About Me

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at South Dakota State University. I build on-device and agentic AI systems: LLM-based agents that reason, remember, and adapt reliably under real-world constraints. My current research centers on reinforcement learning for post-training and reasoning, agent memory and experience governance, and how data and rewards shape what a model actually learns.

This work is grounded in a strong publication record (676 citations, h-index 11, i10-index 12 on Google Scholar) across leading IEEE venues, including IEEE TMM, IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE TMC, IEEE COMST (IF 46.7), IEEE TNSE, and IEEE IoTJ, spanning LLM agents, on-device learning, and efficient edge intelligence. I also serve the community as a reviewer for IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TDSC, IEEE IoTJ, and others.

Research Interests: Agentic AI & LLM Agents · Reinforcement Learning for Post-Training & Reasoning · Agent Memory & Experience Governance · Data-Centric ML & Training Reliability · On-Device / Edge AI Systems

📧 Contact: wu[dot]beining[AT]jacks[dot]sdstate[dot]edu


🔥 News

  • August 2026: 📝 Our paper “Exposing and Resolving Spurious Isolation in Federated Multimodal Continual Learning” was accepted as a regular paper by the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
  • August 2026: 📝 Our paper “RELIEF: Turning Missing Modalities into Training Acceleration for Federated Learning on Heterogeneous IoT Edge” was accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
  • August 2026: 🤖 Released CrystalMem, our work on elastic memory and knowledge crystallization for self-evolving LLM agents, as a preprint on arXiv.
  • July 2026: 🤖 Released CURATOR, our work on budget-curated experience memory for self-evolving on-device LLM agents, as a preprint on arXiv.
  • July 2026: 🏆 Our paper “Real-time Intelligent Healthcare Enabled by Federated Digital Twins with AoI Optimization” was designated as an ESI Highly Cited Paper (Top 1% in Computer Science).
  • April 2026: 📝 Our paper “From Alpha to Omega: Lifecycle-Aware Forgetting Defense in Federated Continual Learning for Planetary Exploration” was accepted by IEEE ICDCS 2026 (acceptance rate: 18.59%).
  • April 2026: 📝 Our paper “SCALE: Sensitivity-Aware Federated Unlearning with Information Freshness Optimization for Mobile Edge Computing” was accepted by IEEE ICDCS 2026 (acceptance rate: 18.59%).
  • February 2026: 📝 Our paper “``X of Information’’ Continuum: A Survey on AI-Driven Multi-Dimensional Metrics for Next-Generation Networked Systems” was accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (Impact Factor: 46.7).
  • January 2026: 📝 Our paper “A Review of Continual Learning in Edge AI” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
  • January 2026: 🏆 Our paper “A Fast UAV Trajectory Planning Framework in RIS-assisted Communication Systems with Accelerated Learning via Multithreading and Federating” was designated as an ESI Hot Paper (Top 0.1% in Computer Science).
  • December 2025: 📝 Our paper “Reinforcement Learning-Based Energy-Aware Coverage Path Planning for Precision Agriculture” was accepted by ACM RACS 2025.
  • October 2025: 📝 Our paper “Enhancing Vehicular Platooning with Wireless Federated Learning: A Resource-Aware Control Framework” was accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  • June 2025: 🏆 Appointed as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member for IEEE ICNC 2026.
  • June 2025: 📝 Our paper “FedTD3: An Accelerated Learning Approach for UAV Trajectory Planning” was accepted by WASA 2025 (Tokyo, Japan).
  • April 2025: 📝 Our paper “Real-time Intelligent Healthcare Enabled by Federated Digital Twins with AoI Optimization” was accepted by IEEE Network Magazine.
  • February 2025: 🎉 Our paper “A Fast UAV Trajectory Planning Framework in RIS-assisted Communication Systems” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • September 2024: 🎓 Started PhD program in Computer Science at South Dakota State University, advised by Prof. Jun Huang.

🎓 Background

South Dakota State University, Brookings, USA (2024 - present)
PhD Student, Computer Science
Advisor: Prof. Jun Huang

Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China (2020 - 2024)
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics


🔬 Research

Self-Evolving Agents and Experience Memory

Preprint
Budget-curated experience memory governing keep, share, and trust

Forget to Improve: On-Device LLM-Agent Continual Learning via Budget-Curated Memory

Beining Wu, Zihao Ding, Jun Huang, Yanxiao Zhao. arXiv preprint, 2026.

Verified Deletion and Privacy-Preserving Learning

ICDCS 2026
Lifecycle-aware forgetting defense in federated continual learning

From Alpha to Omega: Lifecycle-Aware Forgetting Defense in Federated Continual Learning for Planetary Exploration

Beining Wu, Jun Huang, Yanxiao Zhao. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2026.

ICDCS 2026
Federated unlearning at the mobile edge

SCALE: Sensitivity-Aware Federated Unlearning with Information Freshness Optimization for Mobile Edge Computing

Zihao Ding, Beining Wu, Jun Huang. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2026.

IEEE TMM 2026
Federated multimodal continual learning framework

Exposing and Resolving Spurious Isolation in Federated Multimodal Continual Learning

Beining Wu, Zihao Ding, Jun Huang. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2026.

Edge AI Systems and On-Device Deployment

IEEE IoTJ
Modality-aligned column-block federated learning across heterogeneous IoT edge devices

RELIEF: Turning Missing Modalities into Training Acceleration for Federated Learning on Heterogeneous IoT Edge

Beining Wu, Zihao Ding, Jun Huang. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2026.

IEEE/ACM ToN
Wireless federated learning for vehicular platooning

Enhancing Vehicular Platooning with Wireless Federated Learning: A Resource-Aware Control Framework

Beining Wu, Jun Huang, Qiang Duan, et al. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2025.

IEEE Network
Federated digital twins with age-of-information optimization

Real-time Intelligent Healthcare Enabled by Federated Digital Twins with AoI Optimization

Beining Wu, Jun Huang, Qiang Duan. IEEE Network, 2025. ESI Highly Cited Paper (Top 1%)

Experimental Infrastructure

Testbed
Jetson AGX Orin and AGX Thor nodes with Panthera-HT manipulator arms

The on-device numbers in these papers come from hardware I built and maintain: two NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64 GB nodes with manipulator arms, a Jetson AGX Thor 128 GB hub, and four Raspberry Pi 5 rovers on real 802.11ac links. Power is read per rail from INA3221 sensors and tegrastats. Cloud-side training and serving run on an A100/H100 cluster.


📝 Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Journal Articles

Conference Papers

  • Beining Wu, Jun Huang, Yanxiao Zhao. “From Alpha to Omega: Lifecycle-Aware Forgetting Defense in Federated Continual Learning for Planetary Exploration.” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2026. (Acceptance rate: 18.59%)

  • Zihao Ding, Beining Wu, Jun Huang. “SCALE: Sensitivity-Aware Federated Unlearning with Information Freshness Optimization for Mobile Edge Computing.” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2026. (Acceptance rate: 18.59%)

  • Beining Wu, Zihao Ding, Leo Ostigaard, Jun Huang. “Reinforcement Learning-Based Energy-Aware Coverage Path Planning for Precision Agriculture.” Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (RACS), ACM, 2025.

  • Beining Wu, Jun Huang, Qiang Duan. “FedTD3: An Accelerated Learning Approach for UAV Trajectory Planning.” International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA), Tokyo, Japan, June 2025.

Preprints


💼 Academic Services

Conference Services

  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member
    • IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2026, 2027
  • Conference Reviewer
    • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026

Journal Reviewer

I serve as a reviewer for the following prestigious journals:

IEEE Journals:

  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (SMC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN)
  • IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB)
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
  • IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (OJITS)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)
  • IEEE Network Magazine
  • IEEE Access

Other Journals:

  • High-Confidence Computing
  • ICT Express
  • Digital Communications and Networks
  • International Journal of Communication Systems
  • IET Wireless Sensor Systems

🏸 More About Me

Beyond academics, I am a National Level-2 Badminton Athlete (China) and currently serve as the President of the Badminton Club at South Dakota State University. The awards I received during my undergraduate studies are as follows:

Selected Honors & Achievements

  • Men’s Singles Champion, Men’s Doubles Champion, and Men’s Team Champion - Wuhu City Games Badminton Competition
  • Fifth Place in Men’s Singles & Fifth Place in Men’s Team - The 15th Sports Games of Anhui Province

Last updated: September 2026