Marie

Marie Siew

I’m currently a Faculty Early Career Award Fellow / Lecturer in the Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar (ISTD) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

I was a postdoctoral researcher in the ECE department, Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof Carlee Joe-Wong, till Dec 2023. I received my PhD from ISTD, SUTD in 2021, advised by Prof Tony Quek and Dr Desmond Cai. Prior to that, I obtained my BSc. in Mathematical Sciences from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2016.

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Email: marie_siew [at] sutd.edu.sg

A central theme of my research is reliable and trustworthy distributed edge intelligence, enabled by wireless networks. My work focuses on both efficiency (accuracy, delay, energy), and metrics beyond efficiency such as incentive-awareness, privacy, fairness, safety, and sustainability.

Present and past topics that I work on include: >

Edge and Cloud Computing

  • Edge offloading and incentives
  • Resilient edge intelligence
  • Carbon-aware distributed computing and learning

Federated and Distributed Learning

  • Multiple model federated learning
  • Asynchrony in federated learning, and decentralized FL
  • Federated fine-tuning of larger models
  • Privacy at the network edge

Wireless Network Optimization

  • Fairness, energy efficiency, latency optimization
  • Satellite, UAV, and IoT networks
  • LLM and agents for networks

  • Sep 2026Welcome visiting PhD students Xinyue, Xufei, and Nanjing!
  • Aug 2026Congrats Nan Li on winning the Bronze Award, at the IEEE 6G Summit Singapore’s Student Thesis Pitch Competition!
  • Aug 2026Giving a talk at CWI Amsterdam!
  • Aug 2026Attending UAI 2026!
  • Aug 2026Welcome visiting PhD student Qiankun!
  • Aug 2026We're organizing the Workshop on Advanced Array Signal Processing and Parameter Estimation for Space-Air-Ground-Ocean Integrated Networks, ICAIT 2026. [Call for papers!]
  • Jul 2026Welcome Xing Chang to our group as a postdoctoral researcher!
  • Jul 2026Paper on zeroth-order FL for UAV accepted to WiMob. Congrats Haoqing!
  • Jul 20262 papers accepted at Globecom, on rate-splitting for LEO uplink coexistence, and energy-efficient secure near-field sensing with Mamba. Congrats Qiqi and Qiulei!
  • Jul 2026Welcome visiting professors Prof Liu Song and Prof Tang Wanwei!
  • Jun 2026Welcome Binquan to our group as a postdoctoral researcher!
  • Jun 2026We're organizing the Ubiquitous Connectivity for Agentic and Physical AI (Con4AP) Workshop, ACM UbiComp/ISWC 2026. [Call for papers!]
  • Jun 2026Our paper on dealing with extreme staleness in federated learning via projections has been accepted at UAI! Congrats Haoran!
  • Jun 2026Our paper on ambient backscatter communication has been accepted at IEEE PIMRC! Congrats Yuxin!
  • Jun 2026We’re organizing a Themed Collection on UAV-Enabled Air-Ground Integrated Networks and Intelligent Optimization, in Computers, Materials & Continua.
  • Jun 2026I’ll be giving an (online) talk at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications!
  • May 2026Our paper on symbol offset estimation in ambient backscatter communication has been accepted at IEEE TVT! Congrats Yuxin!
  • May 2026Our paper on LEO satellite uplink coexistence analysis has been accepted at IEEE TWC! Congrats Qiqi!
  • Apr 2026Gave a talk at Lorong AI on Federated Learning. [Link] Thankful for the opportunity!
  • Apr 2026Serving as Track Chair of WECE 2026!
  • Apr 2026I joined the TPC for IEEE INFOCOM 2027, IEEE MASS 2026, and IEEE VTS APWCS 2026.
  • Mar 2026Our symbol detection in ambient backscatter communications paper got accepted at IEEE TWC! Congrats Yuxin!
  • Mar 2026I joined the TPC for ACM Sigmetrics’ Student Research Competition 2026!
  • Feb 2026Welcome visiting PhD student Haoqing!
  • Jan 2026Our paper received the Best Student Paper Award at the AAAI ML4Wireless Workshop! Congrats Nan and all co-authors!
  • Jan 2026I joined the TPC for WiOpt 2026, Netcompute @ Infocom 26, and AutoSys @ Mobisys 26.
  • Jan 2026Our paper on fair PRB allocation has been accepted at IEEE WCNC! Congrats Avirup!
  • Dec 2025Welcome visiting PhD students Yuxin and Shiran!
  • Dec 2025Attended GLOBECOM 25, presented our work on game theory in Open RAN, and was honoured to be a session chair for the Open RAN & Resource Allocation Session.
  • Nov 2025Our paper on decentralized FL in dynamic networks has been accepted at IEEE TMC! Congrats Baosheng!
  • Nov 2025Our papers on ML for vegetation attenuation measurement and edge fine-tuning of diffusion models have been accepted at the AAAI workshop ML4Wireless. Congrats Nan and Jiajia!
  • Oct 2025Our paper on clustering for decentralized Federated Learning has been accepted to IEEE TMC!
  • Oct 20251st author paper on resilient edge computing migrations has been accepted to IEEE TSC! [Preprint]
  • Oct 2025Our paper on accelerating federated learning in satellite networks has been accepted to IEEE TrustCom 25! [Preprint]
  • Sep 2025Our paper on semi-async federated learning has been accepted to IEEE ICCT 25!
  • Sep 2025Welcome visiting PhD students Qiulei, Yutian and Qiqi!
  • Aug 2025Our research on multi-model federated learning got featured by LENS, SUTD’s library newsletter! [Link]
  • Aug 2025Welcome visiting PhD students Wen Wen and Xinran!
  • Jul 2025Our paper on game theory in Open RAN has been accepted to IEEE GLOBECOM 25! [Preprint]
  • Jun 2025Welcome visiting PhD students Boxuan and Jiajia!
  • Jun 2025Honored to serve as the publication chair for IEEE TrustCom 2025 [Call for papers!] and IEEE BigDataSE 2025 [Call for papers!]
  • Jun 2025Our paper on Decentralized FL in IoT networks has been accepted by IEEE IoTJ! [Link]
  • May 2025Our paper on VLEO/LEO cross-layer topology optimization has been accepted by IEEE TWC! [Preprint]
  • May 20251st author paper on fair multiple-model Federated Learning has been accepted by IEEE TON! [Preprint]
  • May 2025Starting a Temasek Laboratories Seed project “Decentralized Federated ML at Scale”. Thank you TL!
  • Apr 2025Our paper on clustering for client sampling in multiple-model FL has been accepted at IEEE VTC-Spring 2025!
  • Apr 2025Congratulations to capstone teams on a successful showcase at InspireCon 2025! Congrats to Fitback on winning the 1st place, Design AI Award! [Lianhe Zaobao press release] [SUTD media release]
  • Feb 2025Our work won 1st place in the Multi-Agents Track, LLM Agents MOOC Hackathon hosted by Berkeley RDI. [Project website] [Paper]
  • Jan 2025I joined the TPC for WiOpt 25, IEEE MASS 25, and ACM/SIGAPP SAC 2025.
  • Jan 2025Welcome visiting PhD student Yu Yan, and undergraduate researchers Zhan Kang, Alvin, and Shreeaditi!
  • Dec 2024We have 2 papers accepted at AAAI workshops! One on adversarially robust human-in-the-loop learning (at AI4WCN) [Paper], and another on LLM agents cooperative planning (at MARW) [Project website] [Paper].
  • Dec 2024I’ll be a judge for the What the Hack Hackathon 2024, held by SUTD, and organized by our students.
  • Dec 2024Our fall semester has ended. I taught Computational Thinking and Design (CTD) and Capstone, and met many talented, creative and enthusiastic first year and final year students!
  • Dec 2024Visiting Masters student Ruide (from SUSTech) is starting his research visit at SUTD.
  • Dec 2024Our paper on inter-satellite data transfer topology optimization has been published in IEEE IoTJ! [Paper] Congrats Kai Han!
  • Aug 2024Received the Early Career Award at the Singapore MOE START Award Ceremony. [Link]
  • Jul 2024Our paper on topology optimization for satellite communication has been accepted at Globecom 2024!
  • Jul 2024We won the Best Poster Award at IEEE ICDCS 2024! [Preprint] [Poster]
  • May 2024Attended CPS-IoT Week at Hong Kong, where Hanqing presented our work at the FMSys Workshop.
  • May 2024SUTD UROP students Aditya Kumar and Goh Jet Wei, and recent alumni Lee Wai Shun have joined the lab.
  • May 2024Our work on digital twin-assisted semi federated learning has been accepted at China Communications. [Link]
  • May 2024Our paper on optimal sampling for multiple-task FL has been accepted as a poster at IEEE ICDCS 2024!
  • Mar 2024Our paper on LLM-Based Digital Twins for optimizing human-in-the-loop systems has been accepted at FMSys, held at CPS-IoT Week.
  • Mar 2024I’ve started a new journey! Joining ISTD, SUTD as a Faculty Early Career Award (FECA) Fellow / Lecturer!
  • Dec 2023I’ve concluded my postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University and headed back to Singapore!
  • Oct 2023Our paper on edge computing resource pricing and sharing models has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Services Computing!
  • Oct 2023Attended ACM Mobihoc. Served as a panellist for the N2 Women Event: “Charting your Academic Journey: Wisdom from Women in Research”.
  • Aug 2023Our paper on Integrated sensing and communication in TeraHertz networks has been accepted at IEEE Globecom 2023!
  • Jul 2023Our paper on Cache-enabled Federated Learning Networks has been accepted to ACM Mobihoc 2023!
  • May 2023Attended CPS-IoT Week at San Antonio! Our work on Fair Multiple-Model FL received the Best Poster Award at IEEE/ACM IPSN 2023! [Link]
  • Mar 2023Attended IEEE CISS at Baltimore! Presented our work on RL for rare events in edge computing and served as a session chair for Networks III.
  • Jan 2023Our paper on actor-critic RL for resilient resource allocation in edge computing has been accepted at IEEE CISS!
  • Jan 2023Our paper on differentially private Q-learning for MEC offloading has been accepted at IEEE ICC! [Link]
  • Sep 2022We organized the second ECOFEC: Workshop on the Economics of Fog and Edge Computing, at IEEE SECON 2022. [Workshop link] [Program]

  • 2026–2029Task PI, IAF-ICP, SUTD-MediaTek Joint Laboratory, “Towards Carbon-Aware Computing and Learning in Wireless Networks: Optimization, and Algorithms, and Analysis”.
  • 2026–2029Task Co-PI, IAF-ICP, SUTD-MediaTek Joint Laboratory, “Towards Deployment of Large Language Models in Telecommunication Networks: Accuracy, Speed, Efficiency”.
  • 2025–2026PI, Temasek Laboratories TL@SUTD Seed Grant, “Decentralized Federated ML at Scale: Analysis, Design and Evaluation”. SGD $200,000.

  • Best Student Paper Award, AAAI Machine Learning for Wireless Communication and Networks (ML4Wireless) Workshop, 2026.
  • First Place, Multi-Agents Track, LLM Agents MOOC Hackathon hosted by Berkeley RDI, 2025.
  • Best Poster Award, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2024.
  • Early Career Award, Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Teaching and Academic Research Talent (START) Scheme, 2024.
  • Best Poster Award, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), held at CPS-IoT Week, 2023.
  • SUTD Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPF), under the Singapore MOE START Scheme, 2021–2023.
  • A*Star Computing and Information Science Scholarship (ACIS), 2019–2020.
  • A*Star Graduate Scholarship, 2017–2019.
  • Dean’s List – School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU, AY 2013/2014.
  • A*Star Chairman’s Honours List, 2014.
  • NTU President Research Scholar, as part of the URECA Research Programme, 2014.
  • SMURF: Singapore–MIT Undergraduate Research Fellowship, as part of an internship at SMART, CREATE, Singapore, 2014.
  • A*STAR Undergraduate Scholarship, 2012–2016.
  • NTU CN Yang Scholars’ Programme, 2012–2016.

  • Bronze Award, IEEE 6G Summit Singapore’s Student Thesis Pitch Competition, to Nan Li, 2026.
  • Entrepreneurship Capstone Team Bungus: Finalist at Singapore MIT15K competition, 2025.
  • Entrepreneurship Capstone Team Fitback: 1st Place, Design AI Award, InspireCon 2025.
  • Entrepreneurship Capstone Teams Fitback (Untradox) and KagaMe: Featured groups for InspireCon 2025.

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  • Mar 2024 – PresentFaculty Early Career Award (FECA) Fellow / Lecturer, ISTD Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design.
  • Oct 2021 – Dec 2023Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • 2017 – 2021PhD Candidate, Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design.
  • 2012 – 2016BSc. Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  • Jan – Jun 2015Exchange Student, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
  • Jun – Sep 2014Intern, Future Urban Mobility Group, Singapore – MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), CREATE Research Center, Singapore.
  • Jun – Jul 2013Intern, Data Analytics Department, Institute of Infocom Research (I2R), A*Star, Singapore.
  • Nov – Dec 2010High School Intern, Fluid Dynamics Department, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*Star, Singapore.