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Research Interests

I'm interested in distributed systems and their algorithms. Recently, I'm working on blockchain technology and its applications. My research interests include:
• Distributed Systems and Blockchain
• Blockchain-based Big Data Sharing
• Blockchain as a Service
• Edge Computing and Mobile Blockchain

Education

• Jul 2016 - Jun 2021, Ph.D., Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Supervisor: Prof. Jiannong Cao
  [Confirmation] Programming and Coordination in Distributed Multi-Robot Systems
  [Thesis] High-performance Packing and Searching for Blockchain-based Big Data Sharing
• Nov 2018 - Mar 2019, Visiting Student, Department of Computing, Imperial College London
  Advisor: Prof. Julie A. McCann
• Sep 2011 - Jun 2015, B.Sc., Computer Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University

Academic Positions

• Oct 2021 - present, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Aug 2021 - Oct 2021, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Advisor: Prof. Jiannong Cao
• Apr 2015 - Jun 2016, Research Assistant, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Advisor: Prof. Jiannong Cao

News

• We have several RA/Postdoc positions opening. Welcome to join us.
• Oct 2021: I joined Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Research Assistant Professor.
• Sep 2021: our paper "Dynamic Ring Signature: Achieving Provable Anonymity in Blockchain-based E-voting" was under Major Revision in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
• Sep 2021: our paper "Accurate Localization of Tagged Objects Using Mobile RFID-augmented Robots" was identified as ESI Highly Cited Paper by Clarivate Web of Science.
• Aug 2021: our paper "PolyChain: a Generic Blockchain as a Service Platform" won the best paper award of BlockSys'2021.
• Aug 2021: I joined Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
• Jun 2021: I got my PhD degree in computer science at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• May 2021: our paper "PolyChain: a Generic Blockchain as a Service Platform" was accepted by BlockSys'2021.
• May 2021: our paper "High-efficiency Blockchain-based Supply Chain Traceability" was under Major Revision in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Publications and Manuscripts

1. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Hanqing Wu, "Dynamic Ring Signature: Achieving Provable Anonymity in Blockchain-based E-voting", manuscript under Major Revision in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
2. Hanqing Wu, Shan Jiang*, Jiannong Cao, "High-efficiency Blockchain-based Supply Chain Traceability", manuscript under Major Revision in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
3. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Juncen Zhu, Yinfeng Cao, "PolyChain: a Generic Blockchain as a Service Platform", to appear in BlockSys 2021 (Oral Presentation and Best Paper Award).
4. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Hanqing Wu, Yanni Yang, "Fairness-based Packing of Industrial IoT Data in Permissioned Blockchains", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020.
5. Shan Jiang, Junbin Liang, Jiannong Cao, Jia Wang, Jinlin Chen, Zhixuan Liang, "Decentralized Algorithm for Repeating Pattern Formation by Multiple Robots", IEEE ICPADS 2019 (Oral Presentation).
6. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Julie A. McCann, Yanni Yang, Yang Liu, Xiaoqing Wang, Yuming Deng, "Privacy-preserving and Efficient Multi-keyword Search Over Encrypted Data on Blockchain", IEEE Blockchain 2019 (Oral Presentation).
7. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Hanqing Wu, Yanni Yang, Mingyu Ma, Jianfei He, "BlocHIE: a BLOCkchain-based platform for Healthcare Information Exchange", IEEE SMARTCOMP 2018 (Citations: 151).
8. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Jia Wang, Milos Stojmenovic, Julien Bourgeois, "Uniform Circle Formation by Asynchronous Robots: A Fully-Distributed Approach", IEEE ICCCN 2017 (Oral Presentation).
9. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Yang Liu, Jinlin Chen, Xuefeng Liu, "Programming Large-Scale Multi-Robot System with Timing Constraints", IEEE ICCCN 2016 (Oral Presentation).
10. Shan Jiang, Junbin Liang, Jiannong Cao, Rui Liu, "An ensemble-level programming model with real-time support for multi-robot systems", IEEE PerCom Workshops 2016 (Demo).
11. Xiulong Liu, Jiuwu Zhang, Shan Jiang, Yanni Yang, Keqiu Li, Jiannong Cao, Jiangchuan Liu, "Accurate Localization of Tagged Objects Using Mobile RFID-augmented Robots", IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, 2019 (ESI Highly Cited Paper).
12. Jia Wang, Jiannong Cao, Milos Stojmenovic, Miao Zhao, Jinlin Chen, Shan Jiang, "Pattern-RL: Multi-robot Cooperative Pattern Formation via Deep Reinforcement Learning", IEEE ICMLA 2019.
13. Hanqing Wu, Jiannong Cao, Yanni Yang, Cheung Leong Tung, Shan Jiang, Bin Tang, Yang Liu, Xiaoqing Wang, Yuming Deng, "Data Management in Supply Chain Using Blockchain: Challenges and A Case Study", IEEE ICCCN 2019.
14. Yuvraj Sahni, Jiannong Cao, Shan Jiang, "Middleware for Multi-Robot System", Mission-Oriented Sensor Networks and Systems: Art and Science, Springer, 2019.
15. Hanqing Wu, Jiannong Cao, Shan Jiang, Ruosong Yang, Yanni Yang, Jianfei He, "TSAR: a fully-distributed Trustless data ShARing platform", IEEE SMARTCOMP 2018 (Workshop).
16. Xiulong Liu, Jiannong Cao, Yanni Yang, Shan Jiang, "CPS-Based Smart Warehouse for Industry 4.0: A Survey of the Underlying Technologies", MDPI Computers, 2018.
17. Jia Wang, Jiannong Cao, Shan Jiang, "Fault-Tolerant Pattern Formation by Multiple Robots: A Learning Approach", IEEE SRDS 2017 (PhD Forum).

Patents

1. 江山，曹建农，林钦亮，"数据存储方法、装置、计算机设备及可读存储介质"，编号CN111224793A（华为技术有限公司），2020年6月公布（已授权）
2. 江山，曹建农，林钦亮，"电子投票方法、装置和存储介质"，编号CN111292461A（华为技术有限公司），2020年6月公布（已授权）
3. 刘旸，王晓晴，邓玉明，吴汉卿，曹建农，杨燕妮，江山，"跨链交易方法、装置、多区块链系统及计算设备"，编号CN112348672A（阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司），2021年2月公布

Professional Activities

Program committee:
• The 3rd International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2020)

Referee for submissions to journals:
• ACM Computing Surveys
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
• IEEE Network
• IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Big Data
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Information Processing & Management
• Computers & Security
• Computer Communications
• Journal of Systems Architecture
• Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
• Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks
• IEEE/CAA Journal Automatica Sinica
• Blockchain: Research and Applications

Reviewer for submissions to conferences:
• WWW'22
• ICDCS'20, COMPSAC'20
• ICDCS'19, Percom'19
• Percom'18
• ICDCS'17, Percom'17, ICC'17, Mobiquitous'17

Teaching Experiences

As lecturer:
• Spring 2021, Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing (COMP5327), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

As teaching assistant:
• Spring 2020, Service and Cloud Computing (COMP4442, Lecturer: Prof. Jiannong Cao), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Fall 2019, Advanced Topics in Computer Algorithms (COMP6701, Lecturer: Dr. Jing Li and Dr. Jesper Jansson), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Fall 2017, Distributed Computing (COMP5325, Lecturer: Prof. Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Spring 2017, Programming Fundamentals (COMP1011, Lecturer: Prof. Jiannong Cao), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Fall 2016, Computer Communications Networks (COMP312, Lecturer: Dr. Lei Yang), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Fall 2014, Algorithm Design and Analysis (Lecturer: Prof. Songshan Guo, Dr. Han Lin, and Dr. Zizhen Zhang), Sun Yat-sen University

Others:
• Spring 2018, Assistant Coach, HK PolyU ACM-ICPC Team

Honors & Awards

• ESI Highly Cited Paper, "Accurate Localization of Tagged Objects Using Mobile RFID-Augmented Robots", Clarivate Web of Science (Sep 2021)
• Best Paper Award, 2021 International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys'2021) (Aug 2021)
• Third Runner-up (4/32), ACM-HK Programming Contest 2019, Hong Kong, China (Jun 2019)
• The Third Place (3/10), COMP Annual Research Day 2019, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China (Jun 2019)
• Second Runner-up (3/33), ACM-HK Programming Contest 2017, Hong Kong, China (Jun 2017)
• Silver Medal (32/182), Beijing Regional Contest, The 39th ACM-Asia Programming Contest, Beijing, China (Nov 2014)
• The Fourth Place (4/147), ACM-Guangdong Provincial Programming Contest 2014, Guangzhou, China (May 2014)
• Outstanding Student, Second-class Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (Nov 2014)
• Outstanding Student, Third-class Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (Nov 2012)