Georgia State

University

Zhipeng Cai, IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow

Professor, Department of Computer Science

Affiliate Professor, Department of Computer Information Science

Director, INSPIRE Center

Georgia State University

25 Park Place, Suite 753

Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

Phone: 404-413-5721

Fax: 404-413-5717

Email: zcai AT gsu DOT edu

Selected Journal Articles:

[TOSN] T. Shi, Z. Cai*, J. Li, and H. Gao.

Optimize the Age of Useful Information in Edge Assisted Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks.

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). Accepted.

[COMMAG] Y. Wang, Z. Tian, X. Fan, Z. Cai*, C. Nowzari, and K. Zeng.

Distributed Swarm Learning for Edge Internet of Things.

IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG). Accepted.

[TMC] Z. Zhan, Y. Wang, P. Duan, A. Sai, Z. Liu, C. Xiang, X. Tong, W. Wang and Z. Cai*.

Enhancing Worker Recruitment in Collaborative Mobile Crowd Sensing: A Graph Neural Network Trust Evaluation Approach.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.

[TWC]X. Bian, W. Xu, Y. Wang, Z. Cai, and C. Yuen.

Sparse Representation-Based Channel Estimation in XL-RIS-assisted Wireless Communication.

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication (TWC). Accepted.

[TMC] Z. Cai*, X. Zheng, J. Wang, and Z. He..

Private Data Trading Towards Range Counting Queries in Internet of Things.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 22(8): 4881-4897 (2023).

[TCE] C. Wang , Z. Cai and Y. Li*.

Human Activity Recognition in Mobile Edge Computing: A Low-Cost and High-Fidelity Digital Twin Approach with Deep Reinforcement Learning.

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE). Accepted.

[TC] Z. He and Z. Cai*.

Trading Aggregate Statistics over Private Internet of Things Data.

IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). Accepted.

[IoTJ] P. Panzade, D. Takabi, and Z. Cai*

Privacy-preserving Machine Learning using Functional Encryption: Opportunities and Challenges.

IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ). Accepted.

[TCC] Y. Wang, L. Meng, P. Duan, X. Tong, Z. Sun, C. Xu, and Z. Cai*

Task Allocation Optimization Mechanism based on Voronoi Diagram in Edge-Cloud Networks..

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). Accepted.

[BDMA] Y. Huang, Y. Li and Z. Cai*.

Security and Privacy in Metaverse: A Comprehensive Survey.

Journal of Big Data Mining and Analytics (IoTJ). Accepted.

[IoTJ] Z. Cai*, Q. Chen, T. Shi, T. Zhu, K. Chen, and Y. Li.

Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks: A Comprehensive Survey.

IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ). 10(6): 5543-5570 (2023).

[TNET] Q. Chen, S. Guo, Z. Cai, Jing Li, Tuo Shi and Hong Gao.

Peak AoI Minimization at Wireless-Powered Network Edge: from the Perspective of Both Charging and Transmitting.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). Accepted.

[TSC] Q. Chen, S. Guo, W. Xu, J. Li, K. Wei, Z. Cai, and Hong Gao.

Peak AoI Minimization with Directional Charging for Data Collection at Wireless-Powered Network Edge.

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). Accepted.

[TMC] Q. Chen, S. Guo, K. Wang, W. Xu, J. Li, Z. Cai, H. Gao, and A. Zomaya.

Towards Real-Time Inference Offloading with Distributed Edge Computing: the Framework and Algorithms.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.

[CSUR] Z. Cai*, Z. Xiong, H. Xu, P. Wang, W. Li, and Yi Pan.

Generative Adversarial Networks: A Survey Towards Private and Secure Applications.

ACM Computing Surveys. 54(6): 1-38, (2021).

[TCSS] K. Jiang, Y. Wang, H. Wang, Z. Liu, Q. Han, A. Zhou, C. Xiang, and Z. Cai*.

A Reinforcement Learning Based Incentive Mechanism for Task Allocation Under Spatio-temporal Crowdsensing.

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS). 11(2): 2179 - 2189 (2024).

[TKDE] D. Yu, L. Zhang, Q. Luo, X. Cheng, and Z. Cai.

Maximal Clique Search in Weighted Graphs.

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). 35(9): 9421-9432 (2023).

[TMC] T. Shi, Z. Cai*, J. Li, H. Gao, T. Qiu, and W. Qu

An Efficient Processing Scheme for Concurrent Applications in the IoT Edge.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.

[TDSC] Z. Xiong, Z. Cai, C. Hu, D. Takabi, and W. Li

Towards Neural Network-based Communication System: Attack and Defense.

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Accepted.

[TCBB] Z. He, and Z. Cai*.

Quantifying the Effect of Quarantine Control and Optimizing its Cost in COVID-19 Pandemic.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB). Accepted.

[TITS] Y. Yuan, J. Yu, X. Cheng, Z. Zou, D. Yu, and Z. Cai*.

Decentralized Parallel SGD Based on Weight-Balancing for Intelligent IoV.

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS). Accepted.

[VLDB.J] Q. Luo, D. Yu, Z. Cai, X. Lin, G. Wang, and X. Cheng.

Towards Maintenance of Hypercores in Large-Scale Dynamic Hypergraphs.

The VLDB Journal.(VLDB.J). 32(3): 647-664 (2023).

[TNET] T. Shi, Z. Cai*, J. Li, H. Gao, J. Chen, and M. Yang.

Services Management and Distributed Multi-Hop Requests Routing in Mobile Edge Networks.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). 31(2): 497-510 (2023).

[TSC] Q. Zhang, Y. Wang, P. Duan, X. Tong, A. Sai, and Z. Cai.

Two-stage Bilateral Online Priority Reassignment in Spatio-temporal Crowdsourcing.

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). Accepted.

[TMC] W. Wang, Y. Wang, T. Liu, X. Tong, and Z. Cai.

A Triple Real-time Trajectory Privacy Protection mechanism Based on Edge computing and Blockchain in Mobile Crowdsourcing.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 22(10): 5625-5642 (2023).

[TMC] D. Zhao, Z. Zhou, Z. Cai, Sami Yangui, and Xiao Xue.

GASTL: Accumulative STL with a Novel Robustness Metric for IoT Service Monitoring.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 22(10): 5751-5768 (2023).

[VLDB.J] D. Miao, P. Zhang, J. Li, Y. Wang, and Z. Cai.

Approximation and inapproximability results on computing optimal repairs.

The VLDB Journal.(VLDB.J). 32(1): 173-197 (2023).

[TII] X. Zheng, L. Tian, and Z. Cai*.

A Fair and Rational Data Sharing Strategy towards Two-Stage Industrial Internet of Things

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.(TII). 19(1): 1088-1096 (2023).

[TII] S. De, M. Bermudez-Edo, H. Xu, and Z. Cai*.

Deep Generative Models in the Industrial Internet of Things: a Survey.

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.(TII). 18(9): 5728-5737 (2022).

[TMC] T. Zhu, J. Li，H. Gao, Y. Li, and Z. Cai.

AoI Minimization Data Collection Scheduling for Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 22(3): 1343-1355 (2023).

[TII] Y. Lin, X. Wang, H. Ma, L. Wang, F. Hao, and Z. Cai*.

An Efficient Approach to Sharing Edge Knowledge in 5G-enabled Industrial Internet of Things.

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.(TII). 19(1): 930-939 (2023).

[TITS] H. Xu, Z. Cai*, R. Li and W. Li.

Efficient CityCam-to-Edge Cooperative Learning for Vehicle Counting in ITS.

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS). Accepted.

[TII] T. Zhu, Z. Cai*, X. Fang, J. Luo, M. Yang.

Correlation Aware Scheduling for Edge-Enabled Industrial Internet of Things.

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.(TII). 18(11): 7967-7976 (2022).

[TKDD] H. Xu, Z. Cai*, and W. Li.

Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms for Multi-label Image Recognition.

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). 16(4): 69:1-69:21 (2022).

[TWC] Z. Cai* and Q. Chen.

Latency-and-Coverage Aware Data Aggregation Scheduling for Multihop Battery-Free Wireless Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication (TWC). 20(3): 1770-1784 (2021).

[TKDE] D. Miao, Z. Cai*, and J. Li.

Deletion Propagation Revisited for Multiple Key Preserving Views.

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). 35(3): 2445-2456 (2023).

[TMC] Q. Chen, Z. Cai*, L. Cheng, H. Gao, and J. Li.

Structure-Free Broadcast Scheduling for Duty-Cycled Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 21(12): 4624-4641 (2022).

[TKDE] X. Wang, H. Gao, Z. Cai, and J. Li.

Who Should Deserve Investment? Attractive Individual and Group Search in Dynamic Information Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). 35(2): 2158-2172 (2023).

[TOSN] Q. Chen, Z. Cai*, L. Cheng, H. Gao and J. Li.

Energy-Collision Aware Minimum Latency Aggregation Scheduling for Energy-Harvesting Sensor Networks.

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). 17(4): 40:1-40:34 (2021).

[TII] Z. Xiong, Z. Cai*, D. Takabi and W. Li.

Privacy Threat and Defense for Federated Learning with Non-i.i.d. Data in AIoT.

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.(TII). 18(2): 1310-1321 (2022).

[TCSS] D. Yu, N. Wang, Q. Luo, F. Li, J. Yu, X. Cheng and Z. Cai*.

Fast Core Maintenance in Dynamic Graphs.

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS). 9(3): 710-723 (2022).

[TCSS] Q. Luo, D. Yu, X. Cheng and Z. Cai*.

Mixed Structure for Truss Maintenance in Fully Dynamic Graphs.

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS). Accepted.

[TVT] Z. Xiong, H. Xu, W. Li, and Z. Cai*.

Multi-Source Adversarial Sample Attack on Autonomous Vehicles.

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). 70(3): 2822-2835 (2021).

[TII] Z. Xiong, Z. Cai, Q. Han, A. Alrawais, and W. Li.

ADGAN: Protect Your Location Privacy in Camera Data of Auto-Driving Vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics(TII). 18(2): 1310-1321 (2022)..

[TOSN] T. Shi, Z. Cai, J. Li, and H. Gao.

Joint Deployment Strategy of Battery-Free Sensor Networks with Coverage Guarantee.

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). 17(4): 42:1-42:29 (2021).

[TMC] Q. Chen, Z. Cai*, L. Cheng, and H. Gao.

Structure-Free General Data Aggregation Scheduling for Multihop Battery-Free Wireless Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.

[TMC] Z. Cai, Z. Duan, and W. Li.

Exploiting Multi-Dimensional Task Diversity in Distributed Auctions for Mobile Crowdsensing.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.

[TII] J. Wang, Z. Cai, and J. Yu.

Achieving Personalized k-Anonymity-Based Content Privacy for Autonomous Vehicles in CPS

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics(TII). 16(6): 4242-4251 (2020).

[TII] Z. Cai*, X. Zheng., and J. Yu.

A Differential-Private Framework for Urban Traffic Flows Estimation via Taxi Companies.

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII). 15(12): 6492-6499 (2019).

[TVT] Y. Lin, Z. Cai*, X. Wang, F. Hao, L. Wang and A. Sai.

Multi-Round Incentive Mechanism for Cold Start-Enabled Mobile Crowdsensing Crowdsensing.

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). 70(1): 993-1007 (2021).

[TMC] Q. Chen, Z. Cai*, L. Cheng, and H. Gao.

Low-Latency Data Aggregation Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks with Non-Predetermined Structure.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.

[TMC] T. Shi, J. Li, H. Gao, and Z. Cai*.

A Novel Framework for the Coverage Problem in Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.

[IoT] Z. Cai* and T. Shi.

Distributed Query Processing in the Edge Assisted IoT Data Monitoring System.

IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Accepted.

[TNSE] Z. Cai* and X. Zheng.

A Private and Efficient Mechanism for Data Uploading in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems.

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE). 7(2): 766-775, 2020.

[JSAC] X. Zheng, and Z. Cai*.

Privacy-Preserved Data Sharing towards Multiple Parties in Industrial IoTs.

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). 38(5): 968-979 (2020).

[TII] S.Zhu, Z. Cai*, H. Hu, Y. Li, W. Li.

zkCrowd: A Hybrid Blockchain-based Crowdsourcing Platform.

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII). 16(6): 4196-4205 (2020).

[TNSE] X. Fang, Z. Cai*, W. Tang, G. Luo, J. Luo, R. Bi, and H. Gao.

Job Scheduling to Minimize Total Completion Time on Multiple Edge Servers.

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE). 7(4): 2245-2255 (2020).

[TVT] Y. Lin, Z. Cai*, X. Wang, and F. Hao.

Incentive Mechanisms for Crowdblocking Rumors in Mobile Social Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (TVT). 68(9): 9220-9232 (2019).

[TKDE] K. Zhang, H. Gao, X. Han, Z. Cai, and J. Li.

Modeling and Computing Probabilistic Skyline on Incomplete Data.

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (TKDE). 32(7): 1405-1418, 2020.

[TNET] Q. Chen, H. Gao, Z. Cai, L. Chen, and J. Li.

Distributed Low-Latency Data Aggregation for Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). 26(5): 2347-2360 (2018).

[TCSS] Y. Wang, Z. Cai, Z. Zhan, Y. Gong, and X. Tong.

An Optimization and Auction based Incentive Mechanism to Maximize Social Welfare for Mobile Crowdsourcing.

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. (TCSS). 6(4): 702-714 (2019).

[NETMAG] Y. Liang, Z. Cai, J. Yu, Q. Han, and Y. Li*.

Deep Learning Based Inference of Private Information Using Embedded Sensors in Smart Devices.

IEEE Network Magazine. (NETMAG). 32(4): 8-14 (2018).

[COMMAG] X. Zheng, Z. Cai*, and Y. Li.

Data Linkage in Smart IoT Systems: A Consideration from Privacy Perspective.

IEEE Communications Magazine. (COMMAG). 56(9): 55-61 (2018).

[TDSC] Z. Cai*, Z. He, X. Guan, and Y. Li.

Collective Data-Sanitization for Preventing Sensitive Information Inference Attacks in Social Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). 15(4): 577-590 (2018).

[VLDB. J] Y. Wu, X. Zhang, Y. Bian, Z. Cai, X. Lian, X. Liao, F. Zhao.

Second-order Random Walk-based Proximity Measures in Graph Analysis: Formulations and Algorithms.

The VLDB Journal. (VLDB. J). 27(1): 127-152 (2018).

[TCSS] J. Li, Z. Cai*, J. Wang, M. Han and Y. Li.

Truthful Incentive Mechanisms for Geographical Position Conflicting Mobile Crowdsensing Systems.

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. (TCSS). 5(2): 324-334 (2018).

[TVT] Z. He, Z. Cai*, and J. Yu.

Latent-data Privacy Preserving with Customized Data Utility for Social Network Data.

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (TVT). 67(1): 665-673 (2018).

[TKDE] D. Miao, Z. Cai*, and J. Li.

On the Complexity of Bounded View Propagation for Conjunctive Queries.

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (TKDE). 30(1): 115-127 (2018).

[TNET] Q. Chen, H. Gao, S. Cheng, X. Fang, Z. Cai, and J. Li.

Centralized and Distributed Delay-Bounded Scheduling Algorithms for Multicast in Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). 25(6): 3573-3586 (2017).

[TNET] T. Shi, S. Cheng, Z. Cai, Y. Li, and J. Li.

Exploring Connected Dominating Sets in Energy-Harvest Networks.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). 25(3): 1803-1817 (2017).

[TII] X. Zheng and Z. Cai*.

Real-Time Big Data Delivery in Wireless Networks: A Case Study on Video Delivery.

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. (TII). 13(4): 2048-2057 (2017).

[TKDE] S. Cheng, Z. Cai*, J. Li, and H. Gao.

Extracting Kernel Dataset from Big Sensory Data in Wireless Sensor Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (TKDE). 29(4): 813-827 (2017).

[TOSN] J. Li, S. Cheng, Z. Cai*, J. Yu, C. Wang and Y. Li.

Approximate Holistic Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks.

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. (TOSN). 13(2): 11:1-11:24 (2017).

[TMC] X. Zheng, Z. Cai*, J. Li, and H. Gao.

A Study on Application-aware Scheduling in Wireless Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (TMC). 16(7): 1787-1801 (2017).

[TCC] L. Yu, L. Chen, Z. Cai*, H. Shen, Y. Liang, and Y. Pan.

Stochastic Load Balancing for Virtual Resource Management in Datacenters.

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. (TCC). 8(2):459-472, 2020.

[TVT] Z. He, Z. Cai, J. Yu*, X. Wang, Y. Sun, and Y. Li.

Cost-efficient Strategies for Restraining Rumor Spreading in Mobile Social Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (TVT). 66 (3): 2789 - 2800 (2017).

[TPDS] L. Yu, H. Shen, S. Karan, L. Ye, and Z. Cai.

CoRE: Cooperative End-to-End Traffic Redundancy Elimination for Reducing Cloud Bandwidth Cost.

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. (TPDS). 28(2): 446-461 (2017).

[TNSM] L. Zhang, Z. Cai*, and X. Wang.

FakeMask: A Novel Privacy Preserving Approach for Smartphones.

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. (TNSM). 13(2): 335-348 (2016).

[TMC] S. Ji, M. Yan, R. Beyah, and Z. Cai*.

Semi-Structure Routing and Analytical Frameworks for Cognitive Radio Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (TMC). 15(4): 996-1008 (2016).

[TNB] D. Xu*, Z. Cai, K. Liu, X. Zeng, Y. Ouyang, C. Dai, A. Hou, and J. Li.

Design and Simulation of Proportional Biological Operational mu-Circuit.

IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience. (TNB). 14(2): 248-253 (2015).

[TVT] S. Cheng, Z. Cai* and J. Li.

Curve Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (TVT). 64(11): 5198-5209 (2015).

[TCS] Z. He, Z. Cai*, S. Cheng, and X. Wang.

Approximate Aggregation for Tracking Quantiles and Range Countings in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Theoretical Computer Science. (TCS). 607(3), 381-390 (2015).

[TPDS] Z. Cai*, S. Ji, J. He, L. Wei and A. Bourgeois.

Distributed and Asynchronous Data Collection in Cognitive Radio Networks with Fairness Consideration.

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. (TPDS). 25(8): 2020-2029 (2014).

[TPDS] J. Li, S. Cheng**, H. Gao and Z. Cai.

Approximate Physical World Reconstruction Algorithms in Sensor Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. (TPDS). 25(12): 3099-3110 (2014).

[TMC] S. Ji, R. Beyah and Z. Cai*.

Snapshot and Continuous Data Collection in Probabilistic Wireless Sensor Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (TMC). 13(3): 626-637 (2014).

[TNET] S. Ji and Z. Cai*.

Distributed Data Collection in Large-Scale Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks under the Generalized Physical Interference Model.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. (TNET). 21(4): 1270-1283. (2013).

[JMB] Z. Cai, M. F. Ducatez, J. Yang, T. Zhang, L. Long, A. C. Boon, R. J. Webby, and X. Wan*.

Identifying Antigenicity-Associated Sites in Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin by using Sparse Learning.

Journal of Molecular Biology (JMB). 422(1):145-155 (2012). (IF: 4.095).

[VACCINE] Z. Cai, T. Zhang, and X. Wan*.

Antigenic Distance Measurements for Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Selection.

Vaccine. . 30(2):448-453 (2012). (IF: 3.572).

[TPDS] S. Ji, Z. Cai, Y. Li*, and X. Jia.

Continuous Data Collection Capacity of Dual-Radio Multichannel Wireless Sensor Networks.

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). 23(10): 1844-1855 (2012). (IF: 1.146).

[BIOINFORMATICS] J. Barnett, J. Yang, Z. Cai, T. Zhang and X. Wan*.

AntigenMap 3D: an Online Antigenic Cartography Resource.

Bioinformatics (BIOINFORMATICS). 28(9):1292-1293 (2012). (IF: 4.926).

[TCS] Z. Cai, R. Goebel, and G. Lin*.

Size-constrained Tree Partitioning: Approximating the Multicast k-tree Routing Problem.

Theoretical Computer Science. (TCS). 412(3) (2011), 240-245 (IF: 1.085).

[INFLUENZA] Z. Cai, T. Zhang, and X. Wan*.

Concepts and Applications for Influenza Antigenic Cartography.

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses . 5(S1) (2011), 202-229 (IF: 3.812).

[INFLUENZA] Z. Cai, Y. Duan, Y. Jang, Y. Li, G. Lin, M. Ozden, and X. Wan*.

IPMiner: a Progenitor Identifier for Influenza A Virus.

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.. 5(S1) (2011), 395-415 (IF: 3.812).

[PCB] Z. Cai, T. Zhang, and X. Wan*.

A Computational Framework for Influenza Antigenic Cartography.

PLoS Computational Biology. (PCB). 6 (10) (2010), e1000949 (IF: 5.759).

[TCBB] J. Zhou, J. Sander, Z. Cai, L. Wang, and G. Lin*.

Finding the Nearest Neighbors in Biological Databases Using Less Distance Computations.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. (TCBB). 7(4)(2010), 669-680 (IF: 2.246).

[TCS] Z. Cai, Z. Chen, and G. Lin*.

A 3.4713-Approximation Algorithm for the Capacitated Multicast Tree Routing Problem.

Theoretical Computer Science. (TCS). 410(52)(2009), 5415-5424 (IF: 1.085).

[BMC] Z. Cai, H. Sabaa, Y. Wang, R. Goebel, Z. Wang, J. Xu, P. Stothard, and G. Lin*.

Most Parsimonious Haplotype Allele Sharing Determination.

BMC Bioinformatics. (BMC). 10(2009), 115 (IF: 3.428).

[BMC] Z. Cai, R. Goebel, M. Salavatipour, and G. Lin*.

Selecting Dissimilar Genes for Multi-class Classification, an Application in Cancer Subtyping.

BMC Bioinformatics. (BMC). 8(2007), 206 (IF: 3.428).

[BIOINFORMATICS] X. Wu, Z. Cai, X.-F. Wan, T. Hoang, R. Goebel, and G. Lin*.

Nucleotide Composition String Selection in HIV-1 Subtyping Using Whole Genomes.

Bioinformatics. (BIOINFORMATICS). 23(14)(2007), 1744-1752 (IF: 4.926).

[JBCB] Z. Cai, M. Heydari, and G. Lin*.

Iterated Local Least Squares Microarray Missing Value Imputation.

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. (JBCB). 4(4)(2006), 935-958.

[JOCO] Z. Cai, M. Heydari, and G. Lin*

Clustering Binary Oligonucleotide Fingerprint Vectors for DNA Clone Classification Analysis.

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. (JOCO). 9(2)(2005), 199-211.

Selected Conference Papers:

[ICDCS] T. Zhu, O. Zou, X. Fang, J. Luo, Y. Li and Z. Cai*.

Group-Centric Scheduling for Industrial Edge Computing Networks with Incomplete Information.

The 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). (Acceptance rate: 121/221 = 20.29%).

[INFOCOM] J. Qiao, Z. Zhang, S. Yue, Y. Yuan, Z. Cai, X. Zhang, J. Ren and D. Yu.

BR-DeFedRL: Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Reinforcement Learning with Fast Convergence and Communication Efficienc.

The 43th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2024).(Acceptance rate: 256/1307 = 19.58%).

[ICASSP] Y. Zhang, Y. Wang, Z. Cai, F. Wen, and G. Zhang.

Harmonic Retrieval for Non-Circular Coherent Signals via Double Decoupled Atomic Norm Minimization.

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024).

[NAACL] J. R. Asl, P. Panzade, E. Blanco, D. Takabi, and Z. Cai.

RobustSentEmbed: Robust Sentence Embeddings Using Adversarial Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning.

2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024).

[ICDM] Z. Xiong, W. Li, Y. Li, Z. Cai.

Exact-Fun: An Exact and Efficient Federated Unlearning Approach.

The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2023) (ICDM). (Acceptance rate: 200/1003 = 19.94%).

[ICDM] H. Xu, Z. Cai, Z. Xiong, W. Li.

Backdoor Attack on 3D Grey Image Segmentation.

The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2023) (ICDM). (Regular Paper Acceptance rate: 94/1003 = 9.37%).

[AAAI] Z. Xiong, W. Li, Z. Cai.

Federated Generative Model on Multi-Source Heterogeneous Data in IoT.

Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023) (Acceptance rate: 1721/8777 = 19.6%).

[INFOCOM] Q. Chen, K. Wang, S. Guo, T. Shi, J. Li, Z. Cai and A. Zomaya.

Latency-Optimal Pyramid-based Joint Communication and Computation Scheduling for Distributed Edge Computing.

The 42th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2023).(Acceptance rate: 252/1312 = 19.2%).

[ICDCS] T. Shi, Z. Cai, and Y. Li.

Query Recombination: To Process a Large Number of Concurrent Top-k Queries towards IoT Data on an Edge Server.

The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022). 114/573 = 19.9%

[CIKM] J. Han, W. Li, Z. Cai, and Y. Li

Multi-Aggregator Time-Warping Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Personalized Micro-video Recommendation.

The 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2022).

[SmartData] B. Xie, H. Xu, Z. Xiong, Y. Li and Z. Cai

A Self-Supervised Purification Mechanism for Adversarial Samples.

The 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData 2022). Best Paper Award

[ICDCS] Q. Chen, S. Guo, W. Xu, Z. Cai, L. Cheng, and H. Gao.

AoI Minimization Charging at Wireless-Powered Network Edge.

The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022). 114/573 = 19.9%

[INFOCOM] Q. Chen, Z. Cai, L. Cheng, F. Wang, and H. Gao.

Joint Near-Optimal Age-based Data Transmission and Energy Replenishment Scheduling at Wireless-Powered Network Edge

The 41th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2022). 225/1129 = 19.9%

[IPCCC] Z. Cai, X. Zheng, and J. Wang.

Efficient Data Trading for Stable and Privacy Preserving Histograms in Internet of Things.

The 40th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2021). Best Paper Award

[SIGIR] J. Gao, F. Hao, G. Min, Z. Cai.

Maximal Multipolarized Cliques Search in Signed Networks.

The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021).

[ICDE] Q. Luo, D. Yu, Z. Cai, X. Lin and X. Cheng.

Hypercore Maintenance in Dynamic Hypergraphs.

The 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2021).

[VLDB] D. Miao, Z. Cai, J. Li, X. Gao, and X. Liu.

The Computation of Optimal Subset Repairs.

The 46th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2020).

[CIKM] K. Li, G. Lu, G. Luo, and Z. Cai.

Seed-free Graph De-anonymiztiation with Adversarial Learning

The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020). 193/920=21%

[SAGC] Y. Wang, M. Wang, L. Meng, Q. Zhang, X. Tong, and Z. Cai.

New Crowd Sensing Computing in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks.

IEEE International Conference on Space-Air-Ground Computing (SAGC 2021). Distinguished Paper Award

[INFOCOM] T. Zhu, J. Li, Z. Cai, Y. Li, H. Gao.

Computation Scheduling for Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing Networks

The 39th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2020) . 268/1354 = 19.8%

[ICDCS] Q. Chen, Z. Cai*, L. Cheng and H. Gao.

Low Latency Broadcast Scheduling for Battery-Free Wireless Networks Without Predetermined Structures.

The 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2020) . 105/584 = 18%

[ICDCS] T. Shi, Z. Cai*, J. Li and H. Gao.

CROSS: A Crowdsourcing based Sub-Servers Selection Framework in D2D Enhanced MEC Architecture

The 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2020) . 105/584 = 18%

[ICDE] Z. Cai*, D. Miao, and Y. Li.

Deletion Propagation for Multiple Select-Join Queries: Approximations and Complexity.

The 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019).

[ICDCS] Z. Cai*, and Z. He.

Trading Private Range Counting over Big IoT Data.

The 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. (ICDCS 2019). 132/668 = 19.6%.

[ICDM] Z. Xiong, W. Li, Q. Han, and Z. Cai*.

Privacy-Preserving Auto-Driving: a GAN-based Approach to Protect Vehicular Camera Data.

19th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. (ICDM 2019). 95/1046=9.08%.

[ICDCS] Z. Duan, W. Li, X. Zheng, and Z. Cai*.

Mutual-Preference Driven Truthful Auction Mechanism in Mobile Crowdsensing

The 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. (ICDCS 2019). 132/668 = 19.6%.

[ICDCS] Q. Chen, Z. Cai*, J. Li and H. Gao.

Low-Latency Concurrent Broadcast Scheduling in Duty-Cycled Multihop Wireless Networks.

The 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. (ICDCS 2019). 132/668 = 19.6%.

[ICDCS] T. Shi, Z. Cai*, L. Cheng, H. Gao, and J. Li.

The Energy-Data Dual Coverage in Battery-free Sensor Networks.

The 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. (ICDCS 2019). 132/668 = 19.6%.

[INFOCOM] K. Chen, H. Gao, Z. Cai, Q. Chen, and J. Li.

Distributed Energy-Adaptive Aggregation Scheduling with Coverage Guarantee for Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks

The 38th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019). 288/1464 = 19.7%

[COCOON] D. Miao and Z. Cai*.

On The Hardness of Reachability Reduction.

The 25th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference. (COCOON 2019).

[INFOCOM] T. Shi, J. Li, H. Gao, and Z. Cai.

Coverage in Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks

The 37th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2018). 309/1606 = 19.2%

[INFOCOM] Q. Chen, H. Gao, Z. Cai, L. Cheng, and J. Li.

Energy-Collision Aware Data Aggregation Scheduling for Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks

The 37th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2018). 309/1606 = 19.2%

[ICDCS] Z. Duan, W. Li, and Z. Cai*.

Distributed Auctions for Task Assignment and Scheduling in Mobile Crowdsensing Systems

The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017). 90/531 = 16.95%

[INFOCOM] X. Zheng, Z. Cai*, J. Li, and H. Gao.

Location-Privacy-Aware Review Publication Mechanism for Local Business Service Systems

The 36th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017). 292/1395 = 20.93%

[INFOCOM] T. Shi, S. Cheng, J. Li, and Z. Cai*.

Constructing Connected Dominating Sets in Battery-Free Networks

The 36th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017). 292/1395 = 20.93%

[INFOCOM] Q. Chen, H. Gao, S. Cheng, J. Li, and Z. Cai.

Distributed Non-Structure Based Data Aggregation for Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks.

The 36th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017). 292/1395 = 20.93%

[CIKM] K. Zhang, H. Gao, X. Han, Z. Cai, and J. Li.

Probabilistic Skyline on Incomplete Data

The 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017). 171/820=20.9%

[DASFAA] K. Zhang, H. Gao, X. Han, D. Yang, Z. Cai, and J. Li.

RSkycube: Efficient Skycube Computation by Reusing Principle

The 22rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2017).

[DASFAA] D. Yin, H. Gao, Z. Zou, J. Li, and Z. Cai.

Approximate Iceberg Cube on Heterogeneous Dimensions

The 21st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2017).

[COCOON] D. Miao, Z. Cai*, X. Liu, and J. Li.

On the Complexity of Insertion Propagation with Functional Dependency Constraints

The 22nd International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2016).

[INFOCOM] L. Yu and Z. Cai*.

Dynamic Scaling of Virtualized Networks with Bandwidth Guarantees in Cloud Datacenters

The 35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016). 300/1644 = 18.2%

[INFOCOM] J. Li, Z. Cai*, M. Yan, and Y. Li.

Using Crowdsourced Data in Location-based Social Networks to Explore Influence Maximization

The 35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016). 300/1644 = 18.2%

[INFOCOM] T. Shi, S. Cheng, Z. Cai*, and J. Li.

Adaptive Connected Dominating Set Discovering Algorithm in Energy-Harvest Sensor Networks

The 35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016). 300/1644 = 18.2%

[ICDCS] Z. He, Z. Cai* and X. Wang.

Modeling Propagation Dynamics and Developing Optimized Countermeasures for Rumor Spreading in Online Social Networks

The 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015). 70/543 = 12.9%

[ICDCS] X. Zheng, Z. Cai*, J. Li and H. Gao.

An Application-aware Scheduling Policy for Real-time Traffic

The 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015). 70/543 = 12.9%

[INFOCOM] S. Cheng, Z. Cai*, J. Li and X. Fang.

Drawing Dominant Dataset from Big Sensory Data in Wireless Sensor Networks

The 34th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2015). 320/1645 = 19.4%

[INFOCOM] J. Gao, J. Li*, Z. Cai and H. Gao.

Composite Event Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks with Heterogeneous Sensors

The 34th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2015). 320/1645 = 19.4%

[IPSN] X. Fang, J. Luo, H. Gao, W. Wu, S. Cheng, and Z. Cai.

Demonstration Abstract: Detecting Deterioration of Nearsightness

The 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2015).

[SECON] S. Ji,Z. Cai*, M. Han , and R. Beyah.

Whitespace Measurement and Virtual Backbone Construction for Cognitive Radio Networks: From the Social Perspective

IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communications and Networking (SECON 2015). 55/194 = 28.4%

[MOBIHOC] X. Zheng, J. Li*, H. Gao, and Z. Cai.

Capacity of Wireless Networks with Multiple Types of Multicast Sessions.

The 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC 2014). 40/211 = 18.9%

[MOBIHOC] J. He, S. Ji, R. Beyah, and Z. Cai*.

Minimum-sized Influential Node Set Selection for Social Networks under the Independent Cascade Model.

The 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC 2014). 40/211 = 18.9%

[SECON] M. Yan, S. Ji, M. Han, Y. Li, and Z. Cai*.

Data Aggregation Scheduling in Wireless Networks with Cognitive Radio Capability.

IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communications and Networking (SECON 2014). 67/234 = 28.6%

[INFOCOM] S. Cheng, J. Li*, and Z. Cai.

O(ε)-Approximation to Physical World by Sensor Networks

The 32rd Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2013). 280/1613 = 17.36%

[SECON] S. Ji, R. Beyah, and Z. Cai*.

Minimum-Latency Broadcast Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks

IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communications and Networking (SECON 2013). 51/280 = 18.4%

[ICDCS] Z. Cai*, S. Ji, J. He, and A. G. Bourgeois.

Optimal Distributed Data Collection for Asynchronous Cognitive Radio Networks

The 32nd Proceeding. of International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2012 (ICDCS 2012). 71/515 = 13.79%

[INFOCOM] S. Ji, R. Beyah, and Z. Cai*.

Snapshot/Continuous Data Collection Capacity for Large-Scale Probabilistic Wireless Sensor Networks.

The 31st Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2012). 278/1547 = 17.97%

[INFOCOM] S. Ji and Z. Cai*.

Distributed Data Collection and Its Capacity in Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks

The 31st Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2012). 278/1547 = 17.97%

[COCOA] Z. Cai, R. Goebel, and G. Lin*.

Size-Constrained Tree Partitioning: a Story on Approximation Algorithm Design for the Multicast k-Tree Routing Problem

The 3nd Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA 2012).

[EMBC] Z. Cai, Y. Shi, M. Song, R. Goebel, and G. Lin*.

Smoothing Blemished Gene Expression Microarray Data via Missing Value Imputation

The 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2008).

[APBC] Z. Cai, R. Goebel, M. Salavatipour, Y. Shi, L. Xu, and G. Lin*.

Selecting Genes with Dissimilar Discrimination Strength for Class Prediction

The Fifth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2017).

[APBC] Z. Cai, M. Heydari, and G. Lin*.

Microarray Missing Value Imputation by Iterated Local Least Squares

The Fourth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2016).

[COCOON] Z. Cai, G. Lin*, and G. Xue.

Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Capacitated Multicast Routing Problem.

In Proceedings of the 11th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference. (COCOON 2015).

Former and current Students/Postdoc/Visiting Scholars at Georgia State University are underlined. Correspondence authors by *.