Shahriar Nirjon, assistant professor of computer science at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of the UNC Embedded Intelligence Lab, has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.The five-year, $561,000 grant, titled “CAREER: Toward Embedding Perpetual Intelligence into Ultra-Low-Power Sensing and Inference Systems,” will support his continued research on making small, portable, resource-constrained, embedded systems capable of sensing, learning, adapting, and evolving over an extended period of time.
More details on this award can be found on the NSF website.
Nirjon joined the UNC Department of Computer Science in 2015. Prior to joining UNC, he was a research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Labs. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in computer science and engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Virginia.