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2023

• 12-23: I am invited to serve as an Associate Editor for the Springer journal on Wireless Personal Communications.

• 10-23: Our journal paper, ‘‘Timely Multi-Process Estimation Over Erasure Channels With and Without Feedback: Signal-Independent Policies’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory.

• 9-23: We are organizing a workshop on Edge Learning over 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond (in conjunction with IEEE ICC ’24). Check out the call for papers.

• 8-23: I will be offering a new graduate-level course in Fall 2023: Optimization for Machine Learning. Check out the course flyer.

• 3-23: Check out our new arXiv preprint: “Timely Multi-Process Estimation Over Erasure Channels With and Without Feedback”.

• 3-23: We are organizing a workshop on Distributed, Private, and Robust Machine Learning over Networks (in conjunction with IEEE SECON ’23). Check out the call for papers.

• 2-23: Check out our new arXiv preprint: “Delay Sensitive Hierarchical Federated Learning with Stochastic Local Updates”.

• 2-23: I am the recipient of this year's John H. Maxheim Faculty Fellowship from the College of Engineering at UNC Charlotte.

• 2-23: We are organizing a special session on Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks (in conjunction with IEEE SPAWC ’23). Consider submitting your work.

• 1-23: Our paper, ‘‘Private Status Updating with Erasures: A Case for Retransmission Without Resampling’’, is accepted for publication in IEEE ICC ’23. (arXiv)

• 1-23: I am invited to serve as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, in the editorial area of Green IoT and Energy-Harvesting Communications.

• 1-23: We are organizing an invited special session on Age of Information and Beyond in the upcoming Asilomar ’23 conference.

2022

• 11-22: We are organizing a workshop on Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks (in conjunction with ICASSP ’23). Check out the call for papers.

• 10-22: I will be serving as the TPC co-chair for the 6th Age of Information (AoI) Workshop (in conjunction with INFOCOM 2023). Check out the call for papers.

• 09-22: I received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for my project, ‘‘CAREER: Towards Realizing Timely Information Transfer and Processing for Networked Communication Systems''. More information can be found here.

• 09-22: I am invited to give a talk at the Mathematics for Innovation in Telecommunications Technology Workshop, in the Joint Research Center for Advanced and Fundamental Mathematics-for-Industry, Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University, Japan: ‘‘Timely-X: Low Latency Communications in Networked Systems’’.

• 08-22: New PhD student joins CIPL: Md Nurul Absar Siddiky. Welcome!

• 08-22: Two papers accepted for publication at Asilomar ’22:

  • ‘‘Hierarchical Federated Learning in Delay Sensitive Communication Networks’’.

  • ‘‘Timely Multi-Process Estimation with Erasures’’. (arXiv)

• 06-22: I am invited to give a talk at the IEEE Alexandria Subsection in Egypt: ‘‘Timely-X: Low Latency Communications in Networked Systems’’.

• 04-22: CIPL student Bryttany Herren has successfully defended her Master's thesis. Congratulations Bryttany!

• 3-22: We are organizing an invited special session on ‘‘Recent Advances in Federated Learning over Wireless Networks’’, in Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2022. Checkout the program.

2021

• 12-21: We are organizing a special issue on Wireless Federated Learning in Resource Limited 6G Networks at the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal . Consider submitting your work.

• 11-21: Our journal paper, ‘‘Short Blocklength Process Monitoring and Scheduling: Resolution and Data Freshness’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

• 09-21: Our journal paper, ‘‘Spatiotemporal Analysis for Age of Information in Random Access Networks under Last-Come First-Serve with Replacement Protocol’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

• 08-21: Our project, ‘‘Timely Computing and Learning over Communication Networks'', is funded by the NSF. More information can be found here.

• 08-21: Our journal paper, ‘‘Timely Status Updating Over Erasure Channels Using an Energy Harvesting Sensor: Single and Multiple Sources’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

• 07-21: Our paper, ‘‘Timely Updating with Intermittent Energy and Data for Multiple Sources over Erasure Channels’’, is accepted for publication in IEEE ISWCS ’21 (special session on Age of Information).

• 06-21: Our journal paper, ‘‘Sample, Quantize and Encode: Timely Estimation over Noisy Channels’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. (arXiv)

• 06-21: CIPL student Christopher Daniel Jr. has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congratulations Junior!

• 04-21: Two of our papers have been accepted for publication in IEEE ISIT ’21:

  • ‘‘Timely Private Information Retrieval’’. (arXiv)

  • ‘‘Optimal Mechanism Design for Fresh Data Acquisition’’.

• 04-21: I am awarded UNC Charlotte's Faculty Research Grant (FRG) for my project, ‘‘Wireless Federated Learning for Mobile Networks''. More information about the FRG program can be found here.

• 02-21: Two of our papers have been accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Age of Information in Real-time Systems and Networks):

  • ‘‘Optimal and Quantized Mechanism Design for Fresh Data Acquisition’’. (arXiv)

  • ‘‘Pricing Fresh Data’’. (arXiv)

• 01-21: Our paper, ‘‘Download Cost of Private Updating’’, is accepted for publication in IEEE ICC ’21. (arXiv)

• 01-21: Our paper, ‘‘Timely Transmissions Using Optimized Variable Length Coding’’, is accepted for publication in the Age of Information Workshop (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM ’21). (arXiv)

2020

• 09-20: New PhD student joins CIPL: Abdulmoneam Ali. Welcome!

• 08-20: Our paper, ‘‘Age of Information in Random Access Networks: A Spatiotemporal Study’’, is accepted for publication in IEEE Globecom ’20. (arXiv)

• 07-20: Check out our new arXiv preprint: Sample, Quantize and Encode: Timely Estimation Over Noisy Channels.

• 06-20: I am invited to serve as an Associate Editor for the Data Science for Communications specialty section in the journal: Frontiers in Communications and Networks.

• 06-20: New members join CIPL: Christopher Daniel Jr. and Bryttany Herren. Welcome!

• 03-20: Our paper, ‘‘Timely Estimation Using Coded Quantized Samples’’, is accepted for publication in IEEE ISIT ’20. (arXiv)

• 02-20: Our journal paper, ‘‘Optimizing Information Freshness in Wireless Networks: A Stochastic Geometry Approach’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (arXiv)

• 01-20: Our paper, ‘‘Remote Short Blocklength Process Monitoring: Trade-off Between Resolution and Data Freshness’’, is accepted for publication in IEEE ICC ’20. (arXiv)

• 01-20: Our paper, ‘‘Age-Based Scheduling Policy for Federated Learning in Mobile Edge Networks’’, will appear in IEEE ICASSP ’20, session: 'Machine Learning for Physical Layer Security and Privacy’. (arXiv)

2019

• 08-19: Our journal paper, ‘‘Age-Minimal Transmission for Energy Harvesting Sensors with Finite Batteries: Online Policies’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

• 08-19: Our paper, ‘‘Timely Cloud Computing: Preemption and Waiting’’, is accepted for publication in Allerton ’19.

• 08-19: Our journal paper, ‘‘Interplay Between NOMA and Other Emerging Technologies: A Survey’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking.

• 07-19: Two papers accepted for publication in IEEE Globecom ’19:

  • ‘‘On Timely Channel Coding with Hybrid ARQ’’.

  • ‘‘Locally Adaptive Scheduling Policy for Optimizing Information Freshness in Wireless Networks’’.

• 05-19: Our journal paper, ‘‘Timely Updates in Energy Harvesting Two-Hop Networks: Offline and Online Policies’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

• 04-19: Our paper, ‘‘Using Erasure Feedback for Online Timely Updating with an Energy Harvesting Sensor’’, is accepted for publication in IEEE ISIT’19.

• 03-19: Our journal paper, ‘‘Secure Relaying in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access: Trusted and Untrusted Scenarios’’, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Informations Forensics and Security.

• 03-19: Our paper, ‘‘How to Price Fresh Data’’, is accepted for publication in WiOpt ’19. (arXiv)