News

Dec 20, 2024 Two papers were accepted to OFC’24: (i) Multi-span OSNR and GSNR prediction using cascaded learning (oral), and (ii) Scalable ML models for optical transmission system management (invited talk).
Dec 17, 2024 Received an NVIDIA Academic Grant to work on building high-fidelity 3D world models and wireless digital twins leveraging our recently devloped Geo2SigMap framework.
Nov 18, 2024 The Duke FuNCtions Lab is at the ACM MobiCom’24 in Washington, D.C., where we presented two full papers, two workshop papers, five demos, and one poster. [blog post]
Nov 15, 2024 Received a Duke Science and Technology (DST) Launch Seed grant to work on building the Duke quantum networks with colleagues from the Duke Quantum Center.
Sep 01, 2024 Our paper on real-time, efficient baseband processing for mmWave networks was accepted to ACM MobiCom’24. [code]
Aug 31, 2024 Received an award from the NSF NewSpectrum program to work dense and in-situ spectrum monitoring leveraging efficient circuit-system co-design. This is a collaborative project between Duke (lead institute), University of Notre Dame, Northeastern University, and Oregon State University.
Aug 06, 2024 Gave an invited talk at the OPTICA webinar about our work on optical network performance modeling and optimization. [link to talk video]
Jun 13, 2024 Received a grant from Duke Engineering’s Beyond the Horizon Initiative to develop a dark fiber network for hybrid quantum-classical experimental research. This is a collaborative project with the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) and Duke Office of Information Technology (OIT).
Apr 24, 2024 Zeyu (Michael) Li received the 3rd Place Winner in the Spring 2024 ECE Independent Study Poster Session.
Mar 28, 2024 One postdeadline paper accepted to OFC’24 on the first field demonstration of 4D optical link tomography using transponder capable of distance, time, frequency, and polarization-resolved monitoring.
Mar 13, 2024 Our OFC’24 paper on multi-span optical power spectrum prediction using cascaded learning was selected by the subcommittee as a Top-Scored Paper. Zehao was also selected as a finalist for the Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition.
Feb 23, 2024 Our paper on optimized analog multi-user beamforming in mmWave networks was accepted to ACM MobiCom’24.
Feb 03, 2024 Our paper on RF signal mapping using public geographic databases (OpenStreetMap), open-source ray tracing tools (Sionna RT), and ML was accepted to IEEE DySPAN’24. [code and dataset]
Jan 29, 2024 Our paper on real-time generation of high-fidelity point clouds using low-cost mmWave radars was accepted to IEEE ICRA’24.
Dec 18, 2023 Three papers were accepted to OFC’24: (i) Multi-span optical power spectrum prediction using cascaded learning, (ii) Transceiver BER-OSNR modeling for QoT estimation, and (iii) Fiber type identification using in-service Brillouin optical time domain analysis.
Nov 27, 2023 Zeyu (Michael) Li was selected as a Pratt Research Fellow (Class of 2025).
Oct 11, 2023 Our paper on a blackbox Physical layer attack framework on mmWave automotive FMCW radars was accepted to ISOC NDSS’24. [arXiv]