University · Lead institution
New York University
Overall project leadership and multi-path transport. Home of NYU Wireless.
Team
People & partners
FALCON brings together expertise in wireless communications, networking, baseband design, robotics, and testbed integration, with startups and industry partners in the target applications.
Participating organizations
Universities, testbed & industry
The project spans four universities, the NSF AERPAW platform, three startups, and a large commercial industry partner.
University
UC Berkeley
Aerial-robotics stack: multi-UAV information sharing, coordination, and dynamic computational offloading.
University
NC State University
O-RAN RIC applications for spectral agility, and test planning, integration, and flight experiments on AERPAW.
University
Florida International University
FPGA-based wideband occupancy and direction-of-arrival sensing hardware.
Testbed
AERPAW
NSF Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless, hosting the large-scale FALCON demonstrations.
Startup
Pi-Radio
Spectrally agile FR3 (6–24 GHz) software-defined radios and the lightweight single-channel UAV transceiver.
Startup
Tall Wall Robotics
Robotic building inspection; requirements and evaluation for the building inspection use case.
Startup
Nexcepta
NextG communications for UAVs; requirements and outreach for the defense drone swarm use case.
Industry
Sharp Laboratories of America
Commercial satellite and cellular systems; requirements for operators and outreach to 3GPP.
Investigators
Project personnel
Faculty, researchers, and industry leads with their roles in the project.
New York University
SR
Sundeep Rangan
Lead PINetworking expertise. Overall project lead; Director of NYU Wireless.
YL
Yong Liu
Senior PersonnelNetworking expertise. Leads multi-path transport; NYU site lead.
UC Berkeley
GL
Giuseppe Loianno
Co-PIUAV expertise. Leads the aerial-robotics stack, including information sharing and dynamic offloading; UC Berkeley site lead.
NC State University · AERPAW
MS
Mihail Sichitiu
Co-PIIntegration expertise. Leads test planning, implementation, integration, and physical execution in AERPAW; NC State site lead.
VS
Vijay Shah
Senior PersonnelNetworking expertise. Leads development of the FALCON RIC.
IG
Ismail Guvenc
Senior PersonnelLeads algorithm development and integration into the AERPAW digital twin; leads the drone swarm demonstrations.
RD
Rudra Dutta
Senior PersonnelCoordinates implementation of the resilient drone swarm experiment.
MM
Magreth Mushi
Senior PersonnelCoordinates AERPAW experiment translations.
OO
Ozgur Ozdemir
Senior PersonnelCoordinates AERPAW operations.
TZ
Thomas Zajkowski
Senior PersonnelCoordinates AERPAW pilots.
Florida International University
AM
Arjuna Madanayake
Senior PersonnelBaseband design expertise. Leads the FPGA spectrum sensing hardware; FIU site lead.
Pi-Radio
AD
Aditya Dhananjay
Senior PersonnelIntegration expertise. Leads the lightweight FR3 transceiver; leads entrepreneurship activities.
Tall Wall Robotics
BS
Bilal Sher
Senior PersonnelDevelops requirements and test cases for building inspection; leads outreach to commercial construction and real estate.
Nexcepta
TE
Tugba Erpek
Senior PersonnelDevelops requirements and test cases for defense solutions; leads outreach to the defense sector.
Sharp Laboratories of America
HP
Hitesh Poddar
Senior PersonnelDevelops requirements and test cases for cellular operators; leads outreach to commercial cellular and 3GPP.