Name: Yang Lei
Introduction:
Ph. D , Associate Professor
Email： sely@scut.edu.cn
Address：School of Software Engineering，South China University of Technology
Research Interests:
Network and distributed systems, edge computing and edge intelligence, cloud computing and big data, mobile computing and Internet of Things
Biography:
Dr. Lei Yang is currently an associate professor at School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology (SCUT). Before he joined SCUT in March, 2016, he has been working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he obtained the PhD degree in computer science on May, 2014. His research interest is cloud and edge computing, distributed systems and Internet of Things. He has published over 50 papers in major international journals and conference proceedings including top journals like IEEE TMC, IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TSC, IEEE TCC, ACM TKDD and top conferences like IEEE INFOCOM and IEEE PERCOM. He is directing several research and development projects from both government and industry agencies such National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation and Tencent. He has won 2018 Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards – Natural Science Award (Second Class), and 2020 IEEE TCCLD Research Innovation Award (Team award). One of his paper is elected as the spotlight paper on IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Dr. Yang got M.S. degree in computer science from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010, and B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Wuhan University in 2007. He has been in Deeds Lab at Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany, as a visiting scholar from Nov.2012 to Mar.2013.
Education:
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P.R.China.
Ph.D., Computer Sciences, May 2014
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing, P.R.China
M.Sc., Computer Sciences, June 2010
Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R.China
B.Sc., Electronic Information Science and Technology, June 2007
Publication:
1. Refereed Journal Articles (in reverse chronological order)
[J10] L. Yang, J. Cao, G. Liang, X. Han, “Cost aware Service Placement and Load Dispatching in Mobile Cloud Systems', IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2016, 65(11):1440-1452
[J9] L. Yang, J. Cao, S. Tang, D. Han, N. Suri, “Run Time Application Repartitioning in Dynamic Mobile Cloud Environment”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2016, 4(3): 336-348 (Spotlight paper of this issue)
[J8] L. Yang, J. Cao, W. Zhu, S. Tang, “Accurate and Efficient Object Tracking based on Passive RFID', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2015, 14(11): 2188-2200
[J7] L. Yang, J. Cao, H. Cheng, and Y. Ji, “Multi-user Computation Partitioning for Latency Sensitive Mobile Cloud Applications', IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2015, 64(8): 2253-2266
[J6] R. Liu, J. Cao, and L. Yang, “Smartphone Privacy in Mobile Computing: Issues, Methods and Systems”, DBSJ Journal, Vol.13, No.1, pp.1-13, March 2015
[J5] W. Zhu, J. Cao, Y. Xu, L. Yang, J. Kong, “Fault-Tolerant RFID Reader Localization Based on Passive RFID Tags”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 25, Issue 8, pp. 2065 - 2076, 2014
[J4] C. Ma, J. Cao, L. Yang, J. Ma, Y. He, 'Effective social relationship measurement based on user trajectory analysis'. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp.39-50, 2014
[J3] L. Yang, J. Cao, Y. Yuan, T. Li, A. Han, A. Chan, 'A Framework for Partitioning and Execution of Data Stream Application in Mobile Cloud Computing', ACM SigMetrics Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 40, Issue 4, pp.23-32, 2013
[J2] L. Yang, J. Cao, “Computation Partitioning in Mobile Cloud Computing: A Survey”, ZTE Communication. Vol. 11, Issue 4, pp.8-17, 2013
[J1] L. Yang, L. Wei, J. Ye, H. Shi, “A Location Cloaking Framework and Algorithm for Continuous LBS Requests', Chinese Journal of Computer Engineer, Vol.37, No.9, 2011
2. Refereed Conference Papers (in reverse chronological order)
[C7] L. Xu, J. Cao, Y. Wang, L. Yang, J. Li, “Bejo: Behavior based Job Classification for Resource Consumption Prediction in the Cloud”, 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Singapore, December 15-18, 2014
[C6] M. Jia, J. Cao, L. Yang, “Optimal Offloading of Concurrent Tasks for Computation-Intensive Applications in Mobile Cloud Computing”, IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing, Toronto, Canada, April 27 - May 2, 2014
[C5] L. Yang, J. Cao, S. Tang, T. Li, A. Chan, 'A Framework for Partitioning and Execution of Data Stream Application in Mobile Cloud Computing', 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE-CLOUD), Hawaii, USA, Jun 24-29, 2012 (Acceptance Rate: 18%)
[C4] L. Yang, J. Cao, W. Zhu, S. Tang, “A Hybrid Method for achieving High Accuracy and Efficiency in Object Tracking using Passive RFID”, 10th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Mar 19-23 2012, Lugano, Switzerland (Acceptance Rate: 15.6%)
[C3] W. Zhu, J. Cao, Y. Xu, L. Yang, J. Kong, “Fault-Tolerant RFID Reader Localization Based on Passive RFID Tags”, 31st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), March 25-30, 2012, Orlando, USA (Acceptance Rate: 17%)
[C2] C. Ma, J. Cao, L. Yang, J. Ma, T. Li, J. Kong, “An Approach to Measuring User Relationship Based on Location Trail”, 7th Joint Conference on Hormonious Human Man Evironment (HHME), 2011, Beijing, China
[C1] L. Yang, L. Wei, H. Shi, Q. Liu, D. Yang, 'Location cloaking algorithms based on regional characteristics', IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE'11), Shang Hai, China
Professional Activities:
1. Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE)
2.Technical Program Committee Member
The First International Workshop on Resource Management of Cloud Computing (CCRM), in conjunction with ICDCS’13
3.Reviewer for Journal Manuscripts Submissions
(1) IEEE Transactions on Computers
(2) IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
(3) IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
(4) IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
(5) IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
(6) IEEE Communication Magzine
(7) Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC)
Academic Talks:
1. A Hybrid Method for Achieving High Accuracy and Efficiency in Object Tracking, at PerCom’12, Lugano, Switzerland, March, 2012
2. A Framework for Partitioning and Execution of Data Stream Application in Mobile Cloud Computing, at IEEE-CLOUD’12, Hawaii, U.S., June, 2012
3. Multi-user Computation Partitioning for Latency Sensitive Mobile Cloud Applications, at Deeds Group, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, December, 2012
4. Optimal Offloading of Concurrent Tasks for Computation-Intensive Applications in Mobile Cloud Computing, at INFOCOM14 Workshoop on Mobile Cloud Computing, Toronto, Canada, April, 2014
Journal Articles:
1. Lei Yang, Yanyan Lu, Jiannong Cao, Jiaming Huang, Mingjin Zhang. E-Tree Learning: A Novel Decentralized Model Learning Framework for Edge AI. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3052195
2. Shaoshuai Ding, Lei Yang(*), Jiannong Cao, Wei Cai, Mingkui Tan, Zhenyu Wang. Partitioning Stateful Data Stream Applications in Dynamic Edge Cloud Environments. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2021.3051046.
3. Lei Yang, Xi Yu, Jiannong Cao, Xuxun Liu, Pan Zhou. Exploring Deep Reinforcement Learning for Demand Dispatching in Autonomous On-Demand Services. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. Vol.15, Issue 3, Article No.:44, pp 1-23, April 2021
4. Yuvraj Sahni, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, Yusheng Ji. Multi-Hop Multi-Task Partial Computation Offloading in Collaborative Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2020.3042224, 2020.
5. Lei Yang, Lingling Zhang, Zongjian He, Jiannong Cao, Weigang Wu. Efficient Hybrid Data Dissemination in Edge Assisted Automated Driving. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(1):148 – 159, 2020
6. Lei Yang, Xi Yu, Jiannong Cao, Wengen Li, Yuqi Wang, Michal Szczecinski. A Novel Demand Dispatching Model for Autonomous On-Demand Services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 2019, DOI：10.1109/TSC.2019.2941680
7. Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao, Zhenyu Wang, Weigang Wu. Network aware Mobile Edge Computation Partitioning in Multi-user Environments. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2018.2876535
8. Lei Yang, Bo Liu, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Zhenyu Wang. Joint Computation Partitioning and Resource Allocation for Latency Sensitive Applications in Mobile Edge Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2018.2890603.
9. Xuxun Liu, Anfeng Liu, Tie Qiu, Bin Dai, Tian Wang, Lei Yang (*). Restoring Connectivity of Damaged Sensor Networks for Long-Term Survival in Hostile Environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(2): 1205 – 1215, 2020
10. Jin Cao, Lei Yang (*), Jiannong Cao. Revisiting Computation Partitioning in Future 5G based Edge Computing Environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 6(2): 2427 – 2438, 2019.
11. Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao, Guanqing Liang, Xu Han. Cost Aware Service Placement and Load Dispatching in Mobile Cloud Systems.IEEE Transactions on Computers. 65(5): 1440-1452 (May 2016).
12. Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao, Shaojie Tang, Di Han, Neeraj Suri. Run Time Application Repartitioning in Dynamic Mobile Cloud Environments. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 4(3): 336-348 (July-September 2016).
13. Lei Yang, Jianong Cao, Weiping Zhu, Shaojie Tang. Accurate and Efficient Object Trackingbased on Passive RFID. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2015, 14(11): 2188-2200
14. Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao, Hui Cheng, and Yusheng Ji. Multi-user Computation Partitioning for Latency Sensitive Mobile Cloud Applications. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 64(8): 2253-2266, 2015
15. Yuvraj Sahni, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, Yusheng Ji. Multi-Hop Offloading of Multiple DAG Tasks in Collaborative Edge Computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3030926, 2020.
16. Xuxun Liu, Tie Qiu, Bin Bai, Lei Yang, Anfeng Liu. Swarm Intelligence-Based Rendezvous Selection via Edge Computing for Mobile Sensor Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(10): 9471-9480, 2020.
17. Lei Yang, Doudou Yang, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Xiaohua Xu. QoS Guaranteed Resource Allocation for Live VM Migration in Edge Clouds. IEEE Access. Vol.7, pp.78441 – 78451, April, 2020.29.
18. Lei Yang, Xuxun Liu, Jiannong Cao, Zhenyu Wang. Joint Scheduling of Tasks andNetwork Flows in Big Data Clusters. IEEE Access. pp.66600 - 66611, vol.6, 2018
19. HaohuangWen, Lei Yang (*), Zhenyu Wang. ParGen: A Parallel Method for Partitioning Data Stream Applications in Mobile Edge Clouds. IEEE Access, pp.5037 – 5048, vol.6, 2018
20. Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao. Application Repartitioning in the Cloud. Computer. 50(2):11, 2017.
21. Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao, Yin Yuan, Tao Li, Andy Han, Alvan Chan. A Framework for Partitioning and Execution of Data Stream Application in Mobile Cloud Computing. ACM SigMetrics Performance Evaluation Review, vol 40, no.4, pp.23-32, 2013
22. Xuxun Liu, Tie Qiu, Xiaobo Zhou, Tian Wang, Lei Yang and Victor Chang. Latency-Aware Anchor-Point Deployment for Disconnected Sensor Networks with Mobile Sinks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2019.2916300
23. Yuvraj Sahni, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang. Data-Aware Task Allocation for Achieving Low Latency in Collaborative Edge Computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 6(2):3512 - 3524, 2019
24. Rui Liu, Jiannong Cao, K. Zhang, W. Gao, Lei Yang, J. Liang, R. Yu. Understanding Mobile Users’ Privacy Expectations: A Recommendation-based Method through Crowdsourcing”, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 12(2):304-318, 2019
25. Di Han, Jianqing Li, Lei Yang, Zihua Zeng. A Recommender System to Address the Cold Start Problem for AppUsage Prediction. International Journalof Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 10(9): 2257–2268, 2019
26. Rui Lui, Jiannong Cao, K. Zhang, W. Gao, J. Liang, Lei Yang. When Privacy Meets Usability: Unobtrusive PrivacyPermission Recommendation System for Mobile Apps based on Crowdsourcing. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 11(5): 864-878, 2018
27. Xu Chen, Qian Shi, Lei Yang, JieXu. ThriftyEdge: Resource-Efficient Edge Computing for Intelligent IoT Applications. IEEE Networks, vol 32,no 1, pp.61-65, 2018
28. Yuvraj Sahni, Jiannong Cao, Shigeng Zhang, Lei Yang. Edge Mesh: A New Paradigm to Enable Distributed Intelligence in Internet of Things. IEEE Access. 5: 16441-16458 (August2017)
29. Weiqing Liu, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, Lin Xu, Xuanjia Qiu, Jing Li. AppBooster: Boosting the Performance of Interactive Mobile Applications with Computation Offloading and Parameter Tuning. IEEE Transactions onParallel and Distributed Systems. 28(6): 1593-1606 (June 2017).
31. Xianghua Fu, Jianqiang Li, Kun Yang, Laizhong Cui, Lei Yang. Dynamic Online HDP Model for Discovering Evolutionary Topics from Chinese Social Texts, Neurocomputing, vol.171, 2016, pp.412-424
32. Weiping Zhu, Jiannong Cao, Yi Xu, Lei Yang, Junjun Kong. Fault-Tolerant RFID Reader Localization Based on Passive RFID Tags. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 25, Issue 8, pp. 2065 - 2076, 2014
33. Chao Ma, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, JunMa, Yanxiang He. Effective Social Relationship Measurement based on User Trajectory Analysis. J. Ambient Intelligenceand Humanized Computing. 5(1): 39-50, 2014
34. Di Han, Haili Liang, Xianmin Shen, Lei Yang. Subscriber Dynamic Characteristics-based Wireless Networkaccessing Bandwidth Prediction. Int. J. Machine Learning & Cybernetics, 5(6): 875-885 (2014)
35. Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao. Computation Partitioning in Mobile Cloud Computing: A Survey. ZTE Communication. Volume 11, Issue 4,pp.8-17, 2013
Papers in Conference Proceedings:
Junzhong Jia, Lei Yang(*), Jiannong Cao. Reliability-aware Dynamic Service Chain Scheduling in 5G Networks based on Reinforcement Learning. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2021).
Fulin Wen, Lei Yang(*), Wei Cai and Pan Zhou, DP-Hybrid: A Two-Layer Consensus Protocol for High Scalability in Permissioned Blockchain, International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys 2020), Aug. 6-7, 2020.
Junpeng Liang, Lei Yang（*）, Zhenyu Wang, Xuxun Liu, Weigang Wu. Coding Based Distributed Data Shuffling for Low Communication Cost in Data Center Networks. 16th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN 2020) Workshop.
Zhengjia Cao, Bowen Xiao, Haihan Duan, Lei Yang, and Wei Cai , A Dynamic Partitioning Framework for Edge-assisted Cloud Computing, In 20th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2020), Oct. 2-4, 2020.
Xiaohua Xu, Yi Zhao, Dongfang Zhao, Lei Yang, Spiridon Bakiras. Distributed Real-Time Data Aggregation Scheduling in Duty-Cycled Multi-hop Sensor Networks. International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2019).
Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao, Zhenyu Wang, Weigang Wu. Network aware Multi-user ComputationPartitioning in Mobile Edge Clouds. The 46th International Conference onParallel Processing (IEEE ICPP 2017). August 14-17, 2017. Bristol, UK.
Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao, Bo Liu, Zhenyu Wang. Joint Computation Partitioning and ResourceAllocation for Latency Sensitive Applications in Mobile Edge Cloud.The10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2017). June25-30, 2017. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Yifan Zhang, Zhechao Li, Lei Yang, Weigang Wu. Fast VM Startup by Cooperative Image Caching for Cloud Data Centers.The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom2018), October 8-12, 2018.
Rui Liu, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, K. Zhang. PriWe: Recommendation for Privacy Settings of Mobile Apps based onCrowdsourced Users’ Expectations. IEEE International Conference on MobileService, June 2015, New York, USA.
MikeJia, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang. Optimal Offloading of Concurrent Tasks for Computation-Intensive Applicationsin Mobile Cloud Computing. IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Workshop on Mobile CloudComputing, April 27 - May 2, 2014, Canada
Lin Xu, Jiannong Cao, Y. Wang, Lei Yang, J. Li. Bejo: Behavior based Job Classification for Resource ConsumptionPrediction in the Cloud. 6th International Conference on Cloud ComputingTechnology and Science, Singapore, December 15-18, 2014
Lei Yang, Jiannong Cao, Weiping Zhu, Shaojie Tang. A Hybrid Method for achieving HighAccuracy and Efficiency in Object Tracking using Passive RFID. 10th Annual IEEEInternational Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom),Mar 19-23 2012, Lugano, Switzerland
Lei Yang,Jiannong Cao, Shaojie Tang, Tao Li, Alvan Chan. A Framework for Partitioningand Execution of Data Stream Application in Mobile Cloud Computing. 5th IEEEInternational Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2012, USA
Weiping Zhu, Jiannong Cao, Yi Xu, Lei Yang, Junjun Kong. Fault-Tolerant RFID Reader Localization Based on Passive RFID Tags.31st IEEE International Conference onComputer Communications (INFOCOM), March 25-30, 2012, Orlando, USA
Chao Ma, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, JunMa, Tao Li, Junjun Kong. An Approach to Measuring User Relationship Based onLocation Trail. 7th Joint Conference on Hormonious Human Man Evironment (HHME),2011, Beijing, China
