{"654567":{"#nid":"654567","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Liu, Blough Receive IEEE CCNC Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHuiye Liu and Douglas Blough received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Consumer Communications \u0026amp; Networking Conference, which was held January 8-11, 2022 in a virtual format.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELiu is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). She is a member of the Critical Networking Laboratory, which is led by Blough. He is a professor and associate chair for Faculty Development in the School.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of their award-winning paper is \u0026ldquo;Cooperative Task-Oriented Group Formation for Vehicular Networks.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;While machine learning has brought exciting advances to connected and autonomous vehicles, to date this has been done primarily through centralized batch learning, which requires very large datasets with highly accurate labels that are extremely labor-intensive to produce. Liu\u0026rsquo;s and Blough\u0026rsquo;s research has proposed a decentralized active learning approach, where vehicles collaborate with each other to create accurate labels automatically by leveraging multiple perspectives of the same scene and to learn on the fly as vehicles encounter new information not represented in their existing models. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this paper, Liu and Blough present a novel approach for forming vehicle groups to run collaborative learning tasks, where the group structure is tailored to the specific characteristics of the tasks to be performed. The paper describes a generic distributed learning application that they developed in C++ and Python running on top of the popular Veins\/SUMO vehicular networking simulation environment. The implementation was used to evaluate their task-oriented group formation approach and compare it against existing task-agnostic group formation techniques. The results demonstrate that their task-oriented approach constructs larger groups that produce better learning results while at the same time achieving a significantly higher task completion rate, as compared to task-agnostic techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHuiye Liu and Douglas Blough received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Consumer Communications \u0026amp; Networking Conference, which was held January 8-11, 2022 in a virtual format.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Huiye Liu and Douglas Blough received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Consumer Communications \u0026 Networking Conference, which was held January 8-11, 2022 in a virtual format.\u00a0"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2022-01-19 16:02:34","changed_gmt":"2022-01-19 16:05:55","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"654568":{"id":"654568","type":"image","title":"Huiye Liu and Douglas Blough","body":null,"created":"1642608286","gmt_created":"2022-01-19 16:04:46","changed":"1642608313","gmt_changed":"2022-01-19 16:05:13","alt":"photograph of Huiye Liu and Douglas Blough","file":{"fid":"248238","name":"Huiye Liu and Doug Blough.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Huiye%20Liu%20and%20Doug%20Blough.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Huiye%20Liu%20and%20Doug%20Blough.png","mime":"image\/png","size":5786162,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Huiye%20Liu%20and%20Doug%20Blough.png?itok=r0OdAYlc"}}},"media_ids":["654568"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/blough.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/","title":"Critical Networking Laboratory "},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org","title":"IEEE Consumer Communications \u0026 Networking Conference"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"189746","name":"Huiye Liu"},{"id":"34771","name":"Douglas Blough"},{"id":"189747","name":"IEEE Consumer Communications \u0026 Networking Conference"},{"id":"189748","name":"Critical Networking Laboratory"},{"id":"189749","name":"vehicular networks"},{"id":"189750","name":"cooperative task-oriented group formation"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"87371","name":"CONNECTED vehicles"},{"id":"97281","name":"autonomous vehicles"},{"id":"189751","name":"centralized batch learning"},{"id":"189752","name":"vehicular networking simulation environment"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}