Hanlin Cai

First-year PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK

Hanlin Cai

Hanlin Cai (Lance) received the B.Sc. degree from the Engineering College, National University of Ireland (Maynooth) in 2024, and the M.Phil. degree from the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge in 2025, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Akan. He is a recipient of the Cambridge Trust Scholarship, China CSC Scholarship and the Undergraduate Scholar Awards from top-tier AI conferences, including AAAI 2024 and ACM SIGKDD 2024. His research interests include wireless communication, federated learning, and the Internet of Agents.

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Research Interests

  • Internet of Everything
  • Internet of Agents
  • Wireless Communication
  • Federated Learning


Publications

  1. H. Cai, O. B. Akan, “Semantic Learning for Molecular Communication in Internet of Bio-Nano Things,” Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Molecular Communications, 2025.
  2. H. Cai and Z. Xu, et al., “Hybrid Detection Mechanism for Spoofing Attacks in Bluetooth Low Energy Networks,” Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, 2024.
  3. H. Cai, “Securing billion bluetooth devices Leveraging learning-based techniques,” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024.


Submitted Papers

  1. H. Dong, H. Wang, H. Cai, and O. B. Akan, “Fundamental Limits of Cooperative Integrated Sensing and Communications over Low-Earth Orbit THz Satellite Channels,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025.
  2. H. Cai, H. Dong, H. Wang, K. Li, and O. B. Akan, “Graph Representation-based Model Poisoning on the Heterogeneous Internet of Agents,” submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2026, 2025.
  3. H. Cai, H. Dong, H. Wang, K. Li, and O. B. Akan, “Graph Representation-based Model Poisoning on Federated Large Language Models ,” submitted to IEEE Communications Magazine, 2025.
  4. H. Cai, H. Wang, H. Dong, O. B. Akan, “Semantic Communication for the Internet of Space: New Architecture, Challenges, and Future Vision,” arXiv, 2025.