Research
My research interest spans the area of distributed machine learning, wireless communications, and cybersecurity in various IoT and CPS applications.
Semantic Communications
"Improving Channel Resilience for Task-Oriented Semantic Communications: A Unified Information Bottleneck Approach" under review, 2024.
"S-RAN: Semantic-Aware Radio Access Network," under review, 2024.
"Wireless Resource Optimization in Hybrid Semantic/Bit Communication Networks," under review, 2024.
"A Wireless AI-Generated Content (AIGC) Provisioning Framework Empowered by Semantic Communication," under review, 2024.
"Enhancing Reasoning Ability in Semantic Communication through Generative AI-Assisted Knowledge Construction," IEEE Communication Letters, 2024.
"Research on End-to-End CT-Polar System for Semantic Communication," IEEE VTC 2024-Spring.
"Joint Computing Resource and Bandwidth Allocation for Semantic Communication Networks," IEEE VTC 2023-Fall.
"Prompt-based Transceiver Cooperation for Semantic Communications with Domain-Incremental Background Knowledge," IEEE Globecom, 2023.
Distributed and On-Device Machine Learning
"Fed-CPrompt: Contrastive Prompt for Rehearsal-Free Federated Continual Learning," FL@ICML, 2023.
"Workie-Talkie: Accelerating Federated Learning by Overlapping Computing and Communications via Contrastive Regularization," ICCV, 2023.
"Distributed Pruning Towards Tiny Neural Networks in Federated Learning," IEEE ICDCS, 2023.
"Learning, Tiny and Huge: Heterogeneous Model Augmentation towards Federated Tiny Learning," IEEE ICMLA, 2023.
"FedZKT: Zero-Shot Knowledge Transfer towards Resource-Constrained Federated Learning with Heterogeneous On-Device Models," IEEE ICDCS, 2022.
"Cascade Vertical Federated Learning," IEEE ICME 2022.
"A Knowledge Transfer-based Semi-Supervised Federated Learning for IoT Malware Detection," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022.
"Federated Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation via Knowledge Transfer," arXiv:2207.10727, 2022.
"Beyond Class-Level Privacy Leakage: Breaking Record-Level Privacy in Federated Learning," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021.
"ES attack: Model stealing against deep neural networks without data hurdles," IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2022.
"Membership Inference Attacks and Defenses in Neural Network Pruning," USENIX Security Symposium 2022.
IoT and CPS Applications
Smart Transportation
"RAMRL: Towards Robust On-Ramp Merging via Augmented Multimodal Reinforcement Learning," IEEE MOST, 2023.
"Pay "Attention" to Adverse Weather: Weather-aware Attention-based Object Detection" ICPR 2022.
“Timeliness-Aware Incentive Mechanism for Vehicular Crowdsourcing in Smart Cities,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2021.
"A Privacy-Preserving Trust Management System based on Blockchain for Vehicular Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2021.
“A Machine Learning Based Defensive Alerting System Against Reckless Driving in Vehicular Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019.
"5G Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Services: Gearing Up for Security and Privacy,” Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019.
“SPATH: Finding the Safest Walking Path in Smart Cities,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019.
Smart Tracking
"A Blockchain based Human-to-Infrastructure Contact Tracing Approach for COVID-19," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021.
"Energy-Efficient UAV-Aided Target Tracking Systems Based on Edge Computing," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021.
"Age-stratified COVID-19 spread analysis and vaccination: A multitype random network approach," IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2021.
"Sensing to Learn: Deep Learning Based Wireless Sensing via Connected Digital and Physical Experiments," International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, 2021.
Wireless Communications and Security
"Opportunistic Content-aware Routing in Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024.
"Cooperative Caching in Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks: A Region Feature aware Approach," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2024.
"Content-Aware Routing based on Cached Content Prediction in Satellite Networks," IEEE Globecom, 2022.
"Secure transmission by leveraging multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces in MISO systems," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2021.
"Design and Analysis of Network Behaviors for Optimizing Network Energy Efficiency in 5G Mmwave Systems," IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, 2021.
"Augmenting Transmission Environments for Better Communications: Tunable Reflector Assisted MmWave WLANs,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2020.
“Machine Learning Based Handovers for Sub-6 GHz and mmWave Integrated Vehicular Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2019.
"FRESH: FReshness-aware energy-efficient scheduler for cellular IoT systems," IEEE ICC, 2019.
"Robust Energy-Efficient Beamforming in MISO Networks with Dynamic Energy Consumption Model," IEEE Globecom, 2019.
“Uplink performance improvement by decoupling uplink/downlink access in HetNets,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2017.