The 10th National Workshop for REU Research in Networking and Systems (REUNS 2025)

The 10th National Workshop for REU Research in Networking and Systems (REUNS 2025)

Chicago, USA Oct. 8, 2025

Co-located with the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems Conference (IEEE MASS)

Scope

• Undergraduate research plays an important role in attracting our best undergraduates to continue towards graduate education in the science and engineering fields. Publishing research in a professional venue is part of the training for future researchers. The National Science Foundation (NSF) provides support for undergraduate research within the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. This workshop provides a venue for students to publish their research done as part of the REU program.

• The workshop seeks original submissions in research areas that are currently funded by the NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). The key requirement for this workshop is that the submission’s lead author must be an undergraduate student funded as part of the NSF REU program, either as an REU supplement or REU Site.

Submission

• Paper contributions: All submissions should be written in English and using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, with side-margin at least 1 inch, including all figures, tables, and references. Regular submissions are restricted to 6 pages. Important: At least the lead author from each submission must be an undergraduate student funded as part of the NSF REU program, either as an REU supplement or REU Site.

• Paper submission website is available in EDAS: https://edas.info/N33357

Important Dates

We follow the deadlines specified by the IEEE MASS Conference for workshop papers:

• Paper Submission Deadline: Friday, August 8, 2025

• Notification of Acceptance:  Friday, August 15, 2025

• Camera-ready Version: Friday, August 22, 2025

Camera-ready submission instructions

• To be announced.

Registration instructions

• https://ieeemass2025.github.io/ieeemass2025/registration.html

Workshop Organizers

Steering Committee

• Jie Wu, Temple University

Organizing Committee 

• Shuhui Yang Purdue University Northwest

• Feng Li Purdue University

Program Committee

• 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. • Garvit Agarwal, Purdue University

                       • Kemal Akkaya, Florida International University

                       • Ashwin Ashok, Georgia State University

                       • Genevieve Bartlett, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute

                       • Justin Bradley, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

                       • Eyuphan Bulut, Virginia Commonwealth University

                       • Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri-Columbia

                       • Amirahmad Chapnevis, Virginia Commonwealth University

                       • Miguel Jimeno, Universidad del Norte

                       • Md Rafiul Kabir, University of Florida

                       • Dulal Kar, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

                       • Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University Northwest

                       • Scott A. King, Texas A&M Corpus Christi

                       • Tao Li, Purdue University

                       • Xiuqi Li, Temple University

                       • Xiao Luo, Oklahoma State University

                       • Faryaneh Poursardar, Old Dominion University

                       • Sandip Ray, University of Florida

                       • Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County

                       • Carlos Rubio-Medrano, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

                       • Harvey Siy, University of Nebraska at Omaha

                       • Agnideven Palanisamy Sundar, Purdue University

                       • Boyang Wang, University of Cincinnati

                       • Lu Wang, Texas State University

                       • Yan Wang, Temple University

                       • Yunsheng Wang, California State Polytechnic University

                       • Jian Wu, Old Dominion University

                       • Kecheng Yang, Texas State University

                       • Jong-Hoon Youn, University of Nebraska at Omaha

                       • Wei Zhang, University of Louisville

Past REUNS workshops

• 2023: https://sites.google.com/view/reuns2023/home

• 2022: https://sites.google.com/view/reuns-2022/home

• 2021: https://sites.google.com/view/reuns2021/home

• 2019: https://sites.google.com/view/reuns2019/

• 2018: https://www.datareu.com/symposium2018

• 2017: http://cs.pnw.edu/reuns_fall2017/

• 2015: http://cs.pnw.edu/reuns2015/

• 2014: http://www.cnc.temple.edu/REUNS-schedule.pdf

Workshop Schedule

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

8:30am – 8:45am Opening (Room C35), Feng Li

8:45am – 10:15am REUNS 1 (Room C35), Shuhui Yang

· Open, Adaptive, Object Detection for Edge Systems with a Vision-Language TinyLLM

· Robust Deepfake Detection via Synthetic Domain Alignment

· PA-JJAMA: An LLM Based Intrusion Detection System for Controller Area Networks

· Enhancing Addiction Research Through Advanced Wearable Sensing and LLM-Powered Data Analysis

· Securing Distributed IoT Systems: Blockchain-Based Protocol with Integrated Intrusion Response

10:15am – 10:30am Break (Lobby)

10:30am – 12:00pm REUNS 2 (Room C35), Feng Li

· Inter-Zone Trust and Secure Data Sharing in Mission-Critical Internet of Underwater Things

· Bit-Flipping Attack Exploration and Countermeasure in 5G Network

· Adversarial Attacks and Defenses for Panoptic Perception Models in Autonomous Driving

· Exposing Privacy Vulnerabilities in mmWave Sensing via Membership Inference Attacks

· MalFusion: A Hybrid Approach to Ransomware Detection

12:00pm – 13:30pm Lunch (2nd Floor Cafe)

13:30pm – 15:00pm REUNS 3 (Room C35), Garvit Agarwal

· Q-Learning-Based Sensor Selection for k-Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

· Automotive Security Virtual Exploration Platform for Wheel Speed Sensor Attacks

· K-Coverage in Three-Dimensional Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Game Theoretical Approach

· AIoT for Autism: Analyzing Motor Behaviors in Virtual Environments Using Visual Data

· Simulation-Based Smart Home Architecture for Autism Support Using CSI-Based Movement Detection