Tarek Abdelzaher
Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar
Studies social sensing, machine learning for IoT and cyber-physical systems, and intelligent real-time sensing systems.
Tarek Abdelzaher's lab at UIUC works on time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data, data management & big data and rendering & appearance. 85 papers since 2023, 30 at top venues, mostly ICML and NeurIPS. 11 PhD students. 28 alumni, most often to Google and IBM. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 22/ year
- at T1 venues
- 35%
- PhD students
- 11
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 28
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 12 papers2026 · T1 7 · collecting
- 26 papers2025 · T1 7
- 27 papers2024 · T1 8
- 20 papers2023 · T1 8
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICML, NeurIPS, SenSys, INFOCOM, WWW
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data17 papers
- sensing10 papers
- Data management & big data8 papers
- Rendering & appearance0 papers
- social sensing0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202612 papers
- ICLR (T1)Activation Steering for LLM Alignment via a Unified ODE-Based Framework
- IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), IJCNNAdaptive Quantization of CNNs for Spectrogram-Based Foreground Activity Classification
- IEEE RTASAI Inference in the Heat: Thermal-Aware Strict Partitioning for
- ICML (T1)Dywave: Event-Aligned Dynamic Tokenization for
- SenSys (T1)FusionBridge: Enhancing Multi-View Multi-Modal Sensing and Perception for Edge Intelligence
- EMNLP (T1)on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Budapest, Hungary, October 2026
- EMSOFTOn the Utility of Exploiting Hidden Knowledge of Third-Party Classifiers for Faster Classification
- TMLR (T1)Pave Your Own Path: Graph Gradual Domain Adaptation on Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Geodesics
- IMWUTPPG-IDR: Leveraging User Identity for Robust Cross-user PPG Sensing via Disentangled Representations
- ICCCNREMIX: Adaptive Open-Domain Signal Mixing for
- INFOCOM (T1)SteerCam: Multi-Camera Edge Perception via Dynamic Joint Steering & Collaboration
- MICRO (T1)The ACE Center for Evolvable Computing
202526 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)AdaTS: Learning Adaptive Time Series Representations via Dynamic Soft Contrasts
- IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine IntelligenceAgentic LLM-Assisted Edge AI for CPS/IoT Applications
- SmartNetsAnatomy of Conflict: A Tool for Understanding
- ASONAMBeliefs in Motion: Simulating Opinion Dynamics via LLM-Powered Community Reactions
- ICCCNDiffPhys: Differential Physics Augmentations for Enhanced Representations
- INFOCOM (T1)DynaGen: Conditional Diffusion Models for Enhancing Acoustic and Seismic-Based Vehicle Detection
- SoCCFailLite: Failure-Resilient Model Serving for Resource-Constrained Edge Environments
- ASONAMGPSocio: A Transformer-based General-purpose Social Network Representation System
- IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and ApplicationsInfluence Message Wargaming in the Metaverse: Towards LLM-Based Persuasion and Counter-Persuasion
- WWW (T1)InfoMAE: Pairing-Efficient Cross-Modal Alignment with Informational Masked Autoencoders for IoT Signals
- INFOCOM (T1)Latency-Constrained Input-Aware Quantization of Time Series Inference Workflows at the Edge
- KDD (T1)Learning to Slice: Self-Supervised Interpretable Hierarchical Representation Learning with Graph Auto-Encoder Tree
202427 papers
- MILCOM IoTAEA Performance Prediction-Based DNN Partitioner for Edge TPU Pipelining
- ICCCNAcies-OS: A Content-Centric Platform for Edge AI Twinning and Orchestration
- IEEE RTASAlgorithms for Canvas-based Attention Scheduling with Resizing
- MILCOM IoTAECollaborative Inference in Resource-Constrained Edge Networks: Challenges and Opportunities
- ICCCNData Augmentation for Human Activity Recognition via Condition Space Interpolation within a Generative Model
- MILCOM IoTAEEnhancing Resilience in Distributed ML Inference Pipelines for Edge Computing
- NeurIPS (T1)Fine-grained Control of Generative Data Augmentation in IoT Sensing
- WWW (T1)FreqMAE: Frequency-Aware Masked Autoencoder for Multi-Modal IoT Sensing
- ICMEJIGSAW: Edge-based Streaming Perception over Spatially Overlapped Multi-Camera Deployments
- ICCCNLarge Language Model-Guided Disentangled Belief Representation Learning on Polarized Social Graphs
- ICML (T1)MaSS: Multi-attribute Selective Suppression for Utility-preserving Data Transformation from an Information-theoretic Perspective
- SIGIR (T1)MetaHKG: Meta Hyperbolic Learning for Few-shot Temporal Reasoning
202320 papers
- —31th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS), Dortmund, Germany, June 2023
- IEEE Transactions on Cyber-Physical SystemsAcTrak: Controlling a Steerable Surveillance Camera using Reinforcement Learning
- MetaComChallenges in Metaverse Research: An Internet of Things Perspective
- EMNLP (T1)Decoding the Silent Majority: Inducing Belief Augmented Social Graph with Large Language Model for Response Forecasting
- MILCOM IoTAEFailure-Resilient ML Inference at the Edge Through Graceful Service Degradation
- NeurIPS (T1)FOCAL: Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Time-Series Sensing Signals in Factorized Orthogonal Latent Space
- Journal of Real-time SystemsGeneralized Self-Cueing Real-Time Attention Scheduling with Intermittent Inspection and Image Resizing
- International Conference on Collaboration and Internet ComputingInfluence Mapping on Social Media based on Interpretable Ideological Embedding
- ACM Multimedia Systems ConferenceMOSAIC: Spatially-Multiplexed Edge AI Optimization over Multiple Concurrent Video Sensing Streams
- WWW (T1)Mutually-paced Knowledge Distillation for Cross-lingual
- ACL (T1)Noisy Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Self-Training for Speculative Knowledge Graph Reasoning
- TNNLS (T1)Phy-Taylor: Partially Physics-Knowledge-Enhanced Deep Neural Networks via NN Editing
Where alumni went28 listed, 63% to industry
Industry 15Academia 9
Most often to
- IBM
- Meta
Also to
- Ahmedabad University
- George Mason University
- Military Academy
Apply to UIUCFall 2027
UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
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