Honghui Xu
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Assistant Professor
Department of Information Technology

Kennesaw State University

Marietta, GA, USA, 30060
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Biography

Honghui Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Kennesaw State University and Director of the IntelliTrust Lab; he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia State University in 2023 and his B.S. from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2019, and his research focuses on Trustworthy AI, Efficient AI, Generative AI, and the Internet of Things, while his professional service includes Associate Editor for High-Confidence Computing, Guest Editor roles for IET Communications and Tsinghua Science and Technology, chairing service as Web Chair for IPCCC 2025, Track Chair for MSN 2024, and Session Chair for SDM 2024, and TPC/Program Committee service for AAAI 2025, CVPR 2025, ICML 2024, NeurIPS 2024, AAAI 2024, ICCCN 2025, WASA 2025, and WASA 2024; he is also a recipient of the 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 paper "MedSpeak: A Knowledge Graph-Aided ASR Error Correction Framework for Spoken Medical QA" has been accepted by ICASSP 2026. (01-28-2026)
  • Our paper on post-disaster building damage assessment has been accepted by CRC 2026. (01-09-2026)
  • Welcome our new students: Kazi Sharif (Ph.D.), Emama Nahid (M.S.), and Tahmid Imtiaz Imu (M.S.). (Spring 2026)
  • Our survey paper on privacy and security in mobile large language models has been accepted by BDMA. (10-27-2025)

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Awards & Grants

  • Interdisciplinary Seed Grant - Grand Challenge (Lead PI), $200,000, Kennesaw State University, December 2024.
  • Nexa AI Research Award (Solo PI), $52,561, Nexa AI, March 2025.
  • IEEE ICDM 2025 Best Paper Runner-up Award, $500, October 2025.
  • Outstanding Research Award, $500, Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Spring 2022.
  • Brains and Behavior Fellowship, $19,000/year, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, 2021-2023.

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Selected Publications

[2025 | 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%) (Best Paper Runner-up) Download paper here
[2025 | IoTJ] H. Xu, W. Li, D. Takabi, D. Seo, and Z. Cai, Privacy-Preserving Multimodal Sentiment Analysis [J]. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), 2025. Download paper here
[2024 | ICDM] H. Xu, W. Li, L. Zhao, S. Wu, and 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
[2023 | ICDM] H. Xu, Z. Cai, Z. Xiong, and W. Li, Backdoor Attack on 3D Grey Image Segmentation [C]. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2023. (Acceptance Ratio: 9.37%) Download paper here
[2022 | TKDD] H. Xu, Z. Cai, and W. Li, Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms for Multi-Label Image Recognition [J]. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2022. Download paper here

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Teaching

Recent Teaching

SemesterRole / CourseInstitutionLocation
Spring 2026Assistant Professor, IT 4823 Information Security AdministrationKennesaw State University, Department of Information TechnologyMarietta, GA, USA
Fall 2025Assistant Professor, IT 7123 Business IntelligenceKennesaw State University, Department of Information TechnologyMarietta, GA, USA
Spring 2025Assistant Professor, IT 4823 Information Security AdministrationKennesaw State University, Department of Information TechnologyMarietta, GA, USA
Fall 2024Assistant Professor, IT 7123 Business IntelligenceKennesaw State University, Department of Information TechnologyMarietta, GA, USA
Spring 2024Assistant Professor, CYBR 4423 Unix/Linux AdministrationKennesaw State University, Department of Information TechnologyMarietta, GA, USA

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Professional & Academic Service

Professional Service

  • NSF Panelist
  • IEEE Member

Journal Editorial

  • Associate Editor, High-Confidence Computing
  • Guest Editor, IET Communications and Tsinghua Science and Technology

Conference Chair Roles

  • Web Chair, IEEE IPCCC 2025
  • Track Chair, MSN 2024

Conference PC/TPC and Reviews (Selected)

  • PC/TPC: AAAI, CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCCN, WASA, IMNS
  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TII, IEEE TVT, IEEE TWC, IEEE TMC

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