Yuqi Zhao

Yuqi Zhao

Wuhan University

Yuqi Zhao is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the School of Computer Science, Central China Normal University. Zhao received a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Wuhan University in December 2023, under the supervision of Professor Li Bing. Zhao’s research interests include software engineering, services computing, and edge computing. Relevant work has been published in high-quality journals and conferences, such as KBS, ICWS, ICSOC, TNSM, and JCST.

Currently, Zhao is leading two postdoctoral research projects funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and the National Postdoctoral Program, focusing on advancing software and edge computing technologies. Zhao has been recognized with several honors, including the Distinguished Paper Award at ICSOC 2023 and the Best Student Paper Award at ICWS 2021. In addition, Zhao’s contributions were acknowledged as one of the 3551 talents in Optics Valley in 2022. More recently, Zhao guided students to achieve a Silver Award at the Challenge Cup National Competition and won the Silver Award in the 9th China International “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for College Students.

Zhao’s research interest include software engineering, services computing, and edge computing. I have published more than 20 papers at the top international AI conferences with total google scholar citations 100+ (You can also use google scholar badge ).

🔥 News

  • 2024.09:  🎉🎉 A paper co-authored with my undergraduate student as the first author is accepted to ISPA 2024.
  • 2024.06:  🎉🎉 Our conference paper is accepted to Internetware 2024.
  • 2023.12:  🎉🎉 Our research is accepted to the flagship software engineering conference SANER 2024.
  • 2023.12:  🎉🎉 Our Low-Code Platform achieves the Silver Award in the 9th China International “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for College Students.
  • 2023.11:  🎉🎉 Our research achieves the Distinguished Paper Award in ICSOC 2023.

📝 Publications

ICSOC 2023
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Online Microservice Deployment in Mobile Edge Computing

Yuqi Zhao, Jian Wang, Bing Li

Project

  • This paper proposes DDQN, a deep reinforcement learning approach to online microservice deployment. Specifically, DDQN leverages the Dueling DQN (Deep Q-Network) model to generate real-time microservice deployment plans.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2024.12:  🎉🎉 Recognized as Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation by the Wuhan Computer Software Engineering Society.
  • 2024.12:  🎉🎉 Honored as Teaching Excellence Individual by the Undergraduate School of Central China Normal University.
  • 2024.11:  🎉🎉 Our team achieved the Silver Award in the 14th “Challenge Cup” China College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition.
  • 2024.08:  🎉🎉 Won the National First Prize in the National Computer System Capability Competition - Intelligent System Innovation Design Competition (Xiaomi Cup).
  • 2023.12:  🎉🎉 Our Low-Code Platform achieved the Silver Award in the 9th China International “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for College Students.
  • 2023.11:  🎉🎉 Our research achieved the Distinguished Paper Award in ICSOC 2023.

# 🎓 Teaching

  • 2024.09 - 2025.01, Operating Systems, Undergraduate Course, School of Computer Science, Central China Normal University.

📖 Educations

  • 2018.09 – 2023.12, Wuhan University (WHU), Ph.D student in Software Engineering (SE).
  • 2015.09 – 2018.06, Wuhan University (WHU), Master student in Software Engineering (SE).
  • 2011.09 – 2015.06, Wuhan University (WHU), B.S. in Spatial Information and Digital Technology (SIDT), World Ranking First.

💬 Invited Talks

  • 2023.11, A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Online Microservice Deployment in Mobile Edge Computing. ICSOC 2023, Roma, Italy.
  • 2023.06, A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Pointer Scoring Network for Edge Task Scheduling. ICWS 2023, Chicago, USA | [video]

💻 Internships