News & activities

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!

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.

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!

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.

Filed U.S. provisional patent application: "Online Detection and Containment of Disruptive User Equipment (UE) in Radio Access Networks." Inventors: X. Wu and J. Farooq (Application No. 64/080,683).

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!

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.

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!

Our paper "Temporally Encoded Double DQN for Proactive PRB Allocation in O-RAN Enabled Industrial Networks" was accepted in IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2026 Workshop on Resilience in Next Generation Network Management (NGResNet), Rome, Italy. Congratulations Xingqi and Elahe!

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

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!

Co-organized the inaugural Dearborn Automation and Intelligent Systems (DAISY) Symposium at UM-Dearborn with Karishma Patnaik, drawing over 8,000 impressions across the DAISY community. 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.

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.

Invited talk at Grand Valley State University: "Enabling Assured Autonomy: AI-Driven Optimization and Reliability in Next-Generation Networks."

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!

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.