News

[Nov. 2025]

• It was great to be part of the Aerospace Research Showcase event on UM campus on Nov 19th, representing our lab with Xiang and Adeel!

[Oct. 2025]

• Glad to have presented our paper on space sustainability with a live demo at IEEE WiSEE 2025 in Halifax. (arxiv.org/abs/2508.00755).

• It was a great pleasure to have worked with the execellent IEEE WiSEE 2025 organizing committee, and present the best paper awards to the winners in my role as Awards Committee Chair!

[Aug. 2025]

• Our latest paper on "AI-Driven Collaborative Satellite Object Detection for Space Sustainability" was accepted by the IEEE WiSEE 2025! The pre-print is avaialble at arxiv.org/abs/2508.00755

• We’ve completed the full paper on our new method using graph attention networks for network anomaly detection—a significant step forward toward achieving the network resilience goals of our research program.

[Jul. 2025]

• Dr. Hu is thrilled to have successfully completed my fellowship showcase workshop on Lunar PNT. Heartfelt thanks to the Open Lunar team, our industry attendees, and the outstanding leadership driving this innovation forward!

[Jun. 2025]

• Excited to have spoken at the "Communication for a Sustainable Space Ecosystem" panel on June 8th organized by the IEEE ComSoc SSC SIG on Satellite Mega-Constellations: Communications and Networking. Registration link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/486348

[May 2025]

• Our posters titled "An Edge AI Solution for Space Object Detection" and "A Fourier Graph Attention Network for Satellite Anomaly Detection" were presented at CCECE 2025 at UBC! 

• Our paper "Toward Onboard AI-Enabled Solutions to Space Object Detection for Space Sustainability" was well presented at SpaceOps 2025 on May 29th in Montreal! (Paper pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01650)

• A warm welcome to our summer students, Danika, Rodrigo, and Thomas — we're excited to have you join the AEL lab!

[Apr. 2025]

• Congratulations to the capstone project teams (G04 and G07) on their completion of the research on Security and Resilience on NTN & LEO Satellite Network Measurements! Special thanks to the review committee members! 🚀 🎉

• Glad to share my article on "Lunar PNT: Enabling Sustainable Infrastructure for Lunar Missions" was published! Special thanks to the support from the Open Lunar Foundation! 🌗 

[Mar. 2025]

• Congratulations on the acceptance of our paper, "Toward Onboard AI-Enabled Solutions to Space Object Detection for Space Sustainability," at the 18th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2025)! 

• Our AEL lab is keen to solve the challenges in space sustainability, security, and resilience with Embedded and Edge AI! 🌳🚀

• So glad to have supported our Women in Engineering (WIE) event on campus on behalf of the IEEE Winnipeg Section team! ⚙️

[Feb. 2025]

• Trilled to be part of the organizing committee of the IEEE WiSEE 2025, Oct 13-15, Halifax, Canada! 

[Jan. 2025]

• Dr. Hu is truly honoured to be selected as a 2025 Fellow at Open Lunar and excited for our future lunar initiatives!

• Welcome, Seth Moule, to our research team! We're excited to have you on board!

• Dr. Hu is glad to offer the graduate course on "ECE 7650: Topics in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks" for Winter 2025, and also the new Introduction to 6G course online!

[Dec. 2024]

• We are thrilled to present the world's first satellite object detection dataset and new hybrid ViT models at WiSEE 2024! See our dataset, paper, and source code. 

• Congratulations, Vincent Zhang, on successfully completing the thesis entitled "Computer Vision for Space Sustainability and Resilient Satellite Internet"!

[Nov. 2024]

• Deeply honored to be elected as the IEEE Winnipeg Section Chair for 2025–2026!

• Thrilled to be awarded the Research Manitoba Innovation Proof-of-Concept grant!

[Oct. 2024]

• Our paper entitled "An Efficient and Generalizable Transfer Learning Method for Weather Condition Detection on Ground Terminals" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems!

• So glad to have helped with the IEEEXtreme 2024 student competitions on Oct. 26th at the UM! Thanks for Prof. Ian Jeffrey's excellent organization!

• IEEE FNWF - Symposium on Non-terrestrial Communications in Future Networks was successfully held on Oct. 15th in Dubai, UAE! Special thanks to Prof. Giovanni Giambene, Prof. Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, and all authors!

[Sep. 2024]

• We'd like to welcome Xin, Justin, Muhammad, and Ken to join our research teams!

• Dr. Hu is honoured to have served as the Applied Sciences Subcommittee Chair of the DRI EDIA (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility ) Champions Program Merit Review Committee. 

[Aug. 2024]

• Dr. Hu is delighted to serve on the thesis committee for Bohan Zhang at the University of Waterloo, who successfully completed his Master's thesis presentation on "Mitigating Signalling Storms in 5G" on August 12th! 

[Jul. 2024]

• 🛰️ 🏆 Congratulations to all the winners of the 2024 student competition on "Future 6G NTN Systems", supported by the IEEE ComSoc - Innovation Project!

• Our survey paper on "UAV-Assisted Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: A Technical Review of Recent Learning Algorithms" has been accepted by the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology!

[Jun. 2024]

• We're to have presented our paper entitled "Secure and Efficient Group Handover Protocol in 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks ", attended the IEEE ComSoc SSC TC meeting, and chaired the SSC session on AI for Satellite Communication and the 6GSatComNet Workshop session at IEEE ICC 2024 in Denver!

[May 2024]

• A warm to our students Mana, Christian, and Xiang to be on board!

• Call for Submissions: Challenge on “Future 6G NTN Systems” supported by the IEEE ComSoc – Innovation Project program, hosted by the Sixth International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA’24). Visit https://2024.iccspa.org/comsoc-challenge/ for more details.

[Feb. - Apr. 2024]

• Call for Free Participation: I am excited to announce the upcoming virtual workshop on "LEO Satellites & Systems and Space Environment" will take place on May 2nd, 2024, at 11 AM EDT (New York/Toronto time) and is open for free registration!  (Workshop webpage: https://leosats.ieee.org/workshops/space-environment-workshop; Registration link:  http://tiny.cc/leo-may2024)

• Call for Papers: Satellite and Space Communications track, 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 8–12 Dec. 2024, Cape Town, South Africa.  Submission link: https://edas.info/N31420 

[Jan. 2024]

• A warm to my student Yifan to be on board!

• Our joint paper titled "Secure and Efficient Group Handover Protocol in 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks" was accepted by IEEE ICC 2024!  (Acceptance rate < 40%)

• Call for Papers: The 4th Workshop on Satellite Mega-Constellations in the 6G Era (6GSatComNet'24), held in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2024, 9–13 June 2024 // Denver, CO, USA.  (Due on Feb 4th, 2024)

[Nov. 2023]

• It was great to help with the successful workshop on the IEEE LEO Satellites & Systems “LEO Ground Stations and Ground Station Services” as a co-host on Nov. 30th!

• Our collaborative paper titled "Free-Space Optical (FSO) Satellite Networks Performance Analysis: Transmission Power, Latency, and Outage Probability" was accepted by the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology!

[Sep./Oct. 2023]

• A warm welcome to my student Vincent to be on board!

• Our collaborative paper titled "Latency versus Transmission Power Trade-off in Free-Space Optical (FSO) Satellite Networks with Multiple Inter-Continental Connections" was published by the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society!

• Dr. Hu is glad to give a keynote at the IEEE PIMRC 2023 Special Session on "The Role of Non-terrestrial Networks on 6G Communications: State-of-the-Art and Challenges" on September 6th, 2023. 

• Our previous research on ML for satellite anomaly detection has been reported by the University of Waterloo News!