Rawat wins prestigious NSF CAREER award

June 6, 2016

Danda Rawat, Ph.D., an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Georgia Southern, has earned a prestigious early career award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Rawat was the recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, a prestigious award that supports junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research. The five-year award will fund Rawat’s research project titled “CAREER: Leveraging Wireless Virtualization for Enhancing Network Capacity, Coverage, Energy Efficiency and Security. Rawat says his research hopes to significantly advance the field of wireless networking, and will have applications in numerous areas of cognitive networking such as public safety networks, smart grid, e-health, vehicular networks, next-generation cellular networks, the Internet-of-Things, cyber-physical systems and secure cyberspace. Rawat is the founder and director Cyber-security, Wireless Systems and Networking Innovations (CWiNs) Laboratory at the university's Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering & Information Technology. He and his team are also working on cyber-security for networked systems, cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-Things, big data analytics for smart networked systems, vehicular networking for transportation CPS, unmanned aerial vehicular ad hoc networks, software-defined networks and smart grid systems.