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Welcome to Changqing Luo's Home Page


        Changqing Luo, Ph.D.
        Assistant Professor

        Department of Computer Science
        College of Engineering
        Virginia Commonwealth University

        401 W Main St
        Richmond, VA 23284

        Office: 2312, Engineering Research Building
        Tel: (804)828-0460
        Email: cluo@vcu.edu
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Opening: I am always looking for highly self-motivated Ph.D. students who are strongly committed to research. If you are interested, please send your CV, transcripts, TOEFL and GRE scores, as well as everything else that you believe will help your application to me in one email.

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Brief Biography

Changqing Luo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in 2018 and Ph.D. degree in Communication and Information System from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2011. He was a Lecturer in School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He was a visitor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a member of IEEE and ACM.


Research

  • Security and privacy (e.g., wireless security, secure/privacy-preserving big data computing/analytics, blockchain, etc.)
  • Complex networks (e.g., optimization and AI for 5G/6G cellular communication systems, IoT/CPS systems, distributed systems, wireless networks etc.)

Research Associates


Current Ph.D. Students
  • Guang Yang (Summer 2020)
  • Jiahe Li (Fall 2022)
  • Zeye Geng (Spring 2023)

Current Undergraduate Students
  • Jordan Brodie (Summer 2023)
  • Jacob Picardat (Summer 2023)
  • Jayson Urena (Summer 2023)

Teaching

  • CMSC 413 Introduction to Cybersecurity, Fall'23, '22
  • CMSC 622 Network and System Security, Spring'23, Fall'21
  • CMSC 311 Computer Organization, Spring'22, '21, '20, '19
  • CMSC 622 Network and Operating System Security, Fall'20, '19
  • Introduction to Big Data Analysis, Fall'13
  • Computer Networks, Spring'13|Sping'12

Honors and Awards

  • Distinguished TPC member, IEEE INFOCOM, 2023
  • 2020 Best Journal Paper Award, the Big Data Technical Committee, IEEE Communication Society, 2020
  • Best Application Award, PAKDD, 2018
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE DASC, 2017
  • Best Paper Award, EAI ChinaCom, 2014
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE GreenCom, 2013

Publications

Magazine Articles
  1. Darshini Mahendran, Changqing Luo, and Bridget T. Mcinnes, “Review: Privacy-preservation in the Context of Natural Language Processing,” to appear in IEEE ACCESS, Oct., 2021.
  2. Changqing Luo, Laurence T. Yang, Pan Li, Xia Xie, and Han-chie Chao, “A Holistic Energy Optimization Framework in Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 118-123, May/Jun., 2015.
  3. Yifeng Cai, Yijun Mo, Kaoru Ota, Changqing Luo, Mianxiong Dong, and Laurence T. Yang, “Optimal Data Fusion of Collaborative Spectrum Sensing under Attack in Cognitive Radio Networks,” IEEE Network, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 17-23, Jan./Feb. 2014.

Journal Papers
  1. Guang Yang and Changqing Luo, “Performance Improvement in UAV Communication Systems with Uncertain Solar Energy Supply,” to appear in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT), May 2023.
  2. Shuming Seng, Changqing Luo, Xi Li, and Hong Ji, “Stable Communications in Green Unmanned Aerial Relaying Systems,” to appear in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT), Apr. 2023.
  3. Tianxi Ji, Changqing Luo, Lixing Yu, Qianlong Wang, Siheng Chen, Arun Thapa, and Pan Li, “Energy-Efficient Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Systems with Uncertainties,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 5717-5729, Aug. 2022.
  4. Changqing Luo, Jinlong Ji, Xuhui Chen, Ming Li, Laurence T. Yang, and Pan Li, “Parallel Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Nonlinearly Constrained Nonlinear Programming Problems,” IEEE Trans. Big Data (TBD), vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 346-355, Apr. 2022.
  5. Changqing Luo, Kaijin Zhang, Sergio Salinas, and Pan Li, “SecFact: Secure Large-scale QR and LU Factorizations,” to appear in IEEE Trans. Big Data (TBD), vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 796-807, Oct. 2021.
  6. Shuming Seng, Guang Yang, Xi Li, Hong Ji, and Changqing Luo, “Energy-Efficient Communications in Unmanned Aerial Relaying Systems,” IEEE Trans. Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 2780-2791, Oct.-Dec. 2021.
  7. Shuming Seng, Changqing Luo, Xi Li, Heli Zhang, and Hong Ji, “User Matching on Blockchain for Computation Offloading in Ultra-dense Wireless Networks,” IEEE Trans. Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1167-1177, Apr.-Jun. 2021.
  8. Lixing Yu, Yifan Guo, Qianlong Wang, Changqing Luo, Weixian Liao, Ming Li, and Pan Li, “Spectrum Availability Prediction for Cognitive Radio Communications: A DCG Approach,” IEEE Trans. Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 476-485, Jun. 2020.
  9. Tianxi Ji, Changqing Luo, Yifan Guo, Qianlong Wang, Lixing Yu, and Pan Li, “Community Detection in Online Social Networks: A Differentially Private and Parsimonious Approach,” IEEE Trans. Computational Social Systems (TCSS), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 151-163, Feb. 2020.
  10. Changqing Luo, Jinlong Ji, Qianlong Wang, Xuhui Chen, and Pan Li, “Channel State Information Prediction for 5G Wireless Communications: A Deep Learning Approach,” IEEE Trans. Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), vol. 7, no. 1, pp.227-236, Jan./Mar. 2020.
  11. Weixian Liao, Changqing Luo, Sergio Salinas, and Pan Li, “Efficient Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Convex Separable Programming for Big Data,” IEEE Trans. Big Data (TBD), vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 368-378, Sept. 2019.
  12. Liwei Kuang, jinjun Chen, Fei Hao, Changqing Luo, and Laurence T. Yang, “A Holistic Approach to Distributed Dimensionality Reduction of Big Data,” IEEE Trans. Cloud Computing (TCC), vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 506-518, Apr./Jun. 2018.
  13. Sergio Salinas, Changqing Luo, Xuhui Chen, Weixian Liao, and Pan Li, “Efficient Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Sparse Linear Systems of Equations,” IEEE Trans. Big Data (TBD), vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 26-39, Mar. 2018. (Best Journal Paper Award)
  14. Sheng Cai, Weixian Liao, Changqing Luo, Ming Li, Xiaoxia Huang, and Pan Li, “CRIL: An Efficient Online Adaptive Indoor Localization System,” IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 4148-4160, May 2017.
  15. Changqing Luo, Geyong Min, F. Richard Yu, Yan Zhang, and Laurence T. Yang, “Joint Relay Scheduling, Channel Access, and Power Allocation for Green Cognitive Radio Communications,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 922-932, May 2015.
  16. Changqing Luo, Shengyong Guo, Song Guo, Laurence T. Yang, Geyong Min, and Xia Xie, “Green Communication in Energy Renewable Wireless Mesh Networks: Routing, Rate Control, and Power Allocation,” IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 3211-3220, Dec. 2014.
  17. Fei Hao, Geyong Min, Man Lin, Changqing Luo, and Laurence T. Yang, “MobiFuzzyTrust: An Efficient Fuzzy Trust Inference Mechanism in Mobile Social Networks,” IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 2944-2955, Nov. 2014.
  18. Liwei Kuang, Fei Hao, Laurance T. Yang, Man Lin, Changqing Luo, and Geyong Min, “A Tensor-based Approach for Big Data Representation and Dimensionality Reduction,” IEEE Trans. Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 280-291, Sep. 2014.
  19. Fei Hao, Geyong Min, Jinjun Chen, Fei Wang, Man Lin, Changqing Luo, and Laurence T. Yang, “An Optimized Computational Model for Task-oriented Multi-Community-Cloud Social Collaboration,” IEEE Trans. Service Computing (TSC), vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 346-358, Jul./Sep. 2014.
  20. Yijun Mo, Jianwen Chen, Xia Xie, Changqing Luo, and Laurence T. Yang, “Cloud-based Mobile Multimedia Recommendation System with User Behavior Information,” IEEE System Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 184-193, Mar. 2104.
  21. Changqing Luo, Geyong Min, F. Richard Yu, Min Chen, Laurence T. Yang, and Victor C. M. Leung, “Energy-Efficient Distributed Relay and Power Control in Cognitive Radio Cooperative Communications,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 2442-2452, Nov. 2013.
  22. Changqing Luo, F. Richard Yu, Hong Ji, and Victor C. M. Leung, “Optimal Channel Access for TCP Performance Improvement in Cognitive Radio Networks,” ACM Wireless Networks, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 479-492, Feb. 2011.
  23. Changqing Luo, F. Richard Yu, Hong Ji, and Victor C. M. Leung, “Cross-Layer Design for TCP Performance Improvement in Cognitive Radio Networks,” IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 2485-2495, Jun. 2010.

Conference Papers
  1. Haolin Tang, Yanxiao Zhao, Guodong Wang, Changqing Luo, and Wei Wang, “Wireless Signal Denoising Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks,” Workshops at IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’23), New York Area, USA, May 17- 20, 2023.
  2. Shuming Seng, Guang Yang, Changqing Luo, Xi Li, and Hong Ji, “Stochastic Optimization for Green Unmanned Aerial Communication Systems with Solar Energy,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'22), Seoul, South Korea, May 16-20, 2022.
  3. Ting Xiong, Jiang Liu, Ran Zhang, Xinyuan Zhang, Changqing Luo, Tao Huang, and Yunjie Liu, “Delay-Aware Cooperative Caching for On-Chain Authentication in LEO Satellite Communications Systems,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'22), Seoul, South Korea, May 16-20, 2022.
  4. Shuming Seng, Guang Yang, Xi Li, Hong Ji, and Changqing Luo, “Energy-Efficient Communications in Solar-Powered Unmanned Aerial Systems,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'20), Taipei, Taiwan, China, Dec. 7-11, 2020.
  5. Tianxi Ji, Changqing Luo, Yifan Guo, Qianlong Wang, Weixian Liao, and Pan Li, “Differentially Private Community Detection in Attributed Social Networks,” The 11th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML'19), Nagoya, Japan, Nov. 17-19, 2019. (Acceptance Ratio = 30 (Oral)/291 = 10.3%)
  6. Shuming Seng, Xi Li, Changqing Luo, Hong Ji, and Heli Zhang, “User Matching on Blockchain for Computation Offloading in Ultra-desnse Wireless Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'19), Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019.
  7. Xuhui Chen, Jinlong Ji, Changqing Luo, Weixian Liao, and Pan Li, “Distributed Machine Learning Meets Blockchain: A Decentralized, Secure, and Privacy-preserving Realization,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData'18), Seattle, WA, Dec. 10-13, 2018. (Acceptance Ratio = 98/518 = 18.9%)
  8. Xuhui Chen, Jinlong Ji, Lixing Yu, Changqing Luo, and Pan Li, “SecureNets: Secure Inference of Deep Neural Networks on an Untrusted Cloud,” The 10th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML'18), Beijing, China, Nov. 14-16, 2018.
  9. Changqing Luo, Sergio Salinas, and Pan Li, “Efficient Privacy-Preserving Large-scale CP Tensor Decompositions,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'18), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 9-13, 2018.
  10. Changqing Luo, Jinlong Ji, Qianlong Wang,Lixing Yu, and Pan Li, “Online Power Control for 5G Wireless Communications: A Deep Q-network Approach,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'18), Kansas City, RO, May 20-24, 2018.
  11. Kaijin Zhang, Changqing Luo, and Pan Li, “Secure Outsourcing of Matrix Convolutions,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'18), Kansas City, RO, May 20-24, 2018.
  12. Jinlong Ji, Changqing Luo, Xuhui Chen, Lixing Yu, and Pan Li, “Cross-domain Sentiment Classification via Bifurcation-LSTM,” The 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'18), Melbourne, Australia, May 15-18, 2018.(Acceptance Ratio=59(long papers)/590=10%, Best Application Award)
  13. Jinlong Ji, Xuhui Chen, Changqing Luo, and Pan Li, “A Deep Multi-task Learning Approach for ECG Data Analysis,” IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Information (BHI'18), Las Vegas, NV, Mar. 4-7, 2018.
  14. Changqing Luo, Sergio Salinas, Ming Li, and Pan Li, “Energy-efficient Autonomous Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing,” IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'17), Orlando, FL USA, Nov. 6-10, 2017. (Best Paper Award)
  15. Changqing Luo, Kaijin Zhang, Sergio Salinas, and Pan Li, “Efficient Privacy-preserving Outsourcing of Large-scale QR Factorizations,” IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BigDataSE'17), Sydney, Australia, Aug. 1-4, 2017.
  16. Jiajun Xin, Ming Li, Changqing Luo, and Pan Li, “Privacy-preserving Spectrum Query with Location Proofs in Database-Driven CRNs,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'16), Washington, DC USA, Dec. 4-8, 2016.
  17. Sergio Salinas, Changqing Luo, Weixian Liao, and Pan Li, “Efficient Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Quadratic Programs,” ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS'16), Xi'an, China, May 30-Jun.3, 2016. (Acceptance ratio = 73/350 = 20.9%)
  18. Sergio Salinas, Changqing Luo, Xuhui Chen, and Pan Li, “Efficient Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Linear Systems of Equations,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'15), Hongkong, China, Apr. 26-May 1, 2015. (Acceptance ratio = 316/1640 = 19%)
  19. Sergio Salinas, Changqing Luo, Weixian Liao, and Pan Li, “State Estimation for Energy Theft Detection in Microgrids,” EAI International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom'14), Maoming, China, Aug. 14-16, 2014. (Best Paper Award)
  20. Chao Qian, Changqing Luo, Fei Hao, Laurence T. Yang, and Geyong Min, “Energy-Efficient Dynamic Network Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Network,” IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom'13), Beijing, China, Aug. 20-24, 2013. (Best Paper Award)
  21. Changqing Luo, F. Richard Yu, Min Chen, and Laurence T. Yang, “Centralized Scheme for Joint Relay Selection and Channel Access in Partially-Sensed Cognitive Radio Cooperative Networks,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'11), Houston, TX USA, Dec. 5-9, 2011.
  22. Changqing Luo, F. Richard Yu, and Hong Ji, “Optimal Capacity in Underlay Paradigm based Cognitive Radio Networks with Cooperative Transmission,” IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'10-Fall), Ottawa, Canada, Sep. 6-9, 2010.
  23. Changqing Luo, F. Richard Yu, Hong Ji, and Victor C. M. Leung, “Distributed Relay Selection and Power Control in Cognitive Radio Networks with Cooperative Transmission,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'10), Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27, 2010.
  24. Changqing Luo, F. Richard Yu, Hong Ji, and Victor C. M. Leung, “Optimal Channel Access for TCP Performance Improvement in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Approach,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'09), Honolulu, Hawaii USA, Nov.30-Dec. 4, 2009.
  25. Changqing Luo, Hong Ji, and Yi Li, “Utility-based Multi-service Bandwidth Allocation in the 4G Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'09), Budapest, Hungary, Apr. 5-8, 2009.

Patents

  • A Method for Dynamic Wireless Network Selection based on the Evolutionary Game, ZL 2015 1 0407908.9, 2019
  • A Method for the Game based Energy Efficiency Improvement in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks, ZL 2015 1 0449299.3, 2019

Research Grants

  • Developing Autonomic Security Management System for Smart Cities, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative/SCHEV, PI.
  • User-Centric Privacy Controls for Smart Home Devices, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative/SCHEV, PI
  • Smart Wireless Attacks and WiFi Sensing via Intelligent Relecting Surfaces, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative/SCHEV, Co-PI
  • Enhancing 5G Wireless Network Security with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative/SCHEV, PI
  • CCI Smart Cities: Cyber and Physically Secure Communities: Resilient, Sustainable, Energy-Efficient, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, Central Virginia Node, Co-PI
  • Decentralized Coordination on Blockchain for Mobile Edge Computing Enabled IoT Systems, Presidential Research Quest Fund (PeRQ), Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), PI

Professional Activities

Editorship
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, December 2021 - Present
  • Editor, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, September 2020 - Present
  • Guest Editor, Special Section "Communication and Fog/Edge Computing Towards Intelligent Connected Vehicles (ICVs)" in IEEE ACCESS, 2019
Conference Organizing Committee
  • TPC Co-Chair, the 7th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet'23), Oct. 2023
  • Symposium Co-Chair, Green Communication Systems & Networks Symposium, IEEE Globecom 2022, Dec. 2022
  • Workshop Co-Chair, the 18th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC'21), Oct. 2021
  • Program Vice Chair, Privacy Track, the 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom'20), Dec. 29 2020 -Jan. 1 2021
  • Program Vice Chair, the 18th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'20), Aug. 17-24, 2020
  • Publicity and Social Media Chair, the 16th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous'19), Houston, USA, Nov. 5-7, 2019
  • Program Chair, the 15th International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom'19), Atlanta, USA, Jul. 14-17, 2019
  • Publication Chair, the 14th International Symposium on Pervasive System, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN'17), Exeter, UK, Jun. 21-23, 2017
Technical Program Committee
  • INFOCOM'24
  • Bigdata'23, BRAIN'23, GLOBECOM'23, INFOCOM'23, ICC'23
  • Bigdata'22, GLOBECOM'22, ICC'22, ICCN'22, ICME'22, IWQoS'22
  • Bigdata'21, BRAINS'21, GLOBECOM'21, ICC'21, ICME'21, Mobimedia'21, VTC'21, WF-5G'21
  • BRAINS'20, DASC'20, GLOBECOM'20, ICC'20, ICCCN'20, ICNC'20, WF-5G'20
  • DependSys'19, GLOBECOM'19, ICC'19, ICNC'19, Mobiquitous'19, WF-5G'19
  • ICC'18, ICNC'18, WF-5G'18
  • ICC'17, ICCC'17
  • GLOBECOM'16

Reviewer for Journal Manuscript Submissions
  • Proceedings of IEEE
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Network
  • IEEE Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Trans. on Computers
  • IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Trans. on Communications
  • IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology
  • IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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