March 2026

Mohamed Kamel’s paper “URGE: Urgency-Aware Energy-Efficient UAV Mobility via Hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning” was accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Smart Mobility (SM) 2026. Congratulations to Mohamed and Nour! 🎉

December 2025

Dr. Tamer Nadeem and Mohamed Kamel will be presenting our papers at IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan.

October 2025

Mohamed Kamel received an NSF Travel Grant Award to attend IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan. Congratulations to Mohamed!

July 2025

Mohamed Kamel’s paper “Attention Driven Reinforcement Learning to Optimize Packet Retransmission in Semantic Communication” was accepted for presentation at IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan. Congratulations, Mohamed! 🎉

July 2025

Mohammed Ayyat's paper titled “Class-Aware Federated Early Exit Networks for Efficient Distributed Inference” was accepted at IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan. Congratulations, Mohammed! 🎉

August 2024

We are excited to welcome new Ph.D. student Nourchene Bargaoui to the MuSIC Lab! 🎉

February 2024

We are delighted to welcome new Ph.D. student Mohamed Kamel to the MuSIC Lab as our newest member! 🎉

April 2023

Dr. Nadeem was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors VCU chapter. The NAI was founded in 2010 to recognize inventors who hold U.S. patents and enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation. The NAI includes more than 4,600 worldwide members. Read the story for more detail on the induction event.

February 2023

Mohammed Ayyat received NSF Travel Grant Award to attend IEEE PerCom 2023. Congratulations to Mohammed!

December 2022

Thanks to the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) for funding our project “SocialAssess – An Assessment Framework for ‘Information-Handling’ Practices on Social Media”. This is a joint project with VCU colleague Dr. Jeanine Guidry.

January 2023

Dr. Tamer Nadeem will co-chair the IEEE MASS 2023 track “Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-based Smart Design”. Please consider submitting your interesting work.

September 2022

Thanks to the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) for funding our project “NetworkTouch - Towards Haptics for Network Traffic Monitoring and Situational Awareness”. This is a joint project with Dr. Gregory Gerling (University of Virginia).

August 2022

Our two papers “Dynamic Deep Neural Network Adversarial Attacks for Edge-based IoT Devices” and “MirageNet - Towards a GAN-based Framework for Synthetic Network Traffic Generation” are accepted into IEEE Globecom 2022. Congratulations to Santosh and Mohammed!

July 2022

We express our gratitude to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for funding our research project entitled “MedKnights - Toward a Secure and Adaptable Infrastructure for Medical Internet of Things (IoMT) through Generative Adversarial Networks”. This is a joint project with VCU colleague Dr. Irfan Ahmed.

March, 2018

Prof. Nadeem with Dr. Glenn Ricart (US Ignite) and Theodoros Salonidis (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) co-chaired The Second International Workshop on Smart Edge Computing and Networking (SmartEdge'18), in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2018, Athens, Greece, March 19-23, 2018. The Second International Workshop on Smart Edge Computing and Networking