Honghui Xu

Assistant Professor
Department of Information Technology

Kennesaw State University

Marietta, GA, USA, 30060
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Biography

Honghui Xu is currently an Assistant Professor of Information Technology with Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2023 and a Bachelor’s degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His research focuses on Trustworthy AI, Efficient AI, Generative AI, and Internet of Things. Dr. Xu has also served as a guest editor for IET Communications and Tsinghua Science and Technology. He served as EDAS Chair for IPCCC 2025, Track Chair for MSN 2024, Session Chair for SDM 2024, TPC member for WASA 2024, and the Program Committees for AAAI 2025, ICML 2024, NIPS 2024, and AAAI 2024, and was a recipient of the Best Paper Award of the IEEE SmartData 2022. And he was the recipient of Outstanding Research Award from Georgia State University.

You can find my CV here and my IntelliTrust Lab here.

Research Interests

Trustworthy AI
Efficient AI
Generative AI
Internet of Things

News

Our students (Emama, Shiva, Oaphy) has received KSU CCSE Graduate Student Travel Awards. (09-24-2025)
Our 2 papers accepted by ICIR 2025. (09-15-2025)
Our 3 papers accpeted by IPCCC 2025. (08-30-2025)
Our 2 papers accepted by HiCSS 2025. (08-25-2025)
Our research paper "DP-FedLoRA: Privacy-Enhanced Federated Fine-Tuning for On-Device Large Language Models" has been accepted by ICDM 2025. (08-25-2025)
Received a $52,561 Funding from Nexa AI. (03-01-2025)

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Awards & Grants

Research Award

Outstanding Research Award, $500, Department of Computer Science, GSU, Spring 2022.

Fellowship

First-Year Scholars 2025-2026, $1,000, KSU, 2025
First-Year Scholars 2024-2025, $1,000, KSU, 2024
Summer Research Camp Fellowship, $10,000, KSU, 2024
Brains and Behavior Fellowship, $19,000/yr, Neuroscience Institute, GSU, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Grants

Nexa AI Research Award, $52,561, Nexa AI, 2025
Interdisciplinary Seed Grants - Grand Challenge, $200,000, KSU, 2024

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Selected Publications

[ICDM] H. Xu, S. Shrestha, W. Chen, Z. Li and Z. Cai, DP-FedLoRA: Privacy-Enhanced Federated Fine-Tuning for On-Device Large Language Models [C]. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2025. (Acceptance Ratio: 13.5\%) Download paper here

[IoTJ] H. Xu, W. Li, D. Takebi, D. Seo, and Z. Cai, Privacy-Preserving Multimodal Sentiment Analysis [J]. IEEE Internal of Things Journal (IoTJ), 2025. Download paper here

[ICDM] H. Xu, W. Li, L. Zhao, S. Wu, Z. Cai, APOLLO: Differential Private Online Multi-Sensor Data Prediction with Certified Performance [C].IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2024. (Acceptance Ratio: 9.37\%) Download paper here

[JDIQ] H. Xu, Z. Cai, L. Ma, Y. Li, D. Seo, and W. Li, Overheard: Audio-based Integral Event Inference [J]. ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ), 2024. Download paper here

[IoTM] H. Xu, Y. Li, O. Balogun, S. Wu, Y. Wang, and Z. Cai, Security Risks Concerns of Generative AI in the IoT [M]. Internet of Things Magazine (IoTM), 6(3), 62-67 2024. Download paper here

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Teaching

2025

Date	Role / Course	Type	Institution	Location
Aug 2025	Assistant Professor (Business Intelligence)	Graduate Course	Kennesaw State University, Department of Information Technology	Marietta, USA
Jan 2025	Assistant Professor (Information Security Administration)	Undergraduate Course	Kennesaw State University, Department of Information Technology	Marietta, USA

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Professional & Academic Service

Editor Service

Guest editor for Tsinghua Science and Technology
Guest editor for IET Communications

Program Committee Member

IPCCC 2025, EDAS Chair
MSN 2024, Track Chair

Journal Review

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)

Professional Service

NSF Panel
IEEE Member

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