4th-Year Ph.D. Student, CCNT Lab   AdvanCed Computing aNd SysTem Laboratory   College of Computer Science and Technology   Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China   Supervisor: Prof. Shuiguang Deng (ZJU)   Email: hliangzhao97 {AT} gmail {DOT} com   Laboratory: Cao Guangbiao Sci-tech Building, Yuquan Campus of Zhejiang University

Biography

Currently I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student of College of Computer Science and Technology (CCST), Zhejiang University. Before my Ph.D. career, I was an undergraduate student from Wuhan University of Technology and received my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology on June, 2019. In September 2019, I was admitted to study for a Ph.D. degree in Zhejiang University under the supervision of Prof. Shuiguang Deng without entrance examination. [CV] [简历]

From Sep. 2022 to Aug. 2023, I am a joint PhD student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Xueyan Tang.

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Research Interests

I am interested in Cloud & Edge Computing, Distributed Systems, and Network Management. Currently I am focusing on:

• Dependent Task Scheduling & Online Resource Allocation
  Cluster schedulers are key to realizing improvements in resource utilization for the cloud-native apps. Current cluster schedulers rely on heuristics that prioritize generality, ease of understanding, and straightforward implementation over achieving the ideal performance on a specific workload. However, they ignore readily available information about job structure (i.e., internal dependencies) and efficient parallelism for jobs’ input sizes. How to design a better online resource allocation algorithm (mechanism) is of importance.
• AI-driven Optimization
  In our Edge Intelligence paper, we divide Edge Intelligence into AI for edge and AI on edge. The former focuses on providing a more optimal solution to the key concerns in Edge Computing with the help of popular and resultful AI technologies while the latter studies how to carry out the entire process of AI models, i.e., model training and inference, on edge. What I put emphasis on is that how to apply AI-based models, especially reinforcement learning and graph neural networks, to improve the QoE.

Selected Publications

• Hailiang Zhao, Shuiguang Deng*, Feiyi Chen, Jianwei Yin, Schahram Dustdar, and Albert Y. Zomaya, Learning to Dispatch Multi-Server Jobs in Bipartite Graphs with Unknown Service Rates. In: arXiv preprints.
• Hailiang Zhao, Shuiguang Deng*, Jianwei Yin, Schahram Dustdar, and Albert Y. Zomaya, Theoretically Guaranteed Online Workload Dispatching for Deadline-Aware Multi-Server Jobs. In: arXiv preprints.
• Haowei Chen, Shuiguang Deng, Hongze Zhu, Hailiang Zhao, Rong Jiang, Schahram Dustdar, and Albert Y. Zomaya, Mobility-aware Offloading and Resource Allocation for Distributed Services Collaboration. In: IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 2428-2443, 1 Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2022.3142314.
• Shuiguang Deng, Hailiang Zhao, Zhengzhe Xiang, Cheng Zhang, Rong Jiang, Ying Li*, Jianwei Yin, Schahram Dustdar, and Albert Y. Zomaya, Dependent Function Embedding for Distributed Serverless Edge Computing. In: IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 2346-2357, 1 Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2021.3137380. [Slide]
• Hailiang Zhao, Shuiguang Deng*, Zijie Liu, Zhengzhe Xiang, Jianwei Yin, Schahram Dustdar, and Albert Y. Zomaya, DPoS: Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving, and Low-Complexity Online Slicing for Multi-Tenant Networks. In: IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing (TMC), doi: 10.1109/TMC.2021.3074934. [Slide]
• 陈昊崴，邓水光*，赵海亮，尹建伟，面向移动边缘的组合服务选择及优化，计算机学报 (Chinese Journal of Computers)，doi: 10.11897/SP.J.1016.2022.00082。
• Hailiang Zhao, Shuiguang Deng, Zijie Liu, Zhengzhe Xiang, and Jianwei Yin, Placement is not Enough: Embedding with Proactive Stream Mapping on the Heterogenous Edge. In: arXiv preprints. [Code] (the revised version is Dependent Function Embedding)
• Hailiang Zhao, Shuiguang Deng*, Zijie Liu, Jianwei Yin, and Schahram Dustdar, Distributed Redundant Placement for Microservice-based Applications at the Edge. In: IEEE Trans. on Services Computing (TSC), doi: 10.1109/TSC.2020.3013600. [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
• Shuiguang Deng, Guanjie Cheng, Hailiang Zhao, Honghao Gao, and Jianwei Yin, Incentive-driven Computation Offloading in Blockchain-enabled E-commerce. In: ACM Trans. on Internet Technology (TOIT), 21, 1, Article 9 (February 2021), 19 pages, doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3397160.
• Shuiguang Deng, Hailiang Zhao, Weijia Fang*, Jianwei Yin, Schahram Dustdar, and Albert Y. Zomaya, Edge Intelligence: The Confluence of Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence. In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOTJ), vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 7457-7469, Aug. 2020, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2984887. [ESI Highly Cited Paper] [ESI Hot Paper]
• Hailiang Zhao, Shuiguang Deng*, Cheng Zhang, Wei Du, Qiang He, and Jianwei Yin, A Mobility-aware Cross-edge Computation Offloading Framework for Partitionable Applications. In: Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS '19), Milan, Italy, 2019. [Slide] [Theoretical Analysis] [Best Student Paper]
• Yishan Chen, Shuiguang Deng*, Hailiang Zhao, Qiang He, Yin Li, and Honghao Gao, Data-intensive Application Deployment at Edge: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. In: Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS '19), Milan, Italy, 2019.
• Hailiang Zhao, Wei Du, Wei Liu, Tao Lei, and Qiwang Lei, QoE Aware and Cell Capacity Enhanced Computation Offloading for Multi-Server Mobile Edge Computing Systems with Energy Harvesting Devices. In: Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC '18), Guangzhou, China, 2018. [Code]

Awards & Honors & Contests

• The CSC Scholarship, Aug 2022.
• The Outstanding Postgraduates Award of CCST, Zhejiang University, 2020 & 2021.
• The Doctoral Freshman Scholarship of Zhejiang University, Sep 2019.
• The Best Student Paper Award of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Jul 2019.
• The Outstanding Graduates Award of Wuhan University of Technology, Apr 2019.
• The Excellence Scholarship of Wuhan University of Technology (only 20 students per year), Nov 2018.

Professional Services

• Reviewer for:
     IEEE Trans. on Services Computing
     IEEE Internet of Things Journal
     IEEE Trans. on Green Communication and Networking
     Mobile Networks & Applications
     IEEE Communications Letters
     Trans. on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
  
• Sub-reviewer for:
     ACM Trans. on Internet Technology
     IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing
     ICWS 2020
     ICSOC 2020
     SCC 2021
     ICSOC 2022
  

Experiences

• R&D Intern of Cloud BU, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Nov 2020 ~ Jan 2021.

Correspondence

Email: hliangzhao97 {AT} gmail {DOT} com

Laboratory Address: Cao Guangbiao Sci-tech Building, Yuquan Campus of Zhejiang University.
中国浙江省杭州市西湖区浙大路38号, 浙江大学玉泉校区 310027.