Zirui Zhuang

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

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511 Research Building

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Beijing, China, 100876

Dr. Zirui Zhuang (Associate Professor, PhD supervisor, MSc supervisor, Pioneering Scholar) is currently with the State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology[中文][English] and the School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). He was also with the Institute of Network Technology from 2015 to 2020. Please see official page at [中文][English]. He is currently an full-time associate professor, and supervisor for PhD and MSc students.

He received his B.Eng. in electronic information engineering, and Ph.D. in information and communication engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications[中文][English], in 2015 and 2020, respectively. He is advised by Professor Jingyu Wang during the course of his Ph.D. study.

In 2019, he visited the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, doing research on network routing and optimization, advised by Professor Zhu Han.

His research interests include network routing and management for next generation network infrastructures, using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, including deep learning, reinforcement learning, graph representation, multi-agent system, and Lyapunov-based optimization.

Recently, he has been focusing on the design of Knowledge-Defined Networking (KDN) framework which employs artificial intelligence (AI) for the next-generation networks (AI4Network), in settings of wired computer networks as well as wireless communication networks. The integration of knowledge promotes profound intelligence in networked systems by acquisition, extraction, optimization, and application of the best practices of network control and resource management. This new paradigm demands for more advanced theory, techniques, and procedures in the aspects of sensing, modelling, decision making, and interpretation, where the combination of human intelligence and artificial intelligence is a must. While there has been a trending research interest over the convergence of communication, computation, and control, the era of KDN and AI4Network is still at its early stage. There are broad but challenging research opportunities to be explored.

He is an active member of computer communication and signal processing communities. He joined the IEEE as a Graduate Student Member in 2018, and he became a professional Member in 2020. He is a reviewer for many high impact journals and international conferences, such as

  • Journal reviewer
    • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
    • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
    • IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
    • IEEE Systems Journal
    • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
    • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
    • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
    • IEEE Communications Letters
    • Future Generation Computer Systems
    • Knowledge-Based Systems
    • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
    • Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
    • Springer Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications
    • Scientific Reports
    • SN Applied Sciences
    • Results in Control and Optimization
  • Conference reviewer
    • ACM ICMR 2023, 2024, 2025
    • ACM KDD 2024, 2025
    • ACM MM 2023, 2024
    • ACM UIST 2023
    • DASFAA 2024, 2025
    • ECMLPKDD 2023, 2024, 2025
    • IEEE Globecom 2023, 2024
    • IEEE ICCC 2020
    • IEEE PIMRC 2024
    • IEEE WCNC 2021(Workshops), 2022, 2024, 2025
    • MobiQuitous 2019
    • ITU-K 2024

news

May 26, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. [CCF B]
Apr 29, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by 2025 The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’25). [CCF A]
Apr 25, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by 2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC’25). [CCF A]
Apr 22, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. [CCF A]
Apr 07, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. [一区 / CCF B]
Mar 27, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by IEEE Communications Magazine. [Q1 / 二区]
Mar 21, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). [CCF A]
Feb 27, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). [CCF A]
Feb 09, 2025 One of our workshop paper has been accepted by IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’25).
Jan 25, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by The 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA’25). [CCF B]
Jan 24, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys’25). [CCF A]
Jan 23, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL’25). [CCF B]
Jan 08, 2025 One of our paper has been accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. [CCF A]
Dec 30, 2024 One of our paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. [CCF A]
Dec 24, 2024 One of our paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. [CCF A]
Dec 21, 2024 Two of our papers have been accepted by 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). [CCF B]
Dec 06, 2024 One of our paper has been accepted by IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’25).
Nov 25, 2024 One of our paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

latest posts

selected publications

  1. IWQoS CORE B CCF B
    Beyond Throughput-Optimal: Second-Order Smooth Backpressure Algorithm for Reducing Jitter and Delay
    Yuexi Yin, Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Haifeng Sun, Xiaoyuan Fu, and Jianxin Liao
    In IEEE/ACM 32nd International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS’24), Jun 2024
    DOI
    0 Google Scholar citations
  2. TMC 二区 Q1 CCF A
    Slice Sandwich: Jagged Slicing Multi-tier Dynamic Resources for Diversified V2X Services
    Yu Liu, Zirui Zhuang, Qi Qi, Jingyu Wang, Dezhi Chen, Lu Lu , Hongwei Yang, Jianxin Liao, and Zhu Han
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, May 2024
    DOI
    5 Google Scholar citations
  3. IPDPS CORE A CCF B
    Fast Policy Convergence for Traffic Engineering with Proactive Distributed Message-Passing
    Zicheng Wang, Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Haifeng Sun, and Jianxin Liao
    In 38th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’24), May 2024
    DOI
    1 Google Scholar citations
  4. INFOCOM CORE A* CCF A
    Efficient Throughput and Loop-Free Routing: An Adaptive Second-Order Backpressure Algorithm
    Yuexi Yin, Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Haifeng Sun, Xiaoyuan Fu, and Jianxin Liao
    In IEEE INFOCOM 2024 Poster, May 2024
    DOI
    0 Google Scholar citations
  5. NSDI CCF A
    EPVerifier: Accelerating Update Storms Verification with Edge-Predicate
    Chenyang Zhao , Yuebin Guo, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Zirui Zhuang, Haifeng Sun , Lingqi Guo, Yuming Xie, and Jianxin Liao
    In The 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’24), Apr 2024
    DOI
    4 Google Scholar citations
  6. ComMag 一区 Q1
    Toward High-Powered Connected Autonomous Vehicles: A Cooperative Solution via Transient Edge Intelligence Provision
    Yu Liu, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Zirui Zhuang, Jianxin Liao, and Zhu Han
    IEEE Communications Magazine, Dec 2023
    DOI
    2 Google Scholar citations
  7. NeurIPS CORE A* CCF A
    Drift doesn’t Matter: Dynamic Decomposition with Diffusion Reconstruction for Unstable Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection
    Chengsen Wang, Zirui Zhuang, Qi Qi, Jingyu Wang , Xingyu Wang, Haifeng Sun, and Jianxin Liao
    In Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS’23), Dec 2023
    DOI
    49 Google Scholar citations
  8. SIGCOMM P&D CORE A CCF A
    Poster: PipeLLM: Pipeline LLM Inference on Heterogeneous Devices with Sequence Slicing
    Ruilong Ma, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi , Xiang Yang, Haifeng Sun, Zirui Zhuang, and Jianxin Liao
    In SIGCOMM’23 Posters and Demos, Sep 2023
    DOI
    21 Google Scholar citations
  9. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Network Intelligence
    Qi Qi, Xiaoyuan Fu, Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, and Jianxin Liao
    Apr 2023
  10. ToN 二区 Q1 CCF A
    Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cross-Slice Federated Meta Learning for Resource Orchestration to Cold-Start Slice
    Tianjian Dong, Qi Qi, Jingyu Wang, Zirui Zhuang, Haifeng Sun, Jianxin Liao, and Zhu Han
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Apr 2023
    Online August 2022
    DOI
    12 Google Scholar citations
  11. TCCN 二区 Q1
    Intelligent Joint Network Slicing and Routing via GCN-powered Multi-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Tianjian Dong, Zirui Zhuang, Qi Qi, Jingyu Wang, Haifeng Sun, F. Richard Yu , Tao Sun, Cheng Zhou, and Jianxin Liao
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Jun 2022
    Online Dec. 2021.
    DOI
    72 Google Scholar citations
  12. ICMR CORE B CCF B
    FedNKD: A Dependable Federated Learning Using Fine-tuned Random Noise and Knowledge Distillation
    Shaoxiong Zhu, Qi Qi, Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Haifeng Sun, and Jianxin Liao
    In 2022 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR’22), Jun 2022
    DOI
    6 Google Scholar citations
  13. 通信学报 CIC T1 CCF T1
    Research on a knowledge-defined polymorphic network attainable service architecture
    Jingyu Wang, and Zirui Zhuang
    Journal on Communications, Apr 2022
    High PCSI DOI
    3 Google Scholar citations
  14. JIoT 一区 Q1
    Adaptive and Robust Routing with Lyapunov-Based Deep RL in MEC Networks Enabled by Blockchains
    Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Jianxin Liao, and Zhu Han
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Feb 2021
    Online Oct. 2020
    DOI
    35 Google Scholar citations
  15. JSTSP 一区 Q1
    Tensor-Based Reinforcement Learning for Network Routing
    Kai-Chu Tsai, Zirui Zhuang, Ricardo Lent, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi , Lichun Wang, and Zhu Han
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Feb 2021
    Online Feb. 2021.
    DOI
    22 Google Scholar citations
  16. JIoT 一区 Q1
    Mean Field Deep Reinforcement Learning for Fair and Efficient UAV Control
    Dezhi Chen, Qi Qi, Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Jianxin Liao, and Zhu Han
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Jan 2021
    Online July 2020
    DOI
    95 Google Scholar citations
  17. ISJ 一区 Q1
    Toward Greater Intelligence in Route Planning: A Graph-Aware Deep Learning Approach
    Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Haifeng Sun, and Jianxin Liao
    IEEE Systems Journal, Jun 2020
    Online June 2019
    DOI
    31 Google Scholar citations
  18. IWQoS CORE B CCF B
    Adaptive and Robust Network Routing Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning with Lyapunov Optimization
    Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Jianxin Liao, and Zhu Han
    In IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS’20), Jun 2020
    DOI
    7 Google Scholar citations
  19. WCNC CORE B CCF C
    Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Secure UAV Communications
    Yu Zhang, Zirui Zhuang, Feifei Gao, Jingyu Wang, and Zhu Han
    In IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’20), May 2020
    DOI
    53 Google Scholar citations
  20. Smart Service Cloud Networks (Edition 2)
    Jingyu Wang, Haifeng Sun, Jianxin Liao , Jing Wang, Qi Qi, and Zirui Zhuang
    Dec 2019
  21. ASC 一区 Q1
    Deep reinforcement learning-based cooperative interactions among heterogeneous vehicular networks
    Jingyu Wang, Zirui Zhuang, Qi Qi, Tonghong Li, and Jianxin Liao
    Applied Soft Computing, Sep 2019
    Online June 2019
    DOI
    6 Google Scholar citations
  22. IPCCC CORE B CCF C
    A Case-Based Decision System for Routing in Packet-Switched Networks
    Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Haifeng Sun, and Jianxin Liao
    In IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC’18), Nov 2018
    DOI
    1 Google Scholar citations
  23. LCN CORE A CCF C
    Graph-Aware Deep Learning Based Intelligent Routing Strategy
    Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Haifeng Sun, and Jianxin Liao
    In IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN’18), Oct 2018
    DOI
    18 Google Scholar citations
  24. Smart Service Cloud Networks
    Jingyu Wang, Jianxin Liao , Jing Wang, Qi Qi, and Zirui Zhuang
    Jan 2017