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 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __January 6, 2023__: "​Efficient target recognition and classification"​ has been awarded. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Co-PI** from Virginia Tech. The total budget of the project is  **$100,​000**.\\ 
 +===== 2022 ===== 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __December 29, 2022__: Our paper, //Channel Equalization Through Reservoir Computing: A Theoretical Perspective//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett.// (**WCL**) ​ Congratulations Shashank and Ramin! This is a collaborative work with Prof. [[https://​lizhongzheng.mit.edu/​|Lizhong Zheng]] from EECS@MIT.\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __December 22, 2022__: Our paper, //Federated Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (Fed-MADRL) for Dynamic Spectrum Access//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) ​ Congratulations Hao-Hsuan and Yifei!\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Best Paper Finalist]</​fc>​** __November 16, 2022__: Our paper, //​Low-Complexity Channel Matrix Calculation for OTFS Systems With Fractional Delay and Doppler//, was recommended to be the **Best Paper Award Finalist** at MILCOM 2022. This is a collaborative work with Prof. [[https://​ece.duke.edu/​faculty/​robert-calderbank|Robert Calderbank]] from CS/​ECE@Duke.\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 07, 2022__: Our paper, //​Distributed Learning Meets 6G: A Communication and Computing Perspective//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Wireless Commun. Mag.// (**WCM**) ​ Congratulations Shashank and Yifei!\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __October 21, 2022__: Our paper, //​Performance Analysis and Optimization for Layer-Based Scalable Video Caching in 6G Networks//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Netw.// (**TNET**) ​ Congratulations Shashank!\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __April 28, 2022__: Our paper, //​Decentralized Deep Reinforcement Learning Meets Mobility Load Balancing//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.// (**TNET**) ​ Congratulations Hao-Hsuan! This is a collaborative work with [[https://​www.sra.samsung.com/​|Samsung Research America]].\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __April 27, 2022__: Our paper, //UAV Swarm-Enabled Aerial Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Commun.// (**TCOM**) ​ Congratulations Bodong! \\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __April 20, 2022__: Our paper, //Aerial Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Meet Mobile Edge Computing//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Wireless Commun.// (**WCM**) ​ Congratulations Bodong! This is a collaborative work with Prof. [[https://​ece.princeton.edu/​people/​h-vincent-poor|Vincent Poor]] from ECE@Princeton.\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __March 16, 2022__: Our paper, //​Harnessing Tensor Structures – Multi-Mode Reservoir Computing and Its Application in Massive MIMO//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) Congratulations Zhou and Jiarui! \\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __March 16, 2022__: Our paper, //​Angle-based Downlink Beam Selection and User Scheduling for Massive MIMO Systems//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) Congratulations Nan and Rubayet! The majority of the work is done when Nan is working as a visiting PhD student in our group.\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __March 3, 2022__: ​ "​Capturing Unknown Transmissions & Perceiving Anomalous Signal Transmissions and Emanations"​ has been awarded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). This is a **$14 million** collaborative project led by BAE Systems. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **PI** of the sub-award for Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech's share is **$1,​478,​540**.\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __March 1, 2022__: Our paper, //Learning to Equalize OTFS//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) Congratulations Zhou and Jiarui! This is a collaborative work with Prof. [[https://​ece.duke.edu/​faculty/​robert-calderbank|Robert Calderbank]] from ECE/​CS@Duke.\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __February 14, 2022__: Our paper, //​RC-Struct:​ A Structure-based Neural Network Approach for MIMO-OFDM Detection//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) Congratulations Jiarui and Lianjun! This is a collaborative work with Prof. [[https://​lizhongzheng.mit.edu/​|Lizhong Zheng]] from EECS@MIT.\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __January 20, 2022__: 3 of our papers have been accepted to //IEEE Intl Conf on Commun.// (**ICC**) 2022. The topics are ranging from //error bounds characterization for reservoir computing// to //​policy-based spiking neural networks for multi-agent reinforcement learning//. Congratulations Shashank, Lianjun, and Nima!\\
  
 +
 +===== 2021 =====
 +==== December 2021 ====
 +###
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __December 30, 2021__: Our paper, //Reservoir Computing Meets Extreme Learning Machine in Real-Time MIMO-OFDM Receive Processing//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Commun.// (**TCOM**) Congratulations Lianjun and Zhou!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __December 8, 2021__: Our group member, Bodong Shang, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and becomes Dr. Shang. Congratulations Dr. Shang! The title of Bodong'​s dissertation is "​Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Edge Computing in Wireless Networks"​. He is the <fc #​ff0000>​**12th**</​fc>​ Ph.D. graduated from our group. He will be working as a joint PostDoctoral Research Associate from Princeton Univresity and Virginia Tech.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __December 3, 2021__: Our paper, //Real-time Machine Learning for Symbol Detection in MIMO-OFDM Systems//, has been accepted to //IEEE// **INFOCOM 2022**. Congratulations Donald and Lianjun!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Faculty Position]</​fc>​** __December 1, 2021__: Our group member, Dr. Yanjun Pan, will be joining the Computer Science and Computer Engineering (CSCE) Dept. at the University of Arkansas as a tenure-track assistant professor in Spring 2022. Congratulations Yanjun!\\
 +###
 +==== November 2021 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 14, 2021__: Our paper, //Resource Allocation for D2D Cellular Networks with QoS Constraints:​ A DC Programming-based Approach//, has been accepted to //IEEE Access//. Congratulations Hao-Hsuan!\\
 +###
 +==== October 2021 ====
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 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __October 21, 2021__: "​Securing Multi-Edge Computing using Artificial Intelligence"​ has been awarded by CCI. George Mason University is the leading institution of the joint effort. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Co-PI** from Virginia Tech. The total budget of the project is  **$125,​000**.\\
 +###
 +
 +==== September 2021 ====
 +###
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __September 29, 2021__: Our paper, //Making Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces More Intelligent:​ A Roadmap Through Reservoir Computing//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Network Magazine// (**NETWORK**) Congratulations Zhou and Kangjun!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __September 15, 2021__: Our paper, //​RC-Struct:​ Reservoir Computing Meets Knowledge of Structure in MIMO-OFDM//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE// GC Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable B5G/6G Networks (ASNet). Congratulations Jiarui, Zhou, and Lianjun!\\
 +###
 +==== August 2021 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __August 22, 2021__: Our paper, //​Delay-aware Resource Allocation in Fog-assisted IoT Networks Through Reinforcement Learning//, has been accepted to //IEEE Internet Things J.// (**IOTJ**) Congratulations Qiang and Jianan!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __August 9, 2021__: ​ "​Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Intelligent Dynamic Spectrum Access (IDEA): An Efficient Learning Approach to Enhancing Spectrum Utilization and Coexistence"​ has been awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This is a collaborative project with a total budget of **$750K**. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **PI** from the **leading institution** of this project. [[https://​people-ece.vse.gmu.edu/​~ztian1/​|Dr. Zhi Tian]] from [[https://​ece.gmu.edu/​|ECE@George Mason]] is serving as the PI from the collaborative institution.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __August 3, 2021__: Our group member, Hao-Hsuan Chang, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and becomes Dr. Chang. Congratulations Dr. Chang! The title of Hao-Hsuan'​s dissertation is "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Next Generation Wireless Networks with Echo State Networks"​. He is the <fc #​ff0000>​**11th**</​fc>​ Ph.D. graduated from our group. He will be joining **Samsung Research America** as a Senior Research Engineer.\\
 +###
 +==== July 2021 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __July 21, 2021__: Our paper, //​Differential Privacy Meets Federated Learning under Communication Constraints//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Internet Things J.// (**IOTJ**) Congratulations Nima, Jianan, Qiang and Yifei!\\
 +###
 +==== June 2021 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __June 30, 2021__: Our paper, //UAV Swarm Enabled Aerial Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (SARIS)//, has been accepted to //IEEE Wireless Commun.// (**WCM**) Congratulations Bodong and Rubayet!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __June 24, 2021__: "5G Low Probability of eXploitation (5G LoPX)" has been awarded by Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMCO). Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Co-PI** of the project (Dr. Daniel Jakubisin is serving as the PI). The total budget is **$300,​00**.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __June 21, 2021__: Our group member, Zhou (John) Zhou, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and becomes Dr. Zhou. Congratulations Dr. Zhou! The title of John's dissertation is "​Machine Learning-Based Receiver in Multiple Input Multiple Output Communications Systems"​. He is the <fc #​ff0000>​**10th**</​fc>​ Ph.D. graduated from our group. He will be joining **Apple** as a Senior Wireless Research Engineer.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __June 8, 2021__: Our paper, //Computing over the Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN): Fundamentals,​ Challenges and Opportunities//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Netw. Mag. // Congratulations Bodong!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __June 3, 2021__: "​Overshadowing Attacks in 5G Systems: Launching and Detecting"​ has been awarded by CCI. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **PI** of the project. The total budget is **$50,​000**.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __June 3, 2021__: "​Portable Outdoor 5G Testbed: A Resource for Wireless/​Cybersecurity/​UAV Research"​ has been awarded by CCI. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Co-PI** of the project (Dr. Carl Dietrich is serving as the PI). The total budget is **$149,​753**.\\
 +###
 +==== May 2021 ====
 +###
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __May 28, 2021__: Our paper, //​Learning-Assisted Energy-Efficient Computation Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing Systems//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. // (**TVT**) Congratulations Bodong!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Service]</​fc>​** __May 26, 2021__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been elected as a member of Promotion and Tenure (P&T) Committee within the ECE Dept. at Virginia Tech.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Service]</​fc>​** __May 21, 2021__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been elected as the Chair of Sidelink Task Force within the 5G Working Group of National Spectrum Consortium.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __May 14, 2021__: Our group received **$80K** grant to work on Machine Learning for Adaptive OFDM Waveform Design from Samsung Research America (SRA)! Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the sole **PI** of this project.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __May 14, 2021__: Our paper, //​Interference Alignment Meets Multi-cell Multi-user Massive FD-MIMO Systems in DoA-based Precoding//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. // (**TWireless**) Congratulations Nan and Rubayet!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __May 9, 2021__: Our paper, //​Reliability versus Latency for Random Network Coding-Enabled Networks//, has been accepted to //IEEE Commun. Lett.// Congratulations Bodong, Antonio and Bowen!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __May 3, 2021__: Our paper, //​Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Meets Random Access in Massive Cellular Internet of Things (IoT)//, has been accepted to //IEEE Internet Things J.// (**IOTJ**) Congratulations Jianan and Antonio!\\
 +###
 +==== April 2021 ====
 +###
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __April 23, 2021__: "​Distributed Coherent MIMO Communications"​ has been awarded by NSC. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the sole **PI** of the project from Virginia Tech. The total budget is **$466,​074**. This is part of **$13 million** [[https://​vtnews.vt.edu/​articles/​2021/​03/​cci-smartwarehouse-contract.html|CCI 5G project]]. \\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Promotion]</​fc>​** __April 23, 2021__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been promoted to [[https://​vtx.vt.edu/​articles/​2021/​06/​provost-promotion-tenure-bov-2021.html?​utm_source=cmpgn_news&​utm_medium=email&​utm_campaign=vtUnirelNewsDailyCMP_060921-fs|Professor at Virginia Tech]].\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Invited Talk]</​fc>​** __April 23, 2021__: Dr. Lingjia Liu is invited to give a seminar on the topic of "​AI-Inspired Wireless Communications:​ Reservoir Computing Meets MIMO-OFDM"​ to Prof. [[https://​ece.princeton.edu/​people/​andrea-goldsmith|Andrea Goldsmith]]'​s group in both Princeton and Stanford.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Dean'​s Award]</​fc>​** __April 22, 2021__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been selected to receive the //​[[https://​eng.vt.edu/​about/​faculty-awards-and-distinctions/​deans-awards.html|Dean'​s Award for Excellence in Research]]//​ from the College of Engineering.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __April 4, 2021__: Our paper, //​Cooperative Caching in HetNets with Mutual Information Accumulation//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Netw. Lett.// Congratulations to Junchao and Bodong!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __April 2, 2021__: Our paper, //​Spatial-Temporal Hybrid Neural Network with Computing-in-Memory Architecture//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I.// (**TCAS-I**)!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Summer Intern]</​fc>​** __April 1, 2021__: Our group members, Lianjun Li, Yibin (Donald) Liang, Bodong Shang, and Shashank Jere will start their research intern positions in Samsung Research America (Plano, TX Office), Samsung Research America (Mountain View, CA Office), Nokia Bell Labs, and Intel Labs. Wish them a nice and productive summer of 2021.\\
 +###
 +==== March 2021 ====
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 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __March 26, 2021__: "​Scalable Top-down Security Design for 5G Networks"​ has been awarded by Deloitte. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Co-PI** of the project (Dr. Ying Wang is serving as the PI). The total budget is **$400,​000**.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __March 8, 2021__: "​Enhancing 5G Wireless Network Security with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces"​ has been awarded by CCI. George Mason University is the leading institution of the joint effort. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **PI** from Virginia Tech. The total budget of the project is  **$220,​000**.\\
 +###
 +==== February 2021 ====
 +###
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __Feb 25, 2021__: Our group member, Hao (Antonio) Song, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and becomes Dr. Song. Congratulations Dr. Song! The title of Antonio'​s dissertation is "Swarm Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks in Wireless Communications:​ Routing Protocol, Multicast, and Data Exchange"​. He is the <fc #​ff0000>​**9th**</​fc>​ Ph.D. graduated from our group. He will be joining **Intel Research** as a Research Scientist.\\
 +###
 +==== January 2021 ====
 +###
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[New Member]</​fc>​** __January 10, 2021__: Yifei joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome on board!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __January 6, 2021__: Our paper, //A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Spectrum Management in Dynamic Spectrum Access//, has been accepted to //IEEE Internet Things J.// (**IOTJ**) Congratulations Antonio!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __January 4, 2021__: Our paper, //RCNet: Incorporating Structural Information into Deep RNN for Online MIMO-OFDM Symbol Detection with Limited Training//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**). Congratulations Zhou and Shashank!\\
 +###
 +===== 2020 =====
 +
 +==== December 2020 ====
 +###
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship]</​fc>​** __December 18, 2020__: Two of our group'​s teams have been selected for full proposal for [[https://​www.qualcomm.com/​research/​research/​university-relations/​innovation-fellowship/​2021-north-america|Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF)]]. The topics are "A Sample-Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for 5G Dynamic Spectrum Access and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing"​ and "Deep Reinforcement Learning Meets Resource Allocation in Radio Access Network (RAN) Slicing"​. Only <fc #​ff0000>​three teams</​fc>​ from Virginia Tech are selected to move to the full proposal stage and <fc #​ff0000>​two</​fc>​ of them are from our group! Congratulations Hao-Hsuan, Jiarui, Emad and Nima!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __December 14, 2020__: Our paper, //Energy Efficient MIMO-OFDM Spectrum Sensing Using Deep Stacked Spiking Delayed Feedback Reservoir Computing//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Green Commun. and Netw.// (**TGCN**). Congratulations Kian!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __December 14, 2020__: "Open Programmable Secure 5G (OPS-5G)"​ has been awarded by DARPA. Perspecta Labs is leading the effort. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Co-PI** of the subcontract from Virginia Tech (Dr. Haining Wang is serving as the PI). VT's share is **$457,​659**.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[M.S. Defense]</​fc>​** __December 10, 2020__: Our group member, Jianan Bai, successfully defended his M.S. thesis. Congratulations Jianan! \\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __December 4, 2020__: Our paper, //Enhanced Flooding-Based Routing Protocol for Swarm UAV Networks: Random Network Coding Meets Clustering//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE// **INFOCOM 2021**. Congratulations Antonio and Bodong!\\
 +###
 +==== November 2020 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 28, 2020__: Our paper, //A Cost-Efficient Digital ESN Architecture on FPGA for OFDM Symbol Detection//,​ has been accepted to //ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems// (**JETC**). Congratulations Donald and Lianjun!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __November 17, 2020__: "Agile Waveform Design for Communication Networks in Contested Environments"​ has been awarded as a University Center of Excellence (UCoE) by AFRL/AFOSR. [[https://​ece.duke.edu/​faculty/​robert-calderbank|Dr. Robert Calderbank]] is the leading PI and Duke University is the leading institution. The UCoE will have 8 researchers from Duke, ASU, CMU, CSU, Princeton, and Virginia Tech. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **PI** from the Virginia Tech and will be serving on the **Steering Committee** of the UCoE. VT's share is **$1,​181,​001**. News release from Duke can be found [[https://​pratt.duke.edu/​about/​news/​afosr-coe|here]].\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __November 17, 2020__: "5G Enabled Smart Farms through Secure and Intelligent Wireless Sensors"​ has been awarded by Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) under Southwest Virginia Research, Innovation, & Workforce Development Program. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the Co-PI of this project and Dr. Hwajung (Joan) Lee from Radford University is serving as the PI of the project.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 13, 2020__: Our paper, //A Cross-Layer Optimization Framework for Distributed Computing in IoT Networks//, has been accepted to //ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing EdgeComm Workshop//. Congratulations Bodong!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 13, 2020__: Our paper, //Quantized Reservoir Computing on Edge Devices for Communication Applications//,​ has been accepted to //ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing EdgeComm Workshop//. C\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 3, 2020__: Our paper, //Learning with Knowledge of Structure: A Neural Network-Based Approach for MIMO-OFDM Detection//,​ has been accepted to //Asilomar 2021//. Congratulations Zhou and Shashank!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 3, 2020__: Our paper, //Learning for Integer-Constrained Optimization through Neural Networks with Limited Training//, has been accepted to //NeurIPS Learning Meets Combinatorial Algorithms (LMCA) Workshop//. Congratulations Zhou and Shashank!\\
 +###
 +==== October 2020 ====
 +###
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[ExComm of NSC]</​fc>​** __October 5, 2020__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been elected to the [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​about-us-2/​leadership/​|Executive Committee]] of [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]]! \\
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 +==== September 2020 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __September 24, 2020__: Our paper, //Deep Echo State Q-Network (DEQN) and Its Application in Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for 5G and Beyond//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Neural Netw. & Learning Syst.// (**TNNLS**) Congratulations Hao-Hsuan!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Qualcomm Academic Lecture]</​fc>​** __September 16, 2020__: Dr. Lingjia Liu delivered an invited Academic Lecture to Qualcomm on the title of "​Brain-Inspired Wireless Communications:​ Reservoir Computing Meets MIMO-OFDM"​!\\
 +###
 +==== August 2020 ====
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 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship]</​fc>​** __August 28, 2020__: Donald and Kangjun have been selected to received the prestigious [[https://​www.qualcomm.com/​invention/​research/​university-relations/​innovation-fellowship/​2020-north-america|Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF)]] with a grant of **$100K**. Congratulations Donald and Kangjun!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __August 26, 2020__: Our paper, //Random Network Coding Enabled Routing Protocol in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) Congratulations Antonio!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[New Member]</​fc>​** __August 10, 2020__: Nima and Jiarui joined our group as PhD students. Welcome on board!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __August 04, 2020__: Our paper, //Spatial Spectrum Sensing in Uplink Two-Tier User-Centric Deployed HetNets//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) Congratulations Bodong!\\
 +###
 +==== July 2020 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __July 24, 2020__: Our paper, //On the Fundamental Tradeoffs between Video Freshness and Video Quality in Real-time Applications//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Internet Things J.// (**IOTJ**) Congratulations Junchao and Antonio!\\
 +###
 +==== June 2020 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[EdgeComm]</​fc>​** __June 21, 2020__: Dr. Lingjia Liu will be serving as the Workshop co-Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Edge Computing and Communications (EdgeComm), in conjunction with the 5th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2020). The webpage of the workshop can be found [[https://​acm-ieee-sec.org/​2020/​edgecom.php|here]]. Please consider submitting your contributions!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Visitor Return]</​fc>​** __June 4, 2020__: Nan Qu finished her visit in our group and returned back to China. All the best to Nan!\\
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 +==== May 2020 ====
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 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __May 26, 2020__: ​ "​Collaborative Research: MLWiNS: Deep Neural Networks Meet Physical Layer Communications – Learning with Knowledge of Structure"​ has been awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Intel under grant NSF/​CNS-2003059. This is a medium collaborative project with a total budget of **$810K**. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **PI** from the **leading institution** of this project. [[https://​lizhongzheng.mit.edu/​|Dr. Lizhong Zheng]] from [[https://​www.eecs.mit.edu/​|EECS@MIT]] is serving as the PI from the collaborative institution.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __May 19, 2020__: Our paper, //MIMO Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Things//, has been accepted to //IEEE Internet Things J.// (**IOTJ**) Congratulations Mingqian!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Summer Intern]</​fc>​** __May 18, 2020__: Our group members, Lianjun Li, Hao (Antonio) Song, and Zhou Zhou will start their research intern positions in Samsung Research America and Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab. Wish them a nice and productive summer of 2020.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __May 15, 2020__: ​ "​Preliminary Research and Multi-University Proposal Development for Efficient Measurement of Spectrum Sharing and Cognitive Radio Network Intelligence and Performance"​ has been awarded by Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) under Southwest Virginia Collaboration Grant. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the Co-PI of this project and Dr. Carl Dietrich is serving as the PI of the project.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __May 14, 2020__: Our paper, //3D Spectrum Sharing for Hybrid D2D and UAV Networks//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Commun.// (**TCOM**) Congratulations Bodong!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __May 12, 2020__: Our group member, Kian Hamedani, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and becomes Dr. Hamedani. Congratulations Dr. Hamedani! The title of Kian's dissertation is "​Energy Efficient Deep Spiking Recurrent Neural Networks: A Reservoir Computing-Based Approach"​. He is the <fc #​ff0000>​**8th**</​fc>​ Ph.D. graduated from our group.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Best Paper Award]</​fc>​** __May 2, 2020__: Our paper, //Reservoir Computing Meets Wi-Fi in Software Radios: Neural Network-based Symbol Detection using Training Sequences and Pilots//, received **Charles K. Kao Best Paper Award** at //The 29th Wireless and Optical Communications Conference//​ (WOCC 2020). This is a joint collaboration among our group, Samsung Research America, and Air Force Research Laboratory. Congratulations Lianjun!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __May 1, 2020__: Our group received **$80K** support to work on //​AI-Enabled Wireless: From Receive Processing to Multi-user Scheduling//​ from Samsung Research America (SRA)! Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the sole PI of this project.\\
 +###
 +==== April 2020 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __April 20, 2020__: Our paper, //Moving Toward Intelligence:​ Detecting Symbols on 5G Systems Through Deep Echo State Network//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Emerg. Sel. Topics Circuits Syst// (**ETCAS**) Congratulations Kangjun, Zhou, and Shashank!\\
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 +==== March 2020 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __March 30, 2020__: Our paper, //​Accelerating Model Free Reinforcement Learning with Imperfect Model Knowledge in Dynamic Spectrum Access//, has been accepted to //IEEE Internet Things J.// (**IOTJ**) Congratulations Lianjun, Jianan, and Hao-Hsuan!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship]</​fc>​** __March 27, 2020__: Donald and Kangjun'​s abstract on "A Low-Power Hybrid Neural Processing Architecture for Mobile Edge Itelligent Computing"​ has been selected as the <fc #​ff0000>​**Finalist**</​fc>​ for Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF). Congratulations Donald and Kangjun!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __March 27, 2020__: Our paper, //Mobile Edge Computing in the Sky: A Hybrid Air and Ground Network//, has been accepted to //IEEE Internet Things J.// (**IOTJ**) Congratulations Bodong!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __March 4, 2020__: Our paper, //Scalable Video Transmission in Cache-aided Device-to-Device Networks//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) Congratulations Junchao, Antonio, Rubayet and Bodong!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __March 3, 2020__: Our paper, //Spectrum Sharing for UAV Communications:​ Spatial Spectrum Sensing and Open Issues//, has been accepted to //IEEE Veh. Technol. Mag.// (**VTM**) Congratulations Bodong!\\
 +###
 +==== February 2020 ====
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 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __February 25, 2020__: Our group member, Rubayet Shafin, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and become Dr. Shafin. Congratulations Dr. Shafin! The title of Rubayet'​s dissertation is "3D Massive MIMO and Artificial Intelligence for Next Generation Wireless Networks"​. He is the <fc #​ff0000>​**7th**</​fc>​ Ph.D. graduated from our group.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __February 20, 2020__: Our paper, //​Self-Tuning Sectorization:​ Deep Reinforcement Learning Meets Broadcast Beam Optimization//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) Congratulations Rubayet!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __February 09, 2020__: Our paper, //Learning for Detection: MIMO-OFDM Symbol Detection through Downlink Pilots//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) Congratulations Zhou and Hao-Hsuan!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __February 05, 2020__: Our paper, //​Superimposed Pilot for Multi-Cell Multi-User Massive FD-MIMO Systems//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) Congratulations Rubayet!\\
 +
 +###
 +==== January 2020 ====
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 +
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Visitor Return]</​fc>​** __January 20, 2020__: Hongxia Zhang finished her visit in our group and returned back to China. All the best to Hongxia!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Spring Intern]</​fc>​** __January 6, 2020__: Our group member, Zhou Zhou, starts a research internship position in the Standards and Mobility Innovation Lab. of Samsung Research America. He will work with top-notched researchers for Spring 2020 on machine learning for cellular networks.\\
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 ===== 2019 ===== ===== 2019 =====
 +
 +==== December 2019 ====
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __December 24, 2019__: Our paper, //Deep Residual Learning Meets OFDM Channel Estimation//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett.// (**WCL**) Congratulations Lianjun and Hao-Hsuan!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship]</​fc>​** __December 23, 2019__: Donald and Kangjun'​s abstract on "A Low-Power Hybrid Neural Processing Architecture for Mobile Edge Itelligent Computing"​ has been selected for full proposal for Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF). Congratulations Donald and Kangjun!\\
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Rubayet]</​fc>​** __December 16, 2019__: Rubayet Shafin received multiple offers from leading industrial research centers and decided to join the Standards and Mobility Innovation Lab of Samsung Research America as a Senior Researcher on Machine Learning for Wireless Networks. Congratulations Rubayet!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Visitor from GMU]</​fc>​** __December 5, 2019__: Dr. Lingjia Liu hosted the visit of Dr. Yue Wang from ECE@GMU to our group.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __December 5, 2019__: Our paper, //Cost Minimization in Multi-Path Communication under Throughput and Maximum Delay Constraints//,​ has been accepted to **INFOCOM 2020** (acceptance rate: 19.8%). \\
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[New Member]</​fc>​** __December 2, 2019__: Dr. Qiang Fan joined our group as a PostDoctoral Research Associate. Welcome on board!\\
 +
 +###
 +==== November 2019 ====
 +
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 10, 2019__: 2 of our papers, //Deep Reservoir Computing Meets 5G MIMO-OFDM Systems in Symbol Detection//,​ and //Deep Spiking Delayed Feedback Reservoirs and Its Application in Spectrum Sensing of MIMO-OFDM Dynamic Spectrum Sharing//, have been accepted to **AAAI 2020** (acceptance rate: 20.6%). Congratulations Zhou and Kian!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[SPCOM TC]</​fc>​** __November 9, 2019__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been elected to the //IEEE// Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (SPS SPCOM) Technical Committee (TC) for a 3-year term, effective January 1, 2020.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Presentation]</​fc>​** __November 9, 2019__: Dr. Lingjia Liu attended the 2nd Workshop on Computing Architecture for Edge Computing in conjunction of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing. He gave a presentation on "​Machine Learning Enabled Distributed Mobile Edge Computing Network"​.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Visitor Return]</​fc>​** __November 8, 2019__: Mingqian Liu and Junchao Ma finished their visits in our group and returned back to China. All the best to Mingqian and Junchao!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 4, 2019__: Our paper, //Signal Estimation in Underlay Cognitive Networks for Industrial Internet of Things//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Ind. Informat.// (**TII**) Congratulations Mingqian!\\
 +
 +==== October 2019 ====
 +
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Kickoff]</​fc>​** __October 22, 2019__: Dr. Lingjia Liu attended the DARPA/NSF **Real-Time Machine Learning** (RTML) Kickoff Meeting in Arlington VA. Dr. Lingjia Liu gave a presentation on "RTML: Achieving Real-time and Energy-efficient Computing for 5G Networks (ARTEN): A Deep Reservoir Computing Approach"​.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[M.S. Defense]</​fc>​** __October 21, 2019__: Our group member, Hao Song, successfully defended his M.S. thesis. Congratulations Hao! \\
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[M.S. Defense]</​fc>​** __October 18, 2019__: Our group member, Zhou Zhou, successfully defended his M.S. thesis. Congratulations Zhou! \\
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __October 7, 2019__: Our paper, //​Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Cellular Networks: A Critical Path to Beyond-5G and 6G//, has been accepted to //IEEE Wireless Commun. Mag.//\\
 +
 +
 +==== September 2019 ====
 +
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Invited Talk]</​fc>​** __September 20, 2019__: Dr. Lingjia Liu is invited to give a seminar on the topic of "​Enabling Technologies for 5G and 6G: From Massive FD-MIMO to Brain-Inspired Wireless"​ in the ECE Department at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __September 19, 2019__: "RTML: Small: Achieving Real-Time and Energy-efficient Computing for 5G Networks (ARTEN): A Deep Reservoir Computing Approach"​ has been awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant NSF/​CCF-1937487. This is a small project with a total budget of **$500K**. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the Co-PI of this project and Dr. Yang Yi is serving as the PI of the project.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[New Member]</​fc>​** __September 16, 2019__: Dr. Hussein Saad joined our group as a Research Assistant Professor. Welcome on board!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __September 1, 2019__: Our paper, //Machine Learning Meets Point Process: Spatial Spectrum Sensing in User-Centric Networks//, has been accepted to //IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett.//. Congratulations Bodong!\\
 +
 +
 +==== August 2019 ====
 +
 +
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Course F'​19]</​fc>​** __August 27, 2019__: Dr. Lingjia Liu is teaching ECE 4634 Digital Commun. in Fall 2019.\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Fall Intern]</​fc>​** __August 26, 2019__: Our group member, Hao-Hsuan Chang, received a research internship offer from Samsung Research America. He is going to work with top-notched researchers for Fall 2019 on the topic of machine learning for cellular networks.\\
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[New Member]</​fc>​** __August 19, 2019__: Mr. Shashank Jere, Mr. Yibin (Donald) Liang, and Mr. Sihang (Daniel) Li joined our group as Ph.D. students. Mr. Bowen Xu joined our group as a M.S. student. Welcome on board!!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __August 18, 2019__: Our paper, //Enhancing LAA Co-existence Using MIMO Under Imperfect Sensing//, has been accepted to //IEEE Global Commun. Conf. Workshop on Advancements in Spectrum Sharing//. Congratulations Susanna!\\
 +\\
 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __August 11, 2019__: Our paper, //FD-MIMO via Pilot-Data Superposition:​ Tensor-based DoA Estimation and System Performance//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE J. Sel. Topics Signal Process.//. Congratulations Zhou!\\
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __August 8, 2019__: Our paper, //​Train-centric CBTC Meets Age of Information in Train-to-Train Communications//,​ has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.//. Congratulations Xiaoxuan!\\
  
 ==== July 2019 ==== ==== July 2019 ====
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 **<fc #​6495ed>​[Summer Intern]</​fc>​** __May 20, 2019__: Our group members, Lianjun Li, Kian Hamedani, and Hao (Antonio) Song, will start their research intern positions in Samsung Research America, Adobe, and Nokia Bell Labs. Wish them a nice and productive summer of 2019.\\ **<fc #​6495ed>​[Summer Intern]</​fc>​** __May 20, 2019__: Our group members, Lianjun Li, Kian Hamedani, and Hao (Antonio) Song, will start their research intern positions in Samsung Research America, Adobe, and Nokia Bell Labs. Wish them a nice and productive summer of 2019.\\
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-**<fc #6495ed>[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __May 13, 2019__: Our group member, Hayder Almosa, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and become Dr. Almosa. Congratulations Dr. Almosa! The title of Hayder'​s dissertation is "​Downlink Achievable Rate Analysis for FDD Massive MIMO Systems"​. He is the sixth Ph.D. graduated from our group.\\+**<fc #ff0000>[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __May 13, 2019__: Our group member, Hayder Almosa, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and become Dr. Almosa. Congratulations Dr. Almosa! The title of Hayder'​s dissertation is "​Downlink Achievable Rate Analysis for FDD Massive MIMO Systems"​. He is the **<fc #​ff0000>​6th</​fc>​** ​Ph.D. graduated from our group.\\
  
  
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 **<fc #​6495ed>​[Editorship]</​fc>​** __April 24, 2019__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been reappointed as an Editor of the //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.//​(TWireless) serving in the area of "​Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence"​.\\ **<fc #​6495ed>​[Editorship]</​fc>​** __April 24, 2019__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been reappointed as an Editor of the //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.//​(TWireless) serving in the area of "​Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence"​.\\
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-**<fc #6495ed>[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __April 17, 2019__: Our group member, Farhad Mahmood, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and become Dr. Mahmood. Congratulations Dr. Mahmood! The title of Farhad'​s dissertation is "​Modeling and Analysis of Energy Efficiency in Wireless Handset Transceiver Systems"​. He is the fifth Ph.D. graduated from our group.\\+**<fc #ff0000>[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __April 17, 2019__: Our group member, Farhad Mahmood, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and become Dr. Mahmood. Congratulations Dr. Mahmood! The title of Farhad'​s dissertation is "​Modeling and Analysis of Energy Efficiency in Wireless Handset Transceiver Systems"​. He is the **<fc #​ff0000>​5th</​fc>​** ​Ph.D. graduated from our group.\\
  
  
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 **<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __December 20, 2018__: Our group received **$80K** support for conducting research on beyond 5G and 6G cellular networks from Samsung Research America (SRA)! \\ **<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __December 20, 2018__: Our group received **$80K** support for conducting research on beyond 5G and 6G cellular networks from Samsung Research America (SRA)! \\
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-**<fc #6495ed>[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __December 19, 2018__: Our group member, Susanna Mosleh, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and become Dr. Mosleh. Congratulations **Dr. Mosleh**! The title of Susanna'​s dissertation is //Resource Allocation in Multi-user MIMO Networks: Interference Management and Cooperative Communications//​. She is the fourth ​Ph.D. graduated from our group.\\+**<fc #ff0000>[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __December 19, 2018__: Our group member, Susanna Mosleh, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and become Dr. Mosleh. Congratulations **Dr. Mosleh**! The title of Susanna'​s dissertation is //Resource Allocation in Multi-user MIMO Networks: Interference Management and Cooperative Communications//​. She is the **<fc #​ff0000>​4th</​fc>​** ​Ph.D. graduated from our group.\\
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 **<fc #​ff0000>​[Best Paper Award]</​fc>​** __December 13, 2018__: Our paper, //Next Generation Train-Centric Communication-based Train Control System with Train-to-Train (T2T) Communications//​ received **Best Student Paper Award** at //IEEE Intl Conf. on Intell. Rail Transp.// 2018. Congratulations Xiaoxuan!\\ **<fc #​ff0000>​[Best Paper Award]</​fc>​** __December 13, 2018__: Our paper, //Next Generation Train-Centric Communication-based Train Control System with Train-to-Train (T2T) Communications//​ received **Best Student Paper Award** at //IEEE Intl Conf. on Intell. Rail Transp.// 2018. Congratulations Xiaoxuan!\\
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 **<fc #​6495ed>​[Visitor from AFRL]</​fc>​** __March 26, 2018__: Dr. Scott Pudlewski and Dr. Elizabeth Bentley from the Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) visited our group in Wireless@Virginia Tech.\\ **<fc #​6495ed>​[Visitor from AFRL]</​fc>​** __March 26, 2018__: Dr. Scott Pudlewski and Dr. Elizabeth Bentley from the Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) visited our group in Wireless@Virginia Tech.\\
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[Presentation]</​fc>​** __March 23, 2018__: Dr. Lingjia Liu is invited to give a seminar on the topic of "​Enabling Technologies for 5G Communications:​ From Massive Full-Dimension MIMO (FD-MIMO) to Cooperative Communications"​ in the ECE Department at the University of Virginia.\\+**<fc #​6495ed>​[Invited Talk]</​fc>​** __March 23, 2018__: Dr. Lingjia Liu is invited to give a seminar on the topic of "​Enabling Technologies for 5G Communications:​ From Massive Full-Dimension MIMO (FD-MIMO) to Cooperative Communications"​ in the ECE Department at the University of Virginia.\\
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 **<fc #​6495ed>​[Travel Grant]</​fc>​** __March 23, 2018__: Our group member, Rubayet Shafin, received the prestigious //IEEE// Communication Society Student Travel Grant for IEEE ICC 2018. Congratulations Rubayet!\\ **<fc #​6495ed>​[Travel Grant]</​fc>​** __March 23, 2018__: Our group member, Rubayet Shafin, received the prestigious //IEEE// Communication Society Student Travel Grant for IEEE ICC 2018. Congratulations Rubayet!\\
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 ==== November 2017 ==== ==== November 2017 ====
  
-**<fc #​6495ed>​[Presentation]</​fc>​** __November 28, 2017__: Dr. Lingjia Liu attended the kickoff meeting of the "DSA Policy Development"​ program at Air Force Research Lab and present our group'​s work.\\+**<fc #​6495ed>​[Kickoff]</​fc>​** __November 28, 2017__: Dr. Lingjia Liu attended the kickoff meeting of the "DSA Policy Development"​ program at Air Force Research Lab and present our group'​s work.\\
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 **<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 24, 2017__: Our paper, //A Physical Layer Security Scheme for Mobile Health Cyber-Physical Systems//, has been accepted to **IEEE Internet Things J.** Congratulations to Rachad!\\ **<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 24, 2017__: Our paper, //A Physical Layer Security Scheme for Mobile Health Cyber-Physical Systems//, has been accepted to **IEEE Internet Things J.** Congratulations to Rachad!\\
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 __June 20, 2017__: Congratulations to Susanna Mosleh who successfully passed her Ph.D. comprehensive exam.\\ __June 20, 2017__: Congratulations to Susanna Mosleh who successfully passed her Ph.D. comprehensive exam.\\
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-__June 14, 2017__: Congratulations ​to Dr. Rachad ​Atat, the third Ph.D. graduate ​from our group, who defended his Ph.D. with honor in the EECS Department at KU. \\+ 
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** ​__June 14, 2017__: ​Our group member, Rachad Atat, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and become Dr. Atat. Congratulations Dr. Atat! The title of Rachad'​s dissertation is "​Enabling Cyber-Physical Communication in 5G Cellular Networks: ChallengesSolutions and Applications"​. He is the <fc #​ff0000>​**3rd**</​fc> ​Ph.D. graduated ​from our group and he defended his Ph.D. with honor int he EECS Department at KU.\\ 
 +\\ 
 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** __June 4, 2017__: Our group member, Hao Chen, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and become Dr. Chen. Congratulations Dr. Chen! The title of Hao's dissertation is "​Mutual Information Accumulation over Wireless Networks: Fundamentals and Applications"​. He is the <fc #​ff0000>​**2nd**</​fc>​ Ph.D. graduated from our group and he defended his Ph.D. with honor int he EECS Department at KU.\\
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-__June 14, 2017__: Congratulations to Dr. Hao Chen, the second Ph.D. graduate from our group, who defended his Ph.D. with honor in the EECS Department at KU. Dr. Chen has been working as a senior research engineer in Samsung Research America since September 2016.\\ 
  
 ==== May 2017 ==== ==== May 2017 ====
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 ==== November 2015 ==== ==== November 2015 ====
  
-__November 20, 2015__: ​Congratulations to Cenk Sahin who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation with honor!!!\\+**<fc #​ff0000>​[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​**__November 20, 2015__: ​Our group member, ​Cenk Sahinsuccessfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation ​and become Dr. Sahin. Congratulations Dr. Sahin! The title of Cenk's dissertation is "On Fundamental Performance Limits of Delay-Sensitive Wireless Communications"​. He is the <fc #​ff0000>​**1st**</​fc>​ Ph.D. graduated from our group and he defended his Ph.D. with honor int he EECS Department at KU.\\
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 __November 11, 2015__: Dr. Lingjia Liu organized the special session of "​Enabling Technologies for Future Wireless Networks"​ in Asilomar 2015.\\ __November 11, 2015__: Dr. Lingjia Liu organized the special session of "​Enabling Technologies for Future Wireless Networks"​ in Asilomar 2015.\\
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 ==== August 2011 ==== ==== August 2011 ====
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 __August 20, 2011__: Dr. Lingjia Liu served as the Symposium Chair for the 2011 Annual Chinese Institute of Engineers(CIE)/​USA - Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Chapter Technology Symposium held on Saturday, August 20th at Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel. Mr. Jon Summers, **senior vice president** (SVP) of AT&T gave the key note speech and other senior executives from Texas Instruments,​ Deloitte, Lyfe Communications,​ Chunghwa Telecomm., and ITRI were invited to give presentations. \\ __August 20, 2011__: Dr. Lingjia Liu served as the Symposium Chair for the 2011 Annual Chinese Institute of Engineers(CIE)/​USA - Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Chapter Technology Symposium held on Saturday, August 20th at Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel. Mr. Jon Summers, **senior vice president** (SVP) of AT&T gave the key note speech and other senior executives from Texas Instruments,​ Deloitte, Lyfe Communications,​ Chunghwa Telecomm., and ITRI were invited to give presentations. \\
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