1. Naval Opportunity Awareness Workshop
Lijun Qian, Ph.D.
AT&T Endowed Professor
Roy G. Perry College of Engineering
Prairie View A&M University

2. Prairie View A&M University
Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) was founded in 1876 and is the 2nd oldest public institution of higher education in Texas, and a member of Texas A&M University System, and a land-grant university and an HBCU
Roy G. Perry College of Engineering
There are >1,600 students in the COE; offers 8 BS, 4MS and 1 PhD degrees
ECE Department
BSEE and BSCE, MSEE, PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering
>48,000 ft2 lab space, including wireless communications lab, advanced computing lab, deep learning lab, etc.
PI’s Career Path
Join in 2003 as an assistant professor to help establish PhD program in EE, currently AT&T endowed professor
Supervised 9 PhD, 10 MS students and 17 senior design groups

3. Research Challenges and Naval Relevance
Situation Awareness is critical to Navy’s operations
Data  Information  Knowledge  Intelligence
Proposed solution: Vertical Integration of Information
Design distributed cloud-based high performance computing platform for streaming data processing;
Explore multi-stack autoencoder for unified data analytics of multiple types of data from multiple sources;
Integrated stochastic geometry and compressive sensing for underwater sensing data aggregation and fusion;
Design and implement a test bed for validation.

4. Learning to Succeed Long-term effort:
Develop professionally and life-long learning
Integrate teaching and research
Build labs
Prepare early (technical, budget, management etc.)
Read the BAA carefully
Choose the right topics
Interact with the program officers
Participate DOD conferences and workshops
Team work