Shunpu Tang

Shunpu Tang

Ph.D. Candidate at Zhejiang University
Email: tangshunpu@zju.edu.cn

Shunpu Tang (汤舜璞)

Hi! I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, under the supervision of Prof. Qianqian Yang. I am also a visiting Ph.D. student at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), working closely with Prof. Jihong Park and Prof. Seung-Woo Ko . My current research interests include:

  • Semantic communication and task-oriented communication
  • Generative AI for wireless communication systems
  • Edge Intelligence

My future research will focus on robotic and embodied AI systems over wireless networks, aiming to develop communication–computation–intelligence co-design frameworks for autonomous agents operating in dynamic and resource-constrained environments.

If you have any questions or are interested in collaborating with me, please feel free to email me!

Education

  • 2023.09 – Present, Ph.D. Candidate in Information and Communication Engineering,
    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
    (Supervisor: Prof. Qianqian Yang)

  • 2020.09 – 2023.06, M.Sc. in Cyberspace Security,
    Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
    (Supervisor: Prof. Lisheng Fan)

  • 2016.09 – 2020.06, B.E. in Computer Science and Technology,
    Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.

Experience

  • 2025.09 – Present, Visiting Researcher,
    Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore.
    (Host: Prof. Jihong Park)

  • 2024.10 – 2025.09, Visiting Researcher,
    Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
    (Host: Prof. Dusit Niyato, IEEE Fellow)

Highlight

  • [2025.12] I have been funded by the 2025 NSFC Youth Student Basic Research Project (国家自然科学基金青年学生基础研究项目), with total funding of ¥300,000 ($41,500).
  • [2025.01] I am honored to be awarded the 2025 Doctoral Student Special Program of the Young Talent Support Project from the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) (中国科协青年人才托举工程博士生专项计划)

News

  • [2026.01]“Rethinking Secure Semantic Communications in the Age of Generative and Agentic AI: Threats and Opportunities” was submitted to IEEE WCM.
  • [2026.01]“Robust Federated Fine-tuning of Language Models via Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation” was submitted to IEEE TAI.
  • [2025.12] Honored to be awarded Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE TNSE.
  • [2025.12] IEEE JSAC paper accepted: “Covert Prompt Transmission for Secure Large Language Model Services”.
  • [2025.11] AAAI Workshop paper accepted: “FeDeRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models in Federated Learning Leveraging Weight Decomposition”.
  • [2025.11] Two papers were submitted to IEEE TCCN.
  • [2025.11] “Towards Long-Tailed Federated Edge Learning: A Strategic Data Selection Framework” was submitted to IEEE TVT
  • [2025.10] Two papers were submitted to CVPR 2026.
  • [2025.10] “Privacy-Preserving Semantic Communication over Wiretap Channels with Learnable Differential Privacy” was submitted to IEEE TIFS.
  • [2025.09] “DiffusionX: Efficient Edge-Cloud Collaborative Image Generation with Multi-Round Prompt Evolution” was submitted to ICASSP.
  • [2025.09] IEEE COMMAG accepted: “Toward Agentic AI: Generative Information Retrieval Inspired Intelligent Communications and Networking” .
  • [2025.07] IEEE GlobeCom accepted: “Enabling Training-Free Semantic Communication Systems with Generative Diffusion Models”.
  • [2025.06] IEEE WCM paper accepted: “Retrieval-augmented Generation for GenAI-enabled Semantic Communications”.
  • [2025.05] “Generative AI-enabled Cooperative Jamming for Secure Semantic Communication” was submitted to IEEE TCOM
  • [2025.03] “Towards Secure Semantic Communications in the Presence of Intelligent Eavesdroppers” was submitted to IEEE TMC.

Academic Services

  • TPC Member: IEEE ICCC 2025, IEEE VTC-Spring 2025, WCNC 2026.
  • Reviewer: IEEE JSAC, COMST, TMC, TCOM, TWC, IOTJ, TCCN, TIFS, TVT, WCL, ICML workshop, npj Wireless Technology, etc.

Selected Publications

For all publications, please refer to my google scholar

  1. Shunpu Tang, Yuanyuan Jia, Qianqian Yang, Ruichen Zhang, Jihong Park, Dusit Niyato, “Enabling Training-Free Semantic Communication Systems with Generative Diffusion Models,” Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, 2025. PDF

  2. Shunpu Tang, Yuhao Chen, Qianqian Yang, Ruichen Zhang, Dusit Niyato, Zhiguo Shi, “Towards Secure Semantic Communications in the Presence of Intelligent Eavesdroppers,” submitted to IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., 2025. PDF

  3. Shunpu Tang, Ruichen Zhang, Yuxuan Yan, Qianqian Yang, Dusit Niyato, Xianbin Wang, Shiwen Mao, “Retrieval-augmented Generation for GenAI-enabled Semantic Communications,” IEEE Wireless Commun., 2025. PDF

  4. Shunpu Tang, Qianqian Yang, Lisheng Fan, Xianfu Lei, Arumugam Nallanathan, George K. Karagiannidis, “Contrastive Learning Based Semantic Communications,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 6328–6343, Oct. 2024 Link

  5. Shunpu Tang, Ke He, Lunyuan Chen, Lisheng Fan, Xianfu Lei, Rose Qingyang Hu, “Collaborative Cache-Aided Relaying Networks: Performance Evaluation and System Optimization,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 706–719, Jan. 2023. Link

  6. Shunpu Tang, Lunyuan Chen, Ke He, Junjuan Xia, Lisheng Fan, Arumugam Nallanathan, “Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning for Next-Generation Edge-Enabled Industrial IoT,” IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng., vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 2881–2893, Sept.–Oct. 2023. (ESI Highly Cited Paper) Link

  7. Shunpu Tang, Junjuan Xia, Lisheng Fan, Xianfu Lei, Wei Xu, Arumugam Nallanathan, “Dilated Convolution Based CSI Feedback Compression for Massive MIMO Systems,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 11216–11221, Oct. 2022. Link

  8. Shunpu Tang, Chen Liu, Qianqian Yang, Shibo He, Dusit Niyato,
    “Secure Semantic Communication for Image Transmission in the Presence of Eavesdroppers,” Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, 2024. PDF · Slides

  9. Shunpu Tang, Qianqian Yang, Deniz Gündüz, Zhaoyang Zhang, “Evolving Semantic Communication with Generative Modelling,” Proc. IEEE PIMRC, 2024. PDF

  10. Shunpu Tang, Qianqian Yang, Lisheng Fan, Xianfu Lei, Yansha Deng, Arumugam Nallanathan, “Contrastive Learning based Semantic Communication for Wireless Image Transmission,” Proc. IEEE VTC-Fall, 2023. PDF

Awards

  • Exemplary Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2025.

  • Doctoral Student Special Program of the Young Talent Support Project, China Association for Science and Technology, 2024
  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2023

Project

  • 2026.01-2027.12, Joint Communication–Computation Co-Designs for Embodied AI, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China