Past News
2025
Dec. 2025: We successfully organized the First AI4NextG Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025. All the talks are freely available online.
Nov. 2025: Yujia Mu successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Mu!
Oct. 2025: Co-organzing AAAI 2026 Workshop on AI for Time Series Analysis (AI4TS): Theory, Algorithms, and Applications.
Sept. 2025: PhD student Zihan Chen received the McVey Fellowship, and PhD student Wei Shen received the Wilson Bicentennial Grad Fellowship. Congratulations!
Aug. 2025: Area Chair for AISTATS 2026 and ICLR 2026.
Aug. 2025: Lead organizer for AI4NextG Workshop @ NeurIPS’25. Submission deadline: August 29, 2025. Check our website for more details.
May 2025: I started the role of Deputy Director of Collaboration at SpectrumX.
Feb. 2025: Welcome Danya Balakumaran Meenakumari (master) and Diana Lin (undergraduate) to our group!
Feb. 2025: Co-organzing AAAI 2025 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Time Series Analysis (AI4TS): Theory, Algorithms, and Applications.
Jan. 2025: Two papers accepted to ICLR 2025 and two papers accepted to AISTATS 2025. Topics include multi-armed bandits, RLHF, in-context learning, transformers, and differential privacy. See publication for details.
Jan. 2025: The collaborative paper “Stereoscopic artificial compound eyes for spatiotemporal perception in three-dimensional space” between Prof. Kyusang Lee's group and ours has been selected as the Best Paper of 2024 of Science Robotics. Read the Engineering School news here.
Jan. 2025: Our paper on transformer-based physical-layer wireless system design has been accepted to ICC 2025.
Jan. 2025: PhD student Zhoubin Kou joins our group. Welcome!
2024
Oct. 2024: Peng Wang joins our group. He is in our CS department and co-advised by me and Prof. Jing Yang.
Sept. 2024: Three papers accepted to NeurIPS 2024. Topics include in-context learning, transformers, game theory, and prompt engineering in LLMs. See publication for details.
Sept. 2024: Kun's accepted Asilomar 2024 paper Average Reward Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Radio Resource Management is selected as a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award.
Sept. 2024: Three new PhD students join our group: Di Wu, Songwei Dong, and Zihao Liang. Welcome!
May 2024: Our paper “Stereoscopic artificial compound eyes for spatiotemporal perception in three-dimensional space” is featured on the front page of both Science and Science Robotics.
May 2024: Our paper “FastGAS: Fast Graph-based Annotation Selection for In-Context Learning” is accepted to ACL 2024 Findings.
May 2024: I'm co-organizing two workshops in the upcoming KDD 2024 conference. Please consider submitting your works!
May 2024: Two papers accepted to ICML 2024. Congratulations Zihan!
Apr. 2024: Our project “Privacy-preserving Synthetic Data Generation” has been selected for funding by the CCI CATAPULT program. Joint effort with Prof. Tianhao Wang.
Apr. 2024: Received UVA Engineering Research Innovation Awards (RIA) on the project “Artificial Insect Eye for Spatiotemporal Perception and Cognition in 3D Space via Edge Computing”. Joint effort with Prof. Kyusang Lee.
Apr. 2024: PhD student Zihan Chen won the 2024 ECE Department Ann Lee Brown Rookie of the Year Graduate Research Award. Congratulations!
Apr. 2024: Our project titled “Integrating Federated Split Neural Network with Artificial Stereoscopic Compound Eyes for Optical Flow Sensing in 3D Space with Precision” is funded by NSF.
Jan. 2024: Wei's first paper has been accepted to AISTATS 2024 – Congratulations!
Jan. 2024: We are organizing The 3rd Workshop on Next Generation Spectrum Sharing Technology in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2024 in Denver, CO, USA. Please consider submitting your work.