Charles (Qing) Cao

Associate Professor · University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Publications

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2026

  1. Behavior-Guided Decompilation of IoT Firmware with Autonomous LLM Agents (New)
    Charles Cao
    DSN 2026 (IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks) (accepted)
  2. Instruction-Tuned LLMs for Parsing and Mining Unstructured Logs on Leadership HPC Systems (New)
    Ahmad Maroof Karimi, Charles Cao, Jong Youl Choi, and Awais Khan
    ISC High Performance 2026 (accepted)
  3. ORBIT: Meta-Learned Online Convex Optimization for Low-Latency In-Orbit Computing (New)
    Charles Qing Cao
    IEEE SECON 2026 (IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking)
  4. Bringing ML to the real world: rewards are all we need
    Sergei V. Kalinin, Boris N. Slautin, Yu Liu, Mahshid Ahmadi, Kamyar Barakati, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, Heng Ji, Charles Cao, and Raymundo Arroyave
    APL Machine Learning, 2026
  5. Efficient Concurrent GHZ State Distribution in Quantum Networks
    Charles Cao, Weisheng Si, Jong Choi, and Sajal Das
    IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), 2026
  6. Helios: Context-, Energy-, and Periodicity-Aware Orchestration for LEO Compute Clouds
    Charles Qing Cao
    ICC 2026 (IEEE International Conference on Communications)
  7. Impacts of progress of artificial intelligence on circular bioeconomy: applications, challenges, and future directions
    Cao, Charles, Zhuang, Jie, Wu, Jayne, and Zhou, Wenjun
    In Handbook of Circular Bioeconomy, Springer Nature, 2026
  8. LLM-Orchestrated Digital Twins for Safe, Human-Centered Decision Support in Precision Agriculture
    Charles Qing Cao, Sajal Das, Jie Zhuang, and Robert Davis
    The First International AAAI Workshop on AI in Agriculture (Agri AI), co-located with AAAI 2026
  9. Regenerative agriculture bioeconomy: a concept facilitating transition from circular to regenerative systems
    Danies, K., Bobbet, I., Cao, Charles Qing, Tate, W., and Zhuang, Jie
    In Handbook of Circular Bioeconomy, Springer Nature, 2026

2025

  1. Edge AI-Enhanced Traffic Monitoring and Anomaly Detection Using Multimodal Large Language Models
    Peruski, Ryan, Saroj, Abhilasha, Zhou, Wenjun, Djouadi, Seddik, and Cao, Charles
    International Conference on Transportation and development (ICTD), 2025 DOI

2024

  1. A two-step linear programming approach for repeater placement in large-scale quantum networks
    Romtham Sripotchanart, Weisheng Si, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Qing Cao, and Tie Qiu
    Computer Networks, vol. 254, pp. 110795, 2024 DOI
  2. Artificial intelligence and the National Violent Death Reporting System: A rapid review
    Lindley, Lisa C., Policastro, Christina N., Dosch, Brianne, Baco, Joshua G. Ortiz, and Cao, Charles Qing
    CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, vol. 42, pp. 369-376, 2024 DOI
  3. LLM-Assisted Modeling and Simulations for Public Sector Decision-Making: Bridging Climate Data and Policy Insights
    Charles Cao, Jie Zhuang, and Qiang He
    AAAI 2024 Workshop on Public Sector Large Language Models (PubLLM)
  4. Low-cost portable sensor for rapid and sensitive detection of Pb2+ ions using capacitance sensing integrated with microfluidic enrichment
    Noman Amin, Jie Chen, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, Jie Zhang, Qiang He, and Jayne J. Wu
    Microchimica Acta, vol. 191, pp. 11 pages, 2024 DOI
  5. Managing Linux servers with LLM-based AI agents: An empirical evaluation with GPT4
    Cao, Charles, Wang, Feiyi, Lindley, Lisa, and Wang, Zejiang
    Journal of Machine Learning with Applications, vol. 17, pp. 100570, 2024 DOI
  6. Quality of Surveillance Analysis of LEO Satellite Constellations for Orbital Edge Computing in Precision Agriculture and Climate Monitoring
    Charles Cao, Jie Zhuang, Joshua Fu, and Wenjun Zhou
    IWQoS 2024 (IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service) DOI

2023

  1. Blockchain-Based Runtime Attestation Against Physical Fault Injection Attacks on Edge Devices
    Charles Cao, Jayne Wu, Hairong Qi, and Shigetoshi Eda
    SEC 2023 (8th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing) DOI
  2. More Effective Centrality-Based Attacks on Weighted Networks
    Balume Mburano, Weisheng Si, Qing Cao, and Wei Xing Zheng
    ICC 2023 (IEEE International Conference on Communications) DOI
  3. Parity Shadow Stack: Dynamic Instrumentation based Control Flow Security for IoT Devices
    Qing Charles Cao
    IPCCC 2023 (42nd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference) DOI
  4. Probabilistic Error Reasoning on IoT Edge Devices
    Qing Charles Cao and Yunhe Feng
    EDGE 2023 (IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing) DOI

2022

  1. Higher-order Markov Graph based Bug Detection in Cloud-based Deployments
    Qing Cao and Haoran Niu
    IPCCC 2022 (41st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference) DOI
  2. PECS: A Pareto-efficient and Envy-free Cloud Resource Scheduler
    Qing Cao and Weisheng Si
    IPCCC 2022 (41st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference) DOI
  3. SocialCattle: IoT-Based Mastitis Detection and Control Through Social Cattle Behavior Sensing in Smart Farms
    Yunhe Feng, Haoran Niu, Fanqi Wang, Susan J. Ivey, Jie Jayne Wu, Hairong Qi, Raul A. Almeida, Shigetoshi Eda, and Qing Cao
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, pp. 10130-10138, 2022 DOI

2021

  1. A 3-D Topology Evolution Scheme With Self-Adaption for Industrial Internet of Things
    Tie Qiu, Songwei Zhang, Weisheng Si, Qing Cao, and Mohammed Atiquzzaman
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, pp. 9473-9483, 2021 DOI

2020

  1. Adaptive Anomaly Detection for Dynamic Clinical Event Sequences
    Haoran Niu, Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Qing Charles Cao, Mohammed Olama, Ozgur Ozmen, Hilda Klasky, Laura Pullum, Teja Kuruganti, Merry Ward, Angela Laurio, Jeanie Scott, Frank Drews, and Jonathan R. Nebeker
    2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) DOI
  2. Anomaly detection in sequential health care data using higher-order network representation
    Haoran Niu, Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Qing Cao, Ozgur Ozmen, Hilda B. Klasky, Mohammed M. Olama, Laura Pullum, Teja Kuruganti, Merry Ward, Angela Laurio, Jeanie Scott, Frank Drews, and Jonathan R. Nebeker
    Proceedings of the 2020 IISE Annual Conference
  3. New Emoji Requests from Twitter Users: When, Where, Why, and What We Can Do About Them
    Yunhe Feng, Zheng Lu, Wenjun Zhou, Zhibo Wang, and Qing Cao
    ACM Transactions on Social Computing, vol. 3, pp. 8:1-8:25, 2020 DOI
  4. SenCAPTCHA: A Mobile-First CAPTCHA Using Orientation Sensors
    Yunhe Feng, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, and Scott Ruoti
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, vol. 4, pp. 43:1-43:26, 2020 DOI
  5. Toward More Effective Centrality-Based Attacks on Network Topologies
    Songwei Zhang, Weisheng Si, Tie Qiu, and Qing Cao
    ICC 2020 (IEEE International Conference on Communications) DOI

2019

  1. Adaptive Path Tracing with Programmable Bloom Filters in Software-Defined Networks
    Sisi Xiong, Qing Cao, and Weisheng Si
    INFOCOM 2019 (IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications) DOI