PhD Student Symposium

Day 1, July 18 (Full Day)

9:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Kaifa Zhao, “Demystifying Privacy and Security Issues in Potentially Harmful Mobile Applications”

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM

Zefan Wang and Jun Zhao, “Utility-Oriented Communications for 6G Mobile Networks and the Metaverse: Semantic, Task-Oriented, Goal-Oriented, and More”

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Yongzhe He, Yueyuan Zhou, En Shao, Guangming Tan and Ninghui Sun, “JetEsti: A New DLT Job Scheduling Simulator Based on Fine-grained Process Modeling”

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM

Songge Zhang, Wen Wu, Penghui Hu, Shaofeng Li and Ning Zhang, “Split Federated Learning: Speed up Model Training in Resource-Limited Wireless Networks”

15-minute Break

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Xiaolu Chen, Jie Bao, Pengyuan Zhou and Yong Liao, “Hierarchical Privacy Preservation in Knowledge Graph”

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Malsha Ashani Mahawatta Dona, Christian Berger and Yinan Yu, “AirDnD – Asynchronous In-Range Dynamic and Distributed Network Orchestration Framework”

11:15 AM – 11:30 AM

Wenhan Yu and Jun Zhao, “Semantic communications, semantic edge computing, and semantic caching with applications to the Metaverse and 6G mobile networks”

Lunch break (Lunch on your own)

2:00PM – 2:15PM

Majid Kundroo and Taehong Kim, “Efficient Federated Learning with Adaptive Client-Side Hyper-Parameter Optimization”

2:15PM – 2:30PM

Leming Shen and Yuanqing Zheng, “FedDM: Data and Model Heterogeneity-Aware Federated Learning via Dynamic Weight Sharing”

2:30PM – 2:45PM

Sebastian Schmid, “Distributed Agent-based Control in Dynamic Environments”

2:45PM – 3:00PM

Oluwaseun Ajayi and Yu Cheng, “Decentralized Learning of Bayesian Networks from Private Data with Applications to Global Pandemic”

3:00PM-3:15PM

Jiani Fan, “Differentiated Security in the Age of Cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT)”

3:15PM-3:30PM

Ziwei Zhan and Xiaoxi Zhang, “Computation-Effective Personalized Federated Learning: A Meta Learning Approach”

15-minute Break

3:45PM-4:00PM

Zhi Zhou, Yunkai Liang and Xu Chen, “EdgeOrcher: Predictive Function Orchestration for Serverless-based Edge Native Applications”

4:00PM-4:15PM

Xinyu Huang, Wen Wu and Xuemin Sherman Shen, “Digital Twin-Assisted Resource Demand Prediction for Multicast Short Video Streaming”

4:15PM-4:30PM

Qinglang Guo, Xiaolu Chen, Pengyuan Zhou and Yong Liao, “Cross-Domain Data Extraction and Knowledge Graph Construction for Dispute Analysis”

4:30PM-4:45PM

Li Yu, Ning Zhang and Esam Abdel-Rahee, “Reliable Federated Learning Based Traffic Crowdsourcing  for Multiple Adversarial Authorities”

4:45PM-5:00PM

Ke Luo, Tao Ouyang, Zhi Zhou and Xu Chen, “Behavior Tree-based Workflow Modeling and Scheduling for Serverless Edge Computing”