IMAGE: Tanner Upthegrove (right), media engineer in the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology inside the Cyclorama in The Cube in 2018. Upthegrove is principal investigator for two projects funded by…
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Led by Virginia Tech, the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative’s (CCI) Southwest Virginia node received eight multidisciplinary grants to advance the field in research areas such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and automated systems, paving the way for additional extramural funding. Twenty-seven cybersecurity research collaboration grants funded cyber research initiatives across Virginia, totaling more than $4 million.
“Virginia Tech is an influential research university and strives to increase its research initiatives every year,” said Gretchen Matthews, director of the Southwest Virginia Node and professor in the department of mathematics in the College of Science at Virginia Tech. “Having the Southwest Virginia Node so well represented in this wave of funding from CCI brings us closer to that goal.”
Six grants awarded to Virginia Tech faculty-led research teams will help further the expansion of…
