable achievement that contributed to his AFCEA award selection. His lab has been at the forefront of developing a suite of first-of-kind signal intelligence solutions namely DeepSPEC, DeepeRFind, and DeepForecaster, all funded by the Department of Defense (DoD) just over the past year, the announcement said, adding these patent-pending technologies are unique as they strive to be lightweight for tactical edge deployment while outperforming the state-of-the-art.
As part of a Department of Homeland Security research effort, Jagannath’s lab also devised a technology that will provide 5G/6G systems the ability for secure spectrum sharing with Wi-Fi 6/6E. Jagannath envisions benefits to the DoD’s Beyond 5G networks where security will become crucial.
“Understanding and predicting the radio frequency spectrum using signal intelligence and then capitalizing on it to improve efficiency and security will keep us ahead of the game,” Jagannath said.
According to ANDRO’s CEO Dr. Andrew Drozd, the AFCEA organization viewed his innovations in AI/ML for wireless and the SPEARLink radio as Jagannath’s most noteworthy accomplishments, further adding that the same technology can be customized to serve any remote area that has limited broadband access.
“We are pleased that AFCEA has recognized Dr. Jagannath for his contributions and are grateful for the work he has done to leverage SPEARLink and other technologies in a variety of civilian applications such as drone delivery, telehealth, public safety, municipal services, and remote education,” said Drozd.
Beyond wireless communication, ANDRO’s Marconi-Rosenblatt lab has made considerable impacts using the power of AI-enabled computer vision to enhance autonomous drones for the U.S. Navy.
“We at ANDRO are very proud of Dr. Jagannath’s achievements and are inspired by his leadership as Chief Scientist and lab director, keeping in mind that the AFCEA awards are international recognitions and are highly competitive,” Drozd said.
The local Erie Canal Chapter of AFCEA will recognize Jagannath at an upcoming event.
In addition to his AFCEA recognitions, Jagannath is an IEEE Senior Member and recipient of the IEEE’s Region 1 Technological Innovation Award for contributions in machine learning techniques for the wireless domain. He has led more than ten SBIR and other federal/defense contracts for ANDRO issued by the U.S Army U.S. Navy, U.S. Special Operations Command, Department of Homeland Security, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Jagannath is co-Inventor of 12 ANDRO patents both awarded and pending in the field of machine learning and wireless communication. He has published over 35 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and conferences and is often invited to give scholarly talks, including keynote speeches, at leading international conferences and events globally.
Jagannath is an invited technical reviewer providing more than 100 paper reviews for leading journal and conference publications. He holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, master’s of science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo and a bachelor’s degree in technology, electronics and communication engineering from the University of Kerala in India.
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Dr. Jithin Jagannath, Director of the Marconi-Rosenblatt AI/ML Lab at ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC is proud to announce his teams paper, MR-iNet Gym: Framework for Edge Deployment of Deep Reinforcement Learning on Embedded Software Defined Radio, won the Best Paper Award at the ACM WiseML conference.
The team showed how they leveraged their MR-iNet Gym to demonstrate one such instance of distributed power control using an adaptive LPI/D waveform. The entire LPI/D PHY layer and the Intelligent protocol stack that employs the RL engine runs on Deepwave Digital‘s AIR-T SDR.
At the Marconi-Rosenblatt AI/ML Lab, we have further advanced the solutions to provide joint frequency and power allocation in the presence of jammers demonstrating uninterrupted video transmission over-the-air while making real-time decisions. This is just the first step and a lot more exciting work lies ahead at the intersection of machine learning and wireless.
This initial part of our work was presented at ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning (WiseML 2022).
On Wednesday, 11 May, Dr. Jithin Jagannath, Chief Scientist of Technology at ANDRO and Director of the Marconi-Rosenblatt AI/ML Innovation Lab, will present at the Industry Expert Session “Machine Learning for RF Signal Intelligence – Where We Are and What Challenges and Opportunities Lie Ahead?” at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP), is the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s flagship conference on signal processing and its applications. The 47th edition of ICASSP will be held in Singapore. The program will include keynotes by pre-eminent international speakers, cutting-edge tutorial topics, and forward-looking special sessions. ICASSP also provides a great networking opportunity with a wide range of like-minded professionals from academia.
More details: https://2022.ieeeicassp.org/view_event.php?mid=11
A great video- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE TAI).
Sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and presented by authors and leadership of the #ieeetransactionsonartificialintelligence.
Anu Jagannath, Associate Director, Marconi-Rosenblatt AI/ML Innovation Lab at ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC chimes in at 6:36 discussing how deep unfolded machine learning techniques could benefit the future 6G networks.
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Congratulations to Dr. Jithin Jagannath, Chief Scientist of Technology and Founding Director of the Marconi-Rosenblatt Lab at ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, for being chosen as an AFCEA International 40 Under 40 Award winner! The AFCEA 40 Under 40 Award is given to 40 individuals ages 40 or under for their significant contributions in a technical science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field by providing innovation, thought leadership, and support to their client or organizations using information technology (IT).
The 40 Under 40 Award presentation will take place on Monday, April 25, 2022 from 5:00-8:00pm. If you would like to attend, register here
For more information, visit: https://www.afcea.org/site/40U40Winners
In NSC’s Spotlight series, ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC Chief Scientist of Technology and Marconi-Rosenblatt AI/ML Innovation Lab Founding Director Jithin Jagannath discussed applied machine learning in wireless communications and security in #spectrum sharing.
ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, joined the list of the 18 Most Innovative Cyber Security Startups & Companies in an article published by Data Magazine.
This article showcases our top picks for the best Rome based Cyber Security companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Cyber Security industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
These startups and companies were chosen for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
View the full list here: 18 Most Innovative Cyber Security Startups & Companies (Rome) – Data Magazine
Another exciting step forward towards comprehensive #RF#SIGINT for #tactical#ISR!!
ANDRO’s Marconi-Rosenblatt AI/ML Innovation Lab has been awarded an Army SBIR titled, “DeepForecaster: AI Engine for comprehensive RF SIGINT, assured PNT, and Forecasting”
In this exciting project, in addition to classification and localization, we are evaluating the feasibility of predicting the unknown RF emitter’s behavior in the Spectrum of Interest. Let’s find out what is possible!
