RINGS PI Meeting #4

February 4th, 2026

This year’s RINGS PI Event will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams, making it easy for everyone to join from any location. We’re excited to feature a strong lineup of presenters who will be sharing valuable updates, insights, and innovations from across the program. For the full agenda, session descriptions, and additional event details, please visit the RINGS PI 4 Page. To Attend the event be sure to jump onto the PI 4 Page over at RINGS Connect.

Agenda and Virtual Sessions

 

 

  • 11:00AM ET – Welcome

    • Welcome, RINGS VO, NSF RINGS + Keynote

  • 11:40AM ET – Team Presentations

    • Track 1

    • Track 2

    • Track 3

  • 12:40PM ET – Break

  • 12:50PM ET – Team Presentations

    • Track 1

    • Track 2

    • Track 3

  • 1:50PM ET – Break

  • 1:55PM ET – Partners Panel – RINGS Technologies and Applications

  • 2:30PM ET – NSF Updates on RINGS, VINES and TTP

  • 2:50PM ET – RINGS PI Wrap Up – RINGS

Track One

 

11:30AM – 12:30PM ET, Session 1

1 – Enabling Wireless Edge-cloud Services via Autonomous Resource Allocation and Robust Physical Layer Technologies, Eytan Modiano, Gil Zussman 

2 – Learning based Resilient Immersive Media-Compression, Delivery, and Interaction, Shiwen Mao, Zhu Li 

3 – A Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Large-scale UAV Network with Distributed Navigation, Mobility Control, and Resilience, Yingbin Liang

12:40PM – 1:40PM ET, Session 2

1 – RINGS: Learning-Enabled Ground and Air Integrated Networks (GAINs), Lingjia Liu

2 – Enabling Joint Sensing, Communication, and Multi-tenant Edge AI for Cooperative Perception Systems, Kaikai Liu

3 – Walk For Resiliency & Privacy: A Random Walk Framework for Learning at the Edge, Salim El Rouayheb,  Xingran Chen

Track Two

 

11:30AM – 12:30PM ET, Session 1

1 – Massive Extended-Array Transceivers for Robust Scaling of All-Digital mmWave MIMO, Upamanyu Madhow, Mark Rodwell

2 – “Multi-Modal Data Integration for Telecom AI Models”, Ali Maatouk, Yale University

3 – Mobility-driven Spectrum-Agile Resilient mmWave Communication Links for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Traffic Management in the Sky, Kamesh Namuduri

12:40PM – 1:40PM ET, Session 2

 

1 – Robust and Resilient Wireless Networks using Next Generation Spectrum, Randall Berry

2 – Internet of Things Resilience through Spectrum-Agile Circuits, Learning-Based Communications and Thermal Hardware Security, Marvin Onabajo

3 – Harnessing the Complexity of Modern Electromagnetic Environments for Resilient Wireless Communications, Steven Anlage

Track Three

 

11:30AM  – 12:30PM ET, Session 1

1 – Wideband NextG Tb/s mm-Wave Communication and Networking, Ali Niknejad

2 – Resilient Delivery of Real-Time Interactive Services Over NextG Compute-Dense Mobile Networks, Andreas Molisch, Jamie Llorca

3 – Bringing Post-Quantum Cryptography to Large-Scale NextG Systems, Reza Azarderakhsh

12:50PM – 1:50PM ET, Session 2

1 – Resilience of NextG Communication Systems to Malicious Modification Attacks, Aria Nosratinia

2 – REALTIME: ResilientEdge-cloud Autonomous Learning with Timely Inferences, Anand Sarwate, Waheed Bajwa

The public meeting reporting, including the agenda, summaries of the talks and panels, light talk slide decks, pictures, and other materials of interest is available to download.

Recordings and additional media are available for members on RINGS Connect.