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- October 2026 issueJournal
2 papers in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Yuanchang Xie published 2 papers in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence: A two-stage detection and segmentation framework for pedestrian crosswalk inventory and condition assessment from aerial imagery; Hybrid transformer and large language model framework for lane-level short-term travel time prediction.
- October 2026 issueJournal
QoT-Aware Dynamic Resource Allocation and Grooming in Multi-Band Space-Division Multiplexing Networks
Vinod M. Vokkarane published in IEEE/Optica Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.
- October 2026 startAward
SUMMIT: A Secure and Resilient Multi-site Smart Grid Testbed for Multidisciplinary Research and Training
National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation Track 2 (Award #2511635) ($2.0M). A federated cyber-physical testbed that links RTDS real-time simulation of the Northeast transmission grid with control, networking, and cybersecurity hardware in the loop across three universities over a wide-area SDN, delivered as HIL Simulation-as-a-Service. A postdoctoral researcher will lead federation development.
- October 2026 startAward
BOND-AI: A Standardized Reliability Qualification Methodology for High-Temperature Printed Interfaces and Bond Joints, Enabled by Physics-Informed AI, on a 500 °C-Capable Alumina Platform
NextFlex (FlexTech Alliance) ($1.0M). A qualification methodology for printed interfaces and bond joints that must survive 500 °C, using physics-informed AI to predict reliability rather than test it one sample at a time.
- October 2026Milestone
SUMMIT begins
NSF's $2M Major Research Instrumentation Track 2 award funds a three-site federated smart grid testbed with NYU and West Virginia University, starting October 1, 2026; a postdoctoral search is under way.
- October 2026Milestone
ARPO-Sensor Fusion starts under the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's Applied AI Models program ($625K, of which $247K to UMass Lowell and UMLARC), performed at UMLARC
- September 2026Journal
A Novel Distributed Sensor Network to Assess Wind Turbine Blade Acoustics for Structural Health Monitoring
Yan Luo published in Wind Energy.
- September 2026Journal
Merging behavior under varying work zone sign scenarios: A heterogeneity-based analysis
Yuanchang Xie published in Accident Analysis & Prevention.
- September 2026Milestone
The FUSION benchmarking framework paper appears in JOCN's special issue on benchmarking in optical networks, followed in October by a QoT-aware grooming paper for multi-band SDM networks
- August 2026Journal
2 papers in Accident Analysis & Prevention
Yuanchang Xie published 2 papers in Accident Analysis & Prevention: Accounting for under-reporting in wildlife–vehicle collision hotspot identification using copulas and Bayesian model averaging; Quantifying the safety effects of left-turn signal control mode: A heterogeneous causal inference framework.
- August 2026Journal
QoT-Aware Spectral and Spatial Scaling Trade-offs in Multi-Band Space Division Multiplexing over EONs [Invited]
Vinod M. Vokkarane published in IEEE/Optica Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.
- August 2026Conference
Timely Control for Quantum Cloud: Orchestrating Entanglement Under Decay
Lewis Tseng published in 3rd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing (QuNet), ACM SIGCOMM 2026.
- August 2026Award
Planning Federated AI-Ready Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microscopy and Imaging: A Teach-Explore-Design Framework for Community-Driven Infrastructure
National Science Foundation, OAC Category III (Award #2609490) ($499K). Planning a federated, AI-ready cyberinfrastructure for advanced microscopy and imaging, designed with the community that will use it.
- July 2026Conference
LLM Based Static Malware Analysis for Windows Portable Executables
Yan Luo published in 35th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN).