Dr. Hao Wang (王灏)

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Assistant Professor of ECE, Stevens
ACM Member, IEEE Senior Member
hwang9 --> stevens.edu
(201) 216-3325
Burchard Building-211 (Office), -213 (Lab)

About Me

I received my Ph.D. degree from the ECE Department, UofT 2020 July. I finished both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012 and 2015, respectively. I received the NSF CRII Award in 2022.

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Please check all the cool labs and researchers at iCNS and ECE @ Stevens [YouTube]!

Research Interest

Serverless Computing, Federated Learning, High-Performance Computing, AI Security

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
  University of Toronto, 2015.09--2020.07, advised by Prof. Baochun Li.
• M.E. in Software Engineering
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), 2012.09--2015.03
• B.E. in Information Security
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), 2008.09--2012.07

Teaching

• AAI595: Applied Machine Learning, Stevens, 2025-present (2025F: 4.87/5.0)
• CSC7598: Distributed Computing, LSU, 2024 Spring
• CSC3501: Computer Organization & Design, LSU, 2021--2024 Spring
• CSC4501: Computer Networks, LSU, 2021--2023 Fall

Awards

• 2026, Stevens Early Career Award for Research Excellence
• 2024, 2025, SIGHPC Early Career Travel Grant
• 2025, KDD 2025 Feb Cycle Outstanding Reviewers (Top 10%), KDD
• 2025, Research Excellence Award, ECE Department, Stevens Institute of Technology
• 2024, 2025, 2026, Distinguished Member of IEEE INFOCOM TPC recognition
• 2024, ACM SoCC 2024 Best Paper Award
• 2024, ACM/IEEE SC 2024 Best Student Paper Finalist
• 2022, Excellent Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Network Science & Engineering
• 2022, NSF CRII Award
• 2019, Didi Graduate Awards on Cloud Computing, Didi Chuxing Technology Co. (滴滴出行)
• 2019, Best In-session Presentation Award, INFOCOM'19, IEEE
• 2019, Doctoral Completion Award, ECE Department, University of Toronto
• 2018, SGS Conference Grant, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto
• 2018, Student Scholarships, SoCC'18, ACM
• 2015, University of Toronto Fellowship, ECE Department, University of Toronto
• 2015, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Scholarships, University of Toronto
• 2013, Yunfeng Prize, The 2nd Aliyun Cloud Computing Developer Competition (Top 1%), Alibaba Cloud Inc.

Professional Service

• Leadership and Organizing Roles
  • Steering Committee: Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI)
  • TPC Co-chair: INFOCOM 2026 Workshop on Embodied Intelligence Networks (EIN)
  • Organizer: DuckAI: The iCNS/ECE Symposium on AI Research and Innovations, 2025 Spring, 2025 Fall
  • Organizer and Program Chair: ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 Workshop: AI Crossroads: Systems, Energy, and Applications
  • Organizer and Chair: TigerAI 2024: LSU/IBM AI Security Summer Boot Camp
  • Publicity Chair: IEEE Cluster 2026, Springer ICA3PP 2023
  • Web Chair: APNet 2024–2025, IEEE ICNP 2017
  • Session Chair: INFOCOM 2022–2023, ACM SoCC 2022
• Editorial Service
  • Guest Editor: Computer Networks, Special Issue on Reconfigurable Networks: Enhancing Performance and Sustainability in Access Networks and the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum, 2025
  • Topic Editor: Frontiers in Computer Science — Software, Topic on Serverless Computing for Stateful Applications, 2024
  • Guest Editor: Journal of Systems Architecture, Special Issue on AI-driven Next-Generation Distributed Systems and Applications, 2023
• Funding Review Service
  • NSF Panelist: 2022, 2024 × 3, 2025 × 6
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Reviewer: 2023
• Mentoring and Outreach
  • Faculty Mentor: Google Research exploreCSR, 2021
  • Faculty Mentor: LSU High School Summer Research Program, 2022–2023
  • Faculty Mentor: Kenilworth Science and Technology Charter School Student Research Mentorship Program, 2021–2024
• Conference TPC Member and Journal Reviewer
  • Systems and Networks: DAC 2026, ACM/IEEE SC 2026, ACM HPDC 2024–2026, ACM SoCC 2022, 2025, INFOCOM 2021–2025, Globecom 2022, ADHOCNETS 2021, ICCCN 2022–2023, ICDCS 2022–2025, IEEE TPDS 2021-2025, IEEE ToN, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TCC 2024, 2025, IEEE TMC 2024, IEEE TC 2024, IEEE TSC 2025, IEEE IoTJ
  • AI and Machine Learning: AISTATS 2025, CVPR 2024–2026, ICLR 2024–2026, KDD 2025–2026, ECAI 2023, AAAI 2023–2026, ECML PKDD 2022, NeurIPS 2022–2026, ICML 2022–2026, IEEE BigData 2026, IEEE CDC 2023, IEEE TAI, IEEE TIST
  • Security: TIFS, IEEE TDSC 2024–2025
  • Web and Data: ACM WSDM 2023, ACM Web Conference 2022, 2024, IEEE IRI 2020–2021

Links

• Writing Perfect Papers, by Prof. Baochun Li.
• How to Read a Paper, by Prof. Srinivasan Keshav.
• How to Become A Hacker, by Zach Alberico.
• A Research to Engineering Workflow, by Dr. Dustin Tran.
• Metadata - on Distributed Systems Broadly Defined, by Prof. Murat Demirbas.
• On Coding, Ego and Attention, by Jose Browne.
• Systems Benchmarking Crimes, by Prof. Gernot Heiser.
• A successful Git branching model, by Vincent Driessen.

Leisure Life