Academic Staff

Brief Biosketch

Dr. Peng is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining ISE, he was a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University and 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 include Blockchain, Web3, AIoT, Data Security and Privacy. He has published a series of papers in prestigious journals and conferences, such as IEEE TMC, IEEE ToN, IEEE TDSC, ACM SIGMOD, ACM CCS, IEEE ICDE, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE IROS, etc. He is ranked among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2024.

Research Interests

• Blockchain and Web3
• Artificial Intelligence of Things
• Data Security and Privacy

Selected Journal Publications

• 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), 2024.
• Y. Li, Y. Lu, X. Yang, and Z. Peng, “Blockchain-Empowered Multi-skilled Crowdsourcing for Mobile Web 3.0”, Computer Communications, 2024.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Workshop on Mobile Ubiquitous Systems and Technologies (IWMUST), 2021. (Best Paper Award)
• 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) Workshop, 2019.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 -
• Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE ICDE Workshop on Blockchain and Data Management (BlockDM), 2021
• Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE ICNP Workshop on Blockchain and Mobile Applications (BlockApp), 2021
• Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE ICDCS Workshop on Blockchain and Mobile Applications (BlockApp), 2020
• Technical Program Committee Member, BenchCouncil International Symposium on Block Chain (BChain), 2020