Yuwei Wang                                                                                                             Associate Professor, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Address: No.6, Academy of Sciences South Road, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing, China Email: ywwang [at] ict.ac.cn

Biography

         Dr. Yuwei Wang is an associate professor at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT/CAS). He is a member of the "100 Talents Program" at ICT/CAS. He serves as the vice-chair/vice rapporteur of the ITU-T SG16 Q5 working group, the deputy head of the CCSA TC1 WG1 Working Group of the China Communications Standards Association, and the first batch of committee members of the Smart Park Special Group under the National Information Technology Standardization Technical Committee’s Smart City Standard Working Group. He is also a review expert for national, industrial, and group standards evaluated by the National Information Technology Standardization Technical Committee and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; a director and specially invited expert of the China Smart City Industry and Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance; a member of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Applications of the Chinese Association of Automation; and an expert in the Haidian District Expert Database of Beijing.

         Dr. Wang's research interests include federated learning, edge intelligence, and unmanned systems collaboration. He has been responsible for or participated in more than 20 national and enterprise cooperation projects, such as the National Key R&D Program, CNGI, the National Science and Technology Major Special Project, and the Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 20 technical papers, including several published on top-tier journals and conferences such as TPDS, TMC, INFOCOM, etc. He has been responsible for the formulation of more than 20 international standards of the ITU, more than 20 standards of the communication industry, and has been granted 24 national invention patents and 13 software copyright registrations.

         Dr. Wang was awarded the Silver Prize of the 2020 International Telecommunication Union AI/ML in 5G Global Technology Challenge (first finisher, tied for 3rd place with 911 teams from 62 countries worldwide), the Third Prize of the Science and Technology Award of the China Association for Standardization of Communications (CASC) for the year 2023 (first finisher), and was awarded by CAS for the Innovation Standard Intellectual Property Achievement for 2 times. Zhiyuan Wu, a student under his supervision, was awarded the President Special Prize (the highest award in ICT/CAS, only one master student in the whole Institute) in 2024, the National Scholarship (only one student in ICT/CAS, class of 2022) in 2023, and the Efunda Fintech Freshman Scholarship (only 1 in the Network Research Department, ICT/CAS). Quyang Pan, a student also under his supervision, was awarded the 2022 Silver Medal in the Asia Finals of the ACM-ICPC.

Research Interests

• Mobile Computing, Edge Computing, Future Generation Network Architecture
  

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Unmanned System Collaboration, Wireless Network
  

• Federated Learning, Distributed Machine Learning, Edge Intelligence
  

Openings: I am continuously looking for self-motivated master students and interns to work on mobile edge computing and federated learning. Please send me your CV if interested.

Selected Standards

Led and participated in setting 30+ professional standards, the first ITU international standard and the first key communication standard for Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Represented standards are as follows:

• Requirements for mobile edge computing enabled content delivery networks.
  ITU-T F.743.10 (Principal, Released)
  

• Requirements for civilian unmanned aerial vehicles enabled mobile edge computing.
  ITU-T F.749.11 (Principal, Released)
  

• Technical framework for deep neural network model partition and collaborative execution.
  ITU-T F.748.20 (Principal, Released)
  

• Requirements of coordination for civilian unmanned aerial vehicles.
  ITU-T F.749.14 (Principal, Released)
  

• Session management for fixed mobile convergence in IMT-2020 networks.
  ITU-T Y.3136 (Co-principal, Released)
  

• Service function chaining in mobile network.
  ITU-T Y.2242 (Co-principal, Released)
  

• Distributed service networking service routing.
  ITU-T Y.2085 (Co-principal, Released)
  

• Architecture and protocols for software-defined camera.
  TU-T F.735.2 (ex H.SDC) (Co-principal, Released)
  

• IPv6 Technical Requirements - Multi-interface Service Flow Switching Management.
  YD/T 2401-2012 (In Chinese, First Drafter, Released)
  

• IPv6 Technical Requirements - Network-based Stream Switching Mobility Management.
  YD/T 2730-2014 (In Chinese, First Drafter, Released)
  

• IPv6 Routing Protocol - IPv6 Multicast Routing Protocol for Low-Power Lossy Networks.
  YD/T 2814-2015 (In Chinese, First Drafter, Released)
  

• IPv6 Technical Requirements - Multicast for Proxy-based Mobile IPv6.
  YD/T 3049-2016 (In Chinese, First Drafter, Released)
  

Selected Publications

Published 20+ technical papers, including papers on top journals and conferences such as TPDS, TMC, INFOCOM, etc. Recent publications are as follows:

• FedCache: A Knowledge Cache-driven Federated Learning Architecture for Personalized Edge Intelligence.
  Zhiyuan Wu, Sheng Sun, Yuwei Wang*, Min Liu, Ke Xu, Wen Wang, Xuefeng Jiang, Bo Gao, and Jinda Lu.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 2024. (CCF-A)
  

• Agglomerative Federated Learning: Empowering Larger Model Training via End-Edge-Cloud Collaboration.
  Zhiyuan Wu, Sheng Sun, Yuwei Wang*, Min Liu, Bo Gao, Quyang Pan, Tianliu He, and Xuefeng Jiang.
  International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). 2024. (CCF-A)
  

• FedICT: Federated Multi-task Distillation for Multi-access Edge Computing.
  Zhiyuan Wu, Sheng Sun, Yuwei Wang*, Min Liu, Quyang Pan, Xuefeng Jiang, and Bo Gao.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). 2023. (CCF-A)
  

• Exploring the Distributed Knowledge Congruence in Proxy-data-free Federated Distillation.
  Zhiyuan Wu, Sheng Sun, Yuwei Wang*, Min Liu, Junbo Zhang, Zeju Li and Qingxiang Liu.
  ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST). 2023. (CAA-A)
  

• Collaborative Non-Chain DNN Inference with Multi-Device based on Layer Parallel.
  Qiuping Zhang, Sheng Sun, Junjie Luo, Min Liu, Zhongcheng Li, Huan Yang, and Yuwei Wang*.
  Digital Communications and Networks. 2023.
  

• Staleness-Controlled Asynchronous Federated Learning: Accuracy and Efficiency Tradeoff.
  Sheng Sun, Zengqi Zhang, Quyang Pan, Min Liu, Yuwei Wang, Tianliu He, Yali Chen, and Zhiyuan Wu.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 2024. (CCF-A)
  

• Adaptive Bitrate Video Caching in UAV-Assisted MEC Networks based on Distributionally Robust Optimization.
  Yali Chen, Min Liu*, Bo Ai, Yuwei Wang, and Sheng Sun.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 2023. (CCF-A)
  

• RTIFed: A Reputation Based Triple-step Incentive Mechanism for Energy-aware Federated Learning over Battery-constricted Devices.
  Tian Wen, Hanqing Zhang, Han Zhang, Huixin Wu, Danxin Wang, Xiuwen Liu, Weishan Zhang, Yuwei Wang, Shaohua Cao*.
  Computer Networks (CN). 2024. (CCF-B)
  

• MJOA-MU: End-to-edge collaborative computation for DNN inference based on model uploading.
  Huan Yang, Sheng Sun, Min Liu*, Qiuping Zhang, and Yuwei Wang.
  Computer Networks (CN). 2023. (CCF-B)
  

• FedBIAD: Communication-Efficient and Accuracy-Guaranteed Federated Learning with Bayesian Inference-Based Adaptive Dropout.
  Jingjing Xue, Min Liu*, Sheng Sun, and Yuwei Wang.
  International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). 2023. (CCF-B)
  

• FedTrip: A Resource Efficient Federated Learning Method with Triplet Regularization.
  Xujing Li, Min Liu*, Sheng Sun, Yuwei Wang, Hui Jiang, and Xuefeng Jiang.
  International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). 2023. (CCF-B)
  

• VagueGAN: A GAN-Based Data Poisoning Attack Against Federated Learning Systems.
  Wei Sun, Bo Gao*, Ke Xiong and Yang Lu, Yuwei Wang.
  IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON). 2023. (CCF-B)
  

• Fedsyl: Computation-efficient Federated Synergy Learning on Heterogeneous IoT Devices.
  Hui Jiang, Min Liu*, Sheng Sun, Yuwei Wang, and Xiaobing Guo.
  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS). 2022. (CCF-B)
  

• Towards Federated Learning Against Noisy Labels via Local Self-regularization.
  Xuefeng Jiang, Sheng Sun, Yuwei Wang, and Min Liu*.
  ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM). 2022. (CCF-B)
  

Selected Patents

Awarded 20+ patents, including 7 invention patents for core technologies of national communication professional standards. Representative patents are as follows:

• A service flow management method for SIP applications.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL200810225032.6)
  

• Group creation and membership addition methods in distributed domain management system.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL200810225032.6)
  

• Adaptive service flow switching method and corresponding server for communication network system.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201110004942.3)
  

• A terminal-based link packet loss rate control method and system.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL200810117588.3)
  

• A wireless resource allocation method and system based on service satisfaction.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201210211713.3)
  

• A mobile management method and system based on service flow switching in PMIPv6 domain.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201310135154.7)
  

• A mobile management method and system for business differentiation optimization.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201310152729.6)
  

• A collaborative download task scheduling method and system for mobile smart terminals.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201310377540.7)
  

• A method and system for secure file storage based on environmental authentication.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201410014426.2)
  

• A content download application incentive method and its system for smart terminals.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201410016302.8)
  

• An OpenFlow-based channel assignment method and its apparatus.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201410172146.4)
  

• A PMIPv6-enabled mobile multicast routing optimization method and system.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201410822187.3)
  

• A resource pool management method for virtual machine vCPU scheduling.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201510408804.X)
  

• Routing optimization methods for MIPv6-PMIPv6 interaction scenarios.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201410852700.3)
  

• Peer-to-Peer P2P network node selection method and Peer-to-Peer P2P redirection server.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201410193290.6)
  

• Routing methods, devices and systems for delay tolerant networks.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201410675883.6)
  

• Internet cache answering system based on content identification and method thereof.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201410542248.0)
  

• A low-power multicast routing network and its multicast routing method.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201410270042.7)
  

• A vCPU scheduling method based on shared I/O virtualization environment.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL201510233215.2)
  

• A service flow transmission control method and system for IP networks.
  (In Chinese, No. ZL200810222165.8)
  

Professional Services

Served as 10+ academic positions, represented by the followings:

• Vice chair of China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) TC1 WG1
  

• Vice chair of the Intelligent Computing Working Group of the Artificial Intelligence Sub-Committee of the National Information Standards Committee
  

• Associate rapporteur at the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication (ITU-T) SG16 Q5
  

• Director of Smart Connected Big Data Research Center, Big Data Academy, Zhongke
  

• Director of Standards Management Office, Big Data Academy, Zhongke
  

• Specially-invited Expert of Z-park Strategic Alliance of Smart City Industry Technology Inn Ovation
  

• Expert of National, Industry, Local and Group Standard Evaluation of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
  

• Member of Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Applications Committee, Chinese Association of Automation
  

• Committee Member of Smart Park, Smart City Standards Working Group of National Committee for Information Standards
  

Selected Projects

Led and participated in 20+ national or corporate sponsored research projects, including China's Next Generation Internet Projects, National Science and Technology Major Projects, and Key Projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. Representative projects are as follows:

• China Telecom Next Generation Internet Scale Application Demonstration.
  China Next Generation Internet Demonstration Project (Topic Leader)
  

• China Telecom Next Generation Internet Scale Application Demonstration - Social Networking Communications.
  China Next Generation Internet Demonstration Project (Topic Leader)
  

• Next Generation Internet Standard System Construction.
  China Next Generation Internet Demonstration Project (Topic Leader)
  

• Theory and Techniques for Resource Allocation in Wireless Access Networks for Temporary Hotspots.
  National Natural Science Foundation of China (Topic Leader)
  

• MindSpore Network Model and Innovation Collaboration.
  Huawei Sponsored Project (Project Leader)
  

• Evaluation and Validation of Key Technologies for 5G Wireless Network Architecture.
  China Telecommunications Sponsored Project (Project Leader)
  

• Development, Standardization and Validation of Edge Computing Technologies for 5G Networks.
  China Telecommunications Sponsored Project (Project Leader)
  

• Novel Big Data Storage Technology and Platform Project Centralized Procurement.
  China Unicom Sponsored Project (Project Leader)
  

• R&D Validation of VO Cloud-based Network Function Virtualization - NFV Virtual Network Acceleration Testing and Development.
  China Unicom Sponsored Project (Project Leader)
  

• Civilian UAV Collaboration Technology.
  ITU International Standards Development Project (Project Leader)
  

• Research and Validation of Convergence Technology of Wireless LAN and Cellular Mobile Communication Network.
  Next Generation Wireless Mobile Communication Project. (Technical Leader)
  

• Open Research on Terminal Common Technology.
  Next Generation Wireless Mobile Communication Project. (Technical Leader)
  

• Research, Product Development and Industrialization of Home Informatization Solutions.
  Next Generation Wireless Mobile Communication Project. (Technical Leader)
  

Research Group

We are the Mobile Computing Research Group at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, interested in research, engineering practice, and industrialization in the areas of mobile computing, edge intelligence, federated learning and networking. I mentor the following group members:

• Hao Tan (Master student, 2020.09-2023.06)
  

• Tianliu He (Master student, 2021.09-)
  

• Zhiyuan Wu (Master student, 2022.09-)
  

• Quyang Pan (Master student, 2023.09-)
  

• Tian Wen (Master student, 2024.09-)
  

• Qingxiang Liu (PhD candidate, Co-supervised with Prof. Min Liu, 2020.09-)
  

• Jingjing Xue (PhD candidate, Co-supervised with Prof. Min Liu, 2020.09-)
  

• Xuefeng Jiang (PhD candidate, Co-supervised with Prof. Min Liu, 2021.09-)
  

• Junjie Luo (Master student, Co-supervised with Prof. Min Liu, 2021.09-)
  

• Runhan Li (Master student, Co-supervised with Prof. Min Liu, 2022.09-)
  

• Qixun Tang (Master student, Co-supervised with Prof. Min Liu, 2023.09-)
  

• Lile Wang (Intern, 2022.07-2022.11)
  

• Jiarong Mei (Intern, 2021.08-2022.08)
  

• Bowen Zhang (Intern, 2021.08-2022.08)
  

• Wentao Tang (Intern, 2021.08-2022.05)
  

• En Zhou (Intern, 2020.08-2021.06)
  

• Kun Zhao (Intern, 2020.08-2021.06)