Houbing Herbert Song, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow, AIAA Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist
Co-Editor-in-Chief (2025-2027), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF=11.7)
​Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science
Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
1000 Hilltop Circle
​Baltimore, MD 21250
​USA
Email: [email protected]
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ORCID: 0000-0003-2631-9223
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Multi-Institution Multidisciplinary Research Centers/Initiatives:

• NSF Aviation & Space Data Analytics (ASDA) IUCRC (Youtube) 
  1. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  2. New Mexico State University
  3. UMBC 
• ​NASA University Leadership Initiative
• DOT Tire 1 UTC Transportation Cybersecurity Center for Advanced Research and Education (CYBER-CARE) 

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All my first 3 Ph.D. students have been hired as tenure-track assistant professors at 3 US universities! Shuteng Niu, Yongxin Liu, and Jian Wang joined Bowling Green State University and Auburn University, and University of Tennessee, respectively. Congratulations to Shuteng, Yongxin and Jian! 

Breakthrough: SONG Lab discovered and proved mathematically the role of rotating memories in enabling AI, which has been verified by Princeton researchers’ study published in Nature Neuroscience. Revolution of AI Models???

​Breakthrough: SONG Lab developed a new technology that detects and safely neutralizes rogue drones without destroying them or causing them to crash. An Embry-Riddle news release generated a large volume of media coverage. Examples of that pickup included New Atlas, Yahoo! Finance, USA Today Online, Unmanned Aerial, mydeardrone.com, Finanzen, Pilot News Online, Oklahoman Online, Arizona Republic Online, UAS Weekly,  Seattle Post-Intelligencer Online, San Antonio Express Online, SFGate, Erie News Now, KAKE TV, WSIL TV, KLBB TV, Fox 21 Delmarva, WVIR TV, WFMJ TV, and many others.     
 
The story generated at least 80 media mentions, reaching a total potential audience of 16M. 

• IEEE GlobalSpec: New technology 'highjacks' intrusive drones
• Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI): Embry-Riddle professor develops counter-UAS tech that safely grounds unauthorized UAS
• Security, the business magazine for security executives: Fla. Professor Invents Artificial Intelligence Program to Hijack Rogue Drones​
• U.S. News & World Report: Dronejacker: Daytona Professor Invents Intelligent System
• USA Today: Counter-Drone Technology to be Commercialized by Embry-Riddle and Drone Defense Systems LLC
• Fox: Embry-Riddle team develops drone hijacking technology to secure critical airspace
• The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Dronejacker: ERAU professor in Daytona invents system to seize control of unmanned aircraft
• New Atlas: AI system grabs the reins of wayward drones
• Forbes: The Surprising Key That Will Enable Drones To Change The World
• ...

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Education

University of Virginia, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 2012 (Advisor: Maite Brandt-Pearce)
​University of Texas at El Paso, M.S., Civil Engineering, 2006

Research Interests​

• Data-Efficient Machine Learning/Transfer Learning
• Mathematical Methods for Deep Learning/Explainable AI
• Big Data Analytics
• AI/Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
• Networking/IoT

Employment and Experience

​University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

• Tenured Associate Professor of Information Systems, Jan. 2023-present
• Founding Director, Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory (SONG Lab), Aug. 2012 - prese​nt

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

• Tenured Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Jul. 2022-Dec. 2022
• Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Aug. 2017 - Jun. 2022​

• Founding Director, Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory (SONG Lab), Aug. 2012 - present​

West Virginia University

• Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aug. 2014 - Aug. 2017
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aug. 2012 - Aug. 2014
• Founding Director, West Virginia Center of Excellence for Cyber-Physical Systems (Sponsored by West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission), Feb. 2013 - Aug. 2017 (Ceremony, Unveiling the Banner)

University of Virginia

• Research Assistant, Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aug. 2009 - Aug. 2012
• Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Aug. 2007 - Aug. 2009​​

Texas A&M Transportation Institute

• Engineering Research Associate, Jan.-Aug. 2007​

University of Texas at El Paso

• Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, Aug. 2005 - Dec. 2006​

Honors and Awards

• Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Computer Science - 2023, Clarivate™
• Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
• IEEE Systems Council (SYSC) Distinguished Lecturer
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Distinguished Lecturer
• 2021 Harry Rowe Mimno Award, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
• 2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Internet of Things
• IEEE Fellow, November 2022
• ACM Distinguished Scientist, November 2022
• 2022 - Research.com Rising Star of Science Award
• Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Computer Science - 2022, Clarivate™
• 2021-2022 College of Engineering Outstanding Research Award, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Computer Science: https://research.com/u/houbing-song
  • National Ranking: 861
  • World Ranking: 1,550
• Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field - 2021, Clarivate™ (Note: 6,602 or about 0.1% of the world's researchers have earned this distinction) (https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/) 
• ​Distinguished Speaker, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020-
• World's Top 2% Scientists for both career-long impact and single year impact (compiled by John P.A. Ioannidis, Stanford University) https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3
• IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC)​
• Best Paper Award, IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Workshop on AI and Blockchain-Enabled Secure and Privacy-Preserving Air and Ground Smart Vehicular Networks (SVNs)
• Best Paper Award, 15th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2020) 
• Best Paper Award, 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2020)
• Best Paper Award​, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII 2019)
• Best Paper Award, 12th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom-2019) 
• Best Paper Award, 19th IEEE/AIAA Integrated Communication, Navigation and Surveillance technologies Conference (ICNS 2019)-Cybersecurity Track
• Senior Member, ACM, Jul. 2017
• Golden Bear Scholar Award, WVU Tech (Award Letter, News, Congratulation Letter from President)​
  • One of two very first receipts
  • Highest Campus-Wide Recognition for Research Excellence
• Associate Editor of the Month, IEEE Access, June 2016 (Letter, Certificate)
• Finalist, Innovator of the Year, TechConnect West Virginia, 2015 (Certificate)
• Who's Who in America, Marquis, 2015
• Senior Member, IEEE, Jun. 2014
• Focus Paper,  IEEE ComSoc Technology News (CTN), Nov. 2014
• Nominee, Innovator of the Year, TechConnect West Virginia, 2013
• Nominee, Early Career Innovator Award, West Virginia University, 2013

​For Prospective Students/Scholars (Position Descriptions (PDF))

I am always looking for self-motivated students and scholars to join SONG Lab for pursuing graduate degrees (Ph.D. in Information Systems-AI and Machine Learning; Data Science; Health Informatics) or conducting collaborative research. There are multiple fully supported Ph.D. student positions starting in Fall 2023. Also there are multiple postdoctoral associate positions. If you are interested in working with me, please send your resume to [email protected] or [email protected]. 
Note: The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is a public research university in Baltimore County, Maryland. UMBC is an R1 university (one of only 146 R1 institutions nationally, including 107 public and 39 private universities), according to Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.  

• No. 137 in National Universities
• No. 10 in Most Innovative School

​Source: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/umbc-2105/overall-rankings