Selected manuscripts

Under review

Statuses are shown explicitly and should not be interpreted as acceptance.

Certified Causal Attribution for Real-Time Attack Forensics in 6G Network Slicing
Under review
Minh K. Quan, Pubudu N. Pathirana · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Causal attack attribution under shared-resource confounding, with formal validity and robustness guarantees for real-time 6G network slicing.
The Sensitivity Gap: Privacy Miscalibration in Heterogeneous Split Federated Learning
Under review
Minh K. Quan, Pubudu N. Pathirana · NeurIPS 2026 submission
Studies how shared privacy calibration can fail across heterogeneous split-learning clients and develops client-aware sensitivity calibration.
Separating Input-Carried from Model-Added Demographic Encoding in Language Models
Under review
Minh K. Quan, Pubudu N. Pathirana · AAAI 2027 submission
Controlled Representation Attribution (CRA) separates demographic signal already present in the input from signal introduced or amplified by a model.
Q-XAI: Interpretability for Complex-Valued Audio Transformers
Under review
Minh K. Quan et al. · ACML 2026 Journal Track / Machine Learning
Wirtinger-based attribution and uncertainty-aware interpretability for complex-valued models in acoustic scene analysis.
Spectral Activation Auditing for Byzantine-Robust Split Federated Learning working title
Under review
Minh K. Quan et al. · IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing manuscript
Investigates activation-space attacks that evade gradient-space Byzantine defenses and develops spectral auditing for split learning.
Next-Generation UAVs: Survey of Emerging Technologies and Security & Privacy Frontiers
Under review
Md Raihan Uddin, Minh K. Quan, Pubudu N. Pathirana, Dinh C. Nguyen · Vehicular Communications manuscript
Peer reviewed

Published & accepted

2026

StreamSplit: Continuous Audio Representation Learning via Uncertainty-Guided Adaptive Splitting
Published
Minh K. Quan, Pubudu N. Pathirana · ACM MobiSys 2026 · pp. 54–68
Continuous edge audio representation learning using distributional memory, adaptive edge/cloud splitting, and cloud-side manifold refinement.

2025

Domain-Adapted Granger Causality for Real-Time Cross-Slice Attack Attribution in 6G Networks
Accepted
Minh K. Quan, Pubudu N. Pathirana · NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on CauScien · Poster
Federated Learning for Cyber Physical Systems: A Comprehensive Survey
Published
Minh K. Quan, Pubudu N. Pathirana, Mayuri Wijayasundara, Sujeeva Setunge, Dinh C. Nguyen, Christopher G. Brinton, David J. Love, H. Vincent Poor · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Quantum-Inspired Genetic Algorithm for Robust Source Separation in Smart City Acoustics
Published
Minh K. Quan, Mayuri Wijayasundara, Sujeeva Setunge, Pubudu N. Pathirana · IEEE ICC 2025
Privacy and Fairness in Machine Learning: A Survey
Published
Sina Shaham, Arash Hajisafi, Minh K. Quan, Dinh C. Nguyen, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Charith Peris, Gabriel Ghinita, Cyrus Shahabi, Pubudu N. Pathirana · IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Quantum-Enhanced Transformers for Robust Acoustic Scene Classification in IoT Environments
Published
Minh K. Quan, Mayuri Wijayasundara, Sujeeva Setunge, Pubudu N. Pathirana · ICNC 2025

2024

Towards Privacy-Preserving Waste Classification in the Internet of Things
Published
Minh K. Quan, Dinh C. Nguyen, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Mayuri Wijayasundara, Sujeeva Setunge, Pubudu N. Pathirana · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 11(14):24814–24830

2023

HierSFL: Local Differential Privacy-Aided Split Federated Learning in Mobile Edge Computing
Published
Minh K. Quan, Dinh C. Nguyen, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Mayuri Wijayasundara, Sujeeva Setunge, Pubudu N. Pathirana · IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications (VCC)
Book chapter

Forthcoming

Smart Waste Tracking for Infrastructure
Forthcoming
Woodhead Publishing · 2026
Research in progress. I keep very early-stage projects off this page until they are sufficiently mature. For the most current public citation record, see Google Scholar.