Associate Professor
Affiliated Faculty, Translational Data Analytics Institute
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Automotive Research
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1210
Office: 483 Dreese Labs
Email: zhu.3445@osu.edu
General
I am an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The Ohio State University. I received NSF CAREER award in 2017. I have dual appointments and am advising students in both the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) program and Computer Science (CSE) program. I’m looking for visiting scholars, Master’s, and Ph.D. students to work in Energy, Systems, Big Data, Communications and Networking. Please contact me if you are interested.
I am an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The Ohio State University. I received NSF CAREER award in 2017. I have dual appointments and am advising students in both the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) program and Computer Science (CSE) program. I’m looking for visiting scholars, Master’s, and Ph.D. students to work in Energy, Systems, Big Data, Communications and Networking. Please contact me if you are interested.
News
- Our paper “VMscatter: A Versatile MIMO Backscatter” was accepted in USENIX NSDI 2020.
- Our paper “Parallel Inclusive Communication for Connecting Heterogeneous IoT Devices at the Edge” was selected as Best Paper Award Candidate in ACM SenSys’19.
- Our paper “CRF: Coexistent Routing and Flooding using WiFi Packets in Heterogeneous IoT Networks” has been accepted in INFOCOM’19.
- Our paper “Simultaneous Bi-directional Communications and Data Forwarding using a Single ZigBee Data Stream” has been accepted in INFOCOM’19.
- Our paper “Passive-ZigBee: Enabling ZigBee Communication in IoT Networks with 1000X+ Less Power Consumption” was awarded Best Paper Runner-Up Award ACM SenSys’18.
- Our paper “ECT: Exploiting Cross-Technology Concurrent Transmission for Reducing Packet Delivery Delay in IoT Networks” has been accepted in INFOCOM’18.
- Our paper “Aegis: An Interference-Negligible RF Sensing Shield” has been accepted in INFOCOM’18.
- Papers accepted in ICNP’17 and INFOCOM’17 can be found here.
- Our paper “EMF: Embedding Multiple Flows of Information in Existing Traffic for Concurrent Communication among Heterogeneous IoT Devices” has been accepted in INFOCOM’17.
- Our paper “PMC: Parallel Multi-protocol Communication to Heterogeneous IoT Radios within a Single WiFi Channel” has been accepted in ICNP’17.
- The camera-ready version of our SenSys’16, ICNP’16, RTSS’16, IPSN’16, AsiaCCS’16 papers can be found here.
- Eight papers accepted in top conferences (i.e., SenSys’16, ICNP’16, INFOCOM’16, RTSS’16, IPSN’16, BigData’16, AsiaCCS’16) in 2016. Congratulations to my visiting scholars, undergrad and grad students!
- Our Microgrid paper selected as one of top three best papers at BuildSys ’14.
Our e-Energy 2013 paper was a finalist for the best paper award.
Awards and Honors
- Best Paper Award Candidate, SenSys 2019
- Distinguished Member of INFOCOM 2019 TPC, INFOCOM 2019
- Best Paper Runner-up Award, SenSys 2018
- CAREER Award, NSF, 2017
- IEEE Senior Member, 2017
- Best Research Paper Award, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2016
- Summer Faculty Fellowship, UMBC, 2015
- Best Paper Runner-up Award, BuildSys 2014
- Visiting Faculty Research Program Award, Air Force Research Lab, 2014
- Finalist for Best Paper Award, e-Energy 2013
- The New York State/United University Professions Individual Development Award, 2011
- NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow (47 out of all recent Ph.D. graduates in U.S.), 2010
- Nominee for Best Paper Award, SenSys 2010
Research Interests
- Networking [Representative Work: ICNP’09, INFOCOM’09, NSD’10, ICNP’11, INFOCOM’14, ICNP’14, ICNP’15, ICNP’16, INFOCOM’16, AsiaCCS’16, SenSys’16, INFOCOM’17, INCP’17, INFOCOM’18, INFOCOM’19 SenSys’19,]
Internet of Things, Wireless and Sensor Networks, Network Protocols, Social Networks, Spectrum Access, and Security
- Systems [Representative Work: MobiSys’09, INFOCOM’12, ICCPS’13, SenSys’13, SECON’14, INFOCOM’15, ICCPS’15b, IPSN’16, RTSS’16, ACM SenSys’18, IEEE MobiSys’18]
Embedded Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, Mobile Systems, Distributed Systems, and Operating Systems
- Energy [Representative Work: SenSys’10, BuildSys’11, e-Energy’12, e-Energy’13, BuildSys’14, e-Energy’15, ICCPS’15a, ICC’17, ICC’18, ICC’19]Renewable and Sustainable Energies, Power Electronics, Energy Transmission and Storage, and Power Systems
- Misc [Representative Work: ICDE’14, BigData’14, BigData’16a, BigData’16b] Big Data, Health/Bioinformatics, and Human-Computer Interaction
Selected Publications:
[Full List]
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- [ACM SenSys ’19]Zicheng Chi, Yan Li, Xin Liu, Yao Yao, Yanchao Zhang, and Ting Zhu.
Parallel Inclusive Communication for Connecting Heterogeneous IoT Devices at the Edge.
To appear in the 17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, New York, USA, November, 2019. [pdf] [Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 19.4%
- [ACM SenSys ’19]Zicheng Chi, Yan Li, Xin Liu, Yao Yao, Yanchao Zhang, and Ting Zhu.
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- [INFOCOM ’19]Wei Wang, Xin Liu, Yao Yao, Yan Pan, Zicheng Chi, and Ting Zhu.
CRF: Coexistent Routing and Flooding using WiFi Packets in Heterogeneous IoT Networks.
To appear in the 38th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Paris, France, April 2019. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 19.2%
- [INFOCOM ’19]Wei Wang, Xin Liu, Yao Yao, Yan Pan, Zicheng Chi, and Ting Zhu.
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- [INFOCOM ’19]Zicheng Chi, Yan Li, Zhichuan Huang, Hongyu Sun, and Ting Zhu.
Simultaneous Bi-directional Communications and Data Forwarding using a Single ZigBee Data Stream.
To appear in the 38th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Paris, France, April 2019. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 19.2%
- [INFOCOM ’19]Zicheng Chi, Yan Li, Zhichuan Huang, Hongyu Sun, and Ting Zhu.
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- [SenSys ’18] Yan Li, Zicheng Chi, Xin Liu, and Ting Zhu.
Passive ZigBee: Enabling ZigBee Communication in IoT networks with 1000x Less Power Consumption.
To appear in 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor System, Shenzhen, China, November, 2018. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 15.6%. Best Paper Runner-up Award
- [SenSys ’18] Yan Li, Zicheng Chi, Xin Liu, and Ting Zhu.
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- [SenSys ’18] Zicheng Chi, Yao Yao, Tiantian Xie, Xin Liu, Zhichuan Huang, Wei Wang,
and Ting Zhu.
EAR: Exploiting Uncontrollable Ambient RF Signals in Heterogeneous Networks for Gesture Recognition.
To appear in 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor System, Shenzhen, China, November, 2018. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 15.6%
- [SenSys ’18] Zicheng Chi, Yao Yao, Tiantian Xie, Xin Liu, Zhichuan Huang, Wei Wang,
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- [INFOCOM ’18] Wei Wang, Tiantian Xie, Xin Liu, and Ting Zhu.
ECT: Exploiting Cross-Technology Concurrent Transmission for Reducing Packet Delivery Delay in IoT Networks.
To appear in the 37th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Honolulu, HI, April, 2018. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 19.2%
- [INFOCOM ’18] Wei Wang, Tiantian Xie, Xin Liu, and Ting Zhu.
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- [INFOCOM ’17] Zicheng Chi, Zhichuan Huang, Yao Yao, Tiantian Xie, Hongyu Sun, and Ting Zhu.
EMF: Embedding Multiple Flows of Information in Existing Traffic for Concurrent Communication among Heterogeneous IoT Devices.
To appear in the 36th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Atlanta, May, 2017. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 20.93%
- [INFOCOM ’17] Zicheng Chi, Zhichuan Huang, Yao Yao, Tiantian Xie, Hongyu Sun, and Ting Zhu.
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- [BigData ’16] Zhichuan Huang, Tiantian Xie, Ting Zhu, Jianwu Wang, and Qingquan Zhang.
Application-Driven Sensing Data Reconstruction and Selection Based on Correlation Mining and Dynamic Feedback.
To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Washington D.C., December, 2016. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 19%
- [BigData ’16] Zhichuan Huang, Tiantian Xie, Ting Zhu, Jianwu Wang, and Qingquan Zhang.
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- [ICNP ’16] Zicheng Chi, Yao Yao, Tiantian Xie, Zhichuan Huang, Michael Hammond, and
Ting Zhu.
Harmony: Exploiting Coarse-Grained Received Signal Strength from IoT Devices for Human Activity Recognition.
To appear in the 24th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Singapore, 2016. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 20%
- [ICNP ’16] Zicheng Chi, Yao Yao, Tiantian Xie, Zhichuan Huang, Michael Hammond, and
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- [INFOCOM ’16] Long Cheng,
Yu Gu, Jianwei Niu, Ting Zhu, Cong Liu, Qingquan Zhang, and
Tian He.
Taming Collisions for Delay Reduction in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks.
To appear in the 35th IEEE International Conference on
Computer Communications, April, 2016. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 18%
- [INFOCOM ’16] Long Cheng,
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- [ICNP ’15] Qingquan Zhang, Wei Xu, Zhichuan Huang, Ziqiao Zhou, Ping Yi, Ting Zhu, and Sheng Xiao.
Context-Centric Target Localization with Optimal Anchor Deployments.
To appear in the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, San Francisco, November, 2015. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 20%
- [ICNP ’15] Qingquan Zhang, Wei Xu, Zhichuan Huang, Ziqiao Zhou, Ping Yi, Ting Zhu, and Sheng Xiao.
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- [e-Energy ’15] Aditya Mishra, Ramesh Sitaraman, David Irwin, Ting Zhu, Prashant
Shenoy, Bhavana Dalvi, and Stephen Lee.
Integrating Energy Storage in Electricity Distribution Networks.
To appear in the 16th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, Bangalore, India, June, 2015. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 22.8%
- [e-Energy ’15] Aditya Mishra, Ramesh Sitaraman, David Irwin, Ting Zhu, Prashant
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- [ICCPS ’15] Zhichuan Huang, David Corrigan, Ting Zhu, Hongyao Luo, Xiaoxiong
Zhan, and Yu Gu.
Exploring Power-Voltage Relationship for Distributed Peak Demand Flattening in Microgrids.
To appear in the ACM/IEEE 6th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Seattle, April, 2015. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
- [ICCPS ’15] Zhichuan Huang, David Corrigan, Ting Zhu, Hongyao Luo, Xiaoxiong
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- [INFOCOM ’15] Qingquan Zhang, Ziqiao Zhou, Wei Xu, Jing Qi, Chenxi Guo, Ping Yi,Ting Zhu, and Sheng Xiao.
Fingerprint-free Tracking with Dynamic Enhanced Field Division.
To appear in the 34th IEEE International Conference onComputer Communications, Hongkong, April, 2015. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 19%
- [INFOCOM ’15] Qingquan Zhang, Ziqiao Zhou, Wei Xu, Jing Qi, Chenxi Guo, Ping Yi,Ting Zhu, and Sheng Xiao.
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- [BuildSys ’14] Zhichuan Huang, Ting Zhu, Yu Gu, David Irwin, Aditya Mishra, and Prashant Shenoy.
Minimizing Electricity Costs by Sharing Energy in Sustainable Microgrids.
To appear in the 1st ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Memphis, TN, November, 2014. (One of top three best papers at BuildSys) [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 19.7%, selected as one of top three best papers at BuildSys!
- [BuildSys ’14] Zhichuan Huang, Ting Zhu, Yu Gu, David Irwin, Aditya Mishra, and Prashant Shenoy.
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- [SECON ’14] Zheng Dong, Linghe Kong, Peng Cheng, Liang He, Yu Gu, Lu Fang, Ting Zhu, and Cong Liu.
REPC: Reliable and Efficient Participatory Computing for Mobile Devices.
To appear in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communications and Networking, Singapore, July, 2014. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
- [SECON ’14] Zheng Dong, Linghe Kong, Peng Cheng, Liang He, Yu Gu, Lu Fang, Ting Zhu, and Cong Liu.
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- [INFOCOM ’14] Liang He, Peng Cheng, Yu Gu, Jianping Pan, Ting Zhu and Cong Liu.
Mobile-to-Mobile Energy Replenishment in Mission-Critical Robotics Sensor Networks.
To appear in the 33th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Toronto, Canada, April, 2014. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate 19.4%
- [INFOCOM ’14] Liang He, Peng Cheng, Yu Gu, Jianping Pan, Ting Zhu and Cong Liu.
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- [e-Energy ’13] Aditya Mishra, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Ting Zhu.
Scaling Distributed Energy Storage for Grid Peak Reduction.
To appear in the ACM 4th International Conference on Future Energy Systems, Berkeley, CA, May 2013. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 28.9%, finalist for the Best Paper Award
- [e-Energy ’13] Aditya Mishra, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Ting Zhu.
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- [ICCPS ’13] Ting Zhu, Zhichuan Huang, Ankur Sharma, Jikui Su, David Irwin, Aditya Mishra, Daniel Menasche, and Prashant Shenoy.
Sharing Renewable Energy in Smart Microgrids.
To appear in the ACM/IEEE 4th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Philadelphia, PA, April 2013. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 23%
- [ICCPS ’13] Ting Zhu, Zhichuan Huang, Ankur Sharma, Jikui Su, David Irwin, Aditya Mishra, Daniel Menasche, and Prashant Shenoy.
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- [BuildSys ’11] Ting Zhu, Aditya Mishra, David Irwin, Navin Sharma, Prashant Shenoy, and Don Towsley.
The Case for Efficient Renewable Energy Management for Smart Homes.
In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings, Seattle, WA, November, 2011. (in conjunction with ACM SenSys ’11). [pdf]
[Bibtex]
- [BuildSys ’11] Ting Zhu, Aditya Mishra, David Irwin, Navin Sharma, Prashant Shenoy, and Don Towsley.
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- [SenSys ’10] Ting Zhu, Yu Gu, Tian He, and Zhi-Li Zhang.
eShare: A Capacitor-Driven Energy Storage and Sharing Network for Long-Term Operation.
In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, Nov. 2010. (Best Paper Award Candidate) [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 17%, ranked 2nd among all the submissions and nominated for the Best Papers Award. Invited for “fast track” publication in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
- [SenSys ’10] Ting Zhu, Yu Gu, Tian He, and Zhi-Li Zhang.
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- [MobiSys ’09] Ting Zhu, Ziguo Zhong, Yu Gu, Tian He and Zhi-Li Zhang.
Leakage-Aware Energy Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks.
In Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Krakow, Poland,
Jun. 2009. [pdf]
[Bibtex]
Acceptance Rate: 20%
- [MobiSys ’09] Ting Zhu, Ziguo Zhong, Yu Gu, Tian He and Zhi-Li Zhang.
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