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International Workshop on AI-Native Connected Mobility (ACM'26)

January 9, 2026 • Las Vegas, USA

Co-located with IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) (January 9-12, 2026)

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About the Workshop

The AI-Native Connected Mobility (ACM) workshop addresses the co-evolution of artificial intelligence and communication systems in the context of next-generation connected vehicles and mobility infrastructure. As vehicles, infrastructure, and edge-cloud platforms increasingly act as intelligent and cooperative agents, there is a growing need for AI-native systems designed from the ground up with tightly integrated sensing, communication, and distributed intelligence. This workshop brings together researchers at the intersection of AI, vehicular communication, and mobility systems to explore how large language models (LLMs), generative AI (GenAI), and learning-based architectures enable real-time understanding, semantic coordination, and adaptive decision-making across distributed and connected mobility environments. We welcome contributions that explore the design, deployment, and optimization of AI-native systems for connected mobility, with a focus on how communication and intelligence are co-designed to support safe, cooperative, and scalable transportation systems.

Important Dates

Workshop Papers Due

October 5, 2025

Acceptance Notification

November 3, 2025

Final Camera Ready

November 16, 2025

Topics of Interest

We welcome contributions that explore the design, deployment, and optimization of AI-native systems for connected mobility, with a focus on how communication and intelligence are co-designed to support safe, cooperative, and scalable transportation systems. Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

1. Generative AI and Foundation Models for Connected Mobility

  • Deployment of LLMs, vision-language models, and GenAI in connected vehicle systems
  • Semantic reasoning over V2X messages, sensor streams, and contextual cues
  • Communication-efficient model execution: compression, split inference, and offloading
  • GenAI-powered driver interaction, cooperative planning, and decision support

2. Cooperative Perception and Decision Making in Networked Mobility

  • Cooperative perception and decision-making using V2V/V2I sensor and intent sharing
  • Multimodal sensor fusion across distributed agents (vehicles + infrastructure)
  • Real-time sensor, communication, and compute pipelines for shared scene understanding
  • Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) for mobile environments

3. Infrastructure and Protocols for Scalable Intelligent Mobility

  • AI-native protocol design (e.g., MAC, transport, semantic routing)
  • Learning-based waveform, scheduling, and cross-layer optimization
  • Runtime orchestration of GenAI workloads across vehicle–edge–cloud systems
  • Wide-area connectivity for mobility: 6G architectures and satellite-integrated communication

Submission Guidelines

Workshops constitute an essential part of the technical program of IEEE CCNC 2026. They focus on and introduce topics of particular interest to the community of the consumer technology industry and encourage and stimulate the participation of attendees in active discussions. The objective of workshops is to focus on a specific area of significant current interest and thereby complement the regular program of the conference. Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers for the Workshops for presentation at the conference and publication in the IEEE CCNC 2026 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All papers for the workshops should be submitted via EDAS, and please make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) pages (10-point font) including figures. Maximum three (3) additional pages are allowed, with over length page charge of USD100 if accepted. Papers exceeding nine (9) pages will not be accepted by EDAS.

Workshop Organizers

Kyungtae (KT) Han

Toyota Motor North America, USA

General Chair

kt.han@toyota.com

Qiang Liu

University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA

Program Chair

qiang.liu@unl.edu

Sanjeewa Herath

Toyota Motor North America, USA

Publicity Chair

sanjeewa.herath@toyota.com

Program Committee

Onur Altintas

Toyota Motor North America, USA

Ahmadreza Moradipari

Toyota Motor North America, USA

Linda Xie

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Haoxin Wang

Georgia State University, USA

Yongjie Guan

University of Maine, USA

BaekGyu Kim

DGIST, South Korea

Miguel Sepulcre Ribes

Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain

Diluka Loku Galappaththige

University of Alberta, Canada

Ziran Wang

Purdue University, USA

Giovanni Nardini

University of Pisa, Italy