Welcome to the CESCA Group!
Here at CESCA, we believe that technological advances have brought us to the threshold of the next revolution in sensing and computing: large-scale distributed embedded systems. These systems consist of large numbers of small computing devices that are networked to perform "intelligent" sensing and interaction with the physical world.
The focus of the center is the development of the enabling technologies such as low power designs, sensors, wireless networking, geo-location, and distributed computing that will support distributed decision-making among hundreds or thousands of networked computing nodes. With our broad interdisciplinary expertise here at Virginia Tech, we have formed research center with the goal to make us a leader in the embedded systems field, both in the underlying core technologies and in the applications they enable and support.
Who we are:
The research group brings nine members whose technical expertise ranges from high level system design to VLSI circuits, and more than 60 graduate students focused on embedded systems. While expertise lies deep within computer engineering, such as VLSI design, software and hardware co-design, verification, wireless networking, and software engineering.
What we do:
CESCA brings together numerous faculty members, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate/undergraduate students, whose expertise span a broad range of disciplines, to form a large research group that focuses on challenging problems in embedded computing and communication systems. The primary mission of CESCA is to nurture a research environment that produces state-of-the-art solutions for the most challenging engineering problems of today. The center also provides high-caliber educational experience for graduate and undergraduate students so that they can become the future leaders in academia, industry, and government.
Affiliated Centers and Groups:
CESCA is closely working with several research centers and groups on campus. It collaborates with CIMMS in structural health monitoring and with CPES in power electronics IC design, Wireless@VT for wireless communications.
