Research Initiative Receives a Department of Defense Grant
The Department of Defense awarded a grant to the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering.
The $9 million dollar grant will be used to create the Convergence Lab Initiative (CLI), a research institute for solving defense, health care, city technologies, and transportation challenges.
The grant will support the research and development of various technologies including artificial intelligence, future-generation wireless technology (Future-G), and other emerging sciences to manage network security and the electromagnetic spectrum.
Other technological features of the lab will include radio frequency electro-optics, infrared, edge security technologies, advanced microelectronics, integrated sensors, semiconductor device modeling, and quantum simulation.
Spearheaded by computer and electrical engineering professors Erdem Topsakal, Nibir K. Dhar, and Ümit Özgür, the lab will use the grant over several years to support education, training, and partnership in technology to bring together scientists, engineers, students, technicians, and the university and CLI partner companies.
