Yinqiu Liu (刘寅秋)

College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

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Contact me:

+65 88649318

yinqiu001@e.ntu.edu.sg

Hi! I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the College of Computing and Data Science, NTU, Singapore, working with Prof. Dusit Niyato (FIEEE).

Prior to this, I obtained my BEng degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, under the guidance of Prof. Kun Wang (now a professor with Fudan University, China), my MSc degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, under the guidance of Prof. Lei He (FIEEE), and my PhD degree from NTU, Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Dusit Niyato.

My research is primarily centered around the utilization of Generative AI (GenAI) in intelligent networking. Our key objective is to explore “how the intelligent networks can support various AI-Generated Content (AIGC) services,” and “how GenAI (and LLM) can be used to improve the performance, security, and reliability of next-generation networking.” Please check our group at NTU for more details!

Our research has been published in prestigious networking journals and conferences, including IEEE ToN, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC, and IEEE INFOCOM.

I have been recognized with multiple prestigious accolades, including the 2025 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Student Scholarship Award and the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, Jiangsu Province, China. My research contributions have earned Best Paper Awards at IEEE WCSP ‘25, IEEE AIoTC ‘25, and IEEE IWCMC ‘25, as well as First Place in the IEEE SPCC Student Contest. Additionally, as a team leader, I also led my team to win the Silver Award in the 2024 IEEE ComSoc SocMeta Student Contest and an Honorable Mention in the 2024 IEEE ComSoc Student Competition.

News

Jan 9, 2026 Great news! One first-author paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN).
Dec 6, 2025 One first-author paper is accepted by IEEE JSAC!
Aug 19, 2025 Great news! I have been awarded the 2025 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Student Scholarship Award (USD $5000). This award is the flagship award program of IEEE VTS, with only 1-2 recipients selected each year.
Dec 6, 2024 One coauthored paper is accepted by IEEE INFOCOM’ 25 (accept rate: 18.6%). Thanks Prof. Huawei Huang and Dr. Jian Zheng!
Oct 9, 2024 I passed the Qualifying Examination (QE)!
Sep 16, 2024 Two coauthored papers were accepted by IEEE TVT, and one coauthored paper was accepted by ASP-DAC 25. Congrats to my collaborators!
Aug 20, 2024 One first-author paper is accepted by IEEE TMC, in which we leverage generative semantic communications to reduce the energy consumption of mobile AIGC.
Aug 1, 2024 One co-authored paper was accepted by IEEE JSAC, in which we explore the design of LLM-based agents for satellite communications modeling and DRL with the mixture-of-experts architecture to solve optimization problems.
Jul 20, 2024 I arrived in Suwon, South Korea, and will start the visit at Sungkyunkwan University, hosted by Prof. Dong In Kim.
Jul 19, 2024 One invited paper is accepted by the IEEE Global Blockchain Conference 2024.
Jun 27, 2024 I attended the IEEE VTC-Spring’24 and 6G Summit’24 held in Singapore. Very happy to meet old friends and make new friends!
May 13, 2024 I served as a local volunteer for The ACM Web Conference held in Singapore.
May 6, 2024 One co-first author paper was accepted by IEEE COMST, in which we showcase how to perform efficient network optimization via Generative Diffusion Models (GDMs).
Apr 5, 2024 One first-author paper was accepted by IEEE TMC, in which we present a blockchain system to protect mobile AIGC services!
Dec 20, 2023 Our project got the FIRST PRIZE in the 2024 ComSoc Social Network Technical Committee (SNTC) Student Competition!
Nov 20, 2023 Our project, “Artificial Intelligence-driven Eyewear: Keys to Metaverse,” received an Honorary Mention in the 2023 ComSoc Student Competition “Communications Technology Changing the World.”

Selected publications

  1. ToN
    Hierarchical Micro-Segmentations for Zero-Trust Services via Large Language Model-enhanced Graph Diffusion
    Y. Liu, G. Liu, H. Du, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2026
  2. JSAC
    LAMeTA: Intent-Aware Agentic Network Optimization via a Large AI Model-Empowered Two-Stage Approach
    Y. Liu, G. Liu, J. Wang, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2025
  3. TMC
    Intelligent Mobile AI-Generated Content Services via Interactive Prompt Engineering and Dynamic Service Provisioning
    Y. Liu, R. Zhang, J. Wang, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026
  4. TMC
    Cross-Modal Generative Semantic Communications for Mobile AIGC: Joint Semantic Encoding and Prompt Engineering
    Y. Liu, H. Du, D. Niyato, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024
  5. TMC
    ProSecutor: Protecting Mobile AIGC Services on Two-Layer Blockchain via Reputation and Contract Theoretic Approaches
    Y. Liu, H. Du, D. Niyato, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024
  6. CSUR
    Secure Multi-LLM Agentic AI and Agentification for Edge General Intelligence by Zero-Trust: A Survey
    Y. Liu, R. Zhang, H. Luo, and 7 more authors
    ACM Computing Surveys, 2025
  7. JSAC
    Covert Prompt Transmission for Secure Large Language Model Services
    R. Zhang, Y. Liu (Corr.), S. Tang, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2025
  8. JSAC
    DWM-RO: Decentralized World Models with Reasoning Offloading for SWIPT-enabled Satellite-Terrestrial HetNets
    G. Liu, Y. Liu (Co-first), R. Zhang, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2026
  9. COMST
    Enhancing Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Tutorial on Generative Diffusion Models in Network Optimization
    H. Du, R. Zhang, Y. Liu (Co-first), and 6 more authors
    IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2024
  10. INFOCOM
    Justitia: An Incentive Mechanism towards the Fairness of Cross-shard Transactions
    J. Zheng, H. Huang, Y. Liu, and 3 more authors
    In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’25), 2025

Awards

May 28, 2025 Silver Award, 2024 IEEE ComSoc SNTC Student Competition
Dec 20, 2023 First Prize, 2024 SocMeta IEEE ComSoc SNTC Student Competition
Dec 20, 2023 Honorary Mention Award, 2023 IEEE ComSoc Student Competition
Jan 1, 2023 NTU Research Scholarship
Dec 20, 2021 First-class Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Jiangsu Province, China (3/5000)
Dec 1, 2019 First-class Scholarship (Top 3%), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Jan 1, 2019 Merit Student (Top 3%), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications