Wireless devices are inherently faculty which can result in multifaceted data errors in computing, caching, and communications (C3). These errors have been widely deemed harmful, but recent studies have shown that they can be benign or even beneficial. The research objective of this project is to proactively harvest, render, and control data errors across C3 of wireless devices for significant performance gains in energy efficiency, throughput, data privacy, etc. Moreover, the research efforts will be coupled with educational innovations through the development of new laboratories, lecture contents, outreach demos and a novel undergraduate/graduate co-learning pedagogy.

This project will create a general-purpose, open-access, and programmable quantum network prototype for the quantum information science and engineering (QISE) community to experiment new quantum technologies and train teachers and students. The key applied methodology is virtualization that permits rapid and flexible experimentation via agile software controls, without resorting to daunting hardware modifications. The research team initiates a research agenda consisting of three thrusts, namely re-designing key quantum components, developing communication protocols, and implementing the prototype in the testbed. A new curriculum based on this prototype will be created and disseminated to train a large body of college students.

Differential privacy (DP) has been widely accepted as the de facto technique for protecting data privacy. Despite the decade-long research efforts, there still exists a critical research problem that has been largely overlooked, that is all existing DP studies are grounded on the hypothesis that software can easily and faithfully add noises from a probability distribution. However, this hypothesis is being constantly challenged by recent findings. Hence, this project's innovative research angle is to realize DP mechanisms directly on embedded memories, which are ubiquitous in modern electronic devices. This project will also create new curricula and promote community outreach.