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June 15–July 24, 2026 · University of Nevada, Reno
Eight Nevada teachers completed the inaugural six-week EdgeAI RET summer program. Working with faculty and graduate research mentors, they used the SmartEdge testbed to investigate AI vision security, wildfire smoke detection, and secure edge-cloud language-model inference. Each teacher translated the research experience into instructional materials for their own classroom.
Best Poster Award
Best Poster Award
“Living on the Edge-AI,” by Jeremy Hight, Michelle Hollis, and Debra Ranft, received the Best Poster Award at the 2026 NSF Virtual RET Site Participant Poster Session. All three teams presented at the national event on July 28–29, 2026.
Research Posters
Research Posters
Vision Token Manipulation Attacks on Cloud-Edge Inference of Large Vision-Language Models
Vision Token Manipulation Attacks on Cloud-Edge Inference of Large Vision-Language Models
Anastacia Suarez and Frankie Clark
The team investigated how changes to visual tokens affect a cloud-edge vision-language model, connecting AI vision with data integrity and cybersecurity.
Edge AI for Wildfire Smoke Detection
Edge AI for Wildfire Smoke Detection
Erin Schneiderman, Katherine Silva-Sampaio, and Ismail Kullap
The team prepared fire-camera images and evaluated AI models for smoke detection, exploring dataset quality, model performance, and environmental monitoring.
Living on the Edge-AI — Best Poster Award
Living on the Edge-AI — Best Poster Award
Jeremy Hight, Michelle Hollis, and Debra Ranft
The team studied collaborative edge-cloud language-model inference, speculative decoding, and data integrity, connecting research methods with classroom activities.
View award-winning poster (PDF)
From Research to the Classroom
From Research to the Classroom
The eight teacher-developed curriculum packages span AI literacy, cybersecurity, mathematics, microbiology, engineering, computer science, biology, and social studies. They include lesson plans, student activities, assessments, and supporting materials. Visit Teaching Resources for the collection.
Continued Classroom Support
Continued Classroom Support
Teachers retain supported access to SmartEdge for project-related classroom demonstrations, extending their connections with university research beyond the summer program.
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