Research

The center’s underlying technologies will integrate advances in wireless/optical communications, edge/cloud computing, situational awareness, and privacy and security, while balancing public sphere data collection requirements with community-defined benefits.

Research Thrusts

With its extensive network of partners, CS3 will unite diverse research communities through a convergent research model that delivers innovations across five engineering and scientific areas:

Wi-Edge

Current 5G bandwidth, latency, and density capabilities cannot meet situational awareness demands, while protecting privacy and community trust.
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Security, Privacy and Fairness

Security, Privacy, and Fairness

Emerging technologies pose new privacy, security, and fairness challenges that may compromise social equity.
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Streetscape Applications

Streetscape Applications

Neither the novel class of applications nor its necessary technological substrate currently exist.
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Situational Awareness

CS3 demands outstrip state-of-the-art, requiring high-accuracy recognition and tracking across non-overlapping fields of view from sensors with heterogenous resolutions in complex, dynamic scenes.
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Public Interest Technology

Technology can intentionally or unintentionally produce or reproduce social harms, amplified for data collection in underserved communities.
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