Personal Profile

Dr. Xiao Jiang is currently an associate professor in School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China. She received the BSc degree from HUST in 2009 and the PhD degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2014. She has been engaged in research on blockchain and distributed computing. Jiang has directed many research and development projects and grants from funding agencies such as National Key R&D Program (Youth Scientist Project), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and industries like Tencent and Intel, and been invited by NSFC in reviewing research projects. Her awards include CCF-Intel Young Faculty Research Program 2017, ACM (Wuhan) Rising Star Award 2019, Hubei Province Youth Science and Technology Chenguang Program 2018， Knowledge Innovation Program of Wuhan-Shuguang 2022, and Best Paper Awards from ICPADS/GLOBECOM/GPC.

Academic Degrees

2011.9-2014.6

Hongkong University of Science and Technology, Doctoral Degree in Engineering - Postgraduate (Doctoral)

2009.9-2011.8

Hongkong University of Science and Technology, Master's Degree in Engineering - Postgraduate (Master's Degree)

2005.9-2009.6

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Undergraduate (Bachelor’s degree)

Professional Experience

2014.6-2016.11

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Fok Ying Tung Research Institute - Research Assistant Professor

Courses Taught

[1] Artificial intelligence and scene perception /Autumn Term /32Required Class Hours

[2] Blockchain technology and applications, /Autumn Term /32Required Class Hours

Awards and Honors

[1] 2022, Knowledge Innovation Program of Wuhan-Shuguang

[2] 2021, Best Paper Award at China Blockchain Technology Conference

[3] 2019, The Only Best Paper Award of the international conference of GPC 2019

[4] 2019, ACM (Wuhan) Rising Star Award

[5] 2018, Hubei Province Youth Science and Technology Chenguang Program

[6] 2017, CCF-Intel Young Scholars Promotion Program of China Computer Federation

[7] 2013, the Junior Research Award at the 10th ACM-HK Student Research and Career

[8] 2012, Best Paper Award of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2012)

[9] 2012, The Only Best Paper Award (ranked 1st) of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2012)

Selected Projects Funded

[1] “Research on Underlying Data Storage Methods for Graph-based Blockchain Systems”, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 62072197), $560,000, 2021.1-2024.12, PI.

[2] “Research and Implementation on Indoor Localization Technology”, the Technology Innovation Project of Hubei Province of China under Grant (Grant No: 2019AEA171), $2,000,000, 2019.9.1-2022.8.31, PI.

[3] “Blockchain Transaction Monitoring and Identification”, Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (Grant No: 2020B0101090005), $800,000, PI.

[4] “Research on Fine-grained Gesture Recognition by Exploiting Wireless Physical Layer Information”, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 61702203), $250,000, 2018-2020, PI.

[5] “Artificial Intelligence and Scene Sensing”, Intel Cooperation, (Grant No. CG38467249), $12,000 USD, 2018-2019, PI.

[6] “Research on Transfer Learning-based Fine-grained Gesture Recognition”, the Hubei Natural Science Foundation (Grant No: 2018CFB133), $50,000, 2018-2019, PI.

[7] 2018.01 - 2020.12, HUST University Starup Scientific Research Fund, 150K, PI.

[8] 2018.01 - 2019.12, Principle Investigator (PI) of "Research on Transfer Learning Based Wireless Fine-grained Gesture Recognition", National Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, 50K.

[9] Rainbowfish-funded Project, Blockchain-based Food Traceability, 2018.8.15-2018.10.15, PI.

[10] WeBank-funded Project for Courses Blockchain Technologies and Applications, 60K, 2018.9.24-2018.12.24，PI.

Selected Publications

[1] Hai Jin, Chenchen Li, Jiang Xiao*, Teng Zhang, Xiaohai Dai, and Bo Li. Detecting Arbitrage on Ethereum Through Feature Fusion and Positive-Unlabeled Learning. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC 2022). Octorber 13, 2022.

[2] Jiang Xiao, Shijie Zhang, Zhiwei Zhang, Bo Li, Xiaohai Dai, and Hai Jin. Nezha: Exploiting Concurrency for Transaction Processing in DAG-based Blockchains, In Proceedings of 42nd IEEE International Conferene on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS), October 13, 2022, Bologna, Italy.

[3] Xiaohai Dai, Liping Huang, Jiang Xiao*, Zhaonan Zhang, Xia Xie, and Hai Jin. Trebiz: Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Byzantine Merchants, In Proceedings of The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022) 2022.

[4] Rui Han, Jiang Xiao*, Xiaohai Dai, Shijie Zhang, Yi Sun, Baochun Li, and Hai Jin. Vassago: Efficient and Authenticated Provenance Query on Multiple Blockchains. In Proceedings of the 40th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2021), September 20-23, 2021, Chicago, IL, USA.

[5] Huichuwu Li, Jiang Xiao*, Wei Wang, Lu Wang, Dian Zhang, and Hai Jin. InFit: Combination Movement Recognition for Intensive Fitness Assistant Via Wi-Fi. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), 2022, pp.1-15. (CCF A)

[6] Jiang Xiao, Huichuwu Li, Minrui Wu, Hai Jin, M. Jamal Deen, Jiannong Cao. A Survey on Wireless Device-free Human Sensing: Application Scenarios, Current Solutions, and Open Issues. In ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR), April 2022.

[7] Xiaohai Dai, Jiang Xiao*, Wenhui Yang, Chaofan Wang, Jian Chang, Rui Han, and Hai Jin. LVQ: A Lightweight Verifiable Query Approach for Transaction History in Bitcoin. In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS), Singapore, November 2020.

[8] Xiaohai Dai, Jiang Xiao*, Wenhui Yang, Chaofan Wang, Hai Jin. Jidar: A Jigsaw-like Data Reduction Approach without Trust Assumptions for Bitcoin System. In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS), Dallas, USA, July 2019.

[9] Hai Jin, Xiaohai Dai, Jiang Xiao*. Towards A Novel Architecture for Enabling Interoperability Amongst Multiple Blockchains. In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS), Vienna, Austria, July 2018.

[10] Wenhui Yang, Xiaohai Dai, Jiang Xiao*, and Hai Jin. LDV: A Lightweight DAG-based Blockchain for Vehicular Social Networks”. In IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT), vol. 69, no.6, pp. 5749-5759, June 2020. (JCR Q1, IF: 5.339)

[11] Weifeng Hao, Jiajie Zeng, Xiaohai Dai, Jiang Xiao*, Qiangsheng Hua, Hanhua Chen, Kuan-Ching Li, and Hai Jin. Towards A Trust-Enhanced Blockchain P2P Topology for Enabling Fast and Reliable Broadcast. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 904-917, June 2020.

[12] Hai Jin and Jiang Xiao*. Towards Trustworthy Blockchain Systems in the Era of "Internet of Value": Development, Challenges, and Future Trends. In Science China Information Sciences (SCIS), vol. 65, no. 153101, pp. 1-11, May 2022. (JCR Q1, IF: 7.275, CCF A)

[13] Jiang Xiao, Huichuwu Li, Hai Jin. TransTrack: Online Meta-Transfer Learning and Otsu Segmentation enabled Wireless Gesture Tracking Pattern Recognition. In Pattern Recognition (PR), vol. 121, January 2022, 108157. （JCR Q1, IF: 8.518, CCF B）

[14] Jiang Xiao, Zhuang Xiong, Song Wu, Yusheng Yi, Jin Hai and Kan Hu. Disk Failure Prediction in Data Centers via Online Learning. In Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Eugene, OR, USA, August 2018, pp. 1-10. (CCF B)

[15] Hai Jin, Xiaohai Dai, Jiang Xiao*, Baochun Li, Huichuwu Li, Yan Zhang. Cross-Cluster Federated Learning and Blockchain for Internet of Medical Things. In IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOTJ), vol. 8, no. 21, pp. 15776-15784, November 1, 2021. (JCR Q1, IF: 10.238)

[16] Jian Chang, Junpei Ni, Jiang Xiao*, Xiaohai Dai, Hai Jin. SynergyChain: A Multichain-based Data Sharing Framework with Hierarchical Access Control. In IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOTJ), vol. 9, no. 16, pp. 14767-14778, August 2022. (JCR Q1, IF: 10.238)

[17] Weifeng Hao, Jiajie Zeng, Xiaohai Dai, Jiang Xiao*, Qiangsheng Hua, Hanhua Chen, Kuan-Ching Li, and Hai Jin. BlockP2P: Enabling Fast Blockchain Broadcast with Scalable Peer-to-Peer Network Topology. In Proceedings of International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC), 2019. (Best Paper Award)

Professional Affiliations

[1] Editor, IEEE Blockchain Technical Briefs Editorial Board (2018-2020)

[2] Editor, Connection Science (CCOS) 2020.2-

[3] Editor, Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS) 2018.12.29-

[4] Editor, Blockchain Research and Applications (BCRA) 2020.7.9-

[5] Editor, Blockchain 2022.4.9-

[6] TPC, IEEE ICDCS 2022/2021/2020/2019

[7] TPC, IEEE ICC 2022

[8] TPC, Blockchain 2022/2021/2020/2019

[9] TPC, BlockSys 2021

[10] TPC, IEEE BTB1 2020

[11] TPC, FICC 2020

[12] TPC, IEEE ICPADS 2019/2018/2017

[13] TPC, IEEE ICC 2020/2019

[14] TPC, HPCC 2019

[15] TPC, APSCC 2019

[16] TPC, CCF Bigdata 2019

[17] Publicity Chair, IEEE MSN 2018

[18] Program Co-Chair, "Scalable, Secure and Intelligent Blockchain for Future Networking and Communications" in conjunction with GLOBECOM'2022

[19] Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy System, (BlockSys 2021), August 05-06, 2021, China, Virtual.

[20] Program Co-Chair, The First International Workshop on Blockchain and Mobile Applications (BlockApp 2019), 10 June 2019, Hong Kong.

[21] Program Co-Chair, The 1st & 2nd International Workshop on Blockchain Technology and Systems (BCTS 2018 & BCTS 2017), in conjunction with IEEE ICPADS, Singapore, December 11-13, 2018/ Shenzhen, China, December 15-17, 2017.

[22] Member, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

[23] Member, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

[24] Senior Member, China Computer Federation (CCF)

Research Group

Name of Research Group: BCTS Group

Description of Research Group:

The research group focuses on the research of cross-chain interaction architecture of blockchain,especially on the scalable communication topology model of blockchain and lightweight storage optimization methods. (Website: https://bctsgroup.github.io)

Enrollment Information

Personal Homepage

Web: https://jxiao-hust.github.io/