August 2026

August 2026 at the center: 1 new award, 4 new papers, 3 in journals, 1 milestone.

New awards

Planning Federated AI-Ready Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microscopy and Imaging: A Teach-Explore-Design Framework for Community-Driven Infrastructure ($499K)
National Science Foundation, OAC Category III (Award #2609490). PI Lewis Tseng; Co-PIs Hsien-Yuan Hsu (UMass Lowell) and Yu-Tsun Shao (University of Southern California)
Planning a federated, AI-ready cyberinfrastructure for advanced microscopy and imaging, designed with the community that will use it.

New papers

Journal articles

A. Moeinaddini, T. Zhang, C. D’Agostino, Y. Xie, Y. Zou
Accounting for under-reporting in wildlife–vehicle collision hotspot identification using copulas and Bayesian model averaging
Accident Analysis & Prevention, vol. 233, art. 108583, Aug. 2026IF 5.7 (2023)

A. Rezaee, F. Arpanaei, R. McCann, L. Nadal, J. A. Hernández, V. M. Vokkarane
QoT-Aware Spectral and Spatial Scaling Trade-offs in Multi-Band Space Division Multiplexing over EONs [Invited]
IEEE/Optica Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. C160-C172, Aug. 2026IF 4.0 (2023)

S. Xu, Y. Chen, Y. Xie, C. Wang
Quantifying the safety effects of left-turn signal control mode: A heterogeneous causal inference framework
Accident Analysis & Prevention, vol. 233, art. 108549, Aug. 2026IF 5.7 (2023)

Conference papers and chapters

L. Tseng
Timely Control for Quantum Cloud: Orchestrating Entanglement Under Decay
3rd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing (QuNet), ACM SIGCOMM 2026, pp. 32-34, Aug. 2026

Milestones

Lewis Tseng presents timely control for quantum clouds at the ACM SIGCOMM 2026 QuNet workshop.

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