Rate My Professor Haibo Zhang

Associate Professor Haibo Zhang is a faculty member in the School of Computing at the University of Otago, New Zealand, holding the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He also serves as the Postgraduate Coordinator. Zhang obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and subsequently undertook a postdoctoral research fellowship at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. His research interests include wireless networks, high-performance computing, machine learning acceleration, Internet-of-Things, photonic computing and communication, deep learning acceleration, distributed learning, and smart healthcare. His projects have received funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund, the Internet New Zealand Community Fund, and the University of Otago Research Grant.

With over 100 peer-reviewed publications, Zhang has made significant contributions to his field. His work appears in leading journals such as IEEE TMC, TPDS, TCAD, TKDE, TWC, ACM TECS, and conferences like INFOCOM, IPDPS, ICPP, ICAPS, PAKDD. Key publications encompass "Collaborative Learning With Heterogeneous Local Models: A Rule-Based Knowledge Fusion Approach" by Pang et al. (IEEE TKDE, 2023), "E2CoPre: Energy-Efficient and Cooperative Collision Avoidance for UAV Swarms with Trajectory Prediction" by Huang et al. (IEEE T-ITS, 2023), "STADIA: Photonic Stochastic Gradient Descent For Neural Network Accelerators" by Xia et al. (ACM TECS, 2023), "Routing and Wavelength Assignment for Multiple Multicasts in Optical Network-on-Chip (ONoC)" by Yang et al. (IEEE TCAD, 2023), "MSleepNet: A Semi-Supervision-Based Multiview Hybrid Neural Network for Sleep Staging and Sleep Arousal Detection" by Liu et al. (IEEE TIM, 2024), "WRH-ONoC: A Wavelength-Reused Hierarchical Architecture for Optical Network on Chips" by Liu et al. (INFOCOM, 2015), and "Energy-Efficient Beaconless Geographic Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks" by Zhang and Shen (IEEE TPDS, 2010). Zhang has been honored with the Best Paper Award at the IEEE EmbeddedCom (2013), Best Paper Award at IEEE PDCAT (2011), and the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award (2016). He has chaired or co-chaired 16 international conferences, served on program committees for more than 100 conferences, and is an Associate Editor for the Elsevier Journal of Internet of Things, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, and Elsevier Journal of ICT Express.