Name：XU Guangping
Title：Professor,
Director of Tianjin Key Lab of Tianjin-Roycom Intelligent Computing,
Director of Cyberspace Network Security
Type of tutor：Ph.D and Master Degree
Email：xugp@email.tjut.edu.cn
Address：No. 391 Binshui West Rd, Xiqing District, Tianjin, China, 300384
• 2020.01 – now Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, China
• 2010.10 – 2019.12 Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, China
• 2009.12 – 2010.10 Assistant Professor, Tianjin University of Technology, China
Previous Academic Positions
• 2025.08 – 2025.09 Research Associate, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, HK, China
• 2024.07 – 2024.08 Research Associate, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, HK, China
• 2018.07 – 2018.08 Visting Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London , UK
• 2016.12 – 2017.05 Visting Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong
• 2014.09 – 2015.04 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
I lead a research group which has been studying distributed and parallel computation, and cloud/edge network data storage systems. Edge computing is a core element of cloud and 6G networks, especially in supporting the Internet-of Things and ultra-low latency applications. Data store and access management is one of the key challenges in edge computing. This research focuses on data management and performance optimization in edge computing, which resorts to erasure-resilient coding and advanced machine learning techniques to improve the user Quality-of-Experience. My recent research has been supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, and some industries. I have the cooperating research experience with some colleagues at City University of Hong Kong, University of Exeter, UK, and University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
In recent years, I have published over 30 research papers in distributed storage systems across clouds and edges in some premier international journals and conferences, such as IEEE Trans. COM/TVT, IEEE/ACM IPDPS, IEEE ICDCS, ACM MultiMedia, IEEE MSST, SRDS, ICC, GLOBECOMM, ISIT and ITW etc..
[1] Coded Caching Service in Edge Networks: from Theory Model to Performance Optimization, No. 61971309, NSFC, 2020.1.1-2023.12.31
[2] High Performance Data Deduplication and Algorithms for Data Center, No. 17JCYBJC15600, NSF of Tianjin, 2017.4.1-2020.3.31
[3] An Intelligent and Reliable Data Store for Internet of Vehicles. No. 18JCKJTPYJC14400, NSF of Tianjin, 2018.10.1-2019.11.31
[4] Design and Optimization of Erasure-coding Based Storage Mechanism in Distributed Networks. NSFC, No. 601201234, 2013.01.01-2015.12.31
[5] Code Design for Distributed Storage Systems with Awareness of Network Topology, Hong Kong GRF, 9042642, 2019-01-01-2022-12-01, co-PI
[1] K. Liu, Y. Fu, G. Xu, W. Zheng, M. Ding, Y. Wu, T. Q. S. Quek, "Backhaul Traffic-Aware Edge Caching for Recommended Content With Personalized Privacy," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 5375-5389, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2025.3606544.
[2] M. Ding, G. Xu and K. Liu, "SLO-Aware Scheduling Deep Learning Inference for Digital Twin-enabled Serverless Edge," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3565576.
[3] Zhao, J., Yang, H., Xu, G. et al. MHQoS: A multi-user hierarchical quality of service optimization for P2P storage. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 18, 205 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-025-02033-5
[4] Y. Jia, G. Xu, C. W. Sung, S. Mostafa, and Y. Wu, "HRaft: Adaptive erasure coded data maintenance for consensus in distributed networks," Proc. 36th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS, Lyon, France, May-Jun. 2022.
[5] H. Lu, G. Xu, C. W. Sung, S. Mostafa, and Y. Wu, "A game theoretical balancing approach for offloaded tasks in edge datacenters," Proc. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS, Bologna, Italy, Jul. 2022.
[6] S. Mostafa, C. W. Sung, G. Xu, and T. H. Chan, "Index Coding Algorithms: Cooperative Caching and Delivery for F-RANs", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022.
[7] S. Mostafa, C. W. Sung, G. Xu, and T. H. Chan, "Cooperative caching for ultra-dense fog-RANs: information optimality and hypergraph coloring," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 3652-3663, Jun. 2021.
[8] Zan Gao, Yanbo Liu, Guangping Xu, Xianbin Wen. Pairwise attention network for cross-domain image recognition. Neurocomputing 453: 393-402 (2021)
[9] Y. Jia, G. Xu, C. W. Sung, S. Mostafa, "Adaptive Erasure Coded Data Maintenance for Consensus in Distributed Networks", SRDS 2021: 345-346. (Phd-Forum)
[1]Advanced Computer Systems
[2]Fundamental Programming
[1] Technique Member of Computer Architecture Committee, China Computer Federation (CCF TCARCH).
[2] Reviewer of Project Proposal of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSF China)
[3] Honorary title: Tianjin 131-Talent Program.
