SUNY Polytechnic Institute announced the creation of 10 new research centers that will serve as hubs of innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration. This was made possible through NYS’s historic 2023-2024 $163 million budget increase in direct operating aid to SUNY campuses. SUNY POLY received $2.7 million to support the expansion of its research and scholarly activities.  

Arjun Singh is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He’s also the director of the new WINGS Center, Wireless and Intelligent Next Generation Systems.

“What we are is a team of researchers working on developing next generation systems which means any system for the future,” said Singh.

Singh says the key idea is improving the security and speed of wireless links.

“As well as allowing more and more things to become wireless. Which means as we go out from dense urban centers towards rural areas where wireless links drop, where connectivity is killed off, we want to be able to bridge the rural divide and make sure all of the U.S. is connected,” said Singh.

They’re using artificial intelligence when needed to improve expected performance.

“An aspect of that could be an autonomous car is driving and instead of proving all of the information back to the main server, there is a local AI engine, it does a little bit of pre programming and it only sends back relevant information,” said Singh.

“What these guys are working on here, they present this in a data set to me and then I take this data set and kind of manipulate it so that we can understand the relationship between all the features we have going on here and sort of understand where we’re going to go with it,” said Ryan Primus, a graduate research assistant at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

“It’s been really cool to see how much research can do for you in terms of your growth as a student and how much you learn and the experience is second to none. I’ll be going to Abu Dhabi in a month, presenting a paper that we did. So yeah, I couldn’t be more grateful for it,” Primus continued.

“Brainstorm together, come up with new ideas together so hopefully they’re leading the way for cutting edge start-ups,” said Singh.