12/2023: Invited to serve on PC for TheWebConf'24 Wksp. Federated Foundation Models

12/2023: Invited to serve on PC for IEEE ICDCS'24 Track on Federated Learning, Analytics, and Deployment 

12/2023: IEEE ICASSP 2024 paper accepted: "Language-Oriented Communication with Semantic Coding and Knowledge Distillation for Text-to-Image Generation"

12/2023: Organized IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 Workshop: "Semantic Communication for 6G"

12/2023: Received 2023 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award

12/2023: Organized IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 Tutorial: "Towards Unified Understanding of Semantic Communications and Networking"

11/2023: IEEE IOTJ paper accepted: "Semantic and Logical Communication-Control Co-Design for Correlated Dynamical Systems"

11/2023: Invited to give a talk at TokyoTech, Japan: "Rethinking Semantic Communication in the Era of Generative AI"

11/2023: Invited to give a talk at POSTECH, Korea: "Rethinking Semantic Communication in the Era of Generative AI"

11/2023: Invited to give a talk at Tsinghua University, China: "Rethinking Semantic Communication in the Era of Generative AI"

11/2023: Invited to give a talk at BrainLink X-Day Workshop on Semantic Communication for 6G: https://sites.google.com/view/sc6g-brainlink/home

10/2023: Named in the Stanford's World Top 2% Scientists List.

10/2023: Invited to give a talk at Tokyo University of Technology, Japan: "Rethinking Semantic Communication in the Era of Generative AI"

10/2023: IEEE TBD paper accepted: "Mix2SFL: Two-Way Mixup for Scalable, Accurate, and Communication-Efficient Split Federated Learning"

10/2023: Invited to give a talk at Ericsson Research, Sweden: "Rethinking Semantic Communication in the Era of Generative AI"

9/2023: IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 workshop paper accepted: "Energy-Efficient Downlink Semantic Generative Communication with Text-to-Image Generators"

9/2023: IEEE VTC-Fall 2023 paper accepted: "3D State Transition Modeling and Power Allocation for UAV-aided ISAC System"

9/2023: Workshop on Task-Oriented and Generative Communications for 6G approved for IEEE ICC'24

9/2023: BrainLink Workshop on 6G Semantic Communication approved the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies: http://sites.google.com/view/sc6g-brainlink

9/2023: Invited to serve on PC for NeurIPS'23 Wksp. Federated Learning in the Age of Foundation Models

9/2023: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC'24 SAC CCNS

9/2023: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICMLCN'24

9/2023: Invited to give a talk at CTTC, Barcelona: "Rethinking Semantic Communication in the Era of Generative AI"

8/2023: IEEE GLOBECOM paper accepted: "Energy-Efficient UAV-Assisted IoT Data Collection via TSP-Based Solution Space Reduction"

8/2023: IEEE GLOBECOM paper accepted: "VQ-VAE Empowered Wireless Communication for Joint Source-Channel Coding and Beyond"

8/2023: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM'23 Wksp. Sustainable and Resilient Industrial Networks

8/2023: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM'23 Wksp. AI Enabled Next Generation Wireless Networks

8/2023: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC'24 Communication Theory Symposium

8/2023: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC'24 Wksp. Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks

7/2023: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC'24 SAC Machine Learning for Communications and Networking

7/2023: Tutorial on "Towards Unified Understanding of Semantic Communications and Networking" approved for IEEE GLOBECOM'23

7/2023: ISCIT paper accepted: "On Ka-Band Utilization Towards Non-Terrestrial Networks"

6/2023: Invited to give a talk at DSTG AI ML Community Seminar: "Koopman Operator Theory Meets Machine Learning for Time-Varying Graph Prediction"

6/2023: Invited to give a talk at KAIST, Yonsei, SKKU, and HUST: "Rethinking Semantic Communication in the Era of Generative AI"

6/2023: Invited to give a talk at ETRI: "Analysis of Impact of Terrestrial Signals on LEO Satellite Communication Systems and Reinforcement Learning for Random Access"

5/2023: Tutorial on "Towards Unified Understanding of Semantic Communications and Networking" approved for ISCIT'23

5/2023: Invited to serve on PC for FL4Data-Mining Workshop

5/2023: 3rd Workshop on Semantic Communication for 6G (SC6G) approved for IEEE GLOBECOM'23

5/2023: IEEE JSAC paper accepted: "Towards Semantic Protocols: A Probabilistic Logic Approach"

4/2022: Invited to give a talk at KICS "Future Communication Technology" workshop tutorial in May 2023.

4/2023: IEEE SSP paper accepted: "Federated Graph Learning for Low Probability of Detection in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks"

4/2023: Received 2023 IEEE ComSoc Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letter: "Blockchained On-Device Federated Learning"

4/2023: Invited to serve on PC for FL-ICML 2023 Workshop

4/2022: Invited to give a talk at KICS JCCI 2023 Panel Discussion on: "Semantic Communications: View & Use Cases"

4/2023: Invited to give a talk at UbiAI virtual seminar on AI in April 2023, Undisiversity of Tripoli

3/2023: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM'23 Wireless Communications Symposium

3/2023: Invited to give a talk at KICS "Future Communication Technology" workshop tutorial in May 2023.

3/2023: IEEE ICC workshop paper accepted: "Active Wireless Split Learning via Online Cloud-Local Server Delta-Knowledge Distillation"

3/2023: Invited to serve on PC for FL-IJCAI 2023 Workshop

3/2023: Invited to serve on PC for FLIRT-SIGIR 2023 Workshop

3/2023: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Communication for 6G (SC6G) accepted to IEEE SECON'23

2/2023: IEEE TCCN paper accepted: "Semantics-Native Communication with Contextual Reasoning"

1/2023: Received  Deakin SEBE Industry Engagement Award

1/2023: Received KICS Winter Conference Best Student Paper Award: "Dynamic Quantum Federated Learning Framework at Satellites and Ground Stations using Slimmable Quantum Neural Networks"

12/2022: IEEE/ACM TON paper accepted:  "SlimFL: Federated Learning with SuperpositionCoding over Slimmable Neural Networks"

12/2022: IEEE Access paper accepted: "A Unified Approach to Semantic Information and Communication based on Probabilistic Logic"

11/2022: AAAI 2023 paper accepted: "Quantum Multi-Agent Meta Reinforcement Learning"

11/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC 2023 Communication Theory Symposium

11/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE INFOCOM 2023 Wksp. B5G Wireless Security

11/2022: DSTG "Graph Neural Networks and Associated Technologies for the Modelling of Deployed Military Systems" project awarded (CI)

10/2022: IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. paper accepted: "Integrating LEO Satellite and Multi-UAV Reinforcement Learning for Hybrid FSO/RF Non-Terrestrial Networks"

10/2022: Drones paper accepted: "Non-Terrestrial Networks with UAVs: A Projection on Flying Ad-Hoc Networks"

10/2022: NeurIPS-INTERPOLATE paper accepted: "Differentially Private CutMix for Split Learning with Vision Transformer"

10/2022: Organized APCC/ICTC 6G Forum on Semantic Communication (SC6G)

10/2022: SEBE "Driving Innovation & Impact Seed Fund" project awarded (CI)

9/2022: Invited to give a talk at IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) 2022 Semantic Communication Forum

9/2022: Invited to give a talk at ICTC 2022 Special Session on Next Generation AI and Applications

9/2022: IEEE Access paper accepted: "RF-Inpainter: Multimodal Image Inpainting based on Vision and Radio Signals" 

9/2022: Invited to serve on PC for INTERPOLATE-NeurIPS 2022 Workshop

8/2022: IEEE IOTJ paper accepted: "Predictive Closed-Loop Remote Control over Wireless Two-Way Split Koopman Autoencoder"

8/2022: ICT Express paper accepted: "Quantum distributed deep learning architectures: Models, discussions, and applications"

8/2022: IEEE VTC-Fall 2022 workshop paper accepted: "Semantic Communication as a Signaling Game with Correlated Knowledge Bases"

8/2022: Invited to give a talk at KTH "Digital Futures Seminars"

8/2022: Invited to serve on PC for FL-NeurIPS 2022 Workshop

8/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC 2023 SAC Cloud Computing, Networking, and Storage (CCNS)

8/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 Wksp. Emerging Topics in 6G Communications (6GComm)

8/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 Wksp. Edge Machine Learning for 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond (EL5GMNB)

8/2022: IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett. paper accepted: "Multi-Channel ALOHA Optimization for Federated Learning with Multiple Models"

7/2022: IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. paper accepted: "Learning Emergent Random Access Protocol for LEO Satellite Networks"

7/2022: CSRI "Collaboration Grants Scheme" project awarded (co-CI)

7/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for VTC-Fall 2022 Intelligent and Semantic Communications Track

7/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC 2023 Symposium on Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks (CRAIN)

6/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC 2023 Wksp. Machine Learning for Communications and Networking (MLCN)

6/2022: IJCAI-FL 2022 paper accepted (Best Student Paper Award): "Visual Transformer Meets CutMix for Improved Accuracy, Communication Efficiency, and Data Privacy in Split Learning"

6/2022: ICML-DyNN 2022 paper accepted (Spotlight Presentation): "Slimmable Quantum Federated Learning"

5/2022: Invited to serve on Publicity Chair for ACM MobiCom 2022 Wksp. Smart Communities with 6G (ACM-SC-6G)

5/2022: Appointed as a Co-Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 SAC Machine Learning for Communication

4/2022: IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett. paper accepted: "Attention Based Communication and Control for Multi-UAV Path Planning"

4/2022: IEEE VTC-Spring 2022 workshop paper accepted: "Random Access Protocol Learning in LEO Satellite Networks via Reinforcement Learning"

4/2022: IEEE VTC-Spring 2022 workshop paper accepted: "Combinatorial Data Augmentation for Real-Time Indoor Positioning: Concepts and Experiments"

4/2022: IEEE ICDCS 2022 paper accepted: "Quantum Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Variational Quantum Circuit Design"

4/2022: DSTG "AI for Decision Making Initiative" project awarded (CI)

4/2022: Organized and moderated KICS JCCI 2022 Panel Discussion on: "Post-AI and Post-Shannon Communications"

4/2022: Invited to give a talk at IEEE ITSoc HK & Huawei "Joint Workshop on Semantic Information Theory" in May 2022.

4/2022: Invited to give a talk at KISSE "AI for Mobility/Networks & Distributed Learning" lecture series in May 2022.

4/2022: Invited to give a talk at KICS "Future Communication Technology" workshop tutorial in May 2022.

3/2022: Nature Electronics paper published: "Extreme Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communication"

3/2022: IEEE ICC 2022 Wksp. Semantic Communications paper accepted: "A Unified View on Semantic Information and Communication: A Probabilistic Logic Approach"

3/2022: Invited to serve on PC for FL-IJCAI 2022 Workshop 

2/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC 2022 Wksp. Semantic Communications

2/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE VTC-Spring 2022 Wksp. Signal Processing for Wireless Communications

1/2022: WWW 2022 paper accepted (17.7% acceptance): "LocFedMix-SL: Localize, Federate, and Mix for Improved Scalability, Convergence, and Latency in Split Learning"

1/2022: IEEE VTC-Spring 2022 workshop accepted: 2nd Workshop on Intelligent IoT Connectivity, Automation and Applications

1/2022: AAAI-FL 2022 paper accepted (Oral Presentation): "Server-Side Local Gradient Averaging and Learning Rate Acceleration for Scalable Split Learning"

1/2022: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE INFOCOM 2022 Wksp. B5G Wireless Security

12/2021: IEEE INFOCOM 2022 paper accepted (19.9% acceptance): "Joint Superposition Coding and Training for Federated Learning over Multi-Width Neural Networks"

12/2021: Elevated to IEEE Senior Member

11/2021: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC 2022 Symposium on Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks (CRAIN)

11/2021: Invited to give a talk at KRRI in November 2021

10/2021: IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. paper accepted: "Communication Efficient Distributed Learning with Censored, Quantized, and Generalizeed Group ADMM"

10/2021: ICT Express paper accepted "Deep Learning Driven Beam Selection for Orthogonal Beamforming with Limited Feedback"

10/2021: Australia-Korea Foundation project awarded (with Shiva Pokhrel, Jinho Choi, Yonghui Li, and Seong-Lyun Kim)

10/2021: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 SAC Machine Learning for Communication (MLC)

10/2021: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC 2022 SAC Cloud Computing, Networking, and Storage (CCNS)

9/2021: Our group member Jaspreet Singh was awarded iMove CRC PhD Scholarship

9/2021: Invited to give a talk at KETI in September 2021

9/2021: Invited to give a talk at ETRI in October 2021

8/2021: Invited to serve on PC for AAAI-FL 2022 Workshop

8/2021: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Wksp.  Internet of Softwarized Things in 5G and Beyond

8/2021: IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 paper accepted: "AirMixML: Over-the-Air Data Mixup for Inherently Privacy-Preserving Edge Machine Learning"

8/2021: Invited to give a talk at KICS tutorial on AI and Communication Networks in August 2021

8/2021: Invited to give a talk at OSIA Industrial Convergence Network Forum Workshop in August 2021

8/2021: APSIPA paper accepted: "Anomaly Detection for Wireless Communication Links via Data Integrity Modeling"

7/2021: IEEE Trans. Commun. paper accepted: "Predictive Control and Communication Co-Design via Two-Way Gaussian Process Regression and AoI-Aware Scheduling"

7/2021: Invited to be a Guest Editor of MDPI Sensors SI on "Big Data Analytics and Intelligent Computation to Advance Novel Applications"

7/2021: ICML-FL 2021 paper accepted: "Communication and Energy Efficient Slimmable Federated Learning via Superposition Coding and Successive Decoding"

7/2021: IEEE SPAWC 2021 paper accepted: "Communication-Efficient Federated Winning Ticket Discovery"

7/2021: IEEE SPAWC 2021 paper accepted: "Robust Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces via Invariant Risk and Causal Representations"

7/2021: IEEE ISWCS 2021 paper accepted: "Attention-based Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time UAV Semantic Communication"

7/2021: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC 2022 SAC Machine Learning for Communication (MLC)

7/2021: Included in PIEEE Monthly 50 Most Frequently Accessed Documents 2 times in a row: "Communication-Efficient and Distributed Learning Over Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications"

6/2021: IEEE PIMRC 2021 paper accepted: "Split Learning Meets Koopman Theory for Wireless Remote Monitoring and Prediction" 

6/2021: Invited to serve on PC for ICMLA AML IoT-FLAME 2021 Workshop

6/2021: Invited to serve on PC for ICML-FL 2021 Workshop

6/2021: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Wksp. Advances in Network Localization and Navigation

5/2021: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Wksp. Wireless Communications for Distributed Intelligence

5/2021: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 SAC Machine Learning for Communication

5/2021: Invited to give a talk at IT21 Conference in June 2021

5/2021: Invited to give a talk at Yonsei University in May 2021

5/2021: Invited to give a talk at Sogang University in May 2021

4/2021: IEEE Trans. Commun. paper accepted: "Harnessing Wireless Channels for Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning"

4/2021: IEEE Comm. Stand. Mag. paper accepted: "When Wireless Communications Meet Computer Vision in Beyond 5G"

4/2021: Invited to give a tutorial at IEICE Society Conference in September 2021

4/2021: Invited to give a talk at Seoul National University in April 2021

4/2021: Invited to give a guest lecture at AIM Adventure Design, Yonsei University 

3/2021: Invited to give a guest lecture at the Colloquium for Convergence Future Communication, Kyung Hee University

3/2021: MIT SLDML invited talk presented: "Communication-Efficient Parallel Split Learning"

2/2021: Invited to give 3 talks at MIT Workshop on Split Learning (SLDML) in March 2021

2/2021: Invited to give a tutorial at JCCI in April 2021

2/2021: Invited to give a talk at SWCS in April 2021 

1/2021: ICASSP 2021 paper accepted: "Robustness and Diversity Seeking Data-Free Knowledge Distillation"

1/2021: Proceedings of the IEEE paper accepted: “Communication-Efficient and Distributed Learning Over Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications"

12/2020: AAAI-RSEML 2020 paper accepted: "Robust Blockchained Federated Learning with Model Validation and Proof-of-Stake Inspired Consensus"

11/2020: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC 2021 Wksp. Edge Learning for 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond

11/2020: Appointed as a Review Editor of Frontiers in Signal Processing for Communications

11/2020: Invited to give an alumni talk at FREEE 2020, Yonsei-EE in December 2020

11/2020: IEEE/KICS paper accepted: "Explore-Before-Talk: Multichannel Selection Diversity for Uplink Massive Machine-Type Communication"

10/2020: Invited to give a talk at AusCTW in March 2021

10/2020: IEEE Access paper accepted: "RIS-Assisted Coverage Enhancement in Millimeter-Wave Cellular Networks"

10/2020: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE INFOCOM 2021 Wksp. Distributed Machine Learning and Fog Networks

10/2020: Invited to serve on TPC for IEEE ICC 2021 SAC Machine Learning for Communication

10/2020: SmartSat CRC project awarded (with Nayyar Zaidi, Jinho Choi, NOVA Systems, and DSTG)

9/2020: IEEE Intelligent Systems paper accepted: "Hiding in the Crowd: Federated Data Augmentation for On-Device Learning"

9/2020: IEEE Trans. Commun. paper accepted: "Q-GADMM: Quantized Group ADMM fof Communication Efficient Decentralized Machine Learning"

8/2020: IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 paper accepted: “Integrating LEO Satellite and UAV Relaying via Reinforcement Learning for Non-Terrestrial Networks”

8/2020: IEEE Trans. Commun. paper accepted: “Communication-Efficient Massive UAV Online Path Control: Federated Learning Meets Mean-Field Game Theory”

7/2020: ICML-FL 2020 paper presented: "XOR Mixup: Privacy-Preserving Data Augmentation for One-Shot Federated Learning"

7/2020: IEEE Access paper accepted: “Towards Enabling Critical mMTC: A Review of URLLC within mMTC”

6/2020: Appointed as an Associated Editor of Frontiers in Data Science for Communications

6/2020: Appointed as a Review Editor of Frontiers in Aerial and Space Networks

6/2020: IEEE Commun. Lett. paper accepted: “Mix2FLD: Downlink Federated Learning After Uplink Federated Distillation With Two-Way Mixup”

6/2020: IEEE Netw. Lett. paper accepted: “Performance Analysis of Blockchain Systems with Wireless Mobile Miners”

6/2020: Included in PIEEE Monthly 50 Most Frequently Accessed Documents 8 times in a row: "Wireless Network Intelligence at the Edge"

6/2020: Invited to serve on PC for ICMLA AML-IoT FLAME 2020 Workshop

5/2020: IEEE Intell. Syst. paper accepted: “Proxy Experience Replay: Federated Distillation for  Distributed Reinforcement Learning”

5/2020: IEEE IOTJ paper accepted: “Communication and Consensus Co-Design for Low-Latency and Reliable Industrial IoT Systems”

5/2020: IEEE SPAWC 2020 paper presented: “Predictive Control and Communication Co-Design: A Gaussian Process Regression Approach”

5/2020: IEEE ICASSP 2020 paper presented: “Q-GADMM: Quantized Group ADMM for Communication-Efficient Decentralized Machine Learning”

5/2020: IEEE WCNC 2020 paper presented: “L-FGADMM: Layer-Wise Federated Group ADMM for Communication-Efficient Decentralized Deep Learning”

5/2020: TPC chair and Session chair of IEEE WCNC ICA 2020 Workshop

4/2020: Invited to serve on PC for ICML-FL 2020 Workshop

3/2020: Invited to serve on PC for IJCAI 2020

3/2020: JMLR paper published: “GADMM: Fast and Communication Efficient Distributed Machine Learning Framework”

3/2020: IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett. paper accepted, “Remote UAV Online Path Planning via Neural Network Based Opportunistic Control”

3/2020: IEEE Commun. Lett. paper accepted: “Communication-Efficient Multimodal Split Learning for mmWave Received Power Prediction”

2/2020: Invited to be a Guest Editor of MDPI Telecom SI on "Millimeter Wave Communiations and Networking in 5G and Beyond"

2/2020: Joined the School of IT at Deakin University as a Lecturer

1/2020: IEEE T. Veh. Technol. paper accepted: “Mean-Field Game Theoretic Edge Caching in Ultra-Dense Networks”