Mingjin Zhang at HK PolyU

Mingjin Zhang 张明金

PhD Candidate
Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

csmzhang@comp.polyu.edu.hk
PQ515, Mong Man Wai Building

Research Interests

Edge Computing
Edge Intelligence/AI
Internet of Things
Edge Computing as a Service

My research is about scheduling the AI model training and inference tasks on heterogenous edge devices for acceleration while preserving accuracy, by jointly considering the edge resources and the characteristics of the AI tasks. Scheduling those tasks in edge computing is vastly different from that in the cloud, as edge devices are distributed and heterogeneous, connecting low-bandwidth and intermittent networks. It calls for new systems and algorithms.

Education

Sep 2019 - Present, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Supervisor: Prof. Jiannong Cao
Feb 2023 - Sep 2023, Visiting PhD student in Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
Supervisor: Prof. Jon Crowcroft
Sep 2015 - Jun 2019, B.Eng in Communication Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology

Publications and Manuscripts

Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Xiangchun Chen, Shan Jiang, Resource-efficient Parallel Split Learning in Heterogeneous Edge Computing, to appear in the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC 2024). [Paper]
Yinfeng Cao, Jiannong Cao, Dongbin Bai, Zhiyuan Hu, Kaile Wang, Mingjin Zhang*. PolyVerse: An Edge Computing-Empowered Metaverse with Physical-to-Virtual Projection. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMETA2023), 2023, Tartu, Estoni. [Paper]
Xiangchun Chen, Jiannong Cao, Zhixuan Liang, Yuvraj Sahni, Mingjin Zhang, "Digital Twin-assisted Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Microservice Offloading in Edge Computing", to appear in The 20th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), 2023. [Paper]
Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, Liang Zhang, Yuvraj Sahni, Shan Jiang, "ENTS: An Edge Native Task Scheduling System for Collaborative Edge Computing", in The Seventh ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2022. [Paper]
Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Qianyi Chen, Shan Jiang, Lei Yang, "Blockchain-based Collaborative Edge Intelligence for Trustworthy and Real-time Video Surveillance", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2022. [Paper]
Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Qianyi Chen, Shan Jiang, Tao Wu, "EaaS: A Service-Oriented Edge Computing Framework Towards Distributed Intelligence", IEEE Congress on Intelligent and Service-Oriented Systems Engineering, 2022. [Paper]
Lei Yang, Yanyan Lu, Jiannong Cao, Jiaming Huang, Mingjin Zhang. "E-Tree Learning: A Novel Decentralized Model Learning Framework for Edge AI", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021. [Paper]

Professional Activities

Referee for submissions to journals:

IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Reviewer for submissions to conferences:

ICDCS'22
ICDCS'21, BigData'21, COMPSAC'21
MSN'20, COMPSAC'20

Teaching and Supervision Experiences

Teaching Assistant, 2021 Fall, COMP6701: Advanced Topics in Computer Algorithms
Teaching Assistant, 2021 Spring, COMP4442: Service and Cloud Computing
Teaching Assistant, 2020 Spring, COMP3421: Web Application Design and Development
Teaching Assistant, 2019 Fall, COMP1011: Programming Fundamentals (C++)

Last Updated: September 2022