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- May 2026 Our paper "Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning for O-RAN Control under Stochastic Reward Feedback" was accepted in IEEE Networking Letters. Congratulations Xingqi!
- May 2026 Ph.D. researcher Yuhui Wang joins Nokia Bell Labs as a Generative AI Intern for Summer 2026.
- May 2026 Organized the 2nd Workshop on Resilience in Next Generation Networks (NGResNet) at IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2026 in Rome, Italy, with a keynote by Dr. Hans-Peter Bernhard. The lab presented work on proactive PRB allocation for O-RAN industrial networks. Visit site →
- May 2026 Co-organizing the 5th IEEE CNS Cyber Resilience Workshop (CRW'26) in Newark, Delaware. The call for papers is open with a submission deadline of June 22, 2026. Visit site →
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- May 2026 Junaid Farooq promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with tenure, approved by the U-M Board of Regents. Visit site →
- Apr 2026 Yuhui Wang received his Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship certificate from Rackham Dean Dewey Jung, recognizing his research on aerial communication systems. Visit site →
- Apr 2026 Yuhui Wang and Xingqi Wu received pins at the CECS Doctoral Pinning and Recognition Ceremony, celebrating their advancement to candidacy.
- Apr 2026 Lab members presented their research posters at the CECS Research Poster Competition.
- Mar 2026 Chaired the Dearborn Automation and Intelligent Systems (DAISY) Symposium, featuring a panel on NextG networks and smart manufacturing with Majid Butt, Haneya Naeem Qureshi, and Georges Ayoub. Supported by the UM Bold Challenges Pollination Award.
- Mar 2026 The CyReN Lab and Elahe Delavari featured in UM-Dearborn's Campus in Focus: March Maize-ness. Visit site →
- Feb 2026 Elahe Delavari participated in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
- Jan 2026 New book published: Cyber Resilience in Next-Generation Networks (Foundations and Trends in Networking).
- Nov 2025 Hosted Prof. Waheed Bajwa at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for a seminar and discussions with faculty and students.
- Nov 2025 Paper accepted in IEEE Networking Letters. Congratulations to Xingqi and Yuhui!
- Aug 2025 Poster accepted at ACM MobiHoc 2025. Congratulations Xingqi!
- Jun 2025 Presented two papers from the group at IEEE ICC 2025 in Montreal, on URLLC admission control in O-RAN and UAV-assisted LEO satellite edge computing, with Xingqi Wu and Yuhui Wang.
- Jun 2025 Paper accepted in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. Congratulations Xingqi!
- May 2025 Organized the inaugural Workshop on Resilience in Next Generation Networks (NGResNet) at IEEE INFOCOM 2025 in London, with a keynote by Prof. Ness Shroff.
- May 2025 Attended the NSF Athena AI Institute Summit at Duke University, with discussions on edge computing, AI, and intelligent systems.
- Mar 2025 Presented two papers from the group at IEEE WCNC 2025 in Milan, on multi-UAV placement with LLM-driven optimization and computation offloading in multi-UAV MEC networks, with Yuhui Wang.
- Feb 2025 Presented LLM-xApp, a large language model framework for adaptive radio resource management in O-RAN, at the NDSS 2025 FutureG Workshop in San Diego, with Xingqi Wu and Yuhui Wang.
- Feb 2025 Junaid Farooq elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE.
- Feb 2025 Presented a seminar at UM-Flint on AI-Driven Management and Orchestration of Next-Generation Networks. Visit site →
- Oct 2024 Helped organize a two-day NSF Workshop on Large Language Models for Network Security at New York University.
- Oct 2023 Co-organized the 2nd Cyber Resilience Workshop at IEEE CNS 2023 in Orlando, FL.
- May 2023 Delivered the Ph.D. commencement address at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
- Sep 2022 UM-Dearborn news feature on the NSF Convergence Accelerator project for zero-trust 5G security in ultra-sensitive applications. Visit site →
- Aug 2022 Multi-university NSF project on Zero Trust cybersecurity for 5G networks kicks off.
