Shan Jiang (江山) Research Assistant Professor Department of Computing Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things The Hong Kong Polytechnic University cs-shan.jiang@polyu.edu.hk PQ750, Mong Man Wai Building

Curriculum Vitae      Google Scholar      Publications      Projects      Patents      Activities      Teaching      Awards

Research Interests

I'm interested in distributed systems and their algorithms. Recently, I'm working on blockchain technology and its applications. My research interests include:
• Distributed Systems and Blockchain
• Blockchain-based Big Data Sharing
• Blockchain as a Service
• Edge Computing and Mobile Blockchain
• Non-fungible Tokens, Web 3.0, and Metaverse

Education

• Jul 2016 - Jun 2021, Ph.D. in Computer Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Supervisor: Prof. Jiannong Cao
  [Confirmation] Programming and Coordination in Distributed Multi-Robot Systems
  [Thesis] High-performance Packing and Searching for Blockchain-based Big Data Sharing
• Nov 2018 - Mar 2019, Visiting Student, Department of Computing, Imperial College London
  Advisor: Prof. Julie A. McCann
• Sep 2011 - Jun 2015, B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University

Academic Positions

• Oct 2021 - present, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  May 2021 - present, Member, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Jun 2022 - present, Member, Research Centre for Blockchain Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Jun 2021 - Oct 2021, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Advisor: Prof. Jiannong Cao
• Apr 2015 - Jun 2016, Research Assistant, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Advisor: Prof. Jiannong Cao

News

• We have several PhD/RA/Postdoc positions opening. Welcome to join us.
• May 2023: our paper "Towards Efficient Distributed Collision Avoidance for Heterogeneous Mobile Robots" was accepted by IEEE TMC.
• Mar 2023: our paper "Privacy-preserving and Efficient Data Sharing for Blockchain-based Intelligent Transportation Systems" was accepted by Information Sciences.
• Jan 2023: our paper "Empowering Authenticated and Efficient Queries for STK Transaction-based Blockchains" was accepted by IEEE TC.
• Nov 2022: our paper "Blockchain-empowered Federated Learning: Challenges, Solutions and Future Directions" was accepted by ACM CSUR.
• Aug 2022: our paper "High-efficiency Blockchain-based Supply Chain Traceability" was accepted by IEEE T-ITS.
• Aug 2022: our paper "Blockchain-based Collaborative Edge Intelligence for Trustworthy and Real-time Video Surveillance" was accepted by IEEE TII.
• Oct 2021: I joined Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Research Assistant Professor.

Selected Publications

1. Haitao Wu, Heng Li, Xiaochun Luo, Shan Jiang*, "Blockchain-Based On-Site Activity Management for Smart Construction Process Quality Traceability", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023.
2. Jinlin Chen, Jiannong Cao, Zhiqing Cheng, Shan Jiang*, "Towards Efficient Distributed Collision Avoidance for Heterogeneous Mobile Robots", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023.
3. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Hanqing Wu, Kongyang Chen, Xiulong Liu, "Privacy-preserving and Efficient Data Sharing for Blockchain-based Intelligent Transportation Systems", Information Sciences, 2023. [Paper]
4. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Hanqing Wu, "Fast and Atomic Cross-blockchain Asset Exchange for Metaverse Interoperability", IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom) 2023.
5. Hanqing Wu, Shan Jiang*, Jiannong Cao, "High-efficiency Blockchain-based Supply Chain Traceability", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022. [Paper]
6. Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Qianyi Chen, Shan Jiang*, "Blockchain-based Collaborative Edge Intelligence for Trustworthy and Real-time Video Surveillance", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2022. [Paper]
7. Zhixuan Liang, Jiannong Cao, Shan Jiang*, Divya Saxena, Huafeng Xu, "Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Opponent Modeling for Distributed Multi-agent Cooperation", IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2022. [Paper]
8. Zhelin Liang, Hao Xu, Xiulong Liu*, Shan Jiang*, Keqiu Li, "An Efficient and Secure Node-sampling Consensus Mechanism for Blockchain Systems", IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN) 2022.
9. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Juncen Zhu, Yinfeng Cao, "PolyChain: a Generic Blockchain as a Service Platform", Springer International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys) 2021 (Best Paper Award). [Paper]
10. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Hanqing Wu, Yanni Yang, "Fairness-based Packing of Industrial IoT Data in Permissioned Blockchains", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020. [Paper]
11. Shan Jiang, Junbin Liang, Jiannong Cao, Jia Wang, Jinlin Chen, Zhixuan Liang, "Decentralized Algorithm for Repeating Pattern Formation by Multiple Robots", IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) 2019. [Paper]
12. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Julie A. McCann, Yanni Yang, Yang Liu, Xiaoqing Wang, Yuming Deng, "Privacy-preserving and Efficient Multi-keyword Search Over Encrypted Data on Blockchain", IEEE International Conference on Blockchain 2019. [Paper]
13. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Hanqing Wu, Yanni Yang, Mingyu Ma, Jianfei He, "BlocHIE: a BLOCkchain-based platform for Healthcare Information Exchange", IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP) 2018 (Citations: 300+). [Paper]
14. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Jia Wang, Milos Stojmenovic, Julien Bourgeois, "Uniform Circle Formation by Asynchronous Robots: A Fully-Distributed Approach", IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2017. [Paper]
15. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Yang Liu, Jinlin Chen, Xuefeng Liu, "Programming Large-Scale Multi-Robot System with Timing Constraints", IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2016. [Paper]
16. Shan Jiang, Junbin Liang, Jiannong Cao, Rui Liu, "An ensemble-level programming model with real-time support for multi-robot systems", IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) Workshops 2016 (Demo). [Paper]
17. Hao Xu, Bin Xiao, Xiulong Liu, Shan Jiang, Weilian Xue, Jianrong Wang, Keqiu Li, "Empowering Authenticated and Efficient Queries for STK Transaction-based Blockchains", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2023.
18. Juncen Zhu, Jiannong Cao, Divya Saxena, Shan Jiang, Houda Ferradi, "Blockchain-empowered Federated Learning: Challenges, Solutions and Future Directions", ACM Computing Surveys, 2023.
19. Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, Liang Zhang, Yuvraj Sahni, Shan Jiang, "ENTS: An Edge Native Task Scheduling System for Collaborative Edge Computing", ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2022.
20. Xiulong Liu, Jiuwu Zhang, Shan Jiang, Yanni Yang, Keqiu Li, Jiannong Cao, Jiangchuan Liu, "Accurate Localization of Tagged Objects Using Mobile RFID-augmented Robots", IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, 2019. [Paper]
21. Hanqing Wu, Jiannong Cao, Yanni Yang, Cheung Leong Tung, Shan Jiang, Bin Tang, Yang Liu, Xiaoqing Wang, Yuming Deng, "Data Management in Supply Chain Using Blockchain: Challenges and A Case Study", IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2019 (Citations: 100+). [Paper]
22. Yuvraj Sahni, Jiannong Cao, Shan Jiang, "Middleware for Multi-Robot System", Mission-Oriented Sensor Networks and Systems: Art and Science, Springer, 2019. [Paper]

Patents

1. 江山，曹建农，林钦亮，"数据存储方法、装置、计算机设备及可读存储介质"，编号CN111224793A（华为技术有限公司），2020年6月公布（已授权）
2. 江山，曹建农，林钦亮，"电子投票方法、装置和存储介质"，编号CN111292461A（华为技术有限公司），2020年6月公布（已授权）
3. 刘旸，王晓晴，邓玉明，吴汉卿，曹建农，杨燕妮，江山，"跨链交易方法、装置、多区块链系统及计算设备"，编号CN112348672A（阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司），2021年2月公布

Projects & Grants

• PI, HK$250,000, "Distributed Resource Management for Blockchain-empowered Collaborative Edge Computing", Start-up Fund for RAPs under the Strategic Hiring Scheme (12/2021-11/2023)
• Co-I, HK$5,000,000, "DM-BIM: A Blockchain-based Platform for Decentralized Management of Building Information Models", Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited (3/2023-3/2025, PI: Prof. Jiannong Cao)
• Co-I, HK$1,540,000, "Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Management: A Systems Design Approach", Projects of RIAIoT (08/2022-07/2024, PI: Prof. Wai Ting Eric NGAI)
• Co-I, HK$800,000, " Development and Feasibility of the Augmented Outdoor Exercise Facilities Mobile App Education Intervention for Caregivers of Community-dwelling Older Adults with Various Physical Abilities in Hong Kong", Projects of RS (4/2023-9/2024, PI: Dr. Janet LEE)
• Co-I, HK$1,000,000, "Healthy Aging Blockchain Ecosystem with Person-centred Care Approach for People with Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Pragmatic-controlled Trial", Projects of RISA (09/2022-08/2024, PI: Prof. Yee Man Angela LEUNG)
• Member, HK$600,000, "Blockchain-as-a-Service in Stakeholder Relationship Management", The Chinachem Group (11/2022-11/2023, PI: Prof. Jiannong Cao)

Professional Activities

As program committee member for conferences:
• The 6th International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2023)
• The 2nd International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Blockchain (SPB 2023)
• International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom 2023)
• The 1st International Workshop on Socio-technical Cybersecurity and Resilience in the Internet of Things (STaR-IoT 2022)
• The 8th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud & Big Data Systems & Applications (DependSys 2022)
• The 5th International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2022)
• Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Congress (B2C 2022)
• The 3rd International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2020)

As editor for journal:
• Guest Editor, Metaverse for Healthcare: Trends, Challenges, and Solutions, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

As publicity and social media chair for conference:
• The 12th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing (EAI CloudComp 2022)

As referee for journals:
• ACM CSUR
• IEEE TC, TMC, T-ITS, TSC, TNNLS, Network, TCC, TBD, TNSE, IoT-J, TETC, JBHI
• IEEE/ACM ToN
• IEEE/CAA JAS
• Elsevier JPDC, IPM, C&SEC, COMCOM, JSA, BCRA
• Springer PPNA, APIN

Reviewer for submissions to conferences:
• WWW'22, ICDCS'22, COMPSAC'22
• ICDCS'20, COMPSAC'20
• ICDCS'19, Percom'19
• Percom'18
• ICDCS'17, Percom'17, ICC'17, Mobiquitous'17

Invited talks:
• Jun 2023, "Fast and Atomic Cross-blockchain Asset Exchange for Metaverse Interoperability", IEEE MetaCom 2023 (Online)
• Jun 2023, "Decentralized Data Infrastructure for Web3: Current Progress and Future Directions", Harbin Engineering University (Harbin, China)
• Jun 2023, "Blockchain-based Big Data Sharing and Trading", 区块链推动龙江数字经济发展高级研修班 (Harbin, China)
• Mar 2023, "Artificial Intelligence of Things for Large Aircrafts", COMAC 6th International Innovation Week (Jiaxing, China)
• Sep 2022, "Blockchain-empowered Big Data Sharing: Challenges and Opportunities", Zhejiang Lab (Online)
• Mar 2022, "High Performance Packing and Searching for Blockchain-based Big Data Sharing", Jinan University (Online)
• Aug 2021, "PolyChain: a Generic Blockchain as a Service Platform", Springer BlockSys 2021 (Online)
• Dec 2019, "Decentralized Algorithm for Uniform Circle Formation by Multiple Robots", IEEE ICPADS 2019 (Tianjin, China)
• Jul 2019, "Privacy-preserving and Efficient Multi-keyword Search Over Encrypted Data on Blockchain", IEEE Blockchain 2019 (Atlanta, USA)
• Jul 2017, "Uniform Circle Formation by Asynchronous Robots: A Fully-Distributed Approach", IEEE ICCCN 2017 (Vancouver, Canada)
• Aug 2016, "Programming Large-Scale Multi-Robot System with Timing Constraints", IEEE ICCCN 2016 (Hawaii, USA)

Teaching & Supervision Experiences

As supervisor for MSc project:
• Jul 2023, Hongbo Liu, Jingtong Shi, and Ye Luo, "Blogchain: A Blockchain-based, Supporting NFTs, Decentralized Social Platform"

As supervisor for MSc dissertations:
• Jul 2023, Zhengkang Du, "Frequency-aware data backup strategy for Web3 data infrastructure"
• Jul 2023, Ruyi Meng, "Editable Sharding Scheme for Metaverse Based on Edge-enabled Blockchain"
• Dec 2022, Zhengchao Shi, "Adaptive Convergence Alignment in Federated Learning"
• Dec 2022, Shaocheng Chu, "Quantum Block: A Practical Blockchain-as-a-Service Platform with High Customizability"
• Jul 2022, Kening Zhang, "Resource Allocation for Blockchain-based Mobile Edge Computing with Dynamic Programming"

As lecturer:
• Fall 2023 & Fall 2022, Distributed Algorithms and Protocols for Blockchains (COMP5567), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Spring 2022, Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing (COMP5327), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

As teaching assistant:
• Spring 2020, Service and Cloud Computing (COMP4442, Lecturer: Prof. Jiannong Cao), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Fall 2019, Advanced Topics in Computer Algorithms (COMP6701, Lecturer: Dr. Jing Li and Dr. Jesper Jansson), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Fall 2017, Distributed Computing (COMP5325, Lecturer: Prof. Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Spring 2017, Programming Fundamentals (COMP1011, Lecturer: Prof. Jiannong Cao), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Fall 2016, Computer Communications Networks (COMP312, Lecturer: Dr. Lei Yang), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Fall 2014, Algorithm Design and Analysis (Lecturer: Prof. Songshan Guo, Dr. Han Lin, and Dr. Zizhen Zhang), Sun Yat-sen University

Others:
• Spring 2018, Assistant Coach, HK PolyU ACM-ICPC Team

Honors & Awards

• Best Paper Award, 2021 International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys'2021) (Aug 2021)
• Third Runner-up (4/32), ACM-HK Programming Contest 2019, Hong Kong, China (Jun 2019)
• The Third Place (3/10), COMP Annual Research Day 2019, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China (Jun 2019)
• Second Runner-up (3/33), ACM-HK Programming Contest 2017, Hong Kong, China (Jun 2017)
• Silver Medal (32/182), Beijing Regional Contest, The 39th ACM-Asia Programming Contest, Beijing, China (Nov 2014)
• The Fourth Place (4/147), ACM-Guangdong Provincial Programming Contest 2014, Guangzhou, China (May 2014)
• Outstanding Student, Second-class Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (Nov 2014)
• Outstanding Student, Third-class Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (Nov 2012)