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News & Demos

  1. Our Nature Communications paper has been featured in PharmaTimes,  one of the UK’s leading pharmaceutical magazines targeting medical audiences, on the article “KCL molecular communication system to revolutionise drug delivery ”. [News 1] [News 2]

  2. Our goal-oriented semantic communication for visual question answering work has been demonstrated with Nokia Bell Lab, the University of Bristol, and Samsung UK at the Mobile World Congress 2025 for warehouse inventory monitoring in Nokia’s Omniverse warehouse model.

  3. Our goal-oriented semantic communication for extended reality work has been demonstrated with VIAVI Marconi Lab and Nokia Bell Lab at the Mobile World Congress 2025 for 3D weather forecasting. [Video]
  4. Invited by IEEE ComSoc Technology News, I was interviewed for a podcast “Machine Learning & AI-based Wireless Connectivity for 6G & Beyond”  [Video].

Tutorials

  1. Y. Deng, N. Pappas,  “Goal-oriented Semantic Communications for 6G“, IEEE GLOBECOM, Dec. 2024.
  2. Y. Deng, N. Pappas, and J. Zhang, “Task-Oriented and Semantic-Aware Communications and Networking for 6G”, IEEE GLOBECOM, Dec. 2023.
  3. I. V. Muñoz, Y. Deng, and V. Frascolla, ” Reinforcement Learning for 5G and Beyond Radio Access Networks: From Design to Implementation”, IEEE EuCNC & 6G Summit, Jun. 2023. [Link]
  4. Y. Deng, N. Pappas, and J. Zhang, “Task-Oriented and Semantic-Aware Communications and Networking for 6G”, IEEE ICC, May 2023. [Link]
  5. Y. Deng, N. Pappas, G. Zhao, and S. Yang, “Task-Oriented Communications and Networks”, IEEE WCNC, Mar. 2023. [Link]
  6. H. Zhang, Y. Deng, A. Nallanathan, “Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Network Optimization”, IEEE EuCNC & 6G Summit, Jun. 2022. [Link]
  7. H. Zhang, Y. Deng, A. Nallanathan, “Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Network Optimization”, IEEE Globecom, Dec. 2021. [PDF]
  8. Q. H. Abbasi, A. Alomainny, N. A. A. Ali, Y. Deng, M. A. Imran, “Nano-scale Terahertz based Communications: Opportunities, Challenges, and Recent Advances”, IEEE Globecom, Dec. 2021. [PDF]
  9. H. Zhang, Y. Deng, A. Nallanathan, “Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Network Optimization in PHY and MAC Layers”, IEEE ICC, Jun. 2021. [Link]
  10. H. Zhang, Y. Deng, A. Nallanathan, “Artificial Intelligence-based Future Mobile Networks”, ICT Tutorial, Oct 2020. [Link]
  11. H. Zhang, Y. Deng, A. Nallanathan, “Artificial Intelligence-based Future Mobile Networks”, IEEE PIMRC, Aug 2020. [Link]
  12. H. Zhang, Y. Deng, A. Nallanathan, “Artificial Intelligence-based Future Mobile Networks”, ICT Tutorial, April 2019. [Link]
  13. N. Farsad, Y. Deng, A. Noel, E. Andrew, “Molecular Communication: Methods, Simulations, and Experiments,” Proc. IEEE Globecom Tutorial, Dec. 2018. [Link]

Invited Talks

  • Dec.  2024: Tongji University
  • Dec.  2023: Tongji University
  • Nov. 8th 2023: Keynote Talk in IEEE ICT 2023
  • May 31st 2023: Ericsson Invited Talk
  • May 30th 2023: Invited Talk at Huawei Vision Forum
  • May 11th 2023: Central South University
  • July 15th 2022: ITU AL/ML in 5G Webinar
  • Jun. 27th 2022: IEEE VTS Young Professional Lecture
  • Jun. 9th 2022: EuCNC & 6G Summit Special Session on AI for 6G and Verticals.
  • May 30th 2022: University of Glasgow, UK, invited by Dr Guodong Zhao.
  • May 2th 2022: Keynote speaker for the 1st international workshop on AI and blockchain-enabled secure and privacy-preserving air and ground smart vehicular networks at IEEE INFOCOM 2022.
  • Feb. 2nd, 2021:  MBCom 2021, Virtually.
  • August 18th, 2020:  IEEE Comsoc Summer School, Virtually.
  • March 17th, 2020:  6G Summit, Levi, Finland,  invited by the University of Oulu.
  • Nov. 19th, 2019: University of Liverpool,  invited by Prof. Alan Marshall.
  • July. 10th, 2019: University of Surrey,  invited by Prof. Pei Xiao.
  • Jun. 27th, 2019: Digital Technologies for Global Challenges Workshop,  University of Leeds,  invited by Dr Syed Ali Raza Zaidi.
  •  May. 24th, 2019:  University of Science and Technology of China, invited by Prof. Hancheng Lu.
  • May. 27th, 2019: Southeast University, invited by Prof. Ming Chen.
  • May. 27th, 2019:  Nanjing University of Science and Technology, invited by Prof. Jun Li.
  • Jan. 3rd, 2019:  National University of Defense Technology, invited by Prof. Qing Lei.
  • Nov. 20th, 2018: Shanghai Jiaotong University, invited by Prof. Ying Cui.
  • Nov. 16th, 2018: Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, Beijing, China,  invited by Dr Bin Li.
  • Oct. 31st, 2018: Wireless World Research Forum, Billund, Denmark.

Symposium Chair

  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023.
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Roma, Italy, 2023
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dublin, UK, 2020

Special Issues

Technical Program Committee Member

  • IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
  • ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (ACM NanoCom)
  • Conference on Signal Processing, Telecommunications, and Computing (SigTelCom)
  • IEEE Computing, Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel)

Reviewer

  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
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