Prof. Zimu Zhou is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Data Science (DS), City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in 2016 in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and his B.E. in 2011 in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. From 2016 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich. From 2020 to 2022, he was an assistant professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS), Singapore Management University (SMU).
Prof. Zhou's research broadly lies in mobile and ubiquitous computing, with current interests in on-device AI, collaborative AI, and data management for AI. He is particularly interested in enabling efficient and adaptive AI applications on resource-constrained devices and across distributed environments. His earlier work focused on IoT sensing and applications.
For more information including publication, please visit Prof. Zhou's homepage.
Awards and Achievements
- 2023 “Best Paper Award” Springer International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA).
- 2021 “Best Paper Award” IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM).
- 2021 “Best Student Paper Award” IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM).
- 2019 “Best Innovation Paper Award” IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC).
- 2018 “Distinguished Paper Award” Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
- 2017 “Best Paper Award” IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS).
- 2017 “Honorable Mention Award” ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
- 2016 “Best Paper Award” Tsinghua Science and Technology.
Academic Services
- Journal Editorship
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Associate Editor, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2020 -
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Young Assistant Editor, Springer Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), 2019 - 2026
- Conference Chair/Co-Chair
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2024: WoWMoM (PhD Forum Co-Chair), CSCAIoTSys (Workshop co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2024, Workshop Chair)
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2023: MDM (Proceedings Chair)
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2022: ICPADS (TPC Track Co-Chair, Big Data & Machine Learning System Track)
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2021: MASS (TPC Track Co-Chair, AI/ML-based Smart Design Track)
- Conference TPC Member
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2026: CVPR, DASFAA, KDD (AC), PAKDD (SPC), TheWebConf
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2025: DASFAA (SPC), ICME, IJCAI (SPC), KDD, SenSys
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2024: DASFAA (SPC), KDD, SenSys, TheWebConf, VLDB
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2023: DCOSS-IoT, ICDE, KDD, PerCom, SenSys, TheWebConf, VLDB
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2022: AAAI (SPC), KDD, PerCom, SenSys
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2021: AAAI, CVPR, KDD, WoWMoM
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2020: DASFAA, WoWMoM
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2019: ICCCN, ICPADS, WCNC, WoWMoM
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2018: DCOSS, MobiQuitous, WCNC, WoWMoM
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2017: ICPADS, MobiQuitous, UIC, WoWMoM
Last update date :
25 Aug 2026
