Biography

Professor Shiyan Hu received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2008. He is a Global STEM Professor in Department of Data and Systems Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, where he serves as Director for JC STEM Lab of Smart Cyber-Physical Industrial Systems. His research interests are in the area of Cyber-Physical Systems, Robotics, and Data Analytics, where he has published 180+ papers in journals and conferences, including about 100 in IEEE Transactions. His publications have received distinctions such as the 2018 IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award, the 2017 Keynote Paper in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, the Front Cover Paper in IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience in March 2014, multiple Thomson Reuters ESI Highly Cited Papers/Hot Papers, etc. He was an ACM Distinguished Speaker, an IEEE Systems Council Distinguished Lecturer, a recipient of the 2017 IEEE Computer Society TCSC Middle Career Researcher Award, and a recipient of the 2014 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. Prof. Hu is the Vice President (Technical Activities) of IEEE Systems Council and the Chair for IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems. He is the Editor-In-Chief of IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, and was the 2020 Editor-in-Chief Search Committee Chair for ACM TODAES. Prof. Hu serves/served as an Associate Editor for IEEE TII, IEEE TCAD, IEEE TCAS II, ACM TODAES, and ACM TCPS. He has served as a Guest Editor for various IEEE/ACM journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Computers. He is an Invited Panel Member (Engineering) for Hong Kong Research Assessment Excercise (RAE) 2026. He is a Member of European Academy of Sciences, a Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Fellow of IET, and a Fellow of British Computer Society.

Research Interests

• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Robotics
• Data Analytics

Selected Publications

1. Haizhou Wang, Guobing Zou, Kun Cao, Yangguang Cui, Tongquan Wei and Shiyan Hu, An Elastic Federated Learning Collaboration Framework for Computing-Constrained IoT, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 1197-1210, March 2026.
2. Xiaomeng Feng and Shiyan Hu, Co-Optimization of Microgrid Secondary Control and Communication QoS: A Cross-Layer Perspective in Cyber-Physical System, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp, 1090-1099, February 2025.
3. Xiangpeng Hou, Junlong Zhou, Liying Li, Mingzhou Zhao, Peijin Cong, Zebin Wu, Shiyan Hu, ILRM: Imitation Learning-Based Resource Management for Integrated CPU–GPU Edge Systems With Renewable Energy Sources, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 430-443, pp. 2392-2397, June 2025.
4. Kun Cao, Mingsong Chen, Stamatis Karnouskos, and Shiyan Hu, Reliability-Aware Personalized Deployment of Approximate Computation IoT Applications in Serverless Mobile Edge Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 430-443, February 2025.
5. Haoran Xu, Yixin Yang, Xiaodao Chen, Shuo Huang, and Shiyan Hu, Deep Learning-based Pedestrian Detection Using RGB Images and Sparse LiDAR Point Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 7149-7161, May 2024.
6. Haixin Wang, Xiangyu Cai, Zihao Yang, Gen Li, Yue Zhou, Junyou Yang, Zhe Chen, and Shiyan Hu, Optimized Operation Framework of Distributed Thermal Storage Aggregators in the Electricity Spot Market, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp, 2272-2283, February 2024.
7. Xiaomeng Feng, and Shiyan Hu, Cyber-Physical Zero Trust Architecture for Industrial Cyber-Physical System, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 394-405, November 2023.
8. Yong Xie, Gang Zeng, Ryo Kurachi, Fu Xiao, Hiroaki Takada, and Shiyan Hu, Timing Analysis of CAN FD for Security-Aware Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 3064-3078, July 2023.
9. Keke Huang, Zui Tao, Bei Sun, Chunhua Yang, Weihua Gui, and Shiyan Hu, Adaptive Multimode Process Monitoring Based on Mode-Matching and Similarity-Preserving Dictionary Learning, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 3974-3987, June 2023.
10. Junlong Zhou, Kun Cao, Xiumin Zhou, Mingsong Chen, Tongquan Wei, and Shiyan Hu, Throughput-Conscious Energy Allocation and Reliability-Aware Task Assignment for Renewable Powered In-Situ Server Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 516 - 529, March 2022.