Thomas Tie Luo    (formerly Tony T. Luo)

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science (Courtesy Joint Appointment)
Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering
University of Kentucky

223 Davis Marksbury Building, 329 Rose Street, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Phone: +1 (859) 257-1527
E-mail: t.luo <at> uky.edu

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Research

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Medicine, Healthcare, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Specific topics include:
  • Explainable AI (XAI)
  • Adversarial and Robust Machine Learning
  • Security and Privacy in Federated Learning
  • Time Series Anomaly Detection

Prospective students: I advise PhD students in three programs: CS/EE/CPE. Please read this note before applying to my group.
Postdocs: Two fellowship opportunities are currently open, but you must be a US citizen, national, or green card holder to be eligible.

Biosketch:

I am a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science (courtesy joint appointment) at the University of Kentucky. Prior to that, I was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore (ranked globally #8 by QS, #19 by Times Higher Education (THE), and #22 (CS #3, EE #5) by U.S. News & World Report). My research is driven by the goal of making AI systems trustworthy - transparent and robust. I am a member of AAAI and ACM, and a Senior Member of IEEE.


Teaching

  • EE599/699 (UK) - Advances & Practices in Deep Learning, Fall 2025
  • EE599/699 (UK) - Deep Learning Fundamentals, Fall 2025
  • EE599/699 (UK) - Advances & Practices in Deep Learning, Spring 2025
  • EE599/699 (UK) - Deep Learning Fundamentals, Fall 2024
  • CS5001 (MST) - Introduction to Deep Learning, Spring 2024
  • CS5420 (MST) - Introduction to Machine Learning, Fall 2023
  • CS3402 (MST) - Introduction to Data Science, Spring 2023
  • CS5001 (CS5420 since FA23) - Introduction to Machine Learning, Fall 2022
  • CS3001 (CS3402 since SP23) - Introduction to Data Science, Spring 2022
  • CS6407 - Internet of Things with Data Science, Fall 2021
  • CS6001 (CS6407 since FA21) - Internet of Things with Data Science, Spring 2021
  • CS6001 (CS6407 since FA21) - Internet of Things with Data Science, Fall 2020
  • CS5001 - Internet of Things with Applied Data Science, Spring 2020

Publications

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Systems and Testbeds

In addition to my theoretical research, I believe it is equally invaluable to develop real systems or testbeds to validate theoretical innovations in a more convincing manner.

Deep Learning and Computer Vision
Stitching Satellites to the Edge: Pervasive and Efficient Federated LEO Satellite Learning YOGA: Deep Object Detection in the Wild with Lightweight Feature Learning and Multiscale Attention
Anomaly Detection for IoT and Edge
Distributed anomaly detection using autoencoder neural networks in WSN for IoT
Adaptive Anomaly Detection for IoT in Hierarchical Edge Computing: A Contextual-Bandit Approach
Mobile Edge Computing
Coordinated Container Migration and Base Station Handover in Mobile Edge Computing
Mobile Crowdsensing
SEW-ing a Simple Endorsement Web to incentivize trustworthy participatory sensing WiFiScout: A crowdsensing WiFi advisory system with gamification-based incentive


Students

Prospective students: I advise PhD students in CS/EE/CpE. Please read this note before applying to my group.
Postdocs: Two fellowship opportunities are currently open, but you must be a US citizen, national, or green card holder to be eligible.

  • PhD students - current:
    Yifei Liu, since SP25
    Qin Su, since FA24
    Yasmine Mustafa, since SP23
    Jiadi Du, since FA22

    Group photo 2024 CEC Dean's PhD Scholar Award 2024 Tao Wu PhD Defense 2024-06-11 Tao Wu PhD Defense 2024-06-11 PAKDD24 2024 Award Ceremony PAKDD24 2025 PM4B Best Paper Award

  • PhD students - graduated:
          
    United States:
    - Mohamed Elmahallawy, Jan 2022--Feb 2024 (now Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Cybersecurity Department at Washington State University, Tri-Cities, since Aug 2024)
    Thesis: Secure and privacy-preserving federated learning with rapid convergence in LEO satellite networks
    - Tao Wu, Aug 2021--Jun 2024 (now Research Scientist in Multimodal Machine Learning at ByteDance (字节跳动) in Silicon Valley, California, since Nov 2024)
    Thesis: Adversarial Transferability and Generalization in Robust Deep Learning
    Singapore:
    - Leonit Zeynalvand (co-supervised with Prof. Jie Zhang from Nanyang Technological University), 2016-2021; currently Research Scientist at A*STAR
    Thesis: A holistic approach to trust and reputation management in big data
    - Mao V. Ngo (co-supervised with Prof. Tony Quek from Singapore University of Technology and Design), 2018-2020; currently System Architect at SUTD
    Thesis: Mobile edge computing with machine learning for the Internet of Things

  • Master's students - graduated:
    Raja Sunkara (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Aug'21-May'23
    Thesis: Computer vision in adverse conditions: small objects, low-resolution images, and edge deployment
    Shyam Sundar Saravanan (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Jan'21-May'23
  • Thesis: Time series anomaly detection using generative adversarial networks

Professional Services


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