Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, Sept. 2012 - May 2017

Advisor: Distinguished Professor Nirwan Ansari, IEEE Fellow, NAI Fellow

Newark College of Engineering (NCE) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, NCE Outstanding Graduate Student, Hashimoto Prize & Kupfrian Fellowship

• M.E. Communications and Information Systems (EECS), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, Sept. 2009 - Apr. 2012

Advisors: Professors Qimei Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, and Ping Zhang, IEEE Fellow, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering

Beijing Outstanding Student & BUPT Outstanding Graduate Student

• B.E. Communications Engineering (EECS), Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), Hefei, Anhui, China, Sept. 2005 - Jun. 2009

Anhui Outstanding Student & HFUT Outstanding Undergraduate Student 

Research Interests

• Green mobile edge computing-assisted Internet of autonomous electric vehicles

• Design and optimization of cooperative mobile edge, such as energy-efficient edge computing and low-latency video crowdsourcing

• Physical layer security for the wireless communications systems with Internet of Things devices

• Data-driven optimization for various applications, such as building energy management and stem cell maturation evaluation and promotion

Students

• Prospective Ph.D. Students

NYIT is aiming to expand the recently approved two Ph.D. programs in Engineering and Computer Science. 

If you are interested, please send your CV to my email  xhuang25@nyit.edu. Thank you!

• Graduated Students

  1. Christopher Daniel Griffith

     • Project Title: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based Online Distributed Server Selection for Cloud-enhanced Crowdsourced Video Generation and Streaming

     • Employment: Data Scientist and AI Model Developer at UBS Investment Bank, Weehawken, NJ

  2. Zhenhua Liang

     • Project Title: Post-Click Behaviors Enhanced Recommendation System

     • Employment:  Software Developer at Offer帮, New York City, NY

• Other Mentored Master Students

Anna Nicolaou, William Joseph Lehane, Qibiao Weng, Jay Shah, Yanting Wu, Yuchong Zhu, Zilu Huang, Kathryn Jumara, Reina Marie Rivera, Jiang Yi, Jia Wang, Yixuan Zhou, Jinghua Li, Daniel Kanba Tapang, Diana Gonzalez

Appointments

• Sept. 2023 - Present, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), Old Westbury, NY

• Sept. 2017 - Aug. 2023, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, NYIT, Old Westbury, NY

• Sept. 2016 - Dec. 2016, Co-op Student, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ

• Jan. 2012 - Jun. 2012, Research Intern, Fujitsu R&D Center, Beijing, China

• Nov. 2011 - Dec. 2011,  Visiting Researcher, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

Projects

• 2023 - Present, PI, VentureWell: Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Transportation: Renewable Energy Harvesting and Management

• 2017 - Present, PI, NYIT: Intelligent Self-management of Internet of Things (IoT) Applications at Mobile Edge

• 2013- 2017, Research Assistant, NSF: FreeNet: Cognitive Wireless Networking Powered by Green Energy

• 2010-2012, Research Assistant, China-European Union Science & Technology Cooperation: Future Wireless Networking and Core Network

• 2009-2012, Research Assistant, BUPT: 3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN) Standardization (RAN 1: Physical Layer & RAN 4: Radio Performance)

Publications 

Selected Journal Articles

1. Hongjia Li, Chang Yang, Liming Wang, Nirwan Ansari, Ding Tang, Xueqing Huang, Zhen Xu, Dan Hu, “A Cooperative Defense Framework against Application-level DDoS Attacks on Mobile Edge Computing Services,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-18, 1 Jan. 2023.

2. Xueqing Huang* and Nirwan Ansari. “Content Caching and Distribution at Wireless Mobile Edge,” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1688-1700, 1 July-Sept. 2022.

3. Xueqing Huang*, Nirwan Ansari, Siqi Huang, and Wenjia Li, "Dynamic Bayesian Network Based Security Analysis for Physical Layer Key Extraction," IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (Invited Paper), vol. 3, pp. 379-390, 2022.

4. Siqi Huang, Xueqing Huang*, and Nirwan Ansari, “Budget-aware Video Crowdsourcing at the Cloud-enhanced Mobile Edge,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 2123-2137, June 2021.

5. Mengmeng Zhu, Xueqing Huang, Hoang Pham, "A Random Field Environment-Based Multidimensional Time Dependent Resilience Modeling of Complex Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1427-1437, Dec. 2021.

6. Ehsan Kamel, Shaya Sheikh, Xueqing Huang*, “Data-driven predictive models for residential building energy use based on the segregation of heating and cooling days,” Elsevier Editorial System for Energy, Volume 206, 2020.

7. Weize Yu, Yiming Wen, Xueqing Huang, “ResNet-based Trojan detection methodology for protected ICs,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 55, pp. 1116-1118, Oct. 17, 2019.

8. Xueqing Huang* and Nirwan Ansari, “Resource exchange in smart grid connected cooperative cognitive radio network,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 6291-6298, July 2017.

9. Xueqing Huang*, Tao Han, and Nirwan Ansari, “Smart grid enabled mobile networks: jointly optimizing BS operation and power distribution,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1832-1845, June 2017.

10. Xueqing Huang* and Nirwan Ansari, “Content caching and distribution in smart grid enabled wireless networks,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal SI on Multimedia Communications, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 513-520, April 2017.

11. Hongjia Li, Chang Yang,  Xueqing Huang, Nirwan Ansari, and Zejue Wang, “Cooperative RAN caching based on local altruistic game for single and joint transmissions,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 853-856, April 2017.

12.  Xueqing Huang* and Nirwan Ansari, “Optimal cooperative power allocation for energy harvesting enabled relay networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 2424-2434, April 2016.

13. Xueqing Huang* and Nirwan Ansari, “Joint spectrum and power allocation for multi-node cooperative wireless systems,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol.14, no.10, pp.2034-2044, Oct. 1 2015. 

14. Xueqing Huang* and Nirwan Ansari, “Energy sharing within EH-enabled wireless communication networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 144-149, June 2015.

15. Xueqing Huang*, Tao Han and Nirwan Ansari, “Green energy powered cognitive radio networks,”, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol.17, no. 2, pp. 827-842, 2nd Quarter, 2015.

16. Qimei Cui, Peichuan Kang, Xueqing Huang, Mikko Valkama, and Jarno Niemela, “Optimal power allocation for homogeneous and heterogeneous CA-MIMO systems,” Science China Information Sciences (Springer), vol. 56, no. 2, pp 1-14, Feb. 2013.

17. Qimei Cui, Bing Luo, Xueqing Huang, Alexis Dowhuszko, and Jun Jiang, “Closed form power allocation solution with minimization power consumption for coordinated transmission,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Springer), vol. 2012, no. 1, pp. 1-14, 2012.

18. Qimei Cui, Xueqing Huang, Bing Luo, Xiaofeng Tao, and Jun Jiang, “Capacity analysis and optimal power allocation for coordinated transmission in MIMO-OFDM systems,” Science China Information Sciences (Springer), vol. 55, no. 6, pp 1372-1387, June 2012.

Conference Papers

1. Xuesong Pan, Zhong Zheng, Xueqing Huang, Zesong Fei, "Distributed MMSE Detection with One-Shot Combining for Cooperative Aerial Networks in Presence of Imperfect CSI", in Proc. of IEEE ICC, 2023.

2. Chongwan Ren, Qimei Cui, Xiangjun Li, Xueqing Huang, and Xiaofeng Tao, “gMLPNet: Multilayer Perceptron for CSI Feedback in FDD Massive MIMO System,” in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2022.

3. Kangjia Yu, Qimei Cui, Ziyuan Zhang, Xueqing Huang, Xuefei Zhang, and Xiaofeng Tao, “Efficient UAV/Satellite-assisted IoT Task Offloading: A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Solution,” in Proc. of IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), 2022.

4. Qi Dang, Qimei Cui, Zhenzhen Gong, Xuefei Zhang, Xueqing Huang, and Xiaofeng Tao, “AoI Oriented UAV Trajectory Planning in Wireless Powered IoT Networks,” in Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2022, pp. 884-889.

5. Xinrui Tan, Hongjia Li, Liming Wang, Xueqing Huang, Zhen Xu, "Empowering Adaptive Early-Exit Inference with Latency Awareness,” in Proc. of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021, pp. 9825-9833, (Acceptance rate: 21%).

6. Zhenhua Liang, Siqi Huang, Xueqing Huang*, Rui Cao, and Weize Yu, “Post-click behaviors enhanced recommendation system,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), 2020, pp. 1-8.

7. Daniel Kanba Tapang, Siqi Huang, Xueqing Huang*, “QoE-based server selection for mobile video streaming,” in Proc. of IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2020, pp. 435-439.

8. Xuefei Zhang, Weilong Lin, Yijing Li, Qimei Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, Xueqing Huang, Pinyi Ren, “Moving server: Follow-up computation offloading paradigm for vehicular users,” in Proc. of IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), 2020, pp. 226-231, (Best Paper Award).

9. Yingzhu Ren, Qimei Cui, Xiyu Zhao, Yingze Wang, Xueqing Huang, and Wei Ni, “Data-Driven Intelligent Management of Energy Constrained Autonomous Vehicles in Smart Cities,” in Proc. of EAI International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM), 2020, Virtual.

10. Qimei Cui, Changzheng Huang, Zengbao Zhu, Xueqing Huang, Na Li, Xiaofeng Tao, and Ping Zhang, “Lightweight Security Mechanism Based on Heterogeneous Construction for Virtualized Edge System: A Markov Decision Process Approach,” in Proc. of International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) 2020, Nanjing, China.

11. Ehsan Kamel, Amir Javan-Khoshkholgh, Nadi Abumahfouz, Siqi Huang, Xueqing Huang, Aydin Farajidavar, Yumin Qiu, “A case study of using multi- functional sensors to predict the indoor air temperature in classrooms,” in Proc. of ASHRAE Trans.  2020, Orlando, FL, USA.

12. Linlin Zhou, Yanzhao Hou, Xiaofeng Tao, Qimei Cui, Xueqing Huang, “Energy-efficient adaptive transmission in machine type communications with delay-outage constraints,” in Proc.  of IEEE PIMRC 2018, Bologna, Italy.

13. Xiaoxue Wang, Yanzhao Hou, Xueqing Huang, Dongru Li, Xiaofeng Tao, “Security analysis of key extraction from physical measurements with multiple adversaries,” in Proc.  of IEEE ICC Wkshps 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA.

14. Xueqing Huang* and Nirwan Ansari, “Secure multi-party data communications in cloud augmented IoT environment,” in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France.

15. Xueqing Huang* and Nirwan Ansari, “Content caching and user scheduling in heterogeneous wireless networks,” in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOMM 2016, Washington, DC, USA.

16. Zejue Wang, Hongjia Li, Xueqing Huang, and Song Ci, “Modeling and transmission optimization of full-duplex energy harvesting enabled hybrid relaying,” in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOMM 2016, Washington, DC, USA.

17. Xueqing Huang* and Nirwan Ansari, “Data and energy cooperation in relay-enhanced OFDM systems,” in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

18. Xilong Liu, Xueqing Huang, and Nirwan Ansari, “Green energy driven user association in cellular networks with dual-battery system,” in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

19. Xueqing Huang* and Nirwan Ansari, “RF energy harvesting enabled power sharing in relay networks,” in Proc. of OnlineGreencomm 2014.

20. Tao Han, Xueqing Huang, and Nirwan Ansari, “Energy agile packet scheduling to leverage green energy for next generation cellular networks,” in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary.

21. Qimei Cui, Bing Luo, and Xueqing Huang, “Joint power allocation solutions for power consumption minimization in coordinated transmission system,” in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM Wkshps 2011, Houston, Texas, USA.

22. Xueqing Huang, Qimei Cui, and Xiaofeng Tao, “Coexistence studies involving LTE-advanced,” in Proc. of IEEE IC-BNMT 2010, Beijing, China.

23. Shan Yang, Qimei Cui, Xueqing Huang and Xiaofeng Tao, “An effective uplink power control scheme in CoMP systems,” in Proc. of IEEE VTC 2010-Fall, Ottawa, Canada.

Teaching

1. CSCI 235: Elements of Discrete Structure

2. CSCI 312: Theory of Computation

3. CSCI 335: Design and Analysis of Algorithms

4. CSCI 415, CSCI 657: Introduction to Data Mining

5. CSCI 436, CSCI 636, DTSC 701: Big Data Management and Analytics

6. CSCI 440, ITEC 440, INCS 615: Network Security and Perimeter Protection

7. CSCI 460: Special Topics I (Cloud Computing)

8. CSCI 690, EENG 755: Computer Networks

9. DTSC 710: Machine Learning

10. CSCI 860, EENG 860: Special Topics (Reinforcement Learning)

11. CSCI 870, INCS 870: Project I

12. CSCI 889, CSCI 890: MS Thesis I

13. CSCI 891: MS Thesis II

Service

1. TPC member for conferences, such as IEEE WCNC, ICC

2. Reviewer for journals and conferences, such as

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

IEEE Network Magazine

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

IEEE Access

IEEE Communications Letters

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking