The Intelligent Computing and Communications Lab

🔥 Hiring Now 🔥 

We are currently recruiting one Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Level A) or Research Fellow (Level B) and two PhD candidates in computer vision for industry-sponsored projects.

Detailed information is available on Join. If you are interested, please submit your Expression of Interest.

I look forward to hearing from you.

🔥 Call for Paper 🔥 

I am pleased to share the Call for Papers for the 2026 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP 2026), to be held in Cairns, Australia, 22–24 July 2026. 👉 Conference website: https://imws-amp.org.

IMWS-AMP is a well-established international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners working on advanced materials, RF/microwave/THz devices, intelligent wave engineering, and emerging applications. The 2026 edition will feature invited talks, contributed papers, student paper awards, and strong industry engagement.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Advanced materials for RF and microwave systems

• Innovative manufacturing and integration

• Flexible and wearable antennas and systems

• Metamaterials and intelligent wave engineering (including RIS)

• Integrated microwave and THz devices

• Wireless communications, radar, imaging, and sensing

Important dates

• Paper submission deadline: 25 February 2026

• Notification of acceptance: 2 April 2026

• Final paper submission: 16 April 2026

Submission

• 📌 Papers are submitted via EDAS, and accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore (subject to quality review).

• 📌 Authors of accepted papers will also be invited to submit extended versions to a Mini-Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

• 👉 Submission link (EDAS): https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34661

Highlights of Recent News 😄🤠😎

• 1 December 2025 - Congratulations to PhD graduate Xiaowen Huang, who has completed her PhD degree and will be joining the College of Computer Engineering at Jimei University (JMU) to begin her academic career. 

• 25 November 2025 - Our paper, "Junction temperature estimation method for power modules based on gate voltage undershoot amplitude-phase 2D features with load current independence," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 

• 13 November 2025 - Our paper, "ADMM-enhanced CNN training framework with global convergence guarantees," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 

• 13 November 2025 - Our paper, "From clutter to clarity: Enhancing radar-based human activity recognition with deep attention and feature denoising," has been accepted by the IEEE Sensor Journal.

• 8 November 2025 - Our paper, "AerialMind: Towards referring multi-object tracking in UAV scenarios," has been accepted for oral presentation at the top-tier AAAI 2026 conference. 

• 3 November 2025 - Dr Huang has been appointed as the Deputy Head (Cairns) of the Centre for AI and Data Science Innovation (CADSI) and the Co-Lead in the Nature impact area.

• 2 November 2025 - Our Paper, "MS-Occ: Multi-stage LiDAR-Camera fusion for 3D semantic occupancy prediction," has been accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)!

• 22 October 2035 - Our work on deep learning based remote sensing for oil spill detection is featured in JCU Featured News, Phys.Org, and ABC Nightlife.

• 4 September 2025 - Our work on Vehicle-to-Everything Cooperative Perception is in JCU Featured News!

• 4 September 2025 - Our paper, "Joint optimization of task partial offloading and resource allocation in a dual-blockchain-enabled MEC system with parallelism constraints," has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications. Congratulations to PhD student Xiaowen Huang

• 12 August 2025 - Excited to share that our team’s paper, “V2X Cooperative Perception for Autonomous Driving: Recent Advances and Challenges”, has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE 🥳 — one of the most prestigious and highly cited journals in engineering and technology. As a non-invited paper, this acceptance is especially rewarding given the journal’s highly selective nature. Grateful for the incredible teamwork and contributions from my co-authors — Xi Zhou (PhD student), Jianan Liu, Dinh C. Nguyen, Professor Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Yuxuan Xia, and Professor Sumei Sun, and for Professor Qing-Long Han’s thorough review, revisions, support, and guidance.