The Polytechnic Cyber Research Lab (PCRL)
Welcome to our Digital Research Lab, where we strive to push the boundaries technology and innovation. Our mission is to contribute interdisciplinary tech research that fosters collaboration and sparks new ideas. Join us as we explore the intersection of various fields and work towards solutions that shape the future. Together, we can drive advancements that benefit society and enhance understanding of the digital landscape.
Distinguished Professorship Award in Technology and Education Leadership
Our Founder and President, Philippe Rene Pierre jules FUNK has been conferred the Distinguished Professorship Award in Technology and Education Leadership by Pebble Hills University.
Pebble Hills University applauds Philippe Rene Pierre Funk for his sustained contributions to technology education, digital inclusion, and interdisciplinary research. His Distinguished Professorship will support PHU’s mission to expand accessible, affordable, and internationally accredited online education, and will foster new collaborations that benefit our global student community.
March 19th, 2026: Introducing TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 Abliterated, our custom-tuned variant of the renowned TinyLlama 1.1B chat model, engineered for fast, efficient conversational AI on everyday hardware. Built on the Llama 2 architecture with only 1.1B parameters by our Founder and President of the Polytechnic Cyber Institute, TinyLlama delivers strong chat capabilities while keeping compute and memory requirements remarkably low, making it ideal for edge devices, on‑prem deployments, and resource‑constrained environments. Our abliterated edition builds on this solid foundation to offer an opinionated, experimentation‑friendly model that is easy to integrate into existing Llama‑compatible workflows and open‑source tooling.
Whether you are prototyping new AI products, embedding assistants into your applications, or exploring lightweight models for education and research, TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 Abliterated provides a compact yet capable chat engine you can run, inspect, and extend on your own terms.
Indiana University Bloomington´s Ostrom Workshop at IU's international location in Berlin, February 2026.
Our Founder and President,Professor Philippe FUNK was fortunate to attend the Berlin event, which brought together a diverse and impressive group of policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and leaders from across Europe, all united by a shared commitment to strengthening the resilience of space systems and related critical infrastructure. The event sparked engaging and dynamic conversations among its many participants. A special acknowledgment goes to Scott Shackelford JD, PhD, Eytan Tepper and William Ferguson, whose efforts — alongside the dedicated team at the IU Berlin Gateway and in partnership with the Space ISAC — made the event a success. Thank you for this great experience!
Winner at the Forttuna Global Excellence Awards 2025
Philippe FUNK,
Interdisciplinary Research Leader of the Year
Our President and Founder of the Polytechnic Cyber Institute has been awarded the "Interdisciplinary Research Leader of the Year" 2025, at Forttuna Global Excellence Awards in Dubai in 2025 for his contribution to the field.
Our course "Machine Interaction Design" shortlisted at the Digital Education Awards 2025!
Polytechnic Cyber Institute - The School of Advanced Technology
The course from our Polytechnic Cyber Institute - The School of Advanced Technology, titled "Machine Interaction Design" has been shortlisted at the prestigious 2025 Digital Education Awards, where the best Educational Leaders are competing.
We are honoured and grateful to be recognized amongst Global Leaders, pushing the limits of Research in Tech Education.
Multi-objective optimal 4-phase RPl routing technique using chimp sine cosine algorithm for IoT system
Original Paper
Published: 16 March 2025
Volume 31, pages 3297–3313, (2025)
Shashidhar Gurav, Leena Chakraborty, N. Raghava Rao, Philippe Funk & Kalyani Dasari
Abstract
The significant role of Internet of Things (IoT) routing is to establish the optimal path using the Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) and also it has some challenges. The reliability of the routing is the most common challenge. The IoT systems run based on wireless infrastructure with the help of resource-constrained nodes commonly termed as Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). The usage of traditional routing protocol is resolved by the resource limitations of LLNs and for this reason, an effective routing solution is required. The LLN has the limitations of low power and limited on-board memory. Thus, a model is endowed for performing the process of routing. The routing process is enhanced by IoT simulation. It comprises four stages, like configuration of topology, multi-objective path detection, data exchange and upholding routes. Based on the DODAG Information Object (DIO), the nodes evaluate the rank and are used for the routing process. Here, rank is devised using certain quality parameters. In the communication phase, the proposed Chimp Sine Cosine algorithm (ChSC) is devised for performing optimal routing. The delay, node energy, distance, trust, and link quality are the fitness employed in this research. The ChSC provided better efficacy with the least energy consumption of 0.466 J, elevated trust of 0.583 and elevated link quality of 82.42.