Xiang Su
About
Recent News
[Oct. 2023] Our Nordic University Cooperation on Edge Intelligence (with University of Helsinki, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Aarhus University) is funded by Nordforsk, scored 7/7.
[Oct. 2023] Our paper Towards Semantic Web of Things: Reference Architecture and Gap Analysis is accepted in The 16th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) 2023 (acceptance rate: 30.4%).
[Oct. 2023] Our paper Towards Risk-averse Edge Computing with Deep Reinforcement Learning is published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (impact factor: 7.9).
[Oct. 2023] Our paper Characterizing Distributed Mobile Augmented Reality Applications at the Edge is published in The 19th ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) 2023 (acceptance rate: 19.3%).
[Oct. 2023] Our poster Multi-User Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Extended Reality in Healthcare is accepted in The 21th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) 2023.
[Sep. 2023] Our paper ISCom: Interest-aware Semantic Communication Scheme for Point Cloud Video Streaming on Metaverse XR Devices is accepted in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) (impact factor: 16.4).
[Sep. 2023] Our paper SCAXR: Empowering Scalable Multi-User Interaction for Heterogenous XR Devices is published in IEEE Network (impact factor: 9.3).
[Aug. 2023] Our paper Towards Optimising Transport Protocols on the 5G Edge for Mobile Augmented Reality is published in The 2nd International Workshop on Interactive Extended Reality (IXR) in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2023.
[Jul. 2023] Our paper A Comparative Analysis of Genetic Algorithm and Ant Colony Optimization for Mobile Augmented Reality Offloading is published in The 1st ACM Workshop on Mobile Immersive Computing, Networking, and Systems (Immercom) 2023, in conjunction with The 29th Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (Mobicom) 2023.
[Jun. 2023] I am Track Chair of IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (IEEE MetaCom) 2023, Welcome to Kyoto!
[Jun. 2023] I am Demo Chair of The 21st ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) 2023, Welcome to Helsinki!
[Jun. 2023] Our paper Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Air Pollution Monitoring: A survey is published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (impact factor: 11.1).
[Jun. 2023] Our Poster Poster: A Privacy-preserving Heart Rate Prediction System for Drivers in Connected Vehicles is published in The 21st ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) 2023.
Short Bio:
Dr. Xiang Su is an associate professor of Extended Reality at the Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Prior to NTNU, he was an Academy of Finland postdoc fellow (with ranking No. 1 in all applicants of Computer Science panel) and a senior postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Pan Hui's team at Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (birthplace of Linux), Finland. He received Dr. Technology degree from Center of Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland, supervised by Prof. Jukka Riekki.
Dr. Su leads a series of international, national, institutional, and industrial research projects. His research focuses on edge intelligence, extended reality, mobile computing, Internet of Things, and context-awareness. Dr. Xiang Su has a solid international career, with working with Prof. Jörg Ott and Dr. Nitinder Mohan at TU Munich (2022), Dr. Anders Lindgren at Research Institutes of Sweden (2022), Prof. Pan Hui at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2019), Prof. Yong Li at Tsinghua University (2018), Prof. Yuhong Li at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2018), Prof. Anind K. Dey at Carnegie Mellon University (2017), Prof. Christian Prehofer and Prof. Manfred Broy at TU Munich (2017 and 2016), Prof. Juha-Pekka Soininen at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (2017), and Prof. Sasu Tarkoma at Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) (2008-2009) as a visiting scholar.
He is a receipt of Jorma Ollia Grant (2016), Tekniikan Edistämissäätiö (2015), Tauno Tönning Research Foundation Scholarship (2015 and 2013), Walter Ahlströmin Foundation Scholarship (2015), University of Oulu Graduate School Travel Grant (2014 and 2013), Finnish Society of Electronics Engineers Grant (2013), HPY Research Foundation Scholarship (2012), and Nokia foundation scholarship (2010). His publications has received best paper awards and recognitions from Percom 2020, Elsevier Computer Communications, and WIMS 2016. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, IRTF, OGC, and W3C.
Supervision of PhD students:
- Robin Sidhu, PhD thesis of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, supervisor (from 2024)
- Danya Li. PhD thesis of Technical University of Denmark, co-supervisor (with Francisco C. Pereira, Rico Krueger and Yu Xiao, from 2023).
- Jacky Cao. PhD thesis of University of Oulu, Supervisor (from 2019).
- Boyu Fan. PhD thesis of University of Helsinki, Mentor (from 2021, Supervisor: Pan Hui).
- Dianlei Xu. PhD thesis of University of Helsinki, Mentor (from 2019, Supervisor:Pan Hui).
- Tong Li. PhD thesis of University of Helsinki and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Mentor (2018-2022, Supervisors: Pan Hui and Sasu Tarkoma) [Now Postdoc at Tsinghua University, China]
Supervision of Postdoc:
- Lik-Hang Lee. University of Oulu. (2019-2020) [Now assistant professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong]
Research
Current Research Projects:
- 2024 - 2028 Nordic University Cooperation on Edge Intelligence, Nordforsk, PI. (with University of Helsinki, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Aarhus University)
- 2024 - 2027 Enhanced Industrial IoT Connectivity with Edge Intelligence, NTNU internal grant, PI.
- 2023 - 2026 Socially-Aware Artificial Intelligence for Future Transportation, DTU-NTNU double degree position under Nordic Five Tech program, Co-PI. (with Francisco C. Pereira, Rico Krueger, and Yu Xiao)
Completed Research Projects:
- 2019 - 2022 Context-aware and Veracious Big Data Analytics for Industrial IoT (ABIDI), CHIST-ERA, FET programme of EU, Academy of Finland, Co-PI in UOulu (with Röning).
- 2019 - 2021 5G Edge Computing Enhanced Augmented Reality (5GEAR), Academy of Finland ICT 2013 Beyond 5G program, Co-PI in UOulu (with Hui and Ylianttila).
- 2020 - 2020 Federated Learning for Internet of Things, Huawei project, Co-PI (with Hui).
- 2019 - 2022 Privacy Preserving Edge Intelligence for Internet of Things Data Streams, Academy of Finland Postdoc fellow, PI.
- 2017 - 2018 Lightweight Stream Reasoning for the Internet of Things Data, Research mobility project of Jorma Ollila grant. PI.
- 2017 - 2020 6Aika: Future operator independent data integration platform (CityIoT), European Union Regional Fund. Work package leader.
- 2016 - 2017 Internet of Things Traffic Modelling and its Influences on Carrier Networks, Huawei HIRP Open Project. Co-PI (with Riekki and Li).
- 2016 - 2019 TU München Living Lab Connected Mobility, Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology. Guest research scientist.
- 2015 - 2016 Digital Health Revolution, Tekes. Research scientist.
- 2012 - 2016 DIGILE Internet of Things program, Tekes, Work package deliverable leader and research scientist.
- 2009 - 2011 Pervasive Service Computing, Academy of Finland Motive Program. Research scientist.
- 2007 - 2011 Lightweight Service Discovery for Pervasive Ad-hoc Middleware, Personal PhD student position granted by Infotech Oulu Graduate School. PI.
- 2006 - 2009 Knowledge Environment for Interacting ROBOt SWARMs (ROBOSWARM), Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development of EU(FP6), Research scientist.
- 2005 - 2007 Context-aware Pervasive Networking (CAPNET) research program, Tekes, Research assistant.
- 2003 - 2005 Web Information Structure Modelling for Automatic Resource Discovery, National Natural Science Foundation of China (60273051), Research assistant.
Nordic University Cooperation on Edge Intelligence (NUEI)
Enhanced Industrial IoT Connectivity with Edge Intelligence (ICE)
Socially-Aware Artificial Intelligence for Future Transportation
Publications
Selcted recent publications:
- Bartolomeo G, Cao J, Su X & Mohan N (2023), Characterizing Distributed Mobile Augmented Reality Applications at the Edge, The 19th ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2023).
- Xu D, Su X, Wang H, Tarkoma S & Hui P (2023), Towards Risk-averse Edge Computing with Deep Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
- Cao J, Lam KY, Lee LH, Liu X, Hui P & Su X (2023), Mobile Augmented Reality: User Interfaces, Frameworks, and Intelligence, ACM Computing Surveys 55(9), pp 1-36.
- Huang Y, Zhu Y, Qiao X, Su X, Dustdar S, & Zhang P (2022). Towards Holographic Video Communications: A Promising AI-driven Solution. IEEE Communications Magazine, 60(11) pp. 82-88.
- Xu D, Li T, Li Y, Su X, Tarkoma S, Jiang T, Crowcroft J & Hui P (2021). Edge Intelligence: Architectures, Challenges, and Applications, Proceedings of the IEEE, 109(11) November 2021, pp 1778-1837.
- Su X, Liu X, Motlagh NH, Cao J, Su P, Pellikka P, Liu Y, Petäjä T, Kulmala M, Hui P & Tarkoma S (2021), Intelligent and Scalable Air Quality Monitoring with 5G Edge, IEEE Internet Computing, 25(2), pp 35-44.
Full publication list with citations can be found from Google Scholar.
2023
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Fan, Boyu;
Su, Xiang;
Niu, Jianwei;
Hui, Pan.
(2023)
EmgAuth: Unlocking Smartphones With EMG Signals.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Academic article
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Qi, Nan;
Huang, Zanqi;
Sun, Wen;
Jin, Shi;
Su, Xiang.
(2023)
Coalitional Formation-Based Group-Buying for UAV-Enabled Data Collection: An Auction Game Approach.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Academic article
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Chen, Chen;
Niu, Yong;
Ai, Bo;
He, Ruisi;
Han, Zhu;
Zhong, Zhangdui.
(2023)
Joint Design of Phase Shift and Transceiver Beamforming for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Millimeter-Wave High-Speed Railway Communications.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Academic article
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Cao, Jacky;
Lam, Kit-Yung;
Lee, Lik-Hang;
Liu, Xiaoli;
Hui, Pan;
Su, Xiang.
(2023)
Mobile Augmented Reality: User Interfaces, Frameworks, and Intelligence.
ACM Computing Surveys
Academic article
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Cao, Jacky;
Mehmood, Hassan;
Liu, Xiaoli;
Tarkoma, Sasu;
Gilman, Ekaterina;
Su, Xiang.
(2023)
Fighting Pandemics with Augmented Reality and Smart Sensing-Based Social Distancing.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Academic article
2022
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Motlagh, Naser Hossein;
Loven, Lauri;
Cao, Jacky;
Liu, Xiaoli;
Nurmi, Petteri;
Dustdar, Schahram.
(2022)
Edge Computing: The Computing Infrastructure for the Smart Megacities of the Future.
Computer
Academic article
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Su, Lan;
Niu, Yong;
Han, Zhu;
Ai, Bo;
He, Ruisi;
Wang, Yibing.
(2022)
Content Distribution Based on Joint V2I and V2V Scheduling in mmWave Vehicular Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Academic article
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Huang, Yakun;
Zhu, Yuanwei;
Qiao, Xiuquan;
Su, Xiang;
Dustdar, Schahram;
Zhang, Ping.
(2022)
Toward Holographic Video Communications: A Promising AI-Driven Solution.
IEEE Communications Magazine
Academic literature review
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Yin, Zhigang;
Olapade, Mayowa;
Liyanage, Mohan;
Dar, Farooq;
Zuniga, Agustin;
Motlagh, Naser Hossein.
(2022)
Toward City-Scale Litter Monitoring Using Autonomous Ground Vehicles.
IEEE pervasive computing
Academic article
2021
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Xu, Dianlei;
Li, Tong;
Li, Yong;
Su, Xiang;
Tarkoma, Sasu;
Jiang, Tao.
(2021)
Edge Intelligence: Empowering Intelligence to the Edge of Network.
Proceedings of the IEEE
Academic article
Journal publications
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Fan, Boyu;
Su, Xiang;
Niu, Jianwei;
Hui, Pan.
(2023)
EmgAuth: Unlocking Smartphones With EMG Signals.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Academic article
-
Qi, Nan;
Huang, Zanqi;
Sun, Wen;
Jin, Shi;
Su, Xiang.
(2023)
Coalitional Formation-Based Group-Buying for UAV-Enabled Data Collection: An Auction Game Approach.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Academic article
-
Chen, Chen;
Niu, Yong;
Ai, Bo;
He, Ruisi;
Han, Zhu;
Zhong, Zhangdui.
(2023)
Joint Design of Phase Shift and Transceiver Beamforming for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Millimeter-Wave High-Speed Railway Communications.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Academic article
-
Cao, Jacky;
Lam, Kit-Yung;
Lee, Lik-Hang;
Liu, Xiaoli;
Hui, Pan;
Su, Xiang.
(2023)
Mobile Augmented Reality: User Interfaces, Frameworks, and Intelligence.
ACM Computing Surveys
Academic article
-
Cao, Jacky;
Mehmood, Hassan;
Liu, Xiaoli;
Tarkoma, Sasu;
Gilman, Ekaterina;
Su, Xiang.
(2023)
Fighting Pandemics with Augmented Reality and Smart Sensing-Based Social Distancing.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Academic article
-
Motlagh, Naser Hossein;
Loven, Lauri;
Cao, Jacky;
Liu, Xiaoli;
Nurmi, Petteri;
Dustdar, Schahram.
(2022)
Edge Computing: The Computing Infrastructure for the Smart Megacities of the Future.
Computer
Academic article
-
Su, Lan;
Niu, Yong;
Han, Zhu;
Ai, Bo;
He, Ruisi;
Wang, Yibing.
(2022)
Content Distribution Based on Joint V2I and V2V Scheduling in mmWave Vehicular Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Academic article
-
Huang, Yakun;
Zhu, Yuanwei;
Qiao, Xiuquan;
Su, Xiang;
Dustdar, Schahram;
Zhang, Ping.
(2022)
Toward Holographic Video Communications: A Promising AI-Driven Solution.
IEEE Communications Magazine
Academic literature review
-
Yin, Zhigang;
Olapade, Mayowa;
Liyanage, Mohan;
Dar, Farooq;
Zuniga, Agustin;
Motlagh, Naser Hossein.
(2022)
Toward City-Scale Litter Monitoring Using Autonomous Ground Vehicles.
IEEE pervasive computing
Academic article
-
Xu, Dianlei;
Li, Tong;
Li, Yong;
Su, Xiang;
Tarkoma, Sasu;
Jiang, Tao.
(2021)
Edge Intelligence: Empowering Intelligence to the Edge of Network.
Proceedings of the IEEE
Academic article