CyberPowder Fellows Program - Spring 2027

[Eric Eide]

POWDER Platform User Community,

We are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2027
CyberPowder Fellows Program!
https://www.powderwireless.net/cyberpowder2027

*** Applications are due by November 13th 2026.

CyberPowder is an NSF-funded wireless networking hands-on training and research
mentoring program for US-based graduate students.

The CyberPowder Fellows Program addresses the problem that wireless
experimental research is inherently multidisciplinary, crossing the EE and CS
divide; that wireless networking is undergoing rapid technology and regulatory
change; and that today's wireless testbeds are highly sophisticated, which also
means they require significant training to use. The Program trains students
across the wireless stack to perform wireless related research on POWDER, the
world's largest openly-accessible software-defined wireless testbed. POWDER is
deployed across the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City and remotely
accessible from anywhere in the world.

The CyberPowder Fellows Program consists of:

- Weekly research-focused online wireless networking training sessions from
January-April, which are a combination of lectures and hands-on labs that
fellows complete on the POWDER platform.

- Engagement with fellows and their advisors on research ideation to support
them in defining experimentation plans associated with their research
objectives.

- A week-long research exploration on the POWDER platform at the University of
Utah campus in Salt Lake City, during which fellows work with the platform
and its elements and enact the experimental research plan they have defined.

- Continued research support provided by the POWDER technical staff after the
formal completion of the program.

For more information about the CyberPowder program, including details of
previous iterations please visit:
https://www.powderwireless.net/cyberpowder

For news on POWDER (including platform updates presented at the recent NSF PAWR
PI meeting) please visit:
https://powderwireless.net/news

CyberPowder and POWDER team