Xiaohua Jia (CV)
Education Background
- DSc (91) in Information Science,
The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Bsc (84) and Msc (86) in Computer Science, The University of Science and Technology of China
Employment Experience
Research Interests and Specialities
- Data Privacy and Security, and Blockchain Technologies
- Cloud Computing and Web Technologies
- Distributed Systems, Networking, and Mobile Computing
Teaching Courses
Research Students Supervision (Call for PhD Students)
Awards and Recognitions
- HK RGC (Research Grant Council) Senior Research Fellow Award 2024/25, Jul 2024
- IEEE TCDP (Technical Committee on Distributed Processing) Outstanding Service and Contributions Award, 2024
- ACM Distinguished Member, 2018
- IEEE Fellow (Computer Society), 2013
- Best Paper Award, "EMGSense: A Low-Effort Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for EMG Sensing," IEEE PerCom 2023, Mar 2023
- Best Paper Award, "ReDetect: Reentrancy Vulnerability Detection in Smart Contracts with High Accuracy," IEEE MSN (Mobility, Sensing and Networking), Dec 2021, Exeter, UK
- Best Paper Award, "HybrIDX: New Hybrid Index for Volume-hiding Range Queries in Data Outsourcing Services", IEEE ICDCS, 2020
- Best Paper Award, "SNIFF: A Scalable Network Inference Framework for Measuring End-to-End Performance Based on Matrix Completion", The 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications, Aug 2019
- Best Student Paper Award, "Reservation Schemes for IaaS Cloud Broker: A Time-multiplexing Way for Different Rental Time", The 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA), Aug 2016
- Best Student Paper Award, "Distributed load scheduling in smart community with capacity constrained local power supplier", The 34th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2015
Conference Organizations
- General Chair, IEEE ICDCS 2023
- General Chair, ACM ICN 2019
- Co-Organizer, Summer School on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technologies, City University of Hong Kong, 1-2 Aug 2019
- Steering Committee Co-Chair, IEEE Conference of Mobile and Sensor Networks (MSN)
- Director of Croucher Foundation ASI on
Security and Privacy of Cloud and Social Networks, Dec 2014
- TPC Co-Chair,
Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Netwroks Symposium, ICNC 2012, Hawaii, Jan-Feb 2012
- Panel Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2011
- TPC Co-Chair, IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 - Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Hawaii, 2010
- TPC Co-Chair, IEEE MASS 2009 , Macau, 5 - 8 Oct 2009
- General Chair,
ACM MobiHoc'08, Hong Kong, 26 - 30 May 2008
Journal Editorship
Recent Research Projects as PI (Call for RAs and Post-Docs)
- Robust Aggregation, Proof-of-data and Proof-of-training in Federated Learning, RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS2425-1S01), HK$7,992,660, 1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2029
- Secure and Incentivized Data Sharing with Enhanced Ownership for Decentralized Networks, RGC RIF (Research Impact Fund), HK$7,842,858, Jun 2022 - May 2026.
- Secure and Compressed Key-Value Store for Outsourced Data in Cloud Computing, RGC GRF (General Research Fund), HK$1,367,050, 1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2025
- A Blockchain-based Federated Crowdsourcing Platform for Privacy-preserving Applications, RGC GRF, HK$1,057,394, Jan 2021 - Dec 2023.
- A Secure and Verifiable P2P Storage Framework with Dynamic Encrypted Search using Blockchain, HK RGC GRF, HK$731,089, Jan 2020 - Dec 2022.
- Privacy-preserving Task Recommendation for Cloud-based Crowdsourcing, HK RGC GRF, HK$700,000, Jan 2018 - Dec 2020.
- Security and Privacy-enhancing Technologies for Cloud Storage of Big Data, HK RGC CRF (Collaborative Research Fund), HK$5,983,404, Jul 2017 - Jun 2020.
Publications
DBLP