Dr. Jeffrey Zhe PENG

Dr. Jeffrey Zhe PENG

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Publications

  1. Y. Yao, Y. Hu, Y. Dang, W. Tao, K. Hu, Q. Huang, Z. Peng, G. Yang, and X. Zhou, “Workload-Aware Performance Model Based Soft Preemptive Real-Time Scheduling for Neural Processing Units”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2025.

  2. H. Wu, Z. Peng, J. Xiao, L. Xue, C. Lin, S.-H. Chung, “HeX: Encrypted Rich Queries with Forward and Backward Privacy Using Trusted Hardware”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), February 2025.

  3. Q. Yang, Z. Chen, Z. Peng, and Y. Yuan, “Relation-Guided Versatile Regularization for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning”, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), January 2025.

  4. S. Gao, T. Zheng, Y. Guo, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “Lattice-based Zero-knowledge Proofs for Blockchain Confidential Transactions”, in Proc. of the IACR Public Key Cryptography (PKC ‘25), Røros, Norway, 2025.

  5. C. Lin, X. Ji, Y. Yang, Q. Li, Z. Zhao, Z. Peng, R. Wang, L. Fang, and C. Shen, “Hard Adversarial Example Mining for Improving Robust Fairness”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Vol. 20, pp. 350-363, December 2024.

  6. Y. Li, Y. Lu, X. Yang, and Z. Peng, “Blockchain-Empowered Multi-skilled Crowdsourcing for Mobile Web 3.0”, Computer Communications, December 2024.

  7. Z. Peng, J. Deng, S. Gao, H. Cui, and B. Xiao, “vDID: Blockchain-Enabled Verifiable Decentralized Identity Management for Web 3.0”, in Proc. of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS ‘24), Guangzhou, China, 2024.

  8. B. Wang, T. Xing, X. Liu, Z. Peng, and H. Cui, “Lightweight Multimodal Defect Detection at the Edge via Cross-Modal Distillation”, in Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS ‘24), Guangzhou, China, 2024.

  9. J. Sheng, J. Deng, S. Gao, H. Huang, and Z. Peng, “Authenticated Decentralized Identifier Retrieval for Blockchain-based Web 3.0”, in Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM ‘24), Cape Town, South Africa, 2024.

  10. C. Qiu, J. Deng, T. Peng, and Z. Peng, “Blockchain-based Verifiable Decentralized Identities for Cyber-Physical Web 3.0”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Automation in Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics (ICaMaL ‘24), Hong Kong, China, 2024.

  11. Y. Teng, C.Z. Li, Geoffrey Q.P. Shen, Q. Yang, and Z. Peng, “The Impact of Life Cycle Assessment Database Selection on Embodied Carbon Estimation of Buildings”, Building and Environment, Vol. 243, pp. 110648, September 2023.

  12. S. Gao, Z. Peng, F. Tan, Y. Zheng, and B. Xiao, “SymmeProof: Compact Zero-Knowledge Argument for Blockchain Confidential Transactions”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 2289-2301, May 2023.

  13. Z. Chen, C. Yang, M. Zhu, Z. Peng, and Y. Yuan, “Personalized Retrogress-Resilient Federated Learning towards Imbalanced Medical Data”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 3663 – 3674, December 2022.

  14. Z. Peng, J. Xu, H. Hu, and L. Chen, “BlockShare: A Blockchain Empowered System for Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Data Sharing”, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, June 2022.

  15. H. Wu, Z. Peng, S. Guo, Y. Yang, and B. Xiao, “VQL: Efficient and Verifiable Cloud Query Services for Blockchain Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 1393-1406, June 2022.

  16. Z. Peng, J. Xu, X. Chu, S. Gao, Y. Yao, R. Gu, and Y. Tang, “VFChain: Enabling Verifiable and Auditable Federated Learning via Blockchain Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 173-186, January 2022. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

  17. Z. Peng, S. Hou, and Y. Yuan, “EPAR: An Efficient and Privacy-Aware Augmented Reality Framework for Indoor Location-Based Services”, in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ‘22), Kyoto, Japan, 2022.

  18. H. Wang, C. Xu, C. Zhang, J. Xu, Z. Peng, and J. Pei, “vChain+: Optimizing Verifiable Blockchain Boolean Range Queries”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE ‘22), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022.

  19. Z. Li, S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, S. Guo, and Y. Yang, “B-DNS: A Secure and Efficient DNS Based on the Blockchain Technology”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 1674-1686, April 2021.

  20. Z. Peng, C. Xu, H. Wang, J. Huang, J. Xu, and X. Chu, “P2B-Trace: Privacy-Preserving Blockchain-based Contact Tracing to Combat Pandemics”, in Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ‘21), Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, 2021.

  21. Z. Peng, J. Huang, H. Wang, S. Wang, X. Chu, X. Zhang, L. Chen, X. Huang, X. Fu, Y. Guo, and J. Xu, “BU-Trace: A Permissionless Mobile System for Privacy-Preserving Intelligent Contact Tracing”, in Proc. of the International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA ‘21) Workshops, 2021. (Best Paper Award)

  22. Y. Yao, B. Xiao, W. Wang, G. Yang, X. Zhou, and Z. Peng, “Real-Time Cache-Aided Route Planning based on Mobile Edge Computing”, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 155-161, October 2020.

  23. S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, A. Hu, Y. Song, and K. Ren, “Detection and Mitigation of DoS Attacks in Software Defined Networks”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 1419-1433, June 2020.

  24. Z. Peng, Y. Yao, B. Xiao, S. Guo, and Y. Yang, “When Urban Safety Index Inference Meets Location-based Data”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 18, No. 11, pp. 2701-2713, November 2019.

  25. Z. Peng, H. Wu, B. Xiao, and S. Guo, “VQL: Providing Query Efficiency and Data Authenticity in Blockchain Systems”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE ‘19), Macau, China, 2019.

  26. S. Gao, Z. Li, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “Power Adjusting and Bribery Racing: Novel Mining Attacks in the Bitcoin System”, in Proc. of the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ‘19), London, UK, 2019.

  27. Z. Peng, S. Gao, B. Xiao, G. Wei, S. Guo, and Y. Yang, “Indoor Floor Plan Construction through Sensing Data Collected from Smartphones”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 4351-4364, December 2018.

  28. Y. Yao, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “Parallel Hyper-Heuristic Algorithm for Multi-objective Route Planning in a Smart City”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Vol. 67, No. 11, pp. 10307-10318, November 2018.

  29. Z. Peng, S. Gao, Z. Li, B. Xiao, and Y. Qian, “Vehicle Safety Improvement through Deep Learning and Mobile Sensing”, IEEE Network, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 28-33, July 2018.

  30. Z. Peng, S. Gao, B. Xiao, S. Guo, and Y. Yang, “CrowdGIS: Updating Digital Maps via Mobile Crowdsensing”, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 369-380, January 2018.

  31. J. Li, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “New Mobility-aware Application Offloading Design with Low Delay and Energy Efficiency”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC ‘18), Kansas City, MO, USA, 2018.

  32. J. Li, Z. Peng, S. Gao, B. Xiao, and H. Chan, “Smartphone-Assisted Energy Efficient Data Communication for Wearable Devices”, Computer Communications, Vol. 105, pp. 33-43, June 2017.

  33. S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, A. Hu, and K. Ren, “FloodDefender: Protecting Data and Control Plane Resources under SDN-aimed DoS Attacks”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM ‘17), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2017.

  34. Z. Peng, B. Xiao, Y. Yao, J. Guan, and F. Yang, “U-Safety: Urban Safety Analysis in a Smart City”, in Proc. the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC ‘17), Paris, France, 2017.

  35. Y. Yao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, and J. Guan, “An Efficient Learning-based Approach to Multi-objective Route Planning in a Smart City”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC ‘17), Paris, France, 2017.

  36. S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, Q. Xiao, and Y. Song, “SCoP: Smartphone Energy Saving by Merging Push Services in Fog Computing”, in Proc. of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS ‘17), Barcelona, Spain, 2017.

  37. S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, and Y. Song, “Secure and Energy Efficient Prefetching Design for Smartphones”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC ‘16), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2016.

  38. J. Li, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “Smartphone-Assisted Smooth Live Video Broadcast on Wearable Cameras”, in Proc. of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS ‘16), Beijing, China, 2016.

  39. J. Li, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, and Y. Hua, “Make Smartphones Last A Day: Pre-processing Based Computer Vision Application Offloading”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON ‘15), Seattle, WA, USA, 2015.

  40. Z. Peng, H. Lu, and P. Hong, “On Optimal Power Allocation Scheme for Delay-Constrained Communication”, Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013.