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Copula Lab
Dr. Hao Yang
Google ScholarDr. Hao Yang leads the Communications, Probability and Security Laboratory (Copula Lab) at Zhejiang University-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJUI). His research focuses on rigorous mathematical modeling for complex networks, bridging probability theory and practical communication systems.
Before joining ZJUI, he made significant contributions in stochastic geometry, machine learning for wireless communications, and network security, developing interdisciplinary academic innovations.
COPULA Three Focus
Communications
Exploring the frontier of 6G and beyond via intelligent reflecting surfaces, URLLC, and massive MIMO optimization.
Probability
Using stochastic geometry to derive analytical frameworks for spatially distributed network nodes.
Security
Ensuring robust private data transmission, physical-layer security, and adversarial ML defense in decentralized architectures.
Publications
COPULA academic output
2025
Cooperative generative AI for UAV-based scenarios: An intelligent cooperative framework L Zhou, W Feng, Z Chen, T Ruan, S Leng, HH Yang, Y Fu, TQS Quek IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
2024
The role of federated learning in a wireless world with foundation models Z Chen, HH Yang, YC Tay, KFE Chong, TQS Quek IEEE Wireless Communications 31 (3), 42-49
2023
Hierarchical personalized federated learning over massive mobile edge computing networks C You, K Guo, HH Yang, TQS Quek IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 22 (11), 8141-8157
Age of information under frame slotted ALOHA-based status updating protocol Z Yue, HH Yang, M Zhang, N Pappas IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 41 (7), 2071-2089
Hybrid learning: When centralized learning meets federated learning in the mobile edge computing systems C Feng, HH Yang, S Wang, Z Zhao, TQS Quek IEEE Transactions on Communications 71 (12), 7008-7022
Lab Members
李澤桑
PhD Candidate
岳之凌
PhD Candidate
趙方明
PhD Candidate
朱佳祺
Master Student
王晨浩
Master Student
陸炎武
Master Student
李佳興
Master Student
梁玄泓
Master Student
孫楚菡
Master Student
湯玉婷
Master Student
杜睿浩
Master Student
唐晨月
Master Student
何鈺凡
Master Student
吳俊毅
Master Student
董威
Master Student
馬琨
Master Student
金潤澤
Master Student
陳子晗
Visiting Scholar/Student
王睿博
Visiting Scholar/Student
樓錚瑩
Visiting Scholar/Student
胡欣怡
馮晨遠
張凡
Contact
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