{"id":9441,"date":"2023-12-11T10:49:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T10:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=9441"},"modified":"2023-12-12T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:31:13","slug":"wireless-advancing-fundamental-understandings-of-wireless-hierarchical-federated-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=9441","title":{"rendered":"Wireless: Advancing fundamental understandings of wireless hierarchical federated learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9592\" src=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2023\/12\/wireless-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2023\/12\/wireless-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2023\/12\/wireless-1-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Xiaowen Gong, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project, \u201cTowards Efficient and Fast Hierarchical Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Wireless Edge Networks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019m so humbled to receive this honor,\u201d said Gong, who specializes in wireless engineering. \u201cThere are so many other researchers who do excellent work but have not received this award. I view this award more as inspiration and encouragement for my future work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gong\u2019s project is expected to advance the fundamental understandings of, and develop adaptive and efficient algorithms and schemes for, computation and communication designs of wireless hierarchical federated learning \u2014 a machine-learning approach that trains a machine-learning system across multiple decentralized servers from distributed wireless devices with local data samples \u2014 while also addressing its challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The NSF CAREER Award also focuses on the integration of research within education. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gong proposes hands-on wireless and machine learning\/AI projects for college students and outreach activities on robotics for K-12 students. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was previously granted $589,889 by the NSF to provide hands-on research experiences in robotics and machine learning\/AI to approximately 30 STEM middle school teachers in underserved regions of Alabama during the next three years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaowen Gong, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project, \u201cTowards Efficient and Fast Hierarchical Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Wireless Edge Networks.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m so humbled to receive this honor,\u201d said Gong, who specializes in wireless engineering. \u201cThere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":9592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1057],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wireless: Advancing fundamental understandings of wireless hierarchical federated learning &raquo; 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