Jun Zhang

PhD, FIEEE
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Associate Professor, IEEE Fellow
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Computer Engineering Program (CPEG)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society

Office: Room 2430
Email: eejzhang@ust.hk
Phone: +852 2358-7050
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What's new

  • (Student Awards) Congratulations to Xinran, Zhening, Jiawei, and Teng!

    • (August 2023) Xinran received The ECE Best TA Award.

    • (August 2023) Zhening received the HKUST RedBird PhD Award.

    • (June 2023) Jiawei received the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students.

    • (April 2023) Teng received the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship.

  • (HK 6G Wireless Summit) The IEEE Hong Kong 6G Wireless Summit (IEEE HK6GWS 2023), 13-14 September 2023.

  • (Call for Paper)Digital Twins Meet Artificial Intelligence in 6G”, a feature topic on IEEE Communications Magazine. (Deadline: 31 March 2024)

  • (New Survey) “A survey of what to share in federated learning: Perspectives on model utility, privacy leakage, and communication efficiency,” submitted. [Paper]

  • (New Paper) “Large language models empowered autonomous edge AI for connected intelligence,” submitted. [Paper]

  • (New Paper) “Selective knowledge sharing for privacy-preserving federated distillation without a good teacher,” submitted. [Paper]

  • (CVPR 23) “Generalized relation modeling for transformer tracking”, accepted by CVPR 2023. [Paper] [GitHub]

  • (ICLR 23) Two papers accepted to ICLR 2023.

    • “Sparse Mixture-of-Experts are Domain Generalizable Learners” (notable-top-5%, oral) [Paper] [GitHub]

    • “LDMIC: Learning-based distributed multi-view image coding” [Paper] [GitHub]

  • (AAMAS 23) “AC2C: Adaptively controlled two-hop communication for multi-agent reinforcement learning,” accepted by AAMAS 2023. [Paper]

Research Interests

  • Edge AI and Edge Computing

    • Edge video analytics; deep image/video compression; cooperative perception

  • Cooperative AI

    • Privacy-preserving collaborative learning; multi-agent reinforcement learning

  • Wireless Communications and Networking

    • Machine learning for wireless communications; wireless sensing

Selected Publications

  • Edge AI and Edge Computing

    • X. Zhang, J. Shao, and J. Zhang, “Low-complexity deep video compression with a distributed coding architecture,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Brisbane, Australia, July 2023. [Paper] [GitHub]

    • S. Gao, C. Zhou, and J. Zhang, “Generalized relation modeling for transformer tracking,” IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, Canada, Jun. 2023. [Paper] [GitHub]

    • X. Zhang, J. Shao, and J. Zhang, “LDMIC: Learning-based distributed multi-view image coding,” International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Kigali, Rwanda, May 2023. [Paper] [GitHub]

    • J. Shao, X. Zhang, and J. Zhang, “Task-oriented communication for edge video analytics,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., to appear. [Paper] [GitHub]

    • J. Shao, Y. Mao, and J. Zhang, “Learning task-oriented communication for edge inference: An information bottleneck approach,” IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 197-211, Jan. 2022. [Paper] [GitHub]

  • Federated Learning, Safe/Robust AI

    • Z. Li, Y. Sun, J. Shao, Y. Mao, J. Wang, and J. Zhang, “Feature matching data synthesis for non-IID federated learning,” submitted. [Paper]

    • J. Shao, F. Wu, and J. Zhang, “Selective knowledge sharing for privacy-preserving federated distillation without a good teacher,” submitted. [Paper]

    • B. Li*, Y. Shen*, J. Yang, Y. Wang, J. Ren, T. Che, J. Zhang, and Z. Liu, “Sparse Mixture-of-Experts are Domain Generalizable Learners,” International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Kigali, Rwanda, May 2023. (Oral presentation) [Paper] [GitHub]

    • T. Zhou, J. Zhang, and D. Tsang, “FedFA: Federated learning with feature anchors to align feature and classifier for heterogeneous data,” submitted. [Paper]

    • J. Shao, Y. Sun, S. Li, and J. Zhang, “DReS-FL: Dropout-resilient secure federated learning for non-IID clients via secret data sharing,” NeurIPS 2022. [Paper] (Acceptance Rate: 25.6%)

  • Wireless Communications

    • W. Yu, Y. Shen, H. He, X. Yu, S.H. Song, J. Zhang, and K. B. Letaief, “An adaptive and robust deep learning framework for THz ultra-massive MIMO channel estimation,” IEEE J. Sel. Topics Signal Process., to appear. [Paper] [GitHub]

    • Y. Shen, J. Zhang, S.H. Song, and K. B. Letaief, “Graph neural networks for wireless communications: From theory to practice,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 3554-3569, May 2023. [Paper] [GitHub]

    • Y. Shen, Y. Shi, J. Zhang, and K. B. Letaief, “Graph neural networks for scalable radio resource management: architecture design and theoretical analysis,” IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 101–115, Jan. 2021. [Paper]