Zheng Wang

Systems Researcher

University of Leeds

Zheng Wang

I am an associate professor at the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. I am a member of the Distributed Systems and Services Group at Leeds and the HiPEAC Network of Excellence.

Previously, I was a senior lecturer (~UK associate professor) in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University where I led the Distributed Systems Research Group.

I am interested in developing new methods and building systems to allow computers to adapt to the ever-changing environment. My research often uses machine learning as a design methodology. My work draws from, combines and contributes to the areas of compiler-based code optimisation, runtime scheduling, parallel programming and applied machine learning. My recent research also targets systems security.

I am a recipient of the Best Paper Award in PACT 2010, CGO 2017, PACT 2017, CGO 2019, Best Presentation Award at PACT 2010, CGO 2013, a HiPEAC paper award in 2009, and Best Paper Nomination/Finalist in CCS 2018 and SenSys 2019.

July, 2019: I have two fully funded PhD studentships available for Home/EU and International Students. Being an advisor to students is the best part of my job. Have a look at my research interests and recent publications. If any of those grab you, send me with a CV and a short text describing your background. Please read here before apply.

News

[Jan, 2020] One paper accepted by ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.
[Dec, 2019] Our work on SLP vectorizaiton-aware loop unrolling is accepted by ACM CC 2020
[Dec, 2019] Our work on optimizing interactive web browsing is accepted by INFOCOM 2020
[Nov, 2019] WideSee was nominated for the best paper award at ACM SenSys 2019
[Nov, 2019] One paper accepted by ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
[Feb, 2019] Received the Best Paper Award at CGO ‘19
[October, 2018] Our ACM CCS 2018 submission is among the best paper award finalists! (top-4 ranked papers)

Research Team

RAs

Vicent Sanz Marco
Volker Seeker

PhD Students

Ben Taylor, 10 / 2015 -, supported by a FST PhD studentship
Willy WOLFF, 02 / 2016 -, co-supervise with Geraint North from ARM, support by an iCASE PhD studentship.
Rodrigo Caetano Rocha 10 / 2016 -, co-supervise with Hugh Leather and Murray Cole from the University of Edinburgh
Guixin Ye, 09 / 2016 -, co-supervise with Prof. Dingyi Fang
Jie Zhang, 09 / 2017 -, co-supervise with Prof. Dingyi Fang

Alumnus

William Ogilvie 09 / 2014 - 01 / 2018 (PhD student, co-supervise with Hugh Leather from the University of Edinburgh) - first job: Amazon
Jie Ren (Visiting PhD student, 09 / 2015 - 03 / 2016) - Now Assistant Professor at ShaanXi Normal University, China

Awards

Best Paper Award: ACM/IEEE PACT 2010, ACM/IEEE CGO 2017, ACM/IEEE PACT 2017, ACM/IEEE CGO 2019
Best Paper Nomination: ACM CCS 2018, ACM SenSys 2019
Best Presentation Award: ACM/IEEE PACT 2010, ACM/IEEE CGO 2013
HiPEAC Paper Award: PLDI 2009
IBM Bravo Award for outstanding technical contribution to Software Development Toolkit for IBM CELL BroadBand Engine Processor, IBM: 2007

Recent Publications

More Publications

Google Scholar | DBLP

[ACM TOPS] Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Break and Protect Text Captchas
Guixin Ye, Zhanyong Tang, Dingyi Fang, Zhanxing Zhu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security , 2020.

Preprint Code Dataset

[CC '20] Vectorization-Aware Loop Unrolling with Seed Forwarding
Rodrigo C. O. Rocha, Vasileios Porpodas, Pavlos Petoumenos, Luis F. W. Goes, Zheng Wang, Murray Cole, Hugh Leather
The 29th ACM SIGPLAN 2020 International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2020) , 2020.

Preprint

[ACM TECS] Optimizing Deep Learning Inference on Embedded Systems Through Adaptive Model Selection
V Sanz Marco, B Taylor, Z Wang, Y Elkhatib
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) , 2019.

Preprint Code

[CGO '19] Function Merging by Sequence Alignment
Rodrigo C. O. Rocha, Pavlos Petoumenos, Zheng Wang, Murray Cole, Hugh Leather
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Code Generationand Optimization (CGO) (~~Best Paper Award!; Artificate Evaluated.~~) , 2019.

Preprint Code Dataset

[CCS '18] Yet Another Text Captcha Solver: A Generative Adversarial Network Based Approach
Guixin Ye, Zhanyong Tang, Dingyi Fang, Zhanxing Zhu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang
The 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (~~Best Paper Award Finalist!~~) (~~Wide Media Coverage:~~ ZDNet, Computing, v3, security.nl, india.com, scitecheuropa, digital trends, infosecurity-magazine, techtimes, Xinhua News Agent, Guang Ming Daily (Major Newspaper in China), and many others…) , 2018.

Preprint Code Dataset

Projects

Socially Responsible AI for Distributed Autonomous Systems

White Rose Collaboration Grant, CoI, 2020 - 2021

CIDER: Crowd-based Intelligent Design of EnviRonment

Research England, CoI, 2020

GEM: translational software for outbreak analysis

WelcomeTrust, Co-PI, 2020 - 2021

Software Bug Detection and Fix Generation by Learning from Large Code Examples

The Royal Society International Collaboration Grant, PI, 03/2017 - 03/2019

Energy and Performance Optimisation for Mobile Systems

EPSRC iCASE Studentship with ARM Ltd, PI, 02/2016 - 08/2019

SANDeRs: Smart, Adaptive Compilation for Dark Silicon

EPSRC, PI, 06 / 2015 - 12 / 2017

DIVIDEND: Distributed Heterogeneous Vertically IntegrateD ENergy Efficient Data centres

EPSRC, PI, 01 / 2015 - 12 / 2016

ALEA: Abstraction-Level Energy Accounting for Many-core Programming Languages

EPSRC, CoI, 12 / 2013 - 12 / 2016

Energy and Performance Optimisaiton on Mobile

Lancaster FST Small Grant, PI, 01 / 2014 - 12 / 2014

Energy-efficient Optimisation for Data Centres

Lancaster University Early Career Grant, PI, 09 / 2013 - 08 / 2014

Teaching

Teaching @ Lancaster University

SCC.311 Distributed Systems, 2013-2018
SCC.369 Embedded Systems, 2016-2018
SCC.120 Fundamentals of Computer Science, 2015-2017
SCC.360 Computer Science Seminars, 2013

Services

Professional Services

Program/General Chair: COSMIC 2019 @ CGO 2019, COSMIC 2017 @ CGO 2017, COSMIC 2015 @ CGO 2015, COSMIC 2013 @ CGO 2013, HiPEAC Thematic Session 2013 and 2016
Artifact Evaluation Chair: PACT 2016
Lightning Talk Chair: PLDI 2017
Program Committee Member: IPDPS’20, CGO ‘20, PPoPP ‘20, NPC ‘19, Aorta @ ECOOP ‘19, ACL ‘19, IJCAI ‘19, IPDPS ‘19, ICAC ‘19, PACT ‘18, NPC ‘18, ICPADS ‘18, COLING ‘18, INFOCOMP ‘18, ICAC ‘18, ParCo ‘17, CC ‘16, ERPP ‘15, ML4PL ‘15, ParCo ‘15, ICPP-EMS ‘15, PASA ‘14, PASA ‘13, ITCS ‘12, ITCS ‘11, ICPADS ‘09
External Review Committee Member: CGO 2018, CGO 2015, PLDI 2014, HPCA 2015, HiPEAC 2011

Biography

July 2018 -, Associate Professor, School of Computing, University of Leeds
August 2018 - July 2019, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University.
Sept 2013 - July, 2018, Lecturer, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University.
2012 - 2013, Research Associate, the University of Edinbugh.
2007 - 2011, PhD Student, the University of Edinburgh. Aademic advisor: Professor Michael O’Boyle FBCS.
2005 - 2007, Research Staff member, IBM China

Contact

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zwanghk
School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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