Faculty & Staff

Cory earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas where he developed computer networking solutions for communications following natural and man-made disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and terrorist attacks. He continued this work for many years as a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His work extended into areas of wireless cellular communications, overcoming wireless channel impairments, and the use of artificial intelligence in communication performance optimization. Highlights from his work there included a National Science Foundation CAREER award along with several industry collaborations with telecommunications companies and the Federal Aviation Administration. He and his students have produced 90 papers with over 1700 citations.

Dr. Beard has also been active in teaching and accreditation activities. He co-authored a textbook entitled Wireless Communication Networks and Systems, was a recipient of several teaching and mentoring awards, and led several ABET accreditation efforts. He came to Trevecca in 2024.

Areas of Expertise

• Wireless communication and networking – modeling, optimization, resilience, survivability, and prioritized quality of service
• Artificial intelligence with applications for communications, imaging, and disaster communications problems
• Resilient design of power systems
• Survivability control of air traffic control communication networks

Select Publications

• Cory Beard and William Stallings, Wireless Communication Networks and Systems, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2016.
• H. Kaja, R. A. Paropkari, C. Beard and A. Van De Liefvoort, "Survivability and Disaster Recovery Modeling of Cellular Networks Using Matrix Exponential Distributions," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 2812-2824, Sept. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2021.3090355.
• Kaja H, Stoehr JM, Beard C. “Vehicle-to-Anything assisted emergency vehicle transit in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks,” SAGE SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2023;0(0)
• R. A. Paropkari, A. Thantharate and C. Beard, "Deep-Mobility: A Deep Learning Approach for an Efficient and Reliable 5G Handover," 2022 International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET), Chennai, India, 24 - 26 March 2022, pp. 244-250, doi: 10.1109/WiSPNET54241.2022.9767158.
• Anurag Thantharate, Rahul Paropkari, Vijay Walunj, Cory Beard, “DeepSlice: A Deep Learning Approach towards an Efficient and Reliable Network Slicing in 5G Networks,” 10^th IEEE Annual Ubiquitious Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communications Conference (UEMCON 2019), Columbia University, New York, USA, October 2019.
• Ahmad Saeed Mohammad, Narsi Reddy, Fathima James, Cory Beard, “Demodulation of Faded Wireless Signals using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks,” 8th IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, (CCWC 2018), 8-10 January 2018, Las Vegas, NV.