I joined the School of Electronic Information and Communications (EIC) at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) as an Associate Professor in Spring 2020. Before that, I was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, as a Postdoctoral Fellow from Sept. 2018 to Dec. 2019, and as a Visiting Ph.D. Student from Sept. 2015 to Sept. 2017. I received my Ph.D. and B.E. degrees from the School of EIC at HUST in 2018 and 2013, respectively. My current research focuses on next generation networking, mobile edge computing, video streaming and analytics.

Notes: I am currently looking for highly motivated students (both undergraduate and graduate) to join my group. Feel free to send me an email or visit my lab at WNLO.

Selected Publications:

[1] P. Yang, F. Lyu, W. Wu, N. Zhang, L. Yu, and X. Shen, Edge Coordinated Query Configuration for Low-Latency and Accurate Video Analytics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 4855-4864, July 2020.

[2] W. Wu, N. Cheng, N. Zhang, P. Yang, W. Zhuang, and X. Shen, Fast mmWave Beam Alignment via Correlated Bandit Learning, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 5894-5908, Dec. 2019.

[3] P. Yang, N. Zhang, S. Zhang, L. Yu, J. Zhang, and X. Shen, Content Popularity Prediction Towards Location-Aware Mobile Edge Caching, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 915-929, Apr. 2019. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[4] S. Zhang, W. Quan, J. Li, W. Shi, P. Yang, and X. Shen, Air-Ground Integrated Vehicular Network Slicing with Content Pushing and Caching, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 2114-2127, Sept. 2018.

[5] S. Zhang, P. He, K. Suto, P. Yang, L. Zhao, and X. Shen, Cooperative Edge Caching in User-Centric Clustered Mobile Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1791-1805, Aug. 2018.

[6] P. Yang, N. Zhang, S. Zhang, K. Yang, L. Yu, and X. Shen, Identifying the Most Valuable Workers in Fog-Assisted Spatial Crowdsourcing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 1193-1203, Oct. 2017. 

[7] P. Yang, N. Zhang, Y. Bi, L. Yu, and X. Shen, Catalyzing Cloud-Fog Interoperation in 5G Wireless Networks: An SDN Approach, IEEE Network, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 14-20, Sept./Oct. 2017. 

[8] N. Zhang, S. Zhang, P. Yang, O. Alhussein, W. Zhuang, and X. Shen, Software Defined Space-Air-Ground Integrated Vehicular Networks: Challenges and Solutions, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 101-109, July 2017. (ESI Highly Cited Paper) 

[9] F. Lyu, J. Ren, P. Yang, N. Cheng, Y. Zhang, and X. Shen, SoSA: Socializing Static APs for Edge Resource Pooling in Large-Scale WiFi System, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Beijing, China, 2020. (Acceptance Rate 19.8%) 

[10] P. Yang, N. Zhang, S. Zhang, L. Yu, J. Zhang, and X. Shen, Dynamic Mobile Edge Caching with Location Differentiation, in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, Singapore, 2017.