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228in developing novel AI-powered CPS/IoT systems. Check the job description <a href="https://song-qun.github.io/opening-PhD/">here</a>.</span></strong></p> 229 230<!-- **<span style="color: red;">I have openings for 1-2 fully-funded Ph.D. students with strong interest in developing robust and efficient AI-powered CPS/IoT systems. Check the job description [here](https://song-qun.github.io/opening-PhD/).</span>** --> 231 232<!-- **<span style="color: red;">I have openings for 1-2 research assistants/associates/fellows to work on acoustic SLAM. Check the job description [here](https://song-qun.github.io/opening-acoustic-SLAM/).</span>** --> 233 234<!-- **<span style="color: red;">CSC-funded visiting students are welcome to join our team.</span>** --> 235 236<!-- My research interests also include exploiting physical knowledge to advance the learning process on embedded devices and developing privacy-preserved AIoT systems. --> 237 238<p>My research aims to advance AI-powered cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and Internet of Things (IoT) systems by addressing critical real-world challenges (e.g., robustness, security, privacy, efficiency, multi-modal fusion, etc.) and developing novel sensing technologies powered by AI. Some ongoing topics include:</p> 239 240<ul> 241 <li>Robust and Secure AI for CPS/IoT: 242 <ul> 243 <li>Physical-world adversarial example attacks</li> 244 <li>Vulnerability analysis and attack mitigation of adversarial examples in critical systems (e.g., autonomous driving and smart grids).</li> 245 </ul> 246 </li> 247 <li>AI-Powered Novel Sensing Applications: 248 <ul> 249 <li>Acoustic-based indoor localization and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)</li> 250 <li>Large foundation models for sensing</li> 251 </ul> 252 </li> 253 <li>Privacy-Preserving CPS/IoT: 254 <ul> 255 <li>Data obfuscation for privacy-preserving mobile-cloud inference</li> 256 <li>Defenses against gradient inversion attacks in federated learning</li> 257 </ul> 258 </li> 259 <li>Efficient and Personalized Edge Sensing 260 <ul> 261 <li>Physics-guided data augmentation for efficient model adaptation</li> 262 </ul> 263 </li> 264</ul> 265 266 </div> 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 <div class="social"> 274 <span class="contact-icon text-center"> 275 <a href="mailto:%6E%6B%75%73%71%32%30%31%34@%67%6D%61%69%6C.%63%6F%6D"><i class="fas fa-envelope"></i></a> 276 <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3611-9404" target="_blank" title="ORCID" rel="external nofollow noopener"><i class="ai ai-orcid"></i></a> 277 <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2V2CfHgAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank" title="Google Scholar" rel="external nofollow noopener"><i class="ai ai-google-scholar"></i></a> 278 279 280 <a href="https://github.com/song-qun" target="_blank" title="GitHub" rel="external nofollow noopener"><i class="fab fa-github"></i></a> 281 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/qun-song" target="_blank" title="LinkedIn" rel="external nofollow noopener"><i class="fab fa-linkedin"></i></a> 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290</span> 291 292 <div class="contact-note"></div> 293 </div> 294 295 </article> 296 297</div> 298 299 </div> 300 301 <!-- Footer --> 302 303 304<footer class="fixed-bottom"> 305 <div class="container mt-0"> 306 © Copyright 2026 Qun SONG. 307 Powered by <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Jekyll</a> with <a href="https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">al-folio</a> theme. Hosted by <a href="https://pages.github.com/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">GitHub Pages</a>. Photos from <a href="https://unsplash.com" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Unsplash</a>. 308 309 310 311 Last updated: September 18, 2026. 312 313 </div> 314</footer> 315 316 317 318 </body> 319 320 <!-- Bootsrap & MDB scripts -->
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