Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science
University of Tennessee

430 Min Kao Building
1520 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996

Email: cao {at} utk.edu

Research Interest

  • AI for Cyber-Physical and IoT Systems
  • Networking and Distributed Systems
  • Cyber Security

Recent Talks

  • GenAI and Agricultural Innovations, at Tennessee State University, April 2024.
  • Integrating Edge AI and Blockchain in Precision Dairy Farming: Towards Sustainable and Smart Agricultural Practices, at FEWSUS Conference, 2024.
  • LLM-Assisted Modeling and Simulations for Public Sector Decision-Making: Bridging Climate Data and Policy Insights, at AAAI-2024 Workshop on Public Sector LLMs: Algorithmic and Sociotechnical Design, Feb 2024.
  • Blockchain-based Runtime Attestation against Physical Fault Injection Attacks on Edge Devices, at ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), December 2023.
  • Parity Shadow Stack: Dynamic Instrumentation based Control Flow Security for IoT Devices, at IEEE IPCCC, November 2023.
  • Probabilistic Error Reasoning on IoT Edge Devices, at IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE), July 2023.
  • Harnessing Foundation Models for Cybersecurity and Networking Challenges: Bridging the Gap Between AI and Systems, at ORNL, July 2023.

Recent Publications

2024

  • Quality of Surveillance Analysis of LEO Satellite Constellations for Orbital Edge Computing in Precision Agriculture and Climate Monitoring
    Charles Cao, Jie Zhuang, Joshua Fu, Wenjun Zhou.
    IEEE IWQoS 2024.
  • LLM-Assisted Modeling and Simulations for Public Sector Decision-Making: Bridging Climate Data and Policy Insights
    Charles Cao, Jie Zhuang, Qiang He.
    AAAI-2024 Workshop on Public Sector LLMs: Algorithmic and Sociotechnical Design, 2024.
  • Artificial intelligence and the National Violent Death Reporting System: A Rapid Review.
    Lisa Lindley, Christina Policastro, Brianne Dosch, Baco Ortiz, Joshua Gabriel, Charles Cao.
    CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2024.

2023

  • Blockchain-based Runtime Attestation against Physical Fault Injection Attacks on Edge Devices
    Charles Cao, Jayne Wu, Hairong Qi, Shigetoshi Eda.
    ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2023.
  • Parity Shadow Stack: Dynamic Instrumentation based Control Flow Security for IoT Devices
    Charles Cao.
    IEEE IPCCC, November 2023.
  • Probabilistic Error Reasoning on IoT Edge Devices
    Qing Cao, Yunhe Feng.
    IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE), 2023.
  • More Effective Centrality-Based Attacks on Weighted Networks
    Mr. Balume S Mburano, Weisheng Si, Qing Cao and Weixing Zheng
    IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023.