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-{{:lingjia_liu.jpg?180 |Profile}}+{{:lingjia-liu2022.jpg?240 |Profile}}
 Lingjia Liu, Ph.D.\\ Lingjia Liu, Ph.D.\\
-Professor[[https://​ece.vt.edu/​|Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering]]\\ +Professor ​& [[https://​ece.vt.edu/​people/​faculty/​fellows.html|Bradley Senior Faculty Fellow]]\\  
-Associate ​Director, [[https://​wireless.vt.edu/​|Wireless@Virginia Tech]]\\+[[https://​ece.vt.edu/​|Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering]]\\ 
 +Director, [[https://​wireless.vt.edu/​|Wireless@Virginia Tech]]\\
 [[https://​vt.edu/​|Virginia Tech]], Blacksburg, VA, USA\\ [[https://​vt.edu/​|Virginia Tech]], Blacksburg, VA, USA\\
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 Elected Member, [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​about-us-2/​leadership/​|Executive Committee]]\\ Elected Member, [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​about-us-2/​leadership/​|Executive Committee]]\\
 [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]]\\ [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]]\\
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 ===== Research Interests: ===== ===== Research Interests: =====
  
-  * Enabling technologies ​for 5G and Beyond networks ​ +  * Machine learning ​for Engineering  
-    * 3D massive/FD-MIMO ​systems +    * Real-time & online machine learning with limited training 
-    * Cooperative routing and multi-user scheduling +    * Energy-efficient spiking neural network for Internet of Things (IoTs) 
-    * Cloud-RAN (CRAN) and interference alignment +    * Incorporating domain knowledge in learning strategy design 
-    * Ultra-low latency communications+    * Generative AI for accelerating deep reinforcement learning 
 +  * Signal Process., Commun. & Netw. for FutureG 
 +    * 3D massive FD-MIMO ​user scheduling and resource allocation ​ 
 +    * Waveform design for 6G (e.g., MIMO-OTFS) 
 +    * Computing and communication co-design for non-terrestrial networks (NTN) 
 +    * Open radio access network ​(ORANprototyping ​and optimization 
 +  * Security and Privacy 
 +    * Radio frequency (RF) anomaly detection  
 +    * Adversarial learning for spectrum sharing 
 +    * Differential privacy and federated learning for massive IoT networks 
 +    * Anomaly and jamming detection for 5G/6G networks
  
-  * Machine learning and its application to communication networks  +===== Biography: =====
-    * Big data driven communications and networking +
-    * Reservoir computing for communication systems +
-    * Demand and response for smart grid networks +
-    * Attack detection in smart grid networks  +
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-  * Network of everything +
-    * Device-to-device (D2D) & machine-type-communications (MTC) +
-    * Privacy/​security protection for cyber-physical systems (CPS) +
-    * Spectrum sensing & dynamic spectrum access (DSA) +
-    * Energy-harvesting for internet of things (IoT) +
- +
-===== Short Bio: =====+
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-Lingjia Liu received the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree with the highest honor in Electronic Engineering Department from [[http://​www.sjtu.edu.cn|Shanghai Jiao Tong University]],​ Shanghai, China, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree at [[http://​www.tamu.edu|Texas A&M University]] in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He spent the summer of 2007 and spring of 2008 in the [[http://​www.merl.com|Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory]]. Prior to joining the [[https://​ece.vt.edu/​|ECE Department]] at Virginia Tech (VT), he was an Associate Professor in the [[http://​www.eecs.ku.edu/​|EECS Department]] at the University of Kansas (KU). He spent 3+ years working in the [[http://​www.sra.samsung.com/​research/​standards-and-5g-mobility|Standards & Mobility Innovation Lab]] of Samsung Research America (SRA) where he got **Global Samsung Best Paper Award** twice (in 2008 and 2010 respectively). He was a technical leader and a leading **3GPP RAN1** standard delegate from Samsung on downlink MIMO, Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission/​reception,​ device-to-device (D2D) communications,​ and Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). He was elected as the **New Faces of Engineering 2011** by the Diversity Council of the National Engineers Week Foundation and was recognized during the //__2011 National Asian American Engineers of the Year Awards__// Banquet in Seattle ([[http://​www.dallasnews.com/​news/​local-news/​20110223-asian-culture-and-community-event-to-mark-uprising-in-taiwan.ece?​ssimg=130712#​ssStory130713|News Release in Dallas Morning News]]). From 2013 to 2017, he has been continuously ​selected as U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific ​Research (AFOSR)/Air Force Research ​Laboratory ​(AFRL) summer faculty fellow.\\ ​+Lingjia Liu received the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree with the highest honor in Electronic Engineering Department from [[http://​www.sjtu.edu.cn|Shanghai Jiao Tong University]],​ Shanghai, China, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree at [[http://​www.tamu.edu|Texas A&M University]] in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He spent the summer of 2007 and spring of 2008 in the [[http://​www.merl.com|Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory]]. Prior to joining the [[https://​ece.vt.edu/​|ECE Department]] at Virginia Tech (VT), he was an Associate Professor in the [[http://​www.eecs.ku.edu/​|EECS Department]] at the University of Kansas (KU). He spent 3+ years working in the [[http://​www.sra.samsung.com/​research/​standards-and-5g-mobility|Standards & Mobility Innovation Lab]] of Samsung Research America (SRA) where he received ​**Global Samsung Best Paper Award** twice (in 2008 and 2010 respectively). He was a technical leader and a leading **3GPP RAN1** standard delegate from Samsung on downlink MIMO, Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission/​reception,​ device-to-device (D2D) communications,​ and Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). He was elected as the [[http://​www.dallasnews.com/​news/​local-news/​20110223-asian-culture-and-community-event-to-mark-uprising-in-taiwan.ece?​ssimg=130712#​ssStory130713|New Faces of Engineering 2011]] by the Diversity Council of the National Engineers Week Foundation for his contributions to the 3GPP LTE-Advanced standard. From 2013 to 2017, he has been selected as U.S. Air Force Research ​Laboratory ​(AFRL)/Air Force Office of Scientific ​Research (AFOSR) summer faculty fellow. In 2015, he received the Miller Professional Development Award for Distinguished Research at KU. In 2021, he received College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research at VT.\\ 
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-Lingjia Liu is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society and a senior member of //IEEE//. He is currently serving as an **Associate ​Editor** of the **//​IEEE ​Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems//** as well as the //EURASIP Journal on Wireless ​Communications and Networking//. He was an Editor of //​IEEE ​Transactions on Wireless Communications// (TWireless) from 2012 to 2017, an Editor of the //​IEEE ​Transactions on Communications// (TCom) from 2015 to 2017. He has been serving as the Technical Program Committee Chair of 7 consecutive //IEEE// GLOBECOM Workshops on Emerging Technologies for 5G ('​12-'​18). He served as the Vice-Chair, Americas of the //IEEE// Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC) from 2017 to 2019. Currently, he is an Elected Member of [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​about-us-2/​leadership/​|Executive Committee]] of [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]] ​and an Elected Member of the //IEEE// Signal Processing Society SPCOM Technical Committee.\\ +Lingjia Liu was an Editor of //​IEEE ​Trans. ​Wireless ​Commun.// (TWireless) from 2012 to 2017, an Editor of the //​IEEE ​Trans. Commun.// (TCom) from 2015 to 2017, and an Associate ​Editor of the //​IEEE ​Trans. ​ Neural Netw. and Learning Syst.// (TNNLS) from 2017 to 2022. He has been serving as the Technical Program Committee Chair of 7 consecutive //IEEE// GLOBECOM Workshops on Emerging Technologies for 5G ('​12-'​18). He served as the Vice-Chair, Americas of the //IEEE// Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC) from 2017 to 2019 and was an Elected Member of the //IEEE// Signal Processing Society SPCOM Technical CommitteeHe is currently serving as an Elected Member of the [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​about-us-2/​leadership/​|Executive Committee]] of [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]].\\ ​
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-Lingjia Liu has 200+ publications including 3 book chapters, ​80+ journal publications, ​editorials, and 90+ conference papers. He has numerous technical contributions to major 4G standards including both 3GPP LTE/​LTE-Advanced and //IEEE 802.16m//. He has 20+ granted U.S. patents with 20+ pending applications,​ and **10+ essential intellectual property rights (IPRs)** in major 4G standards. His research receives including **8 Best Paper Awards** ​(2020 Charles K. Kao Best Paper Award, 2018 //IEEE// TAOS Best Paper Award, 2016 //IEEE// GLOBECOM Best Paper Award, etc). Currently, his research is sponsored by [[http://​www.wpafb.af.mil/​afrl/​ri/|Air Force Research Laboratory]][[http://​www.wpafb.af.mil/​afrl/​afosr/​|Air Force Office of Scientific Research]][[https://​www.intel.com/​content/​www/​us/​en/​research/​overview.html|Intel]][[http://​nsf.gov|National Science Foundation]][[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]][[https://​www.qualcomm.com/​|Qualcomm]], and [[http://​www.sra.samsung.com/​research/​standards-and-5g-mobility|Samsung Research America]]. His research efforts have been supported in part by over **$125 M** in research funding, with Lingjia Liu serving as the **principal investigator (PI)** on more than **$14 M** federal ​research ​grants ​(personal share **$8M**).+Lingjia Liu has 200+ publications including 3 book chapters, ​100+ journal publications, ​editorials, and 100+ conference papers. He has numerous technical contributions to major 4G standards including both 3GPP LTE/​LTE-Advanced and //IEEE 802.16m//. He has 20+ granted U.S. patents with 20+ pending applications,​ and **10+ essential intellectual property rights (IPRs)** in major 4G standards. His research receives including **8 Best Paper Awards**. Currently, his research is sponsored by various agencies AFRL/AFOSRAFRL/RIDARPAIARPANSFOUSD(R&​E), and the industry. His research efforts have been supported in part by **$132+ Million** in **non-equipment/​non-infrastructure** ​research funding, with Lingjia Liu serving as the **principal investigator (PI)** on **$27+ Million** non-equipment/​infrastructure ​research ​projects ​(personal share **$13Million**).
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 ===== What's New: ===== ===== What's New: =====
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-**Available positions**:​ research assistant positions are available for self-motivated Ph.D. students who are interested in conducting research on the topic of signal processing, machine learning and networking for **<fc #​ff0000>​Spring/​Fall ​2022</​fc>​** (**[[Openings|click for details]]**).\\+**Available positions**:​ research assistant positions are available for self-motivated Ph.D. students who are interested in conducting research on the topic of signal processing, machine learning and networking for **<fc #​ff0000>​Spring/​Fall ​2024</​fc>​** (**[[Openings|click for details]]**).\\
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** ​__September 292021__Our paper, //Making Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces More IntelligentA Roadmap Through Reservoir Computing//, has been accepted to //IEEE Network Magazine// (**NETWORK**) Congratulations Zhou and Kangjun!\\+**<fc #​6495ed>​[News Release]</​fc>​** ​__March 252024__Virginia Tech Daily News features our research on [[https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/03/eng-ece-lingjia-liu-nishith-tripathi-ORAN-Innovation-Fund.html|O-RAN]] as the <fc #​ff0000>​TOP Story</​fc>​!\\
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** ​__August 222021__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 #​6495ed>​[Invited Talk]</​fc>​** ​__March 72024__Dr. Lingjia Liu is invited to give a talk on "​Enhancing Future-G Connectivity & Resiliency ​Through ​Mobile Distributed MIMO (dMIMO)" ​to the [[https://futureg.dsigroup.org/|FutureG for Defense Summit]] organized by Defense Strategies Institute.\\
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-**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** ​__August 92021__ "​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>​[Conference]</​fc>​** ​__March 12024__: Dr. Lingjia Liu will serving as the General Chair of **100th** //IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference//​ (VTC) together Dr. [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/​john-smee-b9b1891/|John Smee]] from Qualcomm and Dr. [[https://​www.defense.gov/​About/​Biographies/​Biography/​Article/​3309927/​principal-director-for-futureg/​|Tom Rondeau]] from OUSD(R&​E). The conference website can be found [[https://events.vtsociety.org/​vtc2024-fall/|here]]. Please consider submitting your work to this special edition of the conference!\\
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-**<fc #​ff0000>​[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** ​__August 32021__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 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** ​__February 132024__: "Machine ​Learning ​Meets OFDM in Waveform Adaptation" ​has been awarded by the **Air Force Research Laboratory** (AFRL)The total budget of **$525,063.00**. DrLingjia Liu is serving as the **PI** of the project.\\
-Networks with Echo State Networks". He is the <fc #ff0000>**11th**</fc> Ph.Dgraduated from our groupHe will be joining ​**Samsung Research America** as a Senior Research Engineer.\\+
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** ​__July 212021__: 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!\\+**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** ​__December 132023__: Our paper, //Revolutionizing Future Connectivity:​ A Contemporary Survey on AI-empowered Satellite-based Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G//, has been accepted to //​IEEE ​Commun. Surv. Tutor.// (**COMST**)  Congratulations ​Shadab!\\
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** ​__June 302021__: Our paper, //UAV Swarm Enabled Aerial Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface ​(SARIS)//, has been accepted to //IEEE Wireless Commun.// (**WCM**) Congratulations ​Bodong and Rubayet!\\+**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** ​__November 252023__: Our paper, //Bayesian Inference-assisted Machine Learning for Near Real-Time Jamming Detection and Classification in 5G New Radio (NR)//, has been accepted to //​IEEE ​Trans. ​Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**)  Congratulations ​Shashank!\\
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-**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** ​__June 242021__: "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 ​(DrDaniel Jakubisin is serving ​as the PI)The total budget is **$300,00**.\\+**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** ​__November 232023__: "Learning-Based ORAN Testing" has been awarded by the **National Telecommunications and Information Administration** ​(NTIA)'s Wireless Innovation Fund. The total budget of **$2,​159,​268.00**. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Leading ​PI** of the project ​with collaborators from Wireless@VT and EECS@MITThe official news release from NTIA can be found [[https://​www.ntia.gov/​press-release/​2023/​biden-harris-administration-awards-13m-wireless-innovation-fund|here]]. My quote as well as the quotes from members from the Congress can be found [[https://​www.ntia.gov/​page/​what-they-re-saying-biden-harris-administration-awards-second-grants-wireless-innovation-fund|here]].\\
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-**<fc #ff0000>[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** ​__June 212021__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.Dgraduated from our groupHe will be joining **Apple** as a Senior Wireless Research Engineer.\\+**<fc #6495ed>[Invited Talk]</​fc>​** ​__October 242023__: Dr. Lingjia Liu is invited to give a talk on "Harnessing Echo State Networks in Deep Reinforcement ​Learning ​for Efficient Spectrum Sharing" ​to the 2023 //​Mini-Symposium on Data Driven Optimization of Spectrum Sharing Networks// organized by Prof[[https://​people.duke.edu/​~vt45/​|Vahid Tarokh]] at Duke University.\\
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-**<fc #6495ed>[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** ​__June 82021__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>[Award]</​fc>​** ​__October 162023__Dr. Lingjia Liu has been selected to receive the //[[https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/​10/​research-researchexcellencecelebration.html|Research Excellence Award]]// from the Office of Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech.\\
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-**<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 projectThe total budget is **$50,000**.\\+**<fc #6495ed>[Interview]</​fc>​** ​__October ​3, 2023__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been interviewed by **Scientific American** on 6G networksSee [[https://​www.scientificamerican.com/​article/​new-6g-networks-are-in-the-works-can-they-destroy-dead-zones-for-good/​| the article]] for more details.\\
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-**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** ​__June 32021__: "Portable Outdoor 5G TestbedA Resource for Wireless/​Cybersecurity/​UAV Research" has been awarded by CCI. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Co-PI** of the project ​(DrCarl Dietrich is serving as the PI)The total budget is **$149,​753**.\\+**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** ​__September 192023__: "Mobile Distributed MIMOLearning Meets Spreading in Networking" has been awarded by the **Office of Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering** (OUSD(R&​E)). The total budget of **$9.2 Million**. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Leading ​PI** of the project ​with collaborators from Wireless@VT,​ National Security Institute of Virginia Tech, and Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology LabVirginia Tech Daily News features [[https://​news.vt.edu/​articles/​2023/​10/​eng-futuregaward.html|dMIMO Project]] as the <fc #​ff0000>​Top Story</​fc>​!\\
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-**<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 #ff0000>[Endowment]</​fc>​** ​__June 72023__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been named the **Bradley Senior Faculty Fellow** by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The endowed faculty fellowship ​is set up to recognize faculty research excellenceSee [[https://news.vt.edu/​articles/​2023/06/eng-ece-Lingjia-Liu-named-Bradley-Senior-Faculty-Fellow.html|news on VTX]] for more details.\\
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[Service]</​fc>​** __May 262021__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been elected as a member of Promotion and Tenure (P&T) Committee within ​the ECE Dept. at Virginia Tech.\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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]]. \\ +
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-**<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]].\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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**)!\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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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**.\\ +
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-**<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**.\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[New Member]</​fc>​** __January 10, 2021__: Yifei joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome on board!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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**.\\ +
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[M.S. Defense]</​fc>​** __December 10, 2020__: Our group member, Jianan Bai, successfully defended his M.S. thesis. Congratulations Jianan! \\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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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!\\ +
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-**<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]].\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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"​!\\ +
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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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[New Member]</​fc>​** __August 10, 2020__: Nima and Jiarui joined our group as PhD students. Welcome on board!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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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!\\ +
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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!\\ +
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-**<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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-**<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.\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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.\\ +
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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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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\ +
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-**<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!\\+
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