Houtianfu Wang

Second-year PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK

Houtianfu Wang

Houtianfu Wang (Tiff) joined University of Cambridge as a Ph.D. student in 2024. He received M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, San Diego in 2024, and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2022. He is currently a member of the Centre for neXt Communications (CXC), under the supervision of Prof. Akan.


Research Interests

  • Space Communication
  • Gravitational Communication
  • Wireless Communication
  • Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)


Publications

  1. H. Wang, O. B. Akan, et al., “Gravitational Communication: Fundamentals, State-of-the-Art and Future Vision,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (Early Access), doi: 10.1109/COMST.2025.3601088, 2025.


Submitted Papers

  1. H. Dong, H. Wang, H. Cai, and O. B. Akan, “A reversed solar illumination dependence of unintended emission from Starlink Direct-to-Cell satellites at 72–234 MHz with the EDA2,” submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA), 2026.
  2. L. Cao, Y. Yang, Z. Gong, H. Wang, L. Zhang, and O. B. Akan, “Latency-Power Optimization for UAV-Assisted Multi-Hop Multi-Path Sidelink Towards 6G V2X,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026.
  3. H. Cai, K. Li, H. Wang, H. Dong, Y. Li, F. Dressler, and O. B. Akan, “Graph Representation Learning Augmented Model Manipulation on Federated Fine-Tuning of LLMs,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2026.
  4. 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.
  5. H. Cai, H. Dong, O. B. Akan, et al., “Graph Representation-based Model Poisoning on the Heterogeneous Internet of Agents,” submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2026, 2025.
  6. H. Cai, H. Wang, H. Dong, O. B. Akan, “Semantic Communication for the Internet of Space: New Architecture, Challenges, and Future Vision,” 2025.