Qun SONG

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) Pillar of Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). I will join the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) of City University of Hong Kong (CityU HK) as an Assistant Professor from July, 2025. I was an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands, from 2022 to 2024. I received my Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Before that, I received my B.Eng. from Nankai University, China.

I am continuously looking for self-motivated PhDs/Postdocs/RAs to join me at CityU HK in developing novel AI-powered CPS/IoT systems. Check the job description here.

Self-funded and CSC-funded visiting students are welcome to join our team.

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:

• Robust and Secure AI for CPS/IoT:
  • Physical-world adversarial example attacks
  • Vulnerability analysis and attack mitigation of adversarial examples in critical systems (e.g., autonomous driving and smart grids).
• AI-Powered Novel Sensing Applications:
  • Acoustic-based indoor localization and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
  • Large foundation models for sensing
• Privacy-Preserving CPS/IoT:
  • Data obfuscation for privacy-preserving mobile-cloud inference
  • Defenses against gradient inversion attacks in federated learning
• Efficient and Personalized Edge Sensing
  • Physics-guided data augmentation for efficient model adaptation