Background Ground-based snow monitoring stations have long supported water management, forecasting, and planning. Recent advancements in remote sensing technology have improved the ability to monitor snow cover at broader scales. Satellite imagery, such as that from the Moderate Resolutiion Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), have been used to track...

Wireless networks have seen exponential growth in popularity due to the inherent accessibility provided by the broadcast nature of the wireless medium. However, this ease of reception also introduces significant security vulnerabilities. Within the range of wireless transmissions between transmitters and legitimate receivers, passive eavesdroppers can...

Background Quality in manufacturing ensures the adherence of built products to the specifications set by the designer and their proper functioning when put into operation. An important factor influencing products’ quality is the contamination of process (or build) parameters used during the manufacturing process. The choice of these build conditions...

Background Under-actuated compliant systems have grown in prevalence in recent years in the soft robotics area. The coupled stiffness and damping characteristics of system structure and materials of these systems enable robotic systems for tasks including locomotion and gripping. Legged robots in particular exhibit superior maneuverability in intricate...

Background There have been growing concerns relating to public safety and law enforcement in urban environments, particularly in New York City. The interconnected nature of mass shootings, hate crimes, and criminal complains remains a matter of significant concern. This has prompted the need for a comprehensive and data-driven approach to understand...

Background The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires creates difficulty for power engineers to decide on the best course of action for ensuring reliable and resilient system operation. To enable informed decision-making in the presence of active wildfire risks, knowledge of the local environmental conditions surrounding the electric power...

Background Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned to benefit various emerging applications in the future, with enhanced spectral, energy, and hardware efficiency. One potential scenario is the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) for inventory management in warehouses or retail stores, where low-cost passive RFID tags...

Background Deep neural networks (DNNs) are an important tool in enhancing deep learning capabilities, but they have substantial computational and memory requirements. Quantization is one of the important model compression approaches to address the mismatch between resource-hungry DNNs and resource-constrained devices, by converting the full-precision...

Background In virtual reality, the utilization of technology that uses touch and vibrations to communicate with users, simulating tactile sensations like pressure, resistance, and texture (haptic feedback), is often quite unrealistic when users engage with virtual fluids. Vibrotactile actuators are small motors or vibrators that generate haptic feedback,...

Background Next-generation wireless networks in beyond-5G and 6G face critical challenges in meeting increasing demands for fast data rates and strict requirements on mobility, reliability, latency, and energy efficiency. Current approaches to satisfy the data rate requirements include using high-frequency bands in millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz,...