News

A complete List of News: 

• • Our paper ``Always-On, Always-Mine: Federated Recommendation Systems on Personal Home Routers" has been accepted to Middleware'25. Congratulations to Zhengquan and our collaborator!

  • Our paper ``A Spatiotemporal Machine Learning Framework for Ecologically-informed Bird Sighting Prediction" has been accepted to IEEE SMC'25. Congratulations to the team and our collaborators. 

  • Four of our papers have been accepted to FIE 2025. Together with my graduate student instructors and collaborators, I reflected on our efforts to enhance student learning through project-based learning across courses I’ve taught in recent years, including Web Technologies, Edge Computing, and Computer Networks. As a professor, I continuously experiment with different teaching methodologies to better engage students and support diverse learning styles. Choosing this career has truly been a blessing—I find deep fulfillment in helping my students grow and succeed. 

  • Our paper, "Measuring the Accuracy of Machine Learning Services with Minimum Labeling Efforts," has been accepted to IEEE SSE (CORE ranking B, acceptance rate: 23.5%). Congratulations to Eejoy on this outstanding achievement—especially impressive for an undergraduate student!

  • In this year's CIS 489/589 course, my students and I developed a Wiki on edge computing. You can explore it here: www.edgecomputingbook.com/

  • Congratulations to Alekhya on receiving Ph.D. admission from the University of British Columbia (QS World Ranking: 38)! Your hard work and dedication to educational research truly paid off.  Fun fact: all three student authors of our ASEE 2024 paper are now pursuing their Ph.D. studies—at Georgia Tech, UM-Ann Arbor, and UBC. So proud of you all!

  • Robin, a senior design project developed by Jana Amin, Meriam Harissa, Jodi Joven, and Leah Mirch, won the Best Senior Design in CIS award at the 2025 Senior Design Competition. Kudos to the team!

  • Dr. Song received the CECS Teaching Excellence Award'25. 

  • Our paper got accepted to ICDCS'25. 

  • Our paper ``Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Web Service Integration: A Large-Scale Empirical Study from the Developers' Perspective" has been accepted by Empirical Software Engineering (IF: 4.5)

  • ​Dr. Song was invited to deliver a research seminar at Wayne State University in March 2025.

  • Congratulations to Siddhi Baravkar and Zhengquan Li on receiving the 2025 Honor Scholar Awards for the MS CIS and Ph.D. CIS programs, respectively. Special congratulations to Zhengquan Li for also receiving the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!

  • Dr Song was invited to serve as a Program Committee (PC) member for IWQoS 2025, ICCCN 2025, and ICWS 2025, ICSoC 2025 and as a reviewer for NSF OAC panel! 

  • Our paper ``Evaluating the Effectiveness of Generative AI for Automated Quiz Creation: A Case Study" is accepted to ASEE'25. Congratulations to Alekhya.

  • Our paper ``Client-Specific Homogeneous Service Composition at Runtime for QoS-Critical Tasks" is accepted to ICSOC'24 as a short paper (the acceptance rate for full and short papers is 22%). Congratulations to Zhengquan.

  • Our paper ``Cover More with Less: Eliminating Blind Spots for Surveillance Camera via Passive WiFi Sensing" is accepted to ICPADS'24. Congratulations to Khairul.

  • Congratulations to MS students, Alekhya, Siddhi, Summit and Kiran, on successfully defending their theses! Wishing you all continued success and all the best as you embark on the next chapter of your lives.

  • Our paper ``Edge Cache on WiFi Access Points: Millisecond-Level App Latency Almost for Free" was accepted by IEEE ICDCS'24 (Acceptance Rate: 21%) and won the Distinguished Paper Award! Congratulations to Zhengquan and Summit. 

  • Dr. Song was invited to serve on the PC of IWQoS'24, GreenCom'24, ICCCN'24, Publicity Co-Chair of ICSoC'24

  • [Aug 24] Attended the EMRe Workshop with the support from KEEN. 

  • [July 24] Got $16K REU Supplement Fund. Thanks, NSF!

  • [July 24] Our paper ``A PBL-based Mini Course Module for Teaching Computer Science Students to Utilize Generative AI for Enhanced Learning", has been accepted to FIE'24. Congratulations to all co-authors!

  • [July 24] Our paper ``MQTT-EES: Optimizing Energy Efficiency by Aggregating Sensing Tasks on IoT Devices", led by REU researcher Nico Bokhari, has been accepted to IEEE VTC'24. Congratulations to Nico and Zhengquan. 

  • [July 24] Our paper ``Drone-Car Collaboration for Advanced Mobility: A Survey" has been accepted to IEEE VTC'24. 

  • [July 24] Our ICDCS'24 paper won the Distinguished Paper Award! Congratulations to all co-authors!

  • [May 24] Our paper ``Decoding and Answering Developers’ Questions about Web Services Managed by Marketplaces" is accepted by IEEE SSE (formerly known as SCC) 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 22%). Congratulations to Siddhi, Chi, and all collaborators. 

  • [May 24] Our paper ``How Can I Be of Service?---A Comprehensive Analysis of Web Service Integration Practices" is accepted by IEEE ICWS'24 (Acceptance Rate: 19%). Congratulations to Siddhi, Olivia, and Pratiksha. 

  • [May 24] Our paper ``Edge Cache on WiFi Access Points: Millisecond-Level App Latency Almost for Free" is accepted by IEEE ICDCS'24 (Acceptance Rate: 21%). Congratulations to Zhengquan and Summit. 

  • [April 24] My MS. student, Alekhya, successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations!  

  • [April 24] The SmartDrive Team working under my guidance won the Best in Senior Design 1 Award [Linked Post]

  • [April 24] Served on the PC of IWQoS'24, GreenCom'24, ICCCN'24, Publicity Co-Chair of ICSoC'24

  • [Feb 24] Served as Reviewer for NSF GRFP

  • [January 24] Our paper ``Generative-AI Assisted Feedback Provisioning for Project-based Learning in CS Courses" is accepted by ASEE'24

  • [January 24] Our paper ``A Meta-Pattern for Building QoS-Optimal Mobile Services out of Equivalent Microservices" is accepted by Service Oriented Computing and Applications (IF: 1.8).

  • [September 23] Our paper ``Mobilizing Personalized Federated Learning in Infrastructure-Less and Heterogeneous Environments via Random Walk Stochastic ADMM" is accepted by NeurIPS'23.

  • [September 23] Our paper ``From Tight Coupling to Flexibility: A Digital Twin Middleware Layer for the ShakeAlert System" has been accepted by the Digital Twins workshop of SEC'23

  • [Aug 23]  Our paper ``BMEye: Public Health-Oriented Body Mass Index Monitoring using Commodity WiFi" is accepted by WF-IoT'23. Congratulations to Kiran

  • [July 23] Our paper ``SensingBay: An Affordable Roadside Sensing System for Student Vehicle Competitions" is accepted by VTC'23.

  • [June 23] Our paper ``Drone-Car Collaboration: An Emerging Domain for Intelligent Transportation Systems" is accepted by ITSC'23. Congratulations to the awesome undergraduate students: Demetrius Johnson, Jonathan Schall, Ryan Sauer, and Olivia Pellegrini

  • [June 23] Our paper ``Enhancing Smartphone-based Walking Direction Estimation with Passive WiFi Sensing" is accepted by MASS'23, congratulations to Khairul

  • [April 23] The SkySocket Team working under my guidance won the college-level ``Best in Senior Design 1" award [Linkedin Post]. 

  • [January 23]  Our paper ``WIP:A Study Report in a Web Technologies Course: What Makes Feedback Effective for Project-based Learning?" is accepted by ASEE'23. 

  • [April 23] My first MS. student, Sarvesh, successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations

  • [April 23]  Our poster ``Service Polymorphism: Serving Mobile Users Dissimilarly to Improve Performance for Service-Oriented Applications" is accepted by NSDI'23. Congratulations to Zhengquan. 

  • Featured on the news: Edge Computing Technologies Gain Ground, but Hurdles Remain

  • Students in my edge computing course won the Honorable Mention in the 2022 CPS-IoT Student Design Competition - Networked Computing on the Edge. Congratulations to Khairul Mottakin, Sania Afreen, SSM Tariq, Salwa Eljahmi.