{"id":221470,"date":"2026-05-28T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/lius-career-award-to-support-ai-driven-wireless-network-research-education\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:40:11","slug":"lius-career-award-to-support-ai-driven-wireless-network-research-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/lius-career-award-to-support-ai-driven-wireless-network-research-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Liu\u2019s CAREER award to support AI-driven wireless network research, education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.unl.edu\/article\/lius-career-award-to-support-ai-driven-wireless-network-research-education\">Liu\u2019s CAREER award to support AI-driven wireless network research, education<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.unl.edu\/article\/lius-career-award-to-support-ai-driven-wireless-network-research-education\">https:\/\/news.unl.edu\/article\/lius-career-award-to-support-ai-driven-wireless-network-research-education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 01:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.unl.edu\">news.unl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI&#8217;s potential in telecommunications remains underutilized due to skepticism around its reliability; however, advances suggest AI can optimize network performance.<\/li>\n<li>Qiang Liu, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln, has received a $750,000 NSF grant to make AI-based technology tools more trustworthy and reliable.<\/li>\n<li>Liu&#8217;s project aims for &#8220;network autonomy,&#8221; focusing on developing network twins, safe resource allocation algorithms, and explanation-guided AI frameworks.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative aims to improve next-generation wireless technology and develop a STEM workforce by engaging K-12 and collegiate students through research opportunities and new courses.<\/li>\n<li>Liu plans to enhance Husker-Net (University&#8217;s private 5G network) to serve as an educational platform for wireless networking and AI research.<\/li>\n<li>To bridge the digital divide, Liu will implement virtual educational programs for rural K-12 students, including a virtual \u201cHour of Code\u201d program and a VR &#8220;playground&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Ultimately, Liu aims to address the digital divide in Nebraska and build a highly skilled local technology workforce, believing increased network access will have widespread beneficial effects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu\u2019s CAREER award to support AI-driven wireless network research, education https:\/\/news.unl.edu\/article\/lius-career-award-to-support-ai-driven-wireless-network-research-education Publish Date: 2026-05-28 01:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.unl.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/lead_image_teaser\/public\/media\/images\/062625%20Qiang%20Liu%201971-2.jpg?itok=7yWaGX65","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221474,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221470\/revisions\/221474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}