Currently, I am a Ph.D candidate of Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, under the supervision of Prof. Wanchun Dou. Before that, I received my M.Sc. and B.Eng. Degree in 2023 and 2020 advised by Prof. Xiaolong Xu from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.

My research mainly focuses on Edge Intelligence, including distributed edge inference, serverless edge computing, and resource management in cloud-edge computing systems:

  • Distributed Edge Inference: Developing distributed edge inference algorithms or systems, including how to deploy & configure AI models on edge devices/servers, and optimize the inference performance in cloud-edge computing.
  • Serverless Edge Computing: Optimizing the workload scheduling and resource management for Function as a Service (FaaS) applications, especially for AI/ML workloads, in cloud-edge computing systems.

If you are interested in my project details, feel free to email me at withhaotian [at] gmail.com.

📢 News

  • [2024.08]: Three papers are accepted by IEEE ISPA’24.
  • [2024.08]: EPOL is accepted by ACM TOSN.
  • [2024.05]: SFSM is accepted by IEEE ICWS’24.
  • [2023.10]: One paper is accepted by IEEE ICPADS’23.
  • [2023.05]: I am awarded the first prize in the Fourth Graduate Innovation Achievement Exhibition.

📝 Publications

ACM TOSN 2024
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Cost-Efficient Deep Neural Network Placement in Edge Intelligence-Enabled Internet of Things
Hao Tian, Xiaolong Xu, Hongyue Wu, Qingzhan Zhao, Jianguo Dai, Maqbool Khan
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2024

IEEE TSC 2022
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DisCOV: Distributed COVID-19 Detection on X-Ray Images with Edge-Cloud Collaboration
Xiaolong Xu, Hao Tian, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi, Qiang He, Wanchun Dou
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 2022
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IEEE TVT 2021
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CoPace: Edge Computation Offloading and Caching for Self-Driving with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hao Tian, Xiaolong Xu, Lianyong Qi, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Shui Yu, Qiang Ni
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2021
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WWWJ 2022
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DIMA: Distributed Cooperative Microservice Caching for Internet of Things in Edge Computing by Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hao Tian, Xiaolong Xu, Tingyu Lin, Yong Cheng, Cheng Qian, Lei Ren, Muhammad Bilal
World Wide Web Journal, 2022

IEEE ICPADS 2023
 Xutong Jiang, Guoming Zhang, Hao Tian, Haolong Xiang, Xuyun Zhang, and Wanchun Dou. A Blockchain-enabled Secure Access Management Method in Edge Computing. 2023 IEEE 29th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2023.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • National Scholarships, Ministry of Education, 2022
  • Jiangsu Puxin Elite Scholarship, Jiangsu Education Department, 2022
  • First Prize, Graduate Innovation Achievement Exhibition, 2023
  • Outstanding Graduates Award of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, 2020