T14 – Task-Oriented and Trustworthy Communications for Connected Intelligence Systems

Co-organizer: Wei Chen, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Co-organizer: Weisi Guo, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK
Co-organizer: Yuxuan Sun, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

Abstract: Connected intelligence systems have been widely deployed in industrial, medical, and urban governance domains. These systems rely on real-time environmental perception and collaborative decision-making, thus requiring the timely delivery of useful and trustworthy information. In this tutorial, we present the recent research advances in task-oriented and trustworthy communications for connected intelligence systems. The tutorial is mainly divided into three parts. Firstly, we provide a tutorial on adaptive semantic communications, covering its fundamental design principles, system architecture, performance metrics, and adaptivity to practical systems. Additionally, we will explore its potential use cases in delay sensitive tasks in 6G, e.g., massive MIMO CSI feedback, video question-answering and various generation applications. Secondly, we provide a comprehensive tutorial on timeliness-oriented communications, covering the basic concepts, performance metrics, fundamental analysis and optimization under various mission-critical tasks. Thirdly, we introduce recent advances of trustworthy AI in 6G networks, including the motivation for trust across ethical, legal, and social impact dimensions, the development of Quality-of-Trust KPIs, and cutting-edge research on explainable AI and agentic LLMs.

Co-organizer’s Bios:

Wei Chen

Prof. Wei Chen received the B.Eng. degree and M.Eng. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2013. Later, he was a Research Associate with the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2016. He is currently a Professor wit Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. He is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE/CIC ICCC Best Paper Award, the 2022 China’s Top 10 scientific and technological developments in the field of information and communication, the 2019 CCF-Tencent Rhino Bird Innovation Award, the 2017 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Young Researcher Award, the 2013 IET Wireless Sensor Systems Premium Award. He is an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecturer. His current research interests include massive access, semantic communications, AL/ML for PHY and sparse signal processing.

Weisi Guo

Prof. Weisi Guo obtained MEng, MA, and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. From 2012 to 2019, he built an award-winning team at the University of Warwick. Since 2019, he joined
Cranfield University (Engineering: REF UK 2021 #7, Mech/Aero Engineering: QS Top-30 world 2022-24), where he is Head of Centre of Assured & Connected Autonomy at Cranfield University. He has published over 270 papers in the field of networks, machine learning, and data science. He currently co-leads UK’s strategic projects in Trustworthy Autonomous Systems and 6G future networks. He has co-led over £35m of research funding and is an editor on multiple IEEE and Royal Society journals.

Yuxuan Sun

Dr. Yuxuan Sun is an Associate Professor with the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2020. She has been a Post-Doctoral Researcher with Tsinghua University, and a Visiting Researcher with Imperial College London. Her research mainly focuses on task oriented communications and edge intelligence. She has published more than 40 journal and conference papers in these areas. She has received the Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis Award by China Institute of Communications (CIC) in 2022. She has served as the Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (2020-2022). She has been the secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Emerging Techinologies Committee since 2022. She has served as a publicity co-chair of ITC’35-36, and a TPC member for IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC WCNC, etc.