UC Riverside professor joins NSF aviation safety network project

University of California, Riverside announced that Distinguished Professor Kadangode “K.K.” Ramakrishnan will join a $4.8 million National Science Foundation-funded aviation safety research project called AERONET.

• The project will develop AI-enabled orchestration of 5G cellular, Wi-Fi, and satellite networks to improve low-delay, reliable communications for aircraft and airports.
• The team is led by Puneet Sharma of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Lab (HPE) and includes researchers from UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Northeastern University; Ramakrishnan is also joining a separate U.S. Department of Energy-funded project, SciNet, announced earlier this year.