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- Sep 2026
- Aug 2026 Our book "Cyber Resilience in Next-Generation Networks: Theoretical Foundations, Threat Landscape, and Design Paradigms" is now published in Foundations and Trends in Networking (vol. 17, no. 1-2) by Emerald Publishing. Joint work with Quanyan Zhu. Visit site →
- Jul 2026 Featured in UM-Dearborn News: WiseBot, an autonomous Wi-Fi and 5G scanning robot for smart-manufacturing environments. Prof. Farooq and team contributed the wireless scanning subsystem (the antennas mounted on the robot) and the on-board software that lets WiseBot sniff Wi-Fi, LTE, and 5G signals and generate facility-wide coverage heat maps. Developed with Samir Rawashdeh, Jaerock Kwon, Alireza Mohammadi, and a team of students including CyReN intern Sourabh Harapanahalli, under a $900,000 MxD grant. Visit site →
- Jul 2026
- Jun 2026 Delivered an invited talk at the UNESCO Chair on Education "Connect the Unconnected" Summer 2026 Seminar Series, hosted by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST): "Orchestrating NextG Networks at the Confluence of Communications, Computing, and Control." The talk explored AI-driven resource orchestration across mobile, edge, and cloud systems — spanning UAV placement, computation offloading, user association, and resource allocation in 5G edge-cloud networks — and outlined a research vision for autonomous NextG networks that continuously learn from their operating environments.
- Jun 2026 U.S. provisional patent application filed: "Online Detection and Containment of Disruptive User Equipment (UE) in Radio Access Networks." Inventors: X. Wu and J. Farooq (Application No. 64/080,683).
- Jun 2026 Our paper "Risk-Aware Resource Orchestration in Multi-Tier 5G Edge-Cloud Networks" was accepted in Intent-Driven Network: Techniques and Applications, Springer Wireless Network Series. 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 →
- May 2026
- 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 →
- May 2026 Our paper "Jamming-Resilient PRB Reservation for Latency-Critical O-RAN Network Slicing" was accepted in IEEE DySPAN 2026 ML-Spec Workshop, Washington D.C., USA. Congratulations Elahe!
- May 2026
- May 2026 Our paper "Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning for O-RAN Control under Stochastic Reward Feedback" was accepted in IEEE Networking Letters. Congratulations Xingqi!
- 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.
- Apr 2026 Our paper "Process-Informed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Radio-Compute Orchestration in Industrial O-RAN" was accepted in IEEE Networking Letters. Congratulations to Xingqi and Yuhui! Visit site →
- Mar 2026 Co-organized the inaugural Dearborn Automation and Intelligent Systems (DAISY) Symposium at UM-Dearborn with Karishma Patnaik. The 2026 theme, NextG Networks and Smart Manufacturing, featured keynotes by Majid Butt (Nokia Bell Labs), Haneya Naeem Qureshi (General Motors), and Georges Ayoub (UM-Dearborn), followed by a cross-industry panel. Supported by the UM Bold Challenges Pollination Award. DAISY will run annually going forward. Visit site →
- 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.
- Feb 2026 Invited talk at Grand Valley State University: "Enabling Assured Autonomy: AI-Driven Optimization and Reliability in Next-Generation Networks."
- Feb 2026 Our paper "PROMPTGUARD: Zero Trust Prompting for Securing LLM-Driven O-RAN Control" was accepted in Proc. NDSS 2026 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), San Diego CA. Congratulations Xingqi and Yuhui! Visit site →
- Feb 2026 Our paper "Dynamic Multi-Modal UAV Control for Optimized Coverage and Backhaul Connectivity in Spatially Unstructured and Dispersed User Environments" was accepted in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Congratulations Yuhui! Visit site →
- Dec 2025 Our paper "SliceWise: Traffic-Aware Multi-Agent RL with Temporal Encoding for Joint Slice Admission and Resource Orchestration in O-RAN" was accepted in IEEE Networking Letters. Congratulations Xingqi and Yuhui! Visit site →
- Nov 2025 Hosted Prof. Waheed Bajwa at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for a seminar and discussions with faculty and students.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
