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キリスト教倫理における赦しの条件性を巡って（Conditionality of Forgiveness in Christian Ethics) (2025)
Journal Article
Okaya, K. (in press). キリスト教倫理における赦しの条件性を巡って（Conditionality of Forgiveness in Christian Ethics). Theological Studies in Japan, 64,

In Christian ethics, forgiveness is traditionally understood as an unconditional act, modeled after the gratuitous nature of Christ’s sacrificial death. However, this conceptualization of forgiveness has faced increasing scrutiny in recent years, par... Read More about キリスト教倫理における赦しの条件性を巡って（Conditionality of Forgiveness in Christian Ethics).

Yoruba Girl Dancing: A Nigerian/British Women's Reading of Herodias’s Daughter in Mark 6:17-28 and Matthew 14:3-12 (2025)
Journal Article
Obamakin, O. (in press). Yoruba Girl Dancing: A Nigerian/British Women's Reading of Herodias’s Daughter in Mark 6:17-28 and Matthew 14:3-12. Horizons in Biblical Theology,

This paper seeks to offer a Nigerian/British women’s reading of Herodias’ daughter’s dance in Mark and Matthew by reading it alongside Simi Bedford’s Yoruba Girl Dancing. In this paper the dominant Western interpretation of Herodias’s daughter’s danc... Read More about Yoruba Girl Dancing: A Nigerian/British Women's Reading of Herodias’s Daughter in Mark 6:17-28 and Matthew 14:3-12.

Corporate Hiring under Uncertainty (2025)
Journal Article
Nguyen, L., & Sila, V. (in press). Corporate Hiring under Uncertainty. The Review of Corporate Finance Studies,

Using granular data on job postings and employee flows, we examine how firms adjust human capital investments during periods of uncertainty brought on by gubernatorial elections. We find
that firms reduce job postings in the six months leading up to... Read More about Corporate Hiring under Uncertainty.

Green Reinforcement and Split Learning Framework for Edge-Fog-Cloud Continuum in 6G Networks (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dua, A., Jindal, A., Singh Aujla, G., & Sun, H. (2025, June). Green Reinforcement and Split Learning Framework for Edge-Fog-Cloud Continuum in 6G Networks. Presented at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada

6G applications rely on data-intensive AI models for network optimization. These demand a scalable and energy-efficient framework to handle massive device networks with stringent latency requirements which current solutions struggle to support. Even... Read More about Green Reinforcement and Split Learning Framework for Edge-Fog-Cloud Continuum in 6G Networks.

COPS: Controller Placement in Next-Generation Software Defined Edge-Cloud Networks (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Singh Aujla, G., Jindal, A., Kaur, K., Garg, S., Chaudhary, R., Sun, H., & Kumar, N. (2025, June). COPS: Controller Placement in Next-Generation Software Defined Edge-Cloud Networks. Presented at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada

To mitigate various challenges in the edge-cloud ecosystem, such as global monitoring, flow control, and policy modification of legacy networking paradigms, software-defined networks (SDN) have evolved as a major technology. However, the dependency o... Read More about COPS: Controller Placement in Next-Generation Software Defined Edge-Cloud Networks.

Efficient Context-Aware Barring Scheme for Low-Latency 2-Step RACH in 5G Networks (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nie, D., Yu, W., Foh, C. H., Ni, Q., Chen, L., Berri, S., Chorti, A., & Sun, H. (2025, May). Efficient Context-Aware Barring Scheme for Low-Latency 2-Step RACH in 5G Networks. Presented at IEEE INFOCOM 2025: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications - Workshop, London

The random access channel (RACH) procedure is critical for uplink synchronization and connection establishment in massive machine-type communication (mMTC). While 3GPP Release 16 introduced the 2-step RACH to reduce signaling overhead, latency incurr... Read More about Efficient Context-Aware Barring Scheme for Low-Latency 2-Step RACH in 5G Networks.

Resounding Resistance: Decolonising Memory Through Johannesburg's Sound Art Narratives (2025)
Journal Article
Kappler, S., Gunter, A., & Truter, L. (in press). Resounding Resistance: Decolonising Memory Through Johannesburg's Sound Art Narratives. Memory Studies,

This article is drawn from findings of the research project “Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa”. It analyses a collaborative sound art project in Johannesburg, investigating how sound art can act as conduit for the transmission of community... Read More about Resounding Resistance: Decolonising Memory Through Johannesburg's Sound Art Narratives.

Wireless Merged-r LT Coded Computation: A Low-Latency Design for Non-Linear Tasks (2025)
Journal Article
Fang, B., Chen, L., Chen, Y., & Wang, W. (in press). Wireless Merged-r LT Coded Computation: A Low-Latency Design for Non-Linear Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Communications,

Coded computation has attracted significant attention because it can eliminate the stragglers’ effect effectively. Most existing works of coded computation are designed for linear tasks, such as matrix multiplication. They cannot handle nonlinear tas... Read More about Wireless Merged-r LT Coded Computation: A Low-Latency Design for Non-Linear Tasks.

Law and Practice of Personal Data Protection in the Digital World: A Comparison between China, the EU and the US (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, C. C. (in press). Law and Practice of Personal Data Protection in the Digital World: A Comparison between China, the EU and the US. Tulane journal of international and comparative law,

This article makes an in-depth comparative and empirical study on China’s personal data protection legal system and its public enforcement at the state and local levels. The 2016 Cybersecurity Law and the 2021 PIPL regulate important personal data pr... Read More about Law and Practice of Personal Data Protection in the Digital World: A Comparison between China, the EU and the US.

Reflections on balancing Articles 8 and 10 in the context of MPI - past, present and future (2024)
Journal Article
Fenwick, H. (2024). Reflections on balancing Articles 8 and 10 in the context of MPI - past, present and future. Journal of Communications and Law, 29(4), 150-167

This article examines speech/privacy balancing under the tort of misuse of private information, in order to argue that the past down-grading of privacy within the balancing act as a feature of pre-HRA jurisprudence, and of the early post-HRA years, c... Read More about Reflections on balancing Articles 8 and 10 in the context of MPI - past, present and future.

Surprise! Surprise! Learn and Adapt (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Samin, H., Walton, D., & Bencomo, N. (2025, May). Surprise! Surprise! Learn and Adapt. Presented at 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Self-adaptive systems (SAS) adjust their behavior at runtime in response to environmental changes, which are often unpredictable at design time. SAS must make decisions under uncertainty, balancing trade-offs between quality attributes (e.g., cost mi... Read More about Surprise! Surprise! Learn and Adapt.

Beyond Syntax: How Do LLMs Understand Code? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
North, M., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., & Bencomo, N. (2025, April). Beyond Syntax: How Do LLMs Understand Code?. Presented at 2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE, Ottawa , Canada

Within software engineering research, Large Language Models (LLMs) are often treated as 'black boxes', with only their inputs and outputs being considered. In this paper, we take a machine interpretability approach to examine how LLMs internally repr... Read More about Beyond Syntax: How Do LLMs Understand Code?.

Optimal Scheduling in a Quantum Switch (2024)
Journal Article
Bhambay, S., Vasantam, T., & Walton, N. (in press). Optimal Scheduling in a Quantum Switch. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review,

With a growing number of quantum networks in operation, there is a pressing need for performance analysis of quantum switching technologies. A quantum switch establishes, distributes, and maintains entanglements across a network. In contrast to a cla... Read More about Optimal Scheduling in a Quantum Switch.

From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean? (2024)
Journal Article
Williams, R. A., Montesanto, M., Badreshany, K., Berger, D., Jones, A. M., Aragón, E., Brügmann, G., Ponting, M., & Roberts, B. W. (in press). From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?. Antiquity,

Project Ancient Tin has produced strong analytical and archaeological evidence that tin sources and trade from Southwest Britain played a fundamental role in the massive technological and cultural transition from copper to full tin-bronze across Euro... Read More about From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?.

Optimal Energy Scheduling of Digital Twins Based Integrated Energy System (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Du, J., Harsh, P., & Sun, H. (2024, December). Optimal Energy Scheduling of Digital Twins Based Integrated Energy System. Presented at The 4th International Conference on Smart City and Green Energy, Sydney

With global climate change and growing electricity demand, optimizing Integrated Energy Systems (IES) for low-carbon and economic transformation has become particularly important. By applying digital twin (DT) technology to create a virtual copy of t... Read More about Optimal Energy Scheduling of Digital Twins Based Integrated Energy System.

Decarbonising Heating with Power-Hydrogen Optimisation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gonzalez-Osuna, E., Correa-Delval, M., & Sun, H. (2024, November). Decarbonising Heating with Power-Hydrogen Optimisation. Presented at 9th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Conservation ICREC 2024, Rome, Italy

This paper presents an analysis of an integrated power-hydrogen system for an energy community, incorporating renewable energy sources as solar panels, battery storage, and grid interaction. This study focuses on optimising energy consumption and min... Read More about Decarbonising Heating with Power-Hydrogen Optimisation.