Ning Chen (陈宁)

   Ning Chen (陈宁)

Dr. Ning Chen (S'19-M'24) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees separately in software engineering from the Dalian University of Technology in 2016 and 2019, a Ph.D. degree at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China, in 2023. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. He was an exchange student at the Institute of Information of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands (2021-2022), where CSC fully supported the scholarship.

He serves as a reviewer of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) and IEEE Communications Magazine. He serves as PC Member, Workshop Chair, Session Chair or Reviewer of several international conferences.

He co-authored 1 book and over 20 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Surveys $\&$ Tutorials, IEEE Communications Magazine, WASA, CSCWD, etc. There are 2 papers listed as ESI highly cited papers. He won several awards, including two National Scholarships, Outstanding Graduate in Liaoning Province, Excellent Student Cadre, etc. His research interests cover the smart city, large-scale Internet of Things and wireless sensor networks. He is a Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), IEEE and ACM.

💡 Research Interests

  • Industrial Internet of Things.
  • Robustness Networking.
  • Topology Optimization.
  • Industrial Foundation Model.

🔥 News

  • Good news! Our paper (DAiMo: Motif Density Enhances Topology Robustness for Highly Dynamic Scale-free IoT) is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) (CCF A), 11/5/2024.

📖 Educations

  • From 2024.01 to present : Postdoc, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
  • From 2019.09 to 2023.10 : Ph.D., College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
  • From 2021.11 to 2022.11 : Ph.D, Institute of Information, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • From 2016.09 to 2019.06 : M.E., School of Software and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
  • From 2012.09 to 2016.06 : B.E., School of Software and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.

📝 Publications

2024 TON
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A Distributed Co-Evolutionary Optimization Method With Motif for Large-Scale IoT Robustness (CCF A)

Ning Chen, Tie Qiu, Xiaobo Zhou, Songwei Zhang, Weisheng Si, Dapeng Oliver Wu

  • We leverage both distributed computing and asynchronous communication mechanisms to mitigate premature convergence and reduce time complexity for large-scale IoT topologies.
2024 TC
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Olive-like Networking: A Uniformity Driven Robust Topology Generation Scheme for IoT System (CCF A)

Tie Qiu, Jingchen Sun, Ning Chen, Songwei Zhang, Weisheng Si, Xingwei Wang

  • We examine various robust networks and observe that uniform degree distribution is the core of topology robustness. Consequently, we propose a novel UNIformity driven robusT topologY generation scheme (UNITY) for IoT systems to prevent the node degree from becoming excessively high or low, thereby balancing node degrees.
2021 TON
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An Adaptive Robustness Evolution Algorithm With Self-Competition and its 3D Deployment for Internet of Things (CCF A)

Ning Chen, Tie Qiu, Zilong Lu, Dapeng Oliver Wu

  • We explore an Adaptive Robustness Evolution Algorithm (AREA) that performs well, which effectively improve robustness and keep the node degree distribution unchanged in the scale-free IoT topology.
2022 TON
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Born This Way: A Self-Organizing Evolution Scheme with Motif for Internet of Things Robustness(CCF A)

Tie Qiu, Lidi Zhang, Ning Chen

  • We proposes an evolutionary algorithm to generate a robust IoT topology called “Born This Way: a self-organizing evolution scheme with Motif” (BTW-Motif), which can generate more robust topologies compared with the existing topology optimization algorithms.
2023 TON
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A Self-Adaptive Robustness Optimization Method With Evolutionary Multi-Agent for IoT Topology(CCF A)

Tie Qiu, Xinwei Yang, Ning Chen, Songwei Zhang, Geyong Min, Dapeng Oliver Wu

  • We proposes a self-adaptive robustness optimization method with an evolutionary multi-agent for IoT topology (ROMEM), which can achieve multi-directional collaborative training and outperform other state-of-the-art learning-based robustness optimization methods in terms of convergence efficiency and robustness.

  1. Xinwei Yang, Ning Chen, Songwei Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou, Lejun Zhang, Tie Qiu. An evolutionary reinforcement learning scheme for iot robustness. 2023 26th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2023, pp. 756-761. (CCF C)

  2. Songwei Zhang, Tie Qiu, Ning Chen, Huansheng Ning, Min Han, Xingcheng Liu. A Robust Networking Model with Quantum Evolution for Internet of Things. IEEE Network, 2023. (SCI I, IF = 9.3)

  3. Haodong Wang, Ning Chen, Zan Liu, Songwei Zhang, Zhiguo Li, Tie Qiu. Multi‐parameters dynamic scheduling with energy management for electric vehicle charging stations. IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing, 2023, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 91-95. (JCR Q2,IF = 8.2)

  4. Tie Qiu, Ning Chen, Songwei ZhangRobustness. Robustness Optimization for IoT Topology. Springer, 2022.

  5. Liu Likun, Qiu Tie, Xu Tianyi, Ning Chen, Wan Zhiguo. User fine-grained reliability and truth estimate model on mobile crowdsensing. Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2022, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 70.

  6. Ning Chen, Tie Qiu, Laiping Zhao, Xiaobo Zhou, Huansheng Ning. Edge Intelligent Networking Optimization for Internet of Things in Smart City. IEEE Wireless Communications, 2021, pp. 26-31. (SCI I, IF = 12.9)

  7. Ning Chen, Tie Qiu, Mahmoud Daneshmand, Dapeng Oliver Wu. Robust networking: Dynamic topology evolution learning for Internet of Things. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2021, pp. 1-23. (CCF B, SCI III, IF = 4.1)

  8. Ning Chen, Tie Qiu, Chaoxu Mu, Min Han, Pan Zhou. Deep actor–critic learning-based robustness enhancement of Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020, pp. 6191-6200. (SCI I, CCF C, IF = 10.6)

  9. Ning Chen, Tie Qiu, Xiaobo Zhou, Keqiu Li, Mohammed Atiquzzaman . An Intelligent Robust Networking Mechanism for Internet of Things. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2019, vol. 57, no. 11, pp. 91-95. (SCI I, IF = 11.2)

  10. Hao Liu, Tie Qiu, Xiaobo Zhou, Chen Chen, Ning Chen. Parking-area-assisted Spider-web Routing Protocol for Emergency Data in Urban VANET. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019. (SCI II, IF = 6.8)

  11. Xize Liu, Tie Qiu, Chen Chen, Huansheng Ning, Ning Chen. An Incremental Broad Learning Approach for Semi-Supervised Classification. IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 2019, pp. 250-254.

  12. Wang Xin, Qiu Tie, Chen Chen, Ning Chen. A Neural-Network-Based Real-end Collision Prediction Mechanism for Smart Cities. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT). IEEE, 2019, pp. 496-497.

  13. Tie Qiu, Xize Liu, Keqiu Li, Qing Hu, A. Sangaiah, Ning Chen. Community-aware data propagation with small world feature for Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2018, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 86-91. (SCI I, IF = 11.2)

  14. Tie Qiu, Ning Chen, Keqiu Li, Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Wenbing Zhao . How can heterogeneous Internet of Things build our future: a survey. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2018, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 2011-2027. (SCI I, IF = 22.97, ESI Highly Cited Paper)

  15. Tie Qiu, Ning Chen, Keqiu Li, Daji Qiao, Zhangjie Fu . Heterogeneous ad hoc networks: architectures, advances and challenges. Ad Hoc Networks, 2017, vol. 55, pp. 143-152. (JCR Q2, ESI Highly Cited Paper)

  16. Tie Qiu, Yuan Lv, Feng Xia, Ning Chen, Jiafu Wan, Amr Tolba . ERGID: An efficient routing protocol for emergency response Internet of Things. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2016, vol. 72, no. 9, pp. 104-112. (Elsevier, SCI II)

🎖 Awards

  • Outstanding Contribution Award received from 2023 IEEE ComSoc School Series Tianjin Event.

  • Outstanding Contribution Award received from IEEE SmartIoT’20.

  • Excellent Graduate Student at Tianjin University, 2023.

  • The Scholarship of Tan Xu-Guang Alumni, 2022.

  • Excellent Student at Tianjin University, 2020-2022.

  • National Scholarship, 2021.

  • Outstanding Youth Scholarship, 2020.

  • Excellent Student in Tianjin, 2020.

  • Excellent Student Cadre in Tianjin University, 2020.

  • The First Prize Scholarship in Tianjin University, 2019-2022.

  • Outstanding Graduate in Liaoning Province, 2019.

  • National Scholarship, 2017.

  • Excellent Student Cadre, 2017.

  • National Encouragement Scholarship, 2015.

  • National Encouragement Scholarship, 2014.

💬 Invited Talks

  1. “The research activities and life in Amsterdam”, Tianjin University, 15/03/2023.
  2. “A Self-evolution Strategy for Large Scalable Robust IoT”, UvA, Amsterdam, 07/11/2022.
  3. “LEGO: a fast optimisation method for large IoT robustness with motif bases”, UvA, Amsterdam, 26/10/2022.
  4. “Edge Intelligent Networking Optimisation for Internet of Things in Smart City”, ICT.Open Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 06/04/2022 - 07/04/2022.
  5. “DAiMo: What Motif Density Brings to Robustness for Large Scale-free IoT”, TJU, 13/05/2021.
  6. “Wireless Network Intelligence at the Edge”, TJU, 26/03/2021.
  7. “What motif immunity brings to robustness and reliability of scale-free Internet of Things?”, TJU, 30/07/2020.

💻 Academic Activities

Conference Committee Members:

  1. Member of Organizing Committee: 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (IEEE SmartIoT’2023), China, 25/08/2023 – 27/08/2023.
  2. Member of Organizing Committee: IEEE ComSoc School Series Tianjin Event, China, 19/08/20231. 22/08/2023.
  3. Member of Program Committee: 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT’2023), China, 28/12/2023 – 30/12/2023.
  4. Member of Program Committee: 22nd International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC’2023), China, 28/12/2023 – 30/12/2023.
  5. Member of Program Committee: 26th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE’2023), UK, 1/11/2023 – 3/11/2023.
  6. Member of Program Committee: 17th International Conference on Algorithms, Systems, and Applications of Wireless Networks (WASA’2022), China, 7/04/2023 – 9/04/2023.
  7. Member of Program Committee: 28th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’2022), China, 10/01/2022 – 12/01/2022.

Reviewer of International Premier Journals:

  1. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  2. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  3. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  4. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
  5. Computer Communications
  6. IEEE Wireless Communications
  7. IEEE Communications Magazine
  8. Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  9. Journal of Cloud Computing

Reviewer of International Premier Conferences:

  1. 17th China Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (CWSN’2023), China, 13/10/2023 – 15/10/2023.
  2. 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD’2022), China, 04/05/2022 – 06/05/2022. May 41. 6, 2022
  3. 17th International Conference on Algorithms, Systems, and Applications of Wireless Networks (WASA’2022), China, 7/04/2023 – 9/04/2023.
  4. 25th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’2019), China, 04/12/2019 – 06/12/2019.

Session Chairs of International Premier Conferences:

  1. 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (IEEE SmartIoT’2023), China, 25/08/2023 – 27/08/2023.
  2. IEEE ComSoc School Series Tianjin Event, China, 19/08/20231. 22/08/2023.
  3. 17th International Conference on Algorithms, Systems, and Applications of Wireless Networks (WASA’2022), China, 7/04/2023 – 9/04/2023.
  4. 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (IEEE SmartIoT’2021), South Korera, 13/08/2023 – 15/08/2023.
  5. 25th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’2019), China, 04/12/2019 – 06/12/2019.