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I am looking for self-motivated PhD students to work on photonic computing and communication, wireless networking, machine learning acceleration, and distributed learning. Please read the details HERE before contacting me.

 

Current PhD Students
  • Mahdi ARGHAVANI
    PhD research topic: congestion control for high throughput and low latency
    • Paper accepted by LCN (A rank) in 2020.
    • Received the CS Best Publication (runner up) Award in 2021
  • Ying PANG
    PhD research topic: distributed machine learning
    • Paper accepted by PAKDD (A rank, acceptance rate: 19.3%) in 2022.
    • Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (IEEE TKDE)
  • Chengpeng XIA, co-supervised with Dr Yawen Chen
    PhD research topic: photonic computing
    • Paper accepted by ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2023
  • Xiaojie YU
    PhD research topic: neurosymbolic AI
  • Fei GAO, co-supervised with Dr Yawen Chen
    PhD research topic: photonic computing

Graduated PhD and Masters Students
  • Waqas Ahmad
    PhD Thesis: Digital Transmit Beamforming with Low RF-complexity
    Main research outputs:
    • Paper accepted by ICC in 2020.
    • Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in 2022
  • Shuangyao Huang
    PhD thesis: Energy-Efficient Collision Avoidance for UAV Swarms
    Main research outputs:
    • Paper accepted by ICAPS (A* rank) in 2020.
    • Received the CS Best Publication (runner up) Award in 2021
    • Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Transportation Systems in 2023
  • Luming Wan, graduated in 2021.
    PhD Thesis: Improving the routing performance and security of distributed transient networks
    Main research outputs:
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE Blockchain in 2019.
    • One journal paper published in ACM Transactions on Internet Technolgy (A rank, CORE2010) in 2018.
    • One conference paper accepted by ACM WoWMoM (A rank, CORE2017) in 2016.
  • Wen Yang, graduated in 2020，co-supervised with Dr Yawen Chen。
    PhD Thesis: Routing and Wavelength Assignment for Multicast Communication in Optical Network-on-Chip
    Main research outputs:
    • One journal paper accepted by Optics Express in 2021.
    • One conference paper accepted by ACM HPCC in 2019.
  • Abbas Arghavani, graduated in 2019, currently postdoc in Uppsala University, Sweden
    PhD Thesis: Power Adaptive Communication for Wireless Body Area Networks
    Main research outputs:
    • One journal paper published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (A* rank, CORE2020) in 2021.
    • One journal paper published in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (A rank, CORE2020) in 2019.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE LCN (A rank) in 2017.
  • Aleksei Fedorov, graduated in 2019, currently postdoc in Lund University, Sweden
    PhD Thesis: Wireless Channel Modeling and Reconstruction in Massive MIMO Systems
    Main research outputs:
    • One conference paper accepted by IFIP Networking (A rank) in 2019.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE ICCCN (A rank) in 2018.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE ICC in 2017.
  • Guangbing Xiao, graduated in 2018, currently Associate Professor in Nanjing Forestry University
    PhD Thesis: Decentralized Broadcast for Reliable and Real-time Dissemination of Cooperative Awareness Messages in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
    Main research outputs:
    • One journal paper published in Wireless Networks in 2021.
    • One journal paper published in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience in in 2017.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE VTC in 2016.
  • Feiyang Liu, graduated in 2017.
    PhD Thesis: High-Performance and Wavelength-Reused Optical Network on Chip (ONoC) Architectures and Communication Schemes for Manycore Processor
    Main research outputs:
    • One journal paper published in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing in 2017.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE INFOCOM (A* rank) in 2015.
  • Paul Crane, graduated in 2017, co-supervised with Prof. Zhiyi Huang
    PhD Thesis: An Indoor Localisation System Based on Ubiquitous Technology
    Main research outputs:
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE PIMRC in 2017.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE PIMRC in 2016.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE MUM in 2014.
  • Adeel Javed, graduated in 2016, co-supervised with Prof. Zhiyi Huang
    PhD Thesis: Train Localisation using Wireless Sensor Networks
    Main research outputs:
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE ADHOC-NOW in 2015.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE ICC in 2014.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE EmbeddedCom in 2014 and received the Best Paper Award.
  • Jason Mair, graduated in 2014, co-supervised with Prof. Zhiyi Huang
    PhD Thesis: Power Modelling in Multicore Computing
    Main research outputs:
    • One journal paper published in Sustainable Computing, Informatics and Systems in 2014.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE ICPP PASA in 2014.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE EE- LSDS in 2013.
  • Sheetal Jadhav, graduated in 2013, co-supervised with Prof. Zhiyi Huang
    PhD Thesis: QoS-based Handover for Next Generation Wireless Networks
    Main research outputs:
    • One journal paper published in Journal of Internet Technology in 2012.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE AINA in 2012.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE PDCAT in 2011 and received the Best Paper Award.
  • James Walmsley, graduated in 2021.
    MSc Thesis: Fair allocation for transmission parameters to achieve scalability in LoRaWAN
  • Aysha Al HINAI, graduated in 2014.
    MSc Thesis: Efficient Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks Analysis and Design
    Main research outputs:
    • One journal paper published in The Journal of Supercomputing in 2014.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE LCN (A rank) in 2013.
    • One conference paper accepted by IEEE PDCAT in 2012.