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- Sep 2026
- Jul 2026
- 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 →
- Jan 2026 New book published: Cyber Resilience in Next-Generation Networks (Foundations and Trends in Networking).
- 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 →
- Dec 2025 Our paper "Resilient PRB Allocation for High Mobility UEs in 5G O-RAN via LSTM-Enhanced MPC" was accepted in IEEE Globecom Workshop on Resilience in Next-Generation Wireless Communication Networks (GC Wkshps 2025), Taiwan. Congratulations Xingqi and Yuxuan! Visit site →
- Nov 2025 Our paper "Multi-agent Resource Orchestration Based on D3QN for Network Slicing in 5G Edge-Cloud Networks" was accepted in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Congratulations Xingqi! Visit site →
- Nov 2025 Hosted Prof. Waheed Bajwa at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for a seminar and discussions with faculty and students.
- Oct 2025 Our paper "Joint Positioning and Computation Offloading in Multi-UAV MEC for Low Latency Applications: A Proximal Policy Optimization Approach" was accepted in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Congratulations Yuhui! Visit site →
- Oct 2025 Our paper "Poster: Triage Slicing: Online Detection and Containment of Disruptive UEs in O-RAN Slices" was accepted in 26th ACM MobiHoc 2025, Houston, TX, USA. Congratulations Xingqi and Ritesh! Visit site →
- Aug 2025 Poster accepted at ACM MobiHoc 2025. Congratulations Xingqi!
- Aug 2025 Our paper "Evaluation of LLM powered agentic AI for solving multi-arm bandit problems" was accepted in IEEE COINS 2025, Madison WI, USA. Congratulations Jawad! Visit site →
- Aug 2025 Our paper "Multimodal LLM-guided sequential detection of cyber threats in electric vehicle charging systems" was accepted in IEEE COINS 2025, Madison WI, USA. Congratulations Ritesh! Visit site →
- Aug 2025 Our paper "Real-time multiple obstacle avoidance and navigation in unstructured spaces with applications to indoor delivery robots" was accepted in IEEE COINS 2025, Madison WI, USA. Congratulations Yuhui! Visit site →
- Jul 2025 Our paper "Reliable and Resilient Connectivity and Coverage under Localized Backhauling in UAV-IoT Networks" was accepted in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. Congratulations Xingqi! Visit site →
- 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!
- Jun 2025 Our paper "Coordinated UAV Deployment and Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted LEO Satellite Edge Computing Systems via Proximal Policy Optimization" was accepted in IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Aerial and Space Networks, Montreal, Canada. Congratulations Xingqi and Yuhui! Visit site →
- Jun 2025 Our paper "Joint Admission Control and Resource Provisioning for URLLC Traffic in O-RAN: A Constrained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach" was accepted in IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada. Congratulations Xingqi! Visit site →
- 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.
- May 2025 Our paper "LLM-Driven Agentic AI Approach to Enhanced O-RAN Resilience in Next-Generation Networks" was accepted in IEEE INFOCOM 2025 Workshop on Resilience in Next-Generation Networks (NGResNet), London, UK. Congratulations Xingqi and Yuhui! Visit site →
- May 2025 Our paper "LLM-Powered Agentic AI Approach to Securing EV Charging Systems Against Cyber Threats" was accepted in 3rd Workshop on Cybersecurity of Critical National Infrastructures (CCNI), IEEE WoWMoM 2025, Dallas TX, USA. Congratulations Ritesh! Visit site →
- 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.
- Mar 2025 Our paper "Joint Optimization of Positioning and Computation Offloading in Multi-UAV MEC Networks for Low Latency Applications" was accepted in IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy. Congratulations Yuhui! Visit site →
- Mar 2025 Our paper "Multi-UAV Placement for Integrated Access and Backhauling Using LLM-Based Optimizers" was accepted in IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy. Congratulations Yuhui! Visit site →
- 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 →
- Feb 2025 Our paper "LLM-xApp: A Large Language Model Empowered Radio Resource Management xApp for 5G O-RAN" was accepted in Proc. NDSS 2025 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), San Diego CA. Congratulations Xingqi and Yuhui! Visit site →
- Jan 2025 Our paper "Mapping Cyber Threats in the 5G Supply Chain: Landscape, Vulnerabilities, and Risk Management" was accepted in IEEE Network. Congratulations Moyan! 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.
