School of Computing Assistant Professor Shuai Nie presented at the EU-US Frontiers of EngineeringSymposium, which took place October 20-23 in Bordeaux, France.
Her presentation, “Bridging the Digital Divide in 6G: Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Communications for Next-Generation Wireless Networks” explored meeting the ever-growing demand for wireless access and data transmission bandwidth by opening the lesser-trafficked terahertz frequency range to everyday users, particularly those in rural areas with limited connectivity options. Nie received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2024 to expand her research and efforts in this area of computing.
In addition to her talk, Nie also presented her work in the symposium poster session. Her presentation expanded on her talk, specifically highlighting her collaborative research with fellow University of Nebraska-Lincoln Assistant Professor of Animal Science and Biological Systems Engineering Yijie Xiong and Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Early Career Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Xiaoqian (Joy) Wang of Purdue University. The project, supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, involved bringing wireless connectivity to Nebraska farmers in order to implement a hybrid broadband communication system for rural communities and an intelligent animal identification prototype for livestock systems.
Nie said she is appreciative to those who made the symposium possible and invited her to participate in its events.
“I would like to express my deep gratitude to the organizers from the National Academy of Engineering, Euro-CASE, National Academy of Technologies of France, and all the committee members, especially our session chairs and fellow participants, for making this event a success and for giving me the precious opportunity to share the interdisciplinary research my collaborators and I are working on.”
The EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium brings together sixty of the most promising early career engineers from the US and EU to meet for an intensive two-and-a-half-day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four topic areas: Crypto Systems and New Age of Distributed Consensus; Future Wireless Communications; Circular Economy of Polymers; and Internet of Medical/Bio Things. The event facilitates international and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, promotes the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourages the creation of a transatlantic network of world-class engineers. The symposium is hosted in partnership with the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering and the National Academy of Technologies of France and is supported by The Grainger Foundation.
