Jun Zhao Group

Highlights:

• 第一个博士生3年1个月完成博士学习：My first PhD Student started her NTU PhD study in August 2018 and submitted her thesis in September 2021; i.e., it just took 3 years and 1 month to finish her PhD study.
• 第二个博士生3年3个月完成博士学习：My second PhD Student (with just a bachelor's degree, no master's degree at the beginning) started his NTU PhD study in January 2019 and submitted his thesis in April 2022; i.e., it just took 3 years and 3 month to finish his PhD study.
• 第三个博士生第4个学期有第一作者顶级会议文章录取：For my third PhD student (with just a bachelor's degree, no master's degree at the beginning), in her fourth semester of the PhD study, she has a first-authored paper below published in the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022: a top conference). The acceptance rate of ICDCS 2022 is 19%.
Xinyu Zhou, Jun Zhao, Huimei Han and Claude Guet. "Joint Optimization of Energy Consumption and Completion Time in Federated Learning," IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July 2022.
• 本科生经我推荐进入我博士母校CMU读研：• A final-year NTU undergraduate student supervised by me was accepted to the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU, my alma mater). CMU is ranked first for computer science in the whole world.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

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ZHAO, Jun

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Position: Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Nanyang Technological University
Concurrent position: Deputy Director, Strategic Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Privacy-Preserving Technologies & Systems (SCRIPTS))
Concurrent position: Cluster Director, Future Mobility Solutions (Cybersecurity, IoT, and Blockchain), Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N)
Email1: JunZhao@ntu.edu.sg
Email2: JunZhao@alumni.cmu.edu
Skype: live:JunZhaoCMU
Office1: SCRIPTS Centre, Level 4, Research Techno Plaza, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637553
Office2: Block N4, Room 02C-111, 50 Nanyang Ave, Singapore 639798 [Directions]
Singapore Phone Number (WhatsApp): (+65) 8648-3534
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Jun ZHAO (S'10-M'15) is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He received a PhD degree in May 2015 in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the USA (advisors: Virgil Gligor, Osman Yagan; collaborator: Adrian Perrig), affiliating with CMU's renowned CyLab Security & Privacy Institute, and a bachelor's degree in July 2010 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in China. Before joining NTU first as a postdoc with Xiaokui Xiao and then as a faculty member, he was a postdoc at Arizona State University as an Arizona Computing PostDoc Best Practices Fellow (advisors: Junshan Zhang, Vincent Poor).

His research interests and project areas are as follows:
1) AI and Data Science: optimization, computer vision (including project opportunities), natural language processing (including project opportunities), federated learning, reinforcement learning, adversarial machine learning.
2) Security and Privacy: federated learning, blockchains, adversarial machine learning, differential privacy, applied cryptography, secure multi-party computation.
3) Communications, Networks, Control, Learning: intelligent surfaces, 6G wireless communications, federated learning, edge/fog computing, signal processing, Internet of Things IoT, smart grid, cyber-physical systems CPS, graphs.

He is an Editor of many journals and a TPC member of many conferences; see
https://junzhaogroupntu.github.io/services.html

His papers received
Best Paper Award (IEEE Transaction Paper) by IEEE Vehicular Society (VTS) Singapore Chapter in 2019,
Best Paper Award in EAI International Conference on 6G for Future Wireless Networks (EAI 6GN) 2020, and
Best Paper Award in IEEE Globecom Workshop 2021.

As a Member of Team PrivBayes, he won 3rd Place in the 2018 USA NIST differential privacy synthetic data competition. A first-authored paper was a finalist for the best student paper award in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2014 (6 finalists out of 644 accepted papers).

Venues where my publications appear

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
• IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (T-IT)
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC)
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
• IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
• IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks (TSIPN)
• IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS)
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS)
• IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS)
• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
• IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN)
• Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)
• IEEE Network (Magazine)
• IEEE Wireless Communications (Magazine)
• Neurocomputing
• Pattern Recognition
• Applied Energy
• IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL)
• IEEE Communications Letters (CL)

Conferences

• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
• IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
• ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
• IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
• ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC)
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
• International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
• IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)
• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
• ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS)
• Cambridge Workshop on Security Protocols
• International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA)
• IEEE International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt)
• IEEE Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), organized annually by the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC)

Current and past

Current position and past employment history

• August 2018 – Present
Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
• May 2017 – July 2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, May 2017 – July 2018.
Advisor: Xiaokui Xiao
• May 2015 – March 2017
Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Advisors: Junshan Zhang, Vincent Poor
• August 2010 – May 2015
PhD Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Advisors: Virgil Gligor, Osman Yağan, Collaborator: Adrian Perrig

Academic qualifications

• August 2010 – May 2015
Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Awarded in May 2015
• September 2006 – July 2010
Bachelor’s degree in Information Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Awarded in July 2010.