I’m currently a Ph.D. student at The University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Heming Cui. I received my B.Eng. degree from The University of Science and Technology of China. My research interests include distributed training systems, robotic systems, and networking.

Education

  • Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong (2020.09 until now)
    • Supervisor: Prof. Heming Cui
    • Research Interests: Distributed systems, Robotic systems, Networking
  • B.Eng., Special Class for the Gifted Young, The University of Science and Technology of China (2016.09 to 2020.07)
    • Major: Computer Science and Technology
    • Talent Program in Artificial Intelligence (Offered by School of Information Science and Technology, USTC in cooperation with iFLYTEK)

Publications

  • HE-Nav: A High-Performance and Efficient Navigation System for Aerial-Ground Robots in Cluttered Environments (TBD, Accepted)

    Junming Wang, Zekai Sun, Xiuxian Guan, Tianxiang Shen, Dong Huang, Zongyuan Zhang, Tianyang Duan, Fangming Liu, Heming Cui

    2024 The IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L 2024)

  • New Problems in Distributed Inference for DNN Models on Robotic IoT (TBD, Accepted)

    Zekai Sun, Xiuxian Guan, Junming Wang, Fangming Liu, Heming Cui

    2024 Workshop on Advanced Tools, Programming Languages, and PLatforms for Implementing and Evaluating algorithms for Distributed systems (ApPLIED’24)

  • AGRNav: Efficient and Energy-Saving Autonomous Navigation for Air-Ground Robots in Occlusion-Prone Environments (TBD, Accepted)

    Junming Wang, Zekai Sun, Xiuxian Guan, Tianxiang Shen, Zonyuan Zhang, Tianyang Duan, Dong Huang, Shixiong Zhao, Heming Cui

    2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024)

  • ROG: A High Performance and Robust Distributed Training System for Robotic IoT (link)

    Xiuxian Guan*, Zekai Sun*, Shengliang Deng, Xusheng Chen, Shixiong Zhao, Zongyuan Zhang, Tianyang Duan, Yuexian Wang, Chenshu Wu, Yong Cui, Libo Zhang, Yanjun Wu, Rui Wang, Heming Cui

    *Parallel First Author, equal contribution

    Proceedings of the 55th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’22). ACM results reproduced badge.

  • COORP: Satisfying Low-Latency and High-Throughput Requirements of Wireless Network for Coordinated Robotic Learning (link)

    Shengliang Deng, Xiuxian Guan, Zekai Sun, Shixiong Zhao, Tianxiang Shen, Xusheng Chen, Tianyang Duan, Yuexuan Wang, Jia Pan, Yanjun Wu, Libo Zhang, Heming Cui

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2022 (IOT-J’22)

  • MVSAS: Semantic-Aware Scheduling for Low Latency and High Precision in Wireless Multi-View Applications (link)

    Xiuxian Guan, Zekai Sun, Shengliang Deng, Shixiong Zhao, Tianxiang Shen, Tsz On Li, Yuexuan Wang, Rui Wang, Heming Cui

    Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’21)

  • CTDMA: Color-aware TDMA Network System For Low latency and High Throughput in Dense D2D Wireless Network (link)

    Xiuxian Guan, Yawei Li, Yuexuan Wang, Zekai Sun, Shengliang Deng, Heming Cui

    Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS’20)

Project and Internship

  • Robot computing offloading test service project of China Telecom Sichuan Company (2023.02 to 2023.07)
    • Cooperate with Cloud Network Development Department and Science and Technology Innovation Department of China Telecom Sichuan Company
  • Research internship, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (2021.10 to 2022.12)
    • AI training and computing group, Department of Basic Software Research
  • Student Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong(2019.06 to 2019.10)
    • Advisor: Prof. Heming Cui
    • Took part in the thesis “Fulva: Efficient Live Migration for In-memory Key-Value Stores with Zero Downtime”, which was published on Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS‘19)