Yuhui Wang
UAV networks and reinforcement learning
Anticipated graduation: Expected 2026
LinkedIn ↗ Google Scholar ↗Yuhui Wang is a Ph.D. researcher and Rackham Predoctoral Fellow working on UAV communication networks. His research applies deep reinforcement learning to UAV placement, integrated access and backhaul, multi-UAV mobile edge computing, and UAV-assisted LEO satellite edge systems for resilient coverage and connectivity.
In the news
Our paper "Collaborative Cloud-Edge Computing via LLM-Guided Constrained Reinforcement Learning" was accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2026), Singapore. Congratulations Xingqi and Yuhui!
Our paper "Dependency-Aware Task Offloading via Quantum Graph Attention Network-based Deep Reinforcement Learning in Collaborative Edge-Cloud Systems" was accepted in International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2026). Congratulations Xingqi and Yuhui!
Ph.D. researcher Yuhui Wang joins Nokia Bell Labs as a Generative AI Intern for Summer 2026.
Yuhui Wang attended the ceremony recognizing Rackham Predoctoral Fellows in Ann Arbor.
Yuhui Wang received his Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship certificate from Rackham Dean Dewey Jung, recognizing his research on aerial communication systems.
Yuhui Wang and Xingqi Wu received pins at the CECS Doctoral Pinning and Recognition Ceremony, celebrating their advancement to candidacy.
Lab members presented their research posters at the CECS Research Poster Competition.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
Our paper "Multi-UAV Placement for Integrated Access and Backhauling Using LLM-Based Optimizers" was accepted in IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy. Congratulations Yuhui!
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.
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!
Journal articles
- 2026 Dynamic Multi-Modal UAV Control for Optimized Coverage and Backhaul Connectivity in Spatially Unstructured and Dispersed User EnvironmentsY. Wang, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 2320-2334
@article{wang2026dynamic, author = {Y. Wang and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {Dynamic Multi-Modal UAV Control for Optimized Coverage and Backhaul Connectivity in Spatially Unstructured and Dispersed User Environments}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 2320-2334}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/tm/5555/01/11152341/29LAw5X8z2E}, } - 2026 Process-Informed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Radio-Compute Orchestration in Industrial O-RANX. Wu, Y. Wang, J. Farooq, M. M. Butt, H. Ghazzai, and G. Settiin IEEE Networking Letters
@article{wu2026processinformed, author = {X. Wu and Y. Wang and J. Farooq and M. M. Butt and H. Ghazzai and G. Setti}, title = {Process-Informed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Radio-Compute Orchestration in Industrial O-RAN}, journal = {IEEE Networking Letters}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11494807}, } - 2025 Joint Positioning and Computation Offloading in Multi-UAV MEC for Low Latency Applications: A Proximal Policy Optimization ApproachY. Wang, J. Farooq, H. Ghazzai, and G. Settiin IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 9584-9598
@article{wang2025joint, author = {Y. Wang and J. Farooq and H. Ghazzai and G. Setti}, title = {Joint Positioning and Computation Offloading in Multi-UAV MEC for Low Latency Applications: A Proximal Policy Optimization Approach}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 9584-9598}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10971880}, } - 2025 ORCA: Offloading and Resource Coordination via Multi-agent Learning in Dynamic Cloud-Edge SystemsY. Wang, X. Wu, J. Farooq, T. Li, and J. Chensubmitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
@article{wang2025orca, author = {Y. Wang and X. Wu and J. Farooq and T. Li and J. Chen}, title = {ORCA: Offloading and Resource Coordination via Multi-agent Learning in Dynamic Cloud-Edge Systems}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.176315222.25704753}, } - 2025 SliceWise: Traffic-Aware Multi-Agent RL with Temporal Encoding for Joint Slice Admission and Resource Orchestration in O-RANX. Wu, Y. Wang, J. Farooq, H. Ghazzai, and G. Settiin IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 323-327
@article{wu2025slicewise, author = {X. Wu and Y. Wang and J. Farooq and H. Ghazzai and G. Setti}, title = {SliceWise: Traffic-Aware Multi-Agent RL with Temporal Encoding for Joint Slice Admission and Resource Orchestration in O-RAN}, journal = {IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 323-327}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11251017}, } - 2024 Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Placement for Integrated Access Backhauling in UAV-Assisted Wireless NetworksY. Wang and J. Farooqin IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 14727-14738
@article{wang2024deep, author = {Y. Wang and J. Farooq}, title = {Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Placement for Integrated Access Backhauling in UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks}, journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 14727-14738}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10365695}, }
Conference papers
- 2026 Dependency-Aware Task Offloading via Quantum Graph Attention Network-based Deep Reinforcement Learning in Collaborative Edge-Cloud SystemsY. Wang, X. Wu, J. Farooq, S. Y. Chen, and J. Chenin International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2026)
@inproceedings{wang2026dependencyaware, author = {Y. Wang and X. Wu and J. Farooq and S. Y. Chen and J. Chen}, title = {Dependency-Aware Task Offloading via Quantum Graph Attention Network-based Deep Reinforcement Learning in Collaborative Edge-Cloud Systems}, booktitle = {International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2026)}, year = {2026}, } - 2026 Collaborative Cloud-Edge Computing via LLM-Guided Constrained Reinforcement LearningY. Wang, X. Wu, J. Farooq, T. Li, and J. Chenin IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2026), Singapore
@inproceedings{wang2026collaborative, author = {Y. Wang and X. Wu and J. Farooq and T. Li and J. Chen}, title = {Collaborative Cloud-Edge Computing via LLM-Guided Constrained Reinforcement Learning}, booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2026), Singapore}, year = {2026}, } - 2026 PROMPTGUARD: Zero Trust Prompting for Securing LLM-Driven O-RAN ControlY. Wang, X. Wu, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin Proc. NDSS 2026 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), San Diego CA
@inproceedings{wang2026promptguard, author = {Y. Wang and X. Wu and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {PROMPTGUARD: Zero Trust Prompting for Securing LLM-Driven O-RAN Control}, booktitle = {Proc. NDSS 2026 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), San Diego CA}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/futureg26-22.pdf}, } - 2025 Coordinated UAV Deployment and Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted LEO Satellite Edge Computing Systems via Proximal Policy OptimizationY. Wang, X. Wu, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Aerial and Space Networks, Montreal, Canada
@inproceedings{wang2025coordinated, author = {Y. Wang and X. Wu and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {Coordinated UAV Deployment and Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted LEO Satellite Edge Computing Systems via Proximal Policy Optimization}, booktitle = {IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Aerial and Space Networks, Montreal, Canada}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/users/793184/articles/1277869}, } - 2025 Joint Optimization of Positioning and Computation Offloading in Multi-UAV MEC Networks for Low Latency ApplicationsY. Wang, J. Farooq, H. Ghazzai, and G. Settiin IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy
@inproceedings{wang2025joint, author = {Y. Wang and J. Farooq and H. Ghazzai and G. Setti}, title = {Joint Optimization of Positioning and Computation Offloading in Multi-UAV MEC Networks for Low Latency Applications}, booktitle = {IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/users/793184/articles/1234294}, } - 2025 LLM-Driven Agentic AI Approach to Enhanced O-RAN Resilience in Next-Generation NetworksX. Wu, Y. Wang, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin IEEE INFOCOM 2025 Workshop on Resilience in Next-Generation Networks (NGResNet), London, UK
@inproceedings{wu2025llmdriven, author = {X. Wu and Y. Wang and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {LLM-Driven Agentic AI Approach to Enhanced O-RAN Resilience in Next-Generation Networks}, booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2025 Workshop on Resilience in Next-Generation Networks (NGResNet), London, UK}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/users/793184/articles/1277868}, } - 2025 LLM-xApp: A Large Language Model Empowered Radio Resource Management xApp for 5G O-RANX. Wu, J. Farooq, Y. Wang, and J. Chenin Proc. NDSS 2025 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), San Diego CA
@inproceedings{wu2025llmxapp, author = {X. Wu and J. Farooq and Y. Wang and J. Chen}, title = {LLM-xApp: A Large Language Model Empowered Radio Resource Management xApp for 5G O-RAN}, booktitle = {Proc. NDSS 2025 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), San Diego CA}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/auto-draft-567/}, } - 2025 Multi-UAV Placement for Integrated Access and Backhauling Using LLM-Based OptimizersY. Wang, J. Farooq, H. Ghazzai, and G. Settiin IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy
@inproceedings{wang2025multiuav, author = {Y. Wang and J. Farooq and H. Ghazzai and G. Setti}, title = {Multi-UAV Placement for Integrated Access and Backhauling Using LLM-Based Optimizers}, booktitle = {IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/users/793184/articles/1229164}, } - 2025 Real-time multiple obstacle avoidance and navigation in unstructured spaces with applications to indoor delivery robotsY. Wang, U. Pillai, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin IEEE COINS 2025, Madison WI, USA
@inproceedings{wang2025realtime, author = {Y. Wang and U. Pillai and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {Real-time multiple obstacle avoidance and navigation in unstructured spaces with applications to indoor delivery robots}, booktitle = {IEEE COINS 2025, Madison WI, USA}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/users/793184/articles/1315645}, } - 2023 Optimal 3D Placement for Integrated Access Backhauling in UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks Using Reinforcement LearningY. Wang and J. Farooqin IEEE MASS Workshop on Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles and IoT (UAV-IoT 2023), Toronto, Canada
@inproceedings{wang2023optimal, author = {Y. Wang and J. Farooq}, title = {Optimal 3D Placement for Integrated Access Backhauling in UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks Using Reinforcement Learning}, booktitle = {IEEE MASS Workshop on Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles and IoT (UAV-IoT 2023), Toronto, Canada}, year = {2023}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10298362}, } - 2022 Proactive and Resilient UAV Orchestration for QoS Driven Connectivity and Coverage of Ground UsersY. Wang and J. Farooqin IEEE CNS Cyber Resilience Workshop (CNS 2022), Austin TX
@inproceedings{wang2022proactive, author = {Y. Wang and J. Farooq}, title = {Proactive and Resilient UAV Orchestration for QoS Driven Connectivity and Coverage of Ground Users}, booktitle = {IEEE CNS Cyber Resilience Workshop (CNS 2022), Austin TX}, year = {2022}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9947272}, } - 2022 Resilient UAV Formation for Coverage and Connectivity of Spatially Dispersed UsersY. Wang and J. Farooqin IEEE ICC 2022, Seoul, South Korea
@inproceedings{wang2022resilient, author = {Y. Wang and J. Farooq}, title = {Resilient UAV Formation for Coverage and Connectivity of Spatially Dispersed Users}, booktitle = {IEEE ICC 2022, Seoul, South Korea}, year = {2022}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9838960}, } - 2022 Zero Touch Coordinated UAV Network Formation for 360 Degree Views of a Moving Ground Target in Remote VR ApplicationsY. Wang and J. Farooqin IEEE MILCOM 2022, Rockville MD
@inproceedings{wang2022zero, author = {Y. Wang and J. Farooq}, title = {Zero Touch Coordinated UAV Network Formation for 360 Degree Views of a Moving Ground Target in Remote VR Applications}, booktitle = {IEEE MILCOM 2022, Rockville MD}, year = {2022}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02833}, }