News & activities

Our paper "Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning for O-RAN Control under Stochastic Reward Feedback" was accepted in IEEE Networking Letters. Congratulations Xingqi!

Ph.D. student Yuhui Wang joins Nokia Bell Labs as a Generative AI Intern for Summer 2026.

Organized the 2nd Workshop on Resilience in Next Generation Networks (NGResNet) at IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2026 in Rome, with a keynote by Dr. Hans-Peter Bernhard.

Co-organizing the 5th IEEE CNS Cyber Resilience Workshop (CRW'26) in Newark, Delaware. Call for papers open, with a submission deadline of June 22, 2026.

Yuhui Wang attended the ceremony recognizing Rackham Predoctoral Fellows in Ann Arbor.

Promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with tenure, approved by the U-M Board of Regents.

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.

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.

The CyReN Lab and Ph.D. researcher Elahe Delavari featured in UM-Dearborn's Campus in Focus: March Maize-ness.

Elahe Delavari participated in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

New book published: Cyber Resilience in Next-Generation Networks (Foundations and Trends in Networking).

Hosted Prof. Waheed Bajwa at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for a seminar and discussions with faculty and students.

Paper accepted in IEEE Networking Letters.

Poster accepted at ACM MobiHoc 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.

Paper accepted in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

Organized the inaugural Workshop on Resilience in Next Generation Networks (NGResNet) at IEEE INFOCOM 2025 in London, with a keynote by Prof. Ness Shroff.

Attended the NSF Athena AI Institute Summit at Duke University, with discussions on edge computing, AI, and intelligent systems.

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.

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.

Elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE.

Presented a seminar at UM-Flint on AI-Driven Management and Orchestration of Next-Generation Networks.

Helped organize a two-day NSF Workshop on Large Language Models for Network Security at New York University.

Co-organized the 2nd Cyber Resilience Workshop at IEEE CNS 2023 in Orlando, FL.

Delivered the Ph.D. commencement address at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

UM-Dearborn news feature on the NSF Convergence Accelerator project to bolster 5G security for ultra-sensitive applications.

Multi-university project on Zero Trust cybersecurity for 5G networks begins, supported by the NSF.

Received the University-wide Outstanding Dissertation Award from New York University.