Prof Xiaohua Jia (CV) and Jia's Lab

Chair Professor, IEEE Fellow (Computer Society), ACM Distinguished Member
Director of Center of Decentralized Trust Computing (CDTC)
Dept of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
Email: csjia at cityu.edu.hk
Office: +852 3442 9670
DBLP Publication List and ORCID
Google Scholar Citations (high H-index computer scientists)

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

• 1996 - present: City University of Hong Kong
• 1991 - 1996: The University of Queensland, Australia

Research Interests and Specialities

• Data Privacy and Security, and Blockchain Technologies
• Cloud Computing and Web Technologies
• Distributed Systems, Networking, and Mobile Computing

Teaching Courses

• CS1102 Introduction to Computer Studies
• CS4273 Distributed System Technologies and Programming
• CS6223 Distributed Systems
• Mobile Computing

Research Students Supervision (Call for PhD Students)

• List of PhD Students
• How to write good research articles
• Good Writing Practice (by Ivan Stojmenovic) and The art of presentation (by Baochun Li)

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

• Editor of IEEE Trans. on Computers
• Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2012-2018)
• Editor of IEEE Trans on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2006-2009)
• Editor of Journal of Networks (JNW)
• Editor of World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems
• Editor of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
• Editor of International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC)

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

Seminar Slides