Junaid Farooq

Employment

• University of Michigan-Dearborn Assistant Professor
  2020 - Present
• Qatar Mobility Innovations Centre Research Assistant
  2015 - 2016

Education

• New York University PhD
  2016 - 2020
• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) MS Student
  2013 - 2015
• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology MS Electrical Engineering
  2013 - 2015
• National University of Sciences and Technology BE Electrical Engineering
  2009 - 2013

Projects & Funding

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Publications (53)

• Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning for O-RAN Control Under Stochastic Reward Feedback
  IEEE Networking Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1109/LNET.2026.3699505
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• Dynamic Multi-Modal UAV Control for Optimized Coverage and Backhaul Connectivity in Spatially Unstructured and Dispersed User Environments
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2026 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2025.3606778
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• Process-Informed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Radio-Compute Orchestration in Industrial O-RAN
  IEEE Networking Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1109/LNET.2026.3687238
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• Multi-Agent Resource Orchestration Based on D3QN for Network Slicing in 5G Edge-Cloud Networks
  IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2026 DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2025.3643340
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• SliceWise: Traffic-Aware Multi-Agent RL with Temporal Encoding for Joint Slice Admission and Resource Orchestration in O-RAN
  IEEE Networking Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1109/LNET.2025.3633686
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• Reliable and Resilient Connectivity and Coverage Under Localized Backhauling in UAV-IoT Networks
  IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society 2025 DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3584736
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• Communication Systems for Autonomous eVTOL: Regulatory Challenges, Emerging Technologies, and Future Directions
  IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society 2025 DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3623085
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• Mapping Cyber Threats in the 5G Supply Chain: Landscape, Vulnerabilities, and Risk Management
  IEEE Network 2025 DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2024.3439011
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• Joint Optimization of Positioning and Computation Offloading in Multi-UAV MEC Networks for Low Latency Applications
  2025 DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.173626690.01184751/v1
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• LLM-Driven Agentic AI Approach to Enhanced O-RAN Resilience in Next-Generation Networks
  2025 DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.174284755.59863143/v1
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