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Prof. Zhe Peng 彭喆

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Brief Biosketch

Dr. Peng is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining ISE, he was the Blockchain Technical Director at SF Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Master’s degree in Information and Communication Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China, and Bachelor’s degree in Communication Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University.

His primary research interests focus on Data-driven Industrial Intelligence, including Blockchain and Web3, Trustworthy Machine Learning, Autonomous Systems, Data Security and Privacy. He has published a series of papers in prestigious journals and conferences, such as IEEE TKDE/TMC/ToN/TPDS/TDSC/TIFS, ACM SIGMOD/CCS, IEEE ICDE/INFOCOM/IROS, etc. He was ranked among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2024.

 

Research Interests

  • Blockchain and Web3
  • Trustworthy Machine Learning
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Data Security and Privacy

 

Selected Journal Publications

  1. W. Xu, J. Deng, J. Yu, S. Mao, Y. Li, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “Blockchain-based Verifiable Decentralized Identity for Intelligent Flexible Manufacturing”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), 2025.
  2. H. Wu, Y. Tang, Z. Sheng, J. Tao, C. Lin, and Z. Peng, “TELEX: Two-Level Learned Index for Rich Queries on Enclave-based Blockchain Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2025.
  3. Y. Yao, Y. Hu, Y. Dang, W. Tao, K. Hu, Q. Huang, Z. Peng, G. Yang, and X. Zhou, “Workload-Aware Performance Model Based Soft Preemptive Real-Time Scheduling for Neural Processing Units”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2025.
  4. H. Wu, Z. Peng, J. Xiao, L. Xue, C. Lin, S.-H. Chung, “HeX: Encrypted Rich Queries with Forward and Backward Privacy Using Trusted Hardware”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2025.
  5. Y. Li, Y. Lu, X. Yang, and Z. Peng, “Blockchain-Empowered Multi-skilled Crowdsourcing for Mobile Web 3.0”, Computer Communications, 2025.
  6. Q. Yang, Z. Chen, Z. Peng, and Y. Yuan, “Relation-Guided Versatile Regularization for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning”, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2025.
  7. C. Lin, X. Ji, Y. Yang, Q. Li, Z. Zhao, Z. Peng, R. Wang, L. Fang, C. Shen, “Hard Adversarial Example Mining for Improving Robust Fairness”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2025.
  8. Y. Teng, C. Z. Li, G. Q.P. Shen, Q. Yang, and Z. Peng, “The Impact of Life Cycle Assessment Database Selection on Embodied Carbon Estimation of Buildings”, Building and Environment, Vol. 243, pp. 110648, 2023.
  9. S. Gao, Z. Peng, F. Tan, Y. Zheng, and B. Xiao, “SymmeProof: Compact Zero-Knowledge Argument for Blockchain Confidential Transactions”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 2289-2301, 2023.
  10. Z. Chen, C. Yang, M. Zhu, Z. Peng, and Y. Yuan, “Personalized Retrogress-Resilient Federated Learning towards Imbalanced Medical Data”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 3663 – 3674, 2022.
  11. Z. Peng, J. Xu, H. Hu, and L. Chen, “BlockShare: A Blockchain Empowered System for Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Data Sharing”, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 2022.
  12. H. Wu, Z. Peng, S. Guo, Y. Yang, and B. Xiao, “VQL: Efficient and Verifiable Cloud Query Services for Blockchain Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 1393-1406, 2022.
  13. Z. Peng, J. Xu, X. Chu, S. Gao, Y. Yao, R. Gu, and Y. Tang, “VFChain: Enabling Verifiable and Auditable Federated Learning via Blockchain Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 173-186, 2022.
  14. Z. Li, S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, S. Guo, and Y. Yang, “B-DNS: A Secure and Efficient DNS Based on the Blockchain Technology”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 1674-1686, 2021.
  15. Y. Yao, B. Xiao, W. Wang, G. Yang, X. Zhou, and Z. Peng, “Real-Time Cache-Aided Route Planning based on Mobile Edge Computing”, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 155-161, 2020.
  16. S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, A. Hu, Y. Song, and K. Ren, “Detection and Mitigation of DoS Attacks in Software Defined Networks”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 1419-1433, 2020.
  17. Z. Peng, Y. Yao, B. Xiao, S. Guo, and Y. Yang, “When Urban Safety Index Inference Meets Location-based Data”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 18, No. 11, pp. 2701-2713, 2019.
  18. Z. Peng, S. Gao, B. Xiao, G. Wei, S. Guo, and Y. Yang, “Indoor Floor Plan Construction through Sensing Data Collected from Smartphones”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 4351-4364, 2018.
  19. Y. Yao, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “Parallel Hyper-Heuristic Algorithm for Multi-objective Route Planning in a Smart City”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Vol. 67, No. 11, pp. 10307-10318, 2018.
  20. Z. Peng, S. Gao, Z. Li, B. Xiao, and Y. Qian, “Vehicle Safety Improvement through Deep Learning and Mobile Sensing”, IEEE Network, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 28-33, 2018.
  21. Z. Peng, S. Gao, B. Xiao, S. Guo, and Y. Yang, “CrowdGIS: Updating Digital Maps via Mobile Crowdsensing”, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 369-380, 2018.
  22. J. Li, Z. Peng, S. Gao, B. Xiao, and H. Chan, “Smartphone-Assisted Energy Efficient Data Communication for Wearable Devices”, Computer Communications, Vol. 105, pp. 33-43, 2017.
  23. Z. Peng, H. Lu, and P. Hong, “On Optimal Power Allocation Scheme for Delay-Constrained Communication”, Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013.

 

Selected Conference Publications

  1. Q. Ma, P. Liang, X. Zhou, J. Ma, J. Jiang, and Z. Peng, “Robust Test-Time Adaptation for Single Image Denoising Using Deep Gaussian Prior”, in Proc. of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
  2. C. Zhang, Z. Yu, Z. Peng, M. Zhao, L. Zhu, and B. Xiao, “SecPoS: Slashable Proof-of-stake Consensus with Low Transaction Delays and Checkpoint Costs”, in Proc. of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2025.
  3. S. Gao, T. Zheng, Y. Guo, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “Lattice-based Zero-knowledge Proofs for Blockchain Confidential Transactions”, in Proc. of the IACR Public Key Cryptography (PKC), 2025.
  4. Z. Peng, J. Deng, S. Gao, H. Cui, and B. Xiao, “vDID: Blockchain-Enabled Verifiable Decentralized Identity Management for Web 3.0”, in Proc. of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2024.
  5. B. Wang, T. Xing, X. Liu, Z. Peng, and H. Cui, “Lightweight Multimodal Defect Detection at the Edge via Cross-Modal Distillation”, in Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2024.
  6. J. Sheng, J. Deng, S. Gao, H. Huang, and Z. Peng, “Authenticated Decentralized Identifier Retrieval for Blockchain-based Web 3.0”, in Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2024.
  7. C. Qiu, J. Deng, T. Peng, and Z. Peng, “Blockchain-based Verifiable Decentralized Identities for Cyber-Physical Web 3.0”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Automation in Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics (ICaMaL), 2024.
  8. Z. Peng, S. Hou, and Y. Yuan, “EPAR: An Efficient and Privacy-Aware Augmented Reality Framework for Indoor Location-Based Services”, in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022.
  9. H. Wang, C. Xu, C. Zhang, J. Xu, Z. Peng, and J. Pei, “vChain+: Optimizing Verifiable Blockchain Boolean Range Queries”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2022.
  10. Z. Peng, C. Xu, H. Wang, J. Huang, J. Xu, and X. Chu, “P2B-Trace: Privacy-Preserving Blockchain-based Contact Tracing to Combat Pandemics”, in Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2021.
  11. Z. Peng, J. Huang, H. Wang, S. Wang, X. Chu, X. Zhang, L. Chen, X. Huang, X. Fu, Y. Guo, and J. Xu, “BU-Trace: A Permissionless Mobile System for Privacy-Preserving Intelligent Contact Tracing”, in Proc. of the International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) Workshops, 2021. (Best Paper Award)
  12. Z. Peng, H. Wu, B. Xiao, and S. Guo, “VQL: Providing Query Efficiency and Data Authenticity in Blockchain Systems”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2019.
  13. S. Gao, Z. Li, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “Power Adjusting and Bribery Racing: Novel Mining Attacks in the Bitcoin System”, in Proc. of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2019.
  14. J. Li, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “New Mobility-aware Application Offloading Design with Low Delay and Energy Efficiency”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018.
  15. S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, A. Hu, and K. Ren, “FloodDefender: Protecting Data and Control Plane Resources under SDN-aimed DoS Attacks”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2017.
  16. Z. Peng, B. Xiao, Y. Yao, J. Guan, and F. Yang, “U-Safety: Urban Safety Analysis in A Smart City”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017.
  17. Y. Yao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, and J. Guan, “An Efficient Learning-based Approach to Multi-objective Route Planning in a Smart City”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017.
  18. S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, Q. Xiao, and Y. Song, “SCoP: Smartphone Energy Saving by Merging Push Services in Fog Computing”, in Proc. of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2017.
  19. S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, and Y. Song, “Secure and Energy Efficient Prefetching Design for Smartphones”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2016.
  20. J. Li, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “Smartphone-Assisted Smooth Live Video Broadcast on Wearable Cameras”, in Proc. of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2016.
  21. J. Li, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, and Y. Hua, “Make Smartphones Last A Day: Pre-processing Based Computer Vision Application Offloading”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2015.

 

Committees/Professional Services

  • Associate Editor, IET Blockchain, 2022 -
  • Guest Editor, Computer Communications (JCR Q1), 2024 -
  • Guest Editor, Electronics, 2024 -
  • Guest Editor, Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2023 -
  • Program Vice-Chair, International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), 2025
  • Organizing Chair, International Conference on Digital-Economy-Driven Business, Finance and Information Technology (DBFIT), 2025
  • Session Chair, “QoS II”, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2024
  • Session Chair, “Blockchain-Empowered Industrial Web 3.0”, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2024

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