Ashwin E. Amanna
Senior Research Associate
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Virginia Tech
Business Development Manager Wireless @ Virginia Tech
aamanna@vt.edu | 540-231-8516
Welcome, my name is Ashwin Amanna. I am currently a Senior Research Associate with Virginia Tech and am housed within the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Virginia Tech. http://www.wireless.vt.edu and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. My bachelors degree is in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Davis and came to Blacksburg to attend graduate schools for my masters in Electrical Engineering in 1992. From 1993 to 2009, I worked with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute first as a graduate research assistant, then research associate, and finally senior research associate. My projects have included serving as project manager for the Virginia Smart Road where I was responsible for liasoning between the University, VDOT, and the construction contractor to ensure that the custom designed research infrastructure was designed, installed and implemented. Upon completion of the roadway, I served as Operations Director and then moved into applied research in the area of wireless communications. We designed and deployed the first serial wireless network along highway right-of-way to provide a wireless infrastructure for traffic surveillance cameras. This research continued on to the Smart Road where we tested and deployed numerous wireless networks and performed mobile roaming tests to benchmark the latency and handoff performance of vehicle to roadside networks.
These days I wear many hats that include project management for the a cognitive radio project for the Federal Railway Administration as well as cultivating new business development for the Wireless @ Virginia Tech research group which is a research center underneath the Insitute for Critical Technologies and Applied Science (ICTAS). I am also Co-Director on the a $2.5M Intelligence Center for Academic Excellence sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
In 2009, I brought in more than $3M in sponsored research grants and was primary author of a successful business plan for a 'venture philanthropy' effort leading to an endowment to create an Intelligence Community Leadership development center. Over my career at Virginia Tech I have been project manager, or co-pi on over $8.5M dollars in sponsored research funding.
As a mid-life crisis present to myself I returned back to school for my PhD part time while working full time. My area of research focuses on Cognitive Radio with my specific emphasis centered on cognitive engines, and the artificial intelligence components enabling decision making, learning and prediction.
These days I wear many hats that include project management for the a cognitive radio project for the Federal Railway Administration as well as cultivating new business development for the Wireless @ Virginia Tech research group which is a research center underneath the Insitute for Critical Technologies and Applied Science (ICTAS). I am also Co-Director on the a $2.5M Intelligence Center for Academic Excellence sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
In 2009, I brought in more than $3M in sponsored research grants and was primary author of a successful business plan for a 'venture philanthropy' effort leading to an endowment to create an Intelligence Community Leadership development center. Over my career at Virginia Tech I have been project manager, or co-pi on over $8.5M dollars in sponsored research funding.
As a mid-life crisis present to myself I returned back to school for my PhD part time while working full time. My area of research focuses on Cognitive Radio with my specific emphasis centered on cognitive engines, and the artificial intelligence components enabling decision making, learning and prediction.
