Huaxia Wang, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rowan University

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About me:

I am an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University (RU), Glassboro, NJ. Before joining RU, I received a B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2012, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA, in 2018, advised by Dr. Yu-Dong Yao. From Jan. 2020 to Aug. 2023, I was an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University (OSU). My current research interests include Deep Reinforcement Learning, Adversarial Networks, Meta-Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Robotic-arm Control, Digital Signal Processing, and Wireless Communications. I am a superfan of Arsenal FC. Come On Your Gunners!

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News:

10/2025 [Paper] Our paper "DenoMAE2.0: Improving Denoising Masked Autoencoders by Classifying Local Patches for Automatic Modulation Classification" has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Communications. Check the paper here [paper].

7/2025 [Award] Our group has been awarded $20K from the National Science Foundation (NSF) (Role: Co-PI). This project will be performed over the next year (Aug 2025 - Jul. 2026).

5/2025 [Paper] Our paper "Plug-and-Play AMC: Context Is King in Training-Free, Open-Set Modulation with LLMs" has received the Charles Kao Best Paper Award by the 34th Wireless and Optical Communication Conference (WOCC). Check the awarded paper here [paper].

5/2025 [Award] Our group has been awarded $104K from the AeroDefense (PI: Dr. Huaxia Wang). This project will be performed over the next year (May 2025 - Apr. 2026).

5/2025 [Paper] Our paper "DenoMAE: A Multimodal Autoencoder for Denoising Modulation Signals" has been accepted by the IEEE Communications Letters. Check the paper here [paper].

2/2025 [Paper] Our paper "Continuous phase signal modulation recognition based on combined spectral features using ResNeXt50 with channel and spatial attention mechanism" has been accepted by the Signal, Image, and Video Processing. Check the paper here [paper].

2/2025 [Paper] Our paper "An 8-point scale lung ultrasound scoring network fusing local detail and global features" has been accepted by the Scientific Reports. Check the paper here [paper].

11/2024 [Paper] Our paper has received the Charles Kao Best Paper Award by the 33rd Wireless and Optical Communication Conference (WOCC). Check the awarded paper here [paper]. Additionally, three other papers from our group have been accepted to WOCC 2024 [paper1][paper2][paper3].

6/2024 [Paper] Our paper "Multilabel defect classification of large concrete structures using vision graph neural network with edge convolution" has been accepted by the 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). Check the paper here [paper].

2/2024 [Paper] Our paper "Meta Supervised Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Open-Set Modulation Classification with Signal Constellation" has been accepted by IEEE Communications Letters. Check the paper here [paper].

9/2023 I'm joining Rowan University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an Assistant Professor.

6/2023 [Paper] Our paper "Secondary User Access Control (SUAC) via Quadratic Programming in Massive MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks" has been accepted by IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (IEEE OJCOMS). Check the paper here [paper].

3/2023 [Paper] Our paper "Graph-Based Distributed Control in Vehicular Communications Networks" has been accepted by IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2023. Check the paper here [paper].

10/2022 [Paper] Our paper "Secondary User Access Control in Cognitive Radio Networks: Concept, Design, and Analysis" has been accepted by IEEE Network. Check the paper here [paper].

8/2022 [Paper] One poster and one demo paper about remote robotic arm control have been accepted in 2022 UBICOMP. Check the paper and video here [poster][demo][video].

8/2022 [Award] Our group has been awarded $500K from the Department of Energy (DOE) (PI: Dr. Huaxia Wang. Co-PI: Dr. Avimanyu Sahoo). This project will be performed over the next 3 years (Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2025) [news].

6/2022 [Award] Our group has been awarded $250K from the Institute for Advanced Engineering, Korea (PI: Dr. Chulho Yang. Co-PI: Dr. Huaxia Wang). This project will be performed over the next 5 years (Jun. 2022 - May. 2027).

1/2022 [Paper] Our paper "A Robust Adversarial Network-based End-to-end Communications System with Strong Generalization Ability Against Adversarial Attacks" has been accepted by International IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022. Check the paper here [paper][code].

10/2021 [Award] Our group has been awarded $500K from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) (PI: Dr. Huaxia Wang. Co-PI: Dr. Avimanyu Sahoo). This project will be performed over the next 3 years (Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2024) and includes a total project budget of $1M including the 1:1 matching funds from Baker Hughes.