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Marconi-Rosenblatt AI/ML Team Earns Best Paper Award at ACM WiseML

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).

Dr. Jithin Jagannath to Speak at the Industry Expert Sessions at the 2022 IEEE ICASSP

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

Anu Jagannath Presents with IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE TAI)

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.

Click the link to read the full paper.
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Dr. Jithin Jagannath Announced as an Awardee for the 40 Under Forty AFCEA Awards

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

ANDRO Listed as One of the Most Innovative Companies in Rome

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:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

View the full list here: 18 Most Innovative Cyber Security Startups & Companies (Rome) – Data Magazine

Army SBIR Awarded: DeepForecaster

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!

Local Wreaths Across America Organizers Thank ANDRO For Support

ROME — ANDRO Computational Solutions of Rome on Turin Road was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation for the company’s donation and support of Wreaths Across America by U.S. Army Lt. Col. Retired Joseph Maurer, past-president of the Greater Rome-Utica Chapter Military Officers’ Association of America.

Wreaths Across America coordinates wreath-laying ceremonies at more than 3,000 locations across the United States at home and abroad.

On Dec. 18, the Greater Rome-Utica Chapter organized wreath-laying ceremonies at six local cemeteries before working together with other volunteers to place approximately 1,600 wreaths on the graves of veterans.

For the past two years, ANDRO has participated in Wreaths Across America and continues to support veteran organizations, the announcement added

View the full story here

Army Awards ANDRO $1.1M Contract for New Platform

Posted Thursday, February 17, 2022 Rome Daily Sentinel

ROME – ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC of Rome has been awarded a U.S. Army contract valued at $1.1 million to develop DeepSPEC, a platform for enhancing radio frequency signal detection and classification.

“DeepSPEC aims to revolutionize technologies for spectrum awareness in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) applications by miniaturizing neural networks deployed on embedded edge devices such as tactical radios,” said ANDRO’s President Dr. Andrew Drozd.

The work will be spearheaded by ANDRO’s Marconi-Rosenblatt Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML) Innovation Lab led by Dr. Jithin Jagannath, lab director and chief scientist of technology, and Anu Jagannath, AI/ML lab associate director.

Drozd said the Army is seeking more effective methods of sifting through noisy RF spectral environments consisting of radar and tactical communication signals and needs the ability to intuitively visualize “what is happening, when it happens.”

Anu Jagannath stated that, “The ultimate aim of DeepSPEC is to ensure comprehensive spectrum awareness for every Army platoon and battalion for timely actionable intelligence,” Anu Jagannath explained. “Spectrum holds unprecedented information which if correctly and swiftly interpreted, can save the lives of our warfighters.”

ANDRO has engaged the Lockheed Martin Company as a transition partner to embed DeepSPEC into small form-factor tactical radios in the next contract phase to service Department of Defense programs of record.

DeepSPEC builds on ANDRO’s prior research for the Army, Air Force, Navy and other DoD agencies to develop advanced automatic modulation and signal classification systems for use in soldier-mounted software defined radios (SDRs).

Over the past 10 years, ANDRO has led advanced research in applying AI/ML, artificial neural networks and deep learning techniques to SDR platforms solving a wide range of challenging RF signal intelligence and wireless communications security problems.

Drozd said he is proud of his team’s accomplishments noting that, “Our team represents a new generation of ‘unicorns’ leading the way in bringing together the latest in wireless technology with the best in AI/ML.”

“Deploying powerful AI/ML algorithms on embedded platforms is a daunting task owing to the typical immense computational demand, where DeepSPEC aims to address this challenge in addition to solving the unknowns of the RF spectrum,” said Dr. Jithin Jagannath.

The ANDRO team envisions DeepSPEC to have broad and diverse applications beyond the realm of the DoD. For instance, it can be used to improve the spectrum sensing performance of intelligent-communication systems used for managing the coexistence of communication and radar systems in the commercial Citizens Broadband Radio Services (CBRS) band.

The success of programs like DeepSPEC will be one step closer in ANDRO’s plans to expand and pave the way for establishing a lightweight radio production center in Rome, built around an array of next-generation radio and wireless communications products, Drozd said.

ANDRO brings its military heritage of products to the commercial market and plans to relocate and expand its facilities in the Rome area by the fourth quarter of 2023. Visit www.androcs.com for more information on ANDRO including job placement opportunities.

Read the Central New York Business Journal story here