Hi, I am Lan Emily Zhang. I am an assistant professor at the Department of ECE, Clemson University, since Spring 2024. I was an assistant professor at the Department of ECE, Michigan Technological University (MTU) from 2020 to 2023. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Florida (UF) under the supervision of Dr. Yuguang Fang in 2020.

My research interest spans the areas of wireless communications, distributed machine learning, cybersecurity, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and cyber-physical systems (CPS). 

I am always looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students interested in solving real-world machine learning, cyber-physical systems, wireless communications, and cybersecurity challenges (full financial support as RA). If interested, please send me your CV, transcript(s), GRE, TOEFL (international applicants only), and sample publications, if any. 

For students at Clemson, multiple paid part-time and volunteer research assistant positions are available. If you are interested, please send me your CV and transcripts (unofficial copies are acceptable).

News

• [service] 05/24:  I served as a guest editor for the special issue of IEEE Wireless Communications, "Trustworthy 6G". We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers! 

• [grant] 05/24: Our research on AI-enabled deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease has been funded by the SC EPSCoR Grant. This project is collaborated with Dr. Chunxiu Traci Yu at Michigan Tech. 

• [service] 05/24: Our SIG on Artificial General Intelligence, Models, and Agents (AGILE) has been formally approved by IEEE ComSoc TCBD.

• [talk] 04/24: I participated in the Clemson AI Research Symposium 2024 and presented our series of work on "Semantic-Driven Data Transmissions for Task-Oriented Wireless Systems". 

• [paper] 04/24: Our paper on driving safety has been accepted by IJCAI 2024.

• [panel] xx/xx: Happy to join a two-day NSF panel discussion!

• [paper] 03/24: Our paper on opportunistic routing in satellite-terrestrial integrated networks has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) with an impact factor of 7.9. 

• [service] 03/24: I served as the TPC of the IEEE PIMRC 2024.

• [paper] 03/24: Our paper on semantic communications has been accepted by VTC2024-Spring. 

• [paper] 02/24: Our paper about cooperative caching in satellite-terrestrial integrated networks has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)  with an impact factor of 6.4. 

• [paper] 02/24: Our paper about AIGC-enabled semantic communications has been accepted by IEEE Communication Letters with an impact factor of 4.1. 

• [service] 01/24: I served as the TPC of IEEE ICDCS 2024 and IEEE INFOCOM demo/poster 2024. 

• [panel] xx/xx: Happy to join a two-day NSF panel session!

• [job] 12/23: My team will officially join Clemson ECE in Spring 24. Go Tigers!

• [paper] 11/23: One paper about edge AI security has been accepted by WACV 2024.

• [paper] 10/23: One paper on semantic communications has been accepted by IEEE VTC-23 Fall.

• [paper] 09/23: Two FL papers have been accepted by IEEE ICMLA 23 (oral) and SmartSP 23. Congrats to Madhureeta!

• [service] 08/23: I served as the TPC of AAAI 2024 and IEEE ICMLA 2023.

• [paper] 08/23: Our paper "Prompt-based Transceiver Cooperation for Semantic Communications with Domain-Incremental Background Knowledge" has been accepted by IEEE Globecom 2023.

• [paper] 07/23: Our paper "Fed-CPrompt: Contrastive Prompt for Rehearsal-Free Federated Continual Learning" has been accepted by FL @ ICML 2023. Congrats to Gaurav!

• [paper] 07/23: Our paper "Workie-Talkie: Accelerating Federated Learning by Overlapping Computing and Communications via Contrastive Regularization" has been accepted by ICCV 2023, acceptance rate: 2160 / 8068 ≈ 26.8%.

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