Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC) is a research center led by Columbia University and 10 other academic institutions.
The center is co-sponsored by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the commercial semiconductor industry, and the defense industrial base.
Our Goal
Address connectivity challenges by delivering seamless Edge-to-Cloud connectivity with transformational reductions in the global system energy consumption.
The center brings together an outstanding team of faculty with expertise in both wireless and photonics, spanning systems, architectures, circuits, and devices, organized along three compelling and complementary themes.
Over the next five years, CUbiC will strive to flatten the computation-communication gap, delivering seamless Edge-to-Cloud connectivity with transformation reductions in the global system energy consumption.
Our Research
CUBIC’s research strategy will be executed via three closely coordinated technical themes, each structured to facilitate application-driven cross-layer co-design from devices-to-systems:
Latest News
Congratulations to CUbiC PI Tingjun Chen (Duke University) for being awarded a 6-year, $9M ARO grant on building intelligent RF sensing nodes and networks. He'll serve as the lead PI for the project, with Raytheon participating as a subawardee. The platforms his team has built and the lessons they have learned through CUbiC have provided an important foundation for transforming radio technologies toward future EM awareness and intelligence scenarios.
CUbiC PIs Tingjun Chen (Duke University) and Yasaman Ghasempour (Princeton University) are also participating in the Inducing Cyber and Physical Effects in Unmanned Aerial Systems via Cyber-Electromagnetic Convergence (ICE-CEM) center. Their work will contribute to developing the foundational science needed to engineer and build systems to counter unmanned aerial attacks.
Congratulations to CUbiC Center Director, Prof. Keren Bergman, for being recognized and included in the HPCwire 35 Legends Class of 2026. 35 honorees are announced every year by HPCwire editors and advisors based on their contributions to the HPC community and acknowledged for the various ways they have helped move HPC forward.
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