Houbing Song
Houbing Herbert Song is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) and the Director of the Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory (SONG Lab) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Baltimore, USA. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in August 2012.
Song was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in November 2022 for contributions to big data analytics and integration of AI with Internet of Things. In November 2022 he was named an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Member for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing.
Since 2021, Song has been a Highly Cited Researcher identified by Clarivate/Web of Science. Song's research has been cited over 40,000 times and Song has an h-index of 98.
Since 2024, Song has been the Founding Chair of Trustworthy Internet of Things Working Group within IEEE IoT Technical Community. Since December 2025, Song has been the Founding Chair of the ACM Emerging Interest Group on Trustworthy and Responsible Systems.
Awards and honors
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Computer Science - 2023
- Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Computer Science - 2022
- Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field - 2021
- Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Member of the National Academy of [Artificial Intelligence (NAAI)]
- Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
- Fellow of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)
- 2025 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Internet of Things
- 2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Internet of Things
- 2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Internet of Things
- 2022 Research.com Rising Star of Science, Research.com
- 2021 Harry Rowe Mimno Award, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
- Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor
- IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Distinguished Lecturer
- IEEE Systems Council (SYSC) Distinguished Lecturer
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Distinguished Lecturer
Books
- Tiny Machine Learning: Design Principles and Applications,, 2026, Wiley-IEEE Press
- Neuro-symbolic AI: Foundations and Applications,, 2026, Wiley-IEEE Press
- AI for Cybersecurity: Research and Practice,, 2026, Wiley-IEEE Press
- Applied Graph Data Science: Graph Algorithms and Platforms, Knowledge Graphs, Neural Networks, and Applied Use Cases,, 2024, Elsevier
- Quantum Machine Learning: Quantum Algorithms and Neural Networks,, 2024, De Gruyter
- Federated Learning for Digital Healthcare Systems,, 2024, Elsevier
- Access Control and Security Monitoring of Multimedia Information Processing and Transmission,, 2023, IET Press
- Aviation Cybersecurity: Foundations, principles, and applications,, 2022, IET Press
- Smart Transportation: AI Enabled Mobility and Autonomous Driving,, 2021, CRC Press
- Big Data Analytics for Cyber-Physical Systems,, 2019, Elsevier
- Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations and Applications,, 2017, Wiley-IEEE Press
- Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles and Applications,, 2017, Wiley
- Secure and Trustworthy Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems,, 2017, Springer
- Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations, Principles and Applications,, 2016, Elsevier
- Industrial Internet of Things: Cybermanufacturing Systems,, 2016, Springer
Patents
- - US20210197967A1
- - WO2020236328A3
Publications
- - IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
- - IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
- - IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
- - IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
- - IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
- - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
- - IEEE Internet of Things Journal