CNS Research Review

The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) held its 30th CNS Research Review on April 29. This annual event included CNS corporate partners, faculty and graduate students. There were research talks by Audrey Randall, Lixiang Ao, Alex Liu, Jennifer Switzer, Alex Yen and Alex Forencich and two-minute lightning talks presented by ten graduate students.

SkySafe founder and CEO Grant Jordan, who studied at CSE, gave the keynote, focusing on the challenges of tracking drones in critical airspace. With hundreds of drones in its fleet, Skysafe has reverse- engineered these complex machines to better understand how they operate and interact.

Jordan discussed what it takes to build these systems, as well as the infrastructure needed to boost drone use for good and discourage careless, clueless and criminal elements. The industry is also embracing data analytics/coordination, AI, ML, normalizing data, sensor fusion and improved reverse engineering.