Qin Hu Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science · Georgia State University
Office: Room 752, 25 Park Place
Office Hour: Thursdays 1pm-3pm or by appointment
Email: qhu@gsu.edu
Short Bio
  • Qin Hu received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from The George Washington University in 2019. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University (GSU). Prior to joining GSU, she was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. She received the Best Paper Award of WASA 2020 and the Best Paper Award Runner-up of IEEE MASS 2021. She has served as the Editor/Guest Editor for several journals, the TPC/Publicity chair and the TPC Member for several international conferences, such as IEEE INFOCOM 2022-2024, IEEE MASS 2022-2024, IEEE Globecom 2019-2024, IEEE Blockchain 2019-2024. Her research interests include wireless and mobile security, federated learning, edge computing and blockchain. Her research on distributed machine learning has been funded by the US NSF CRII 2021.
I'm looking for self-motivated students. Feel free to drop me an email titled "Prospective PhD student: First_name Last_name" and attach your CV.

Research

Research Fields & Interests
  • Wireless and mobile security
  • Blockchain
  • Edge computing
  • Internet of Things
  • Federated learning
What's New
  • August 2024, I will serve as a TPC member of IEEE ICDCS 2025.
  • July 2024, our collaborative paper entitled “Enhancing Malware Classification via Self-Similarity Techniques” is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Congratulations to Dr. Fangtian Zhong!
  • Summer 2024, I was invited to serve on a review panel of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
  • April 2024, Dr. Hu won the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award!
  • April 2024, Dr. Hu attended NSF CISE CAREER workshop in Washington, D.C.
  • Apr. 2022, our paper entitled "Strategic Signaling for Utility Control in Audit Games" has been accepted by ELSEVIER Computers & Security. Congratulations to Jianan!
  • Mar. 2022, our paper entitled "Solving the Federated Edge Learning Participation Dilemma: A Truthful and Correlated Perspective" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  • Jan. 2022, our paper entitled "Social Welfare Maximization in Cross-Siso Federated Learning" has been accepted by IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2022. Congratulations to Jianan for his first academic publication!
  • Jan. 2022, I was invited to serve on a review panel of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
  • Nov. 2021, our paper about using blockchain and federated edge learning for privacy-preserving mobile crowdsensing has been accepted by IEEE TInternet of Things Journal (IoTJ).
  • Oct. 2021, our paper about enforcing full collaboration in federated edge learning has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
  • June 2021, our paper collaborated with Hanyang University (Korea) has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Congratulations to my trainee Yuhao!
  • May 2021, our grant Blockchain-based Distributed Machine Learning for Mobile Crowd Sensing is funded by NSF CRII.
  • May 2021, I was invited to be a TPC member of IEEE INFOCOM 2022.
  • Apr. 2021, our paper was accepted by IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2021. Congratulations to Cheng!
  • Mar. 2021, our paper was accepted by IEEE EEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2021. Congratulations to Chen!
  • Jan. 2021, our paper was accepted by IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2021. Congratulations to Valli!
  • Aug. 2020, our paper was accepted by IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2020.
  • Feb. 2020, our paper was accepted by IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2020.
  • Dec. 2019, our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
  • Oct. 2019, our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS).

Teaching

Mobile Computing and Wireless Network Security

CSC4221/6221
Fall 2024

Principles of Computer Networking

CSCI43600/ECE46300
Fall 2022/2023

Topics in Computer Science: Wireless and Mobile Security

CSCI 49000/59000
Fall 2019-2021, Spring 2023/2024

Explorations in Applied Computing

CSCI 49500
Spring 2020-2024

Students

  • PhD students
    • Jianan Chen (Fall 2020 - Spring 2025 (Expected), Purdue University Indianapolis)
    • Zhilin Wang (Spring 2021 - Fall 2024 (Expected), Purdue University Indianapolis)
    • Valli Sanghami Shankar Kumar (co-advised with Prof. John Lee) (Fall 2020 - Summer 2024, Purdue University Indianapolis)
  • Master students
    • Yohan Mahajan (Fall 2019-Spring 2021), Cheng Peng (Spring 2020-Fall 2022, thesis-based), Shengyang Li (Fall 2021-Spring 2022)
  • Undergraduate students
    • Yash Nigam (Fall 2019-Spring 2020), Anastacio Salvaje Meza (Summer 2020), Xinyi Zhang (Summer 2021, from PUWL), Simeon Dunn (Summer 2021, IN LSAMP), Samuel Beraki Sibhatu (Summer 2022, IN LSAMP), Richard Ekwenibe (Summer 2022, IN LSAMP)

Professional Services

  • Editorial Board Member: ELSEVIER Journal of Network and Computer Applications, ELSEVIER High-Confidence Computing
  • Guest Editor: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, ELSEVIER High-Confidence Computing, ELSEVIER Computer Communications, Hindawi Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
  • TPC Co-Chair: IEEE HPCC 2021 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Empowered Efficient and Secure 6G Networking and Communications, IEEE ICC 2022 2nd Workshop on Scalable, Secure and Intelligent Blockchain for Future Networking and Communications, he 2023 IEEE 98th Vehicular Technology Conference in the track of Wireless Networks: Protocols, Security and Services
  • Publicity Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC) 2022, International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks (CSoNet) 2022, IEEE WCNC 2022 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning for Communications: Distributed Machine Learning for Future Communications and Networking, IEEE Blockchain 2019 Symposium
  • Program Committee Member: IEEE INFOCOM 2022-2025, IEEE WCNC 2022, IEEE MASS 2022-2024, IEEE Blockchain 2019-2024, IEEE Globecom 2019-2023, IEEE ICCCN 2020-2024, IEEE Comnetsat 2020, SocialSens 2021

Publications

Selected Publications (A full list on Google Scholar)

Journal Papers

Conference Papers

Projects

Blockchain-based Distributed Machine Learning for Mobile Crowd Sensing [Project Page]

This project is supported by NSF CRII Award #2105004

Facilitated by multiple sensors on mobile devices, mobile crowd sensing (MCS) relies on the mobility and characteristics of mobile users to perceive the physical world in real time, inspiring massive innovative services. Despite its prevailing deployment and great potential, conventional MCS devices transmit all sensing data to the requestors, overburdening them with high communication and computation resource consumption. This becomes even worse in practice since redundant workers are recruited for quality consideration, thus offsetting the major advantage of economical monitoring and frustrating resource-constrained requestors. This project seeks to integrate sensing and learning for MCS without the consumption of excessive resources. Specifically, given that sensing data is being collected through dispersed edge servers, blockchain-based federated learning (FL) is introduced to protect data privacy and achieve distributed machine learning (ML) with performance enhancement of trustworthiness and efficiency. The technical contributions of this research include the extension of trust from on-chain to off-chain procedures via incentive mechanism designs for eliciting trustworthy submissions from distributed edge learners. It also aims to establish instantly reliable computing environments in an off-chain manner for guaranteed efficiency of distributed ML in MCS, with both the intra-environment consensus protocol design and inter-environment interaction analysis.