Department of Computer Science receives $100K sub contract from Clarkson Aerospace under the Minority Leaders Research Collaboration Program of the Air Force Research Lab
JSU's Department of Computer Science was recently awarded a total of $100,000 as a sub contract titled: "A Stable Trustworthy Neighborhood Scheme for Secure Mobile Sensor Networks," from Clarkson Aerospace, Inc., funded through the US Air Force Research Lab under the Minority Leaders Research Collaboration Program (ML RCP).
Dr. Natarajan Meghanathan, a tenured Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science, is the Principal Investigator (PI) on this research sub contract that runs from Spring 2016 to Summer 2017. The main focus of this sub contract is to actively engage minority students (who are US Citizens) in some of the cutting-edge emerging research areas such as Mobile Sensor Networks, Cyber Security and Network Science. A total of 4 undergraduate students and one graduate student have been so far funded under this sub contract.
As part of this research award, Dr. Meghanathan and his team are investigating the use of Network Science techniques to quantify the stability and trustworthiness of links in mobile sensor networks without requiring to know the location and mobility information of the nodes.
Dr. Meghanathan says, "The ML RCP award is very useful to train the minority undergraduate students to pursue high-quality research by building on top of the knowledge obtained from their regular coursework and motivate them to publish peerreviewed articles as well as apply for graduate schools. For example, a conference paper titled: Jaccard similarity-based quantification of the neighborhood stability of a node in mobile sensor networks, with an undergraduate student as co-author, has been recently accepted for presentation at the SPIE Defense and Security conference in Anaheim, CA from April 9-13, 2017."