The High-Performance Data-Intelligence Computing (HPDIC) lab, currently hosted at the University of Washington, publishes research findings at top conferences (e.g., SC, SIGMOD, AAAI) and journals (e.g., TPDS, TSC, TPAMI).

• 2025
  • [Jun.] Reproducible Function-as-a-Service accepted by IEEE IC2E.
  • [Jun.] Serverless Database Abstraction accepted by IEEE IC2E.
  • [Jun.] Compile-Time Fully Homomorphic Encryption via Algebraic Base Change accepted by Cryptography.
  • [Jun.] Geometric Fragmentation for Privacy-Preserving Blockchains accepted by ICPP'25.
  • [Jun.] Federated Learning Free-Riding Security to be presented at IJCAI'25.
  • [Jun.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve as a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
  • [May] Multimodel Fake News Detection accepted by IEEE MIPR'25, acceptance rate 20%.
  • [May] PNNL scientist Dr. Luanzheng Guo joined UW as an affiliate assistant professor. Welcome Prof. Guo!
  • [May] Prof. Zhao invited to serve as a reviewer of ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR).
  • [Apr.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve as a reviewer of Journal of Information Security and Applications.
  • [Apr.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve as a reviewer of ACM Multimedia'25.
  • [Apr.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve on the TPC of IEEE eScience'25.
  • [Apr.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve as a reviewer of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
  • [Mar.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve as a reviewer of Cell Patterns.
  • [Mar.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve on an NSF panel of grant proposals about data privacy.
  • [Mar.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve on the TPC of ICCV'25.
  • [Feb.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve on an NSF panel of grant proposals about cyberinfrastructure.
  • [Feb.] Prof. Zhao received a research grant from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  • [Feb.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve as a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security.
  • [Feb.] Prof. Zhao received a research grant from Microsoft.
  • [Feb.] UCM-NetV2 accepted by Journal of Economy and Technology.
  • [Jan.] Prof. Zhao received the Best Researcher Award, NSGA 2025.
  • [Jan.] Federated Learning for Competitors accepted by Journal of Economy and Technology.
• 2024
  • [Dec.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve on the TPC of ICDCS'25.
  • [Dec.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve as a reviewer of zbMATH, European Mathematical Soceity.
  • [Oct.] GraphQL-based Serverless Computing to be presented at Middleware'24.
  • [Oct.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve on the TPC of IPDPS'25.
  • [Sept.] Semantic Contextualization with Contrastive Learning accepted by Applied Intelligence.
  • [Sept.] Roofline Compression Model to be presented at SC'24.
  • [Aug.] Mamba Neural Network for Skin Lesion accepted by Exploration of Medicine.
  • [Aug.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve on the TPC of WWW'25.
  • [Jun.] Prof. Zhao gave a talk at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
  • [Jun.] AI-based Skin Lesion Segmentation accepted by Biomedical Signal Processing & Control.
  • [Jun.] Prof. Zhao invited to serve on the TPC of AAAI'25.
  • [May] Homomorphic Encryption on Edge Computing accepted by ICWS'24, acceptance rate 19%.
  • [Mar.] Dynamic Caching for Vector Databases presented at ICICT'24.
  • [Jan.] Nonparametric Topological Layers in Neural Networks accepted by PAKDD'24, oral.
• 2023
  • [Dec.] Prof. Zhao received a research grant from Microsoft.
  • [Aug.] Decoupled Databases for Federated Learning (DDFL) presented at KDD'23.
  • [July] Prof. Zhao joined the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor.
  • [Mar.] Prof. Zhao invited to give a talk at Florida State University.
  • [Mar.] Prof. Zhao invited to give a talk at Indiana University.
  • [Mar.] Prof. Zhao invited to give a talk at Pennsylvania State University.
  • [Mar.] Prof. Zhao invited to give a talk at University of Washington.

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• NRC ranking in computer science (1995)
• Conference ranking based on citations
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• Conference and journal tiers by Argonne National Lab
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Selected publications:

• [AAAI] HDK: Toward High-Performance Deep-Learning-Based Kirchhoff Analysis. The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020. *Oral Presentation (5.8% acceptance rate: 453 out of 7,737 submissions)
• [SC] Swift Machine Learning Model Serving Scheduling: A Region Based Reinforcement Learning Approach. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, 2019.
• [CLOUD] Toward Accurate and Efficient Emulation of Public Blockchains in the Cloud. The 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2019. *Best Paper Award (1 out of ??? submissions)
• [TCC] Locality-aware Scheduling for Containers in Cloud Computing. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2018. (early access https://doi.org/10.1109/TCC.2018.2794344)
• [CLOUD] Toward Cost-effective Memory Scaling in Clouds: Symbiosis of Virtual and Physical Memory. The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2018. *Best Student Paper Award (1 out of 300+ submissions)
• [TBD] Toward Efficient and Flexible Metadata Indexing of Big Data Systems. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 3(1):107-117, 2017.
• [VLDB] Comparative Evaluation of Big Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads. The 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2017.
• [TSC] Dynamic Virtual Chunks: On Supporting Efficient Accesses to Compressed Scientific Data. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 9(1):96-109, 2016.
• [TPDS] Towards Exploring Data-Intensive Scientific Applications at Extreme Scales through Systems and Simulations. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 27(6):1824-1837, 2016.
• [PAMI] Incremental Isometric Embedding of High-Dimensional Data Using Connected Neighborhood Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 31(1):86-98, 2009.

(I stopped updating this page) A more complete list of publications can be found at DBLP.

Email: dzhao (at) cs.washington.edu