2024
- June 2024: a patent is granted for “一种面向智能制造加工过程中的控制优化方法和系统”.
- June 2024: Prof. Daniele Giusto, Prof. Luigi Atzori, Prof. Massimo Farina, and their students visited our lab.
- May 2024: Prof. Sajal K. Das, Professor and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Curators' Distinguished Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology, gives a talk titled 'From Smart Sensing to Smart Living: The Era of IoT, AI/ML and Data Science'
- May 2024: Prof. Gian Pietro Picco, Professor, University of Trento, gives a talk titled 'The Many Faces of Ultra-wideband Concurrent Transmissions'
- Mar 2024: a patent is granted for “数据驱动的资源配置方法、装置、介质及程序产品”.
- Jan 2024: a software copyright is granted for “香港理工大学IMCL机场行李智能分配系统软件”.
2023
- Sep 2023: Best Paper Nomination Award, "PolyVerse: An Edge Computing-Empowered
Metaverse with Physical-to-Virtual Projection" at the International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse
Technologies & Applications (iMETA2023).
- May 2023: a patent is granted for “基于执行轨迹信息的安卓应用行为表征构造方法”.
- Apr 2023: Prof. Cao and his team won 1 silver medal on 48th Geneva
International Exhibition of Inventions for project "PolyPi: Edge AI-empowered Autonomous Robot for In-pipe
Inspection", 2023.
- Apr 2023: welcome Dr. Jin Wang and Dr. Yong Zhao join the department as
Postdoctoral Fellow.
- Mar 2023: welcome Xiangke Lan joins the department as Research Assistant.
- Feb 2023: a patent is granted for “一种多NFC芯片融合的防伪标签及其验证方法”.
- Feb 2023: welcome Zhehan Hu and Wenting He join the department as Research
Assistant.
2022
- Dec 2022: welcome Changlin Song join the department as Research Assistant.
- Oct 2022: we have published a book, Wireless Sensing: Principles, Techniques,
and Applications (Springer).
- Oct 2022: welcome Dr. Zhaorui Zhang join the department as Research Assistant
Professor.
- Sep 2022: our paper “ENTS: An Edge Native Task Scheduling System for
Collaborative Edge Computing” was accepted by the Seventh ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC).
- Sep 2022: welcome Dongbi Bai join our lab as Research Assistant and Dr. Lanhua
Li join us as Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow.
- Sep 2022: welcome Junchi Chu, Penghui Ruan, Jialun Zheng, Hanqian Luo, and
Xiuxiu Qi are admitted to 2022/23 Semester 1 Ph.D. programme under Prof. Cao’s supervision
- Aug 2022: our paper “Blockchain-based Collaborative Edge Intelligence for
Trustworthy and Real-time Video Surveillance”, was accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Informatics. (2022)
- Aug 2022: our paper “High-efficiency Blockchain-based Supply Chain
Traceability” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- Aug 2022: welcome Dr. Wei Ren join our lab as Postdoctoral Fellow and Xiaoyin
Li re-join us as Research Assistant.
- July 2022: our paper “EaaS: A Service-Oriented Edge Computing Framework Towards
Distributed Intelligence” was accepted by the IEEE Congress on Intelligent and Service-Oriented Systems
Engineering (IEEE CISOSE 2022).
- July 2022: welcome Jessica Yang join us as project fellow.
- Jun 2022: our paper “Online Orchestration of Collaborative Caching for
Multi-Bitrate Videos in Edge Computing” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems.
- Jun 2022: our paper “EID-GAN: Generative Adversarial Nets for Extremely
Imbalanced Data Augmentation” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatic.
- May 2022: our paper “MBA-STNet: Bayes-enhanced Discriminative Multi-task
Learning for Flow Prediction” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
- May 2022: our paper “ManiWare: An Easy-to-Use Middleware for Cooperative
Manipulator Teams” was accepted by the 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing.
- May 2022: welcome Yaguang Huangfu join us as Research Assistant.
- May 2022: our paper “An Agnostic and Efficient Approach to Identifying Features
from Execution Traces” was accepted by Knowledge-based Systems.
- May 2022: welcome Zhiyuan Hu and Kaile Wang join us as PhD and MPhil students
respectively.
- Apr 2022: our paper “Generating a Structured Summary of Numerous Academic
Papers: Dataset and Method” was accepted by the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 22).
- Apr 2022: our paper “Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Opponent Modeling
for Distributed Multi-agent Cooperation” was accepted by the 42th IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022).
- Apr 2022: our paper “Physics-enhanced PCA for Data Compression in Edge Devices”
was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
- Mar 2022: our paper “Key phrase aware transformer for abstractive
summarization” was accepted by Information Processing & Management.
- Mar 2022: our paper “GraphWare: A Graph-based Middelware Enabling Multi-robot
Cooperation” was accepted by Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.
- Feb 2022: our paper “Reliable Dynamic Service Chain Scheduling in 5G Networks”
was ceepted by IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing.
- Feb 2022: our paper “Optimizing Aggregation Frequency for Hierarchical Model
Training in Heterogeneous Edge Computing” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
- Feb 2022: our paper “EdgeTB: a Hybrid Testbed for Distributed Machine Learning
at the Edge with High Fidelity” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
- Feb 2022: welcome Tao Wu join us as Postdoctoral Fellow.
- Jan 2022: our paper “Automated post scoring: evaluating posts with topics and
quoted posts in online forum” was accepted by World Wide Web Journal.
- Jan 2022: our paper “Revisiting ARM Debugging Features: Nailgun and Its
Defense” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
- Jan 2022: our paper "HearLiquid: Non-intrusive Liquid Fraud Detection Using
Commodity Acoustic Devices" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
- Jan 2022: our paper "STPD: Defending against ℓ0-norm attacks with space
transformation" was accepted by Future Generation Computer Systems.
- Jan 2022: our paper "Multimodal Spatio-Temporal Prediction with Stochastic
Adversarial Networks" was accepted by ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.
2021
- Dec 2021: our paper "Traffic Accident Risk Prediction via Multi-View Multi-Task
Spatio-Temporal Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
- Nov 2021: welcome Lee Ho-man join us as a research assistant.
- Oct 2021: welcome Jiabao Sheng join us as a research assistant.
- Sep 2021: welcome Zhiqin Cheng, Zhiyuan Hu, Chengyi Ju, Kaile Wang and Liang
Zhang join us as a research assistant.
- Sep 2021: welcome Chenxu Wang join us as a PhD student.
- Aug 2021: our paper “Robust RFID-based Respiration Monitoring in Dynamic
Environments” was accepted by IEEE TMC.
- Aug 2021: welcome Xiangchun Chen, Yuqing Wang, and Xiaoyun Liu join us as PhD
students.
- Aug 2021: our paper "PolyChain: a Generic Blockchain as a Service Platform” won
the best paper award of BlockSys'2021 (5-6 Aug).
- Jun 2021: our paper “PolyChain: a Generic Blockchain as a Service Platform” was
accepted by the 2021 International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys'2021), 05-06
Aug, 2021.
- Jun 2021: our paper “User Profiling based on Nonlinguistic Audio Data” was
accepted by ACM Transactions on Information Systems.
- Jun 2021: our paper “Repetitive Activity Monitoring from Multivariate Time
Series: A Generic and Efficient Approach” was accepted by IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc
and Smart Systems.
- Jun 2021: our paper “Time-capturing Dynamic Graph Embedding for Temporal
Linkage Evolution” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
- May 2021: our paper “Automatically Select Emotion for Response via
Personality-affected Emotion Transition" was accepted by the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural
Language Processing.
- May 2021: our paper “Highlight-Transformer: Leveraging Key Phrase Aware
Attention to Improve Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization” was accepted by the Joint Conference of the
59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint
Conference on Natural Language Processing.
- May 2021: welcome Dr. Weizhi Meng to join our lab as Research Fellow!
- May 2021: Prof. Jiannong Cao has been appointed as Dean of Graduate School and
Director of Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things (RIAIoT).
- Apr 2021: Prof. Cao and his team won 2 gold medals and 1 silver medal on 2021
China (Shanghai) International Innovation and Invention Exhibition, 2021.
- Apr 2021: welcome Yuqin Wang to join our lab as research assistant!
- Mar 2021: welcome Dr. Wanyu Lin to join our lab as Research Assistant
Professor!
- Mar 2021: our paper "E-Tree Learning: A Novel Decentralized Model Learning
Framework for Edge AI" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
- Mar 2021: our paper "Towards A Low-cost Software-Defined UHF RFID System for
Distributed Parallel Sensing" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
- Mar 2021: our paper "Multimodal Spatio-Temporal Prediction with Stochastic
Adversarial Networks" was accepted by ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST).
- Jan 2021: our paper "Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): Challenges,
Solutions, and Future Directions" was accepted by ACM Computing Surveys.
2020
- Dec 2020: Prof. Jiannong Cao received 2020 IEEE Computer Society TCCLD Research
Innovation Award.
- Dec 2020: our paper "Fairness-based Packing of Industrial IoT Data in
Permissioned Blockchains" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- Dec 2020: our paper "JDGAN: Enhancing Generator on Extremely Limited Data via
Joint Distribution" was accepted by Neurocomputing.
- Nov 2020: our paper "Multi-Hop Multi-Task Partial Computation Offloading in
Collaborative Edge Computing" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
- Nov 2020: our paper "Multi-Hop Offloading of Multiple DAG Tasks in
Collaborative Edge Computing" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
- Nov 2020: welcome Weiwei Fu and Yuteng Sun to join our lab as research
assistant!.
- Oct 2020: our paper "Enhancing Automated Essay Scoring Performance via
Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models with Combination of Regression and Ranking" was accepted by
Findings of EMNLP.
- Oct 2020: our paper "CANE: Community-aware Network Embedding via Adversarial
Training" was accepted by Knowledge and Information Systems.
- Oct 2020: welcome Zhiyan Bai to join our lab as research assistant!
- Sep 2020: our paper "Deep Learning for Spatio-Temporal Data Mining: A Survey"
was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Enginerring.
- Sep 2020: our paper "Joint Topic-Semantic-aware Social Matrix Factorization for
Online Voting Recommendation" was accepted by Knowledge-Based Systems.
- Sep 2020: our paper "Distributional Representation of Resting-state fMRI for
Functional Brain Connectivity Analysis" was accepted by Neurocomputing.
- Sep 2020: welcome Yinfeng Cao, Yuqing Zhao, and Juncen Zhu to join our lab as
research students!
- Sep 2020: Prof. Cao has a new Theme-based Research Scheme project funded, A
High-performance Distributed Machine Learning Framework for Graph-based Streaming Data with Smart City
Applications, as a Co-PI.
- Aug 2020: Prof. Jiannong Cao is elected as Member of Academia Europaea.
- Aug 2020: our paper "A Self-Adaptive Bluetooth Indoor Localization System using
LSTM-based Distance Estimator" was accepted by ICCCN.
- Jul 2020: our paper "Recursive Balanced k-Subset Sum Partition for
Rule-constrained Resource Allocation" was accepted by ACM CIKM.
- May 2020: our paper "Fog Computing Empowered Data Dissemination in Software
Defined Heterogeneous VANETs" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
- May 2020: our paper "BaG: Behavior-aware Group Detection in Crowded Urban
Spaces using WiFi Probes" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
- May 2020: welcome Dr. Houda Ferradi to join our group as Research Fellow!
- Apr 2020: our paper "TRiForm: Formation Control for Underwater Sensor Networks
with Measurement Errors" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
- Apr 2020: our paper "A Query Processing Framework for Efficient Network
Resource Utilization in Shared Sensor Networks" was accepted by ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
- Apr 2020: our paper "mSIMPAD: Efficient and Robust Mining of Successive Similar
Patterns of Multiple Lengths in Time Series" was accepted by ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.
- Apr 2020: our paper "Learning Analytics based on Multilayer Behavior Fusion"
was accepted by ICBL.
- Apr 2020: our paper "IRDA: Incremental Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic
Resource Allocation" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Big Data.
- Apr 2020: Prof. Jiannong Cao is appointed as Otto Poon Charitable Foundation
Endowed Professorship in Data Science.
- Mar 2020: our paper "FlagLoc: Localization Using a Flag for Mobile Wireless
Sensor Networks with Measurement Errors" was accepted by IEEE SECON.
- Mar 2020: our paper "Coded Computing at Full Speed" was accepted by ICDCS.
- Mar 2020: our paper "Robust RFID-based Respiration Monitoring in Dynamic
Environments" was accepted by IEEE SECON.
- Feb 2020: our paper "GGP: Glossary Guided Post-processing for Word Embedding
Learning" was accepted by LRCE.
- Feb 2020: our paper "Decode with Template: Content Preserving Sentiment
Transfer" was accepted by LRCE.
- Feb 2020: our paper "BigARM: A Big-data-driven Airport Resource Management
Engine and Application Tools" was accepted by DASFAA.
- Feb 2020: our paper "EPARS: Early Prediction of At-risk Students with Online
and Offline Learning Behavior" was accepted by DASFAA.
- Feb 2020: welcome Dr. Yanwen Wang to join our lab!
2019
- Dec 2019: our paper "Pattern-RL: Multi-Robot Arbitrary Pattern Formation via
Deep Reinforcement Learning" was accepted by ICMLA.
- Dec 2019: our paper "Unsupervised pregnancy and physical activity detection in
mammals using circadian rhythms" was accepted by SoICT.
- Oct 2019: welcome Dr. Tarun Kulshrestha to join our lab!
- Sep 2019: welcome Zhongyu Yao and Yun Teng to join our group as part-time
research assistant!
- Sep 2019: welcome Dr. Baokang Zhao, Dr. Chenyang Zhao, Dr. Jiaxing Shen, Miss.
Dan Qin, and Dr. Qian He to join our group!
- Aug 2019: our group visits Prof. Kaishun Wu's lab at Shenzhen University.
- Aug 2019: welcome Mingjin Zhang, Shuaiqi Liu, and Qianyi Chen to join our group
as PhD students!
- Aug 2019: Prof. Geoffrey Ye Li visited us and gave two talks "Deep Learning
based Wireless Resource Allocation" and "Deep Learning in Physical Layer Communications".
- Aug 2019: in celebration of Prof. Cao's birthday.
- Aug 2019: welcome Dr. Hui Cheng, Dr. Hejun Wu, Mr. Hongtao Li, Mr. Yinfeng Cao,
and Miss. Dan Wu to join our group!
- Jul 2019: our paper "Sparsely Self-Supervised Generative Adversarial Nets for
Radio Frequency Estimation" was accepted by IEEE JSAC.
- Jul 2019: our paper "Fast RFID Sensory Data Collection: Trade-off Between
Computation and Communication Costs" was accepted by IEEE/ACM TON.
- Jul 2019: our paper "Data Management in Supply Chain Using Blockchain:
Challenges and A Case Study" was accepted by IEEE ICCCN 2019.
