Research Interest:
Real-Time System, Distributed System, and Artificial Intelligence
Journal Publications:
Sissi Xiaoxiao Wu, Zehong Huang, Zhicong Liang, Lin Gu, Tatsuya Harada, Zheng Li, Yingying Zhu, Defender of privacy and fairness: Tiny but reversible generative model via mutually collaborative knowledge distillation, Neurocomputing, Volume 618, 2025
S. He, Ping Chen, Shuaiben Chen, Zheng Li and et al. “HOME: A Holistic GPU Memory Management Framework for Deep Learning”, IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC), 09 June 2022
S. He, Zheng li and et al., "A Holistic Heterogeneity-Aware Data Placement Scheme for Hybrid Parallel I/O Systems," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 830-842, 1 April 2020
Zheng Li and Shuibing He, "Run-time timing prediction for system reconfiguration on many-core embedded systems", Journal of Systems Architecture, 95:47-54, 2019
Zheng Li and Shuibing He, "Fixed-Priority Scheduling for Two-Phase Mixed-Criticality Systems", ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, June 2017
Shuibing He, Yang Wang, Zheng Li and Chengzhong Xu, "Cost-Aware Region-Level Data Placement in Multi-Tiered Parallel I/O Systems", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 28(7):1853 - 1865, 2017
Zheng Li, Chunhui Guo, Xiayu Hua, Shangping Ren, “Reliability Guaranteed Energy Minimization On Mixed-Criticality Systems”, Journal of Software and System, 112: 1-10, 2016
Hao Wu, Xiayu Hua, Zheng Li, Shangping Ren, "Resource and Instance Hour Minimization for Deadline Constrained DAG Applications Using Computer Clouds", IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems, 99:1-10, 2015
Xiayu Hua, Zheng Li, Hao Wu, Chunhui Guo, Shangping Ren, “Periodic resource integration”, Journal of Software and System, 110: 193-204, 2015
Zheng Li, Shangping Ren, Gang Quan, “Energy Minimization for Reliability-Guaranteed Real-Time Applications using DVFS and Checkpointing Techniques”, Journal of Software Architecture, 61(2): 71 -81, 2015
Zheng Li, Lockom Frank, Shangping Ren, “Maintaining Real-Time Application Timing Similarity for Defect-Tolerant NoC”, ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst., 13(2s): 64:1-64:19, 2014
Xiayu Hua, Hao Wu, Zheng Li, Shangping Ren, “Enhancing throughput of the Hadoop Distributed File System for interaction-intensive tasks”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 74(8): 2770-2779, 2014
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers:
Zheng Li and D. Holly, "Assessing Programming Proficiency Through Eye Gaze Analysis Using Fine-Tuned Large Language Model," 2024 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing (HPSC), 2024
Junjie Zhu, Lin Gu, Xiaoxiao Wu, Zheng Li and etc, “People taking photos that faces never share: Privacy Protection and Fairness Enhancement from Camera to User”, Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023
Joshua Smith and Zheng Li, “Public Transit Prediction during COVID-19 Pandemic”, 8th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing (HPSC), 2022
Zheng Li, Mykola Hubchak and Yingying Zhu, “Deep Leakage from Gradients in Multiple-label Medical Image Classification”, IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), 2021
Zheng Li, Joshua Smith, Sujoy Chakraborty, “Domain Adaption in Sequence-to-Sequence Scene Text Recognition”, 11TH International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS), 2021
Zheng Li, "Scheduling of Two-Phase Mixed-Criticality Systems on Memory Shared Multi-Core Platforms ", 17th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2019
Zheng Li, Hao Wu, Shuibing He, "Timing Prediction for Dynamic Application Migration on Multi-core Embedded Systems", 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IDS) , 2018
Zheng Li, Shuibing He and Li Wang, "Prediction Based Run-Time Reconfiguration on Many-Core Embedded Systems", 14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2017
Zheng Li and Li wang, "Memory-aware scheduling for mixed-criticality systems", International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCAS), 2016
Zheng Li, Shangping Ren, Gang Quan, “Dynamic Reservation-Based Mixed-Criticality Task Set Scheduling”, IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), 2014
Hao Wu, Xiayu Hua, Zheng Li, Shangping Ren, “Resource minimization for real-time applications using computer clouds”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2013
Zheng Li, Shuhui Li, Xiayu Hua, Hao Wu, Shangping Ren, “Run-Time Reconfiguration to Tolerate Core Failures for Real-Time Embedded Applications on NoC Manycore Platforms”, IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2013
Zheng Li, Li Wang, Shangping Ren, Gang Quan, “Energy Minimization for Checkpointing-Based Approach to Guaranteeing Real-Time Systems Reliability”,IEEE International Symposium on object/component/service-oriented Real-time distributed computing (ISORC), 2013
Li Wang, Zheng Li, Miao Song and Shangping Ren, "A genetic algorithm based approach to maximizing real-time system value under resource constraints", IEEE 31st International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2012
Grant/Award:
Research and Professional Development Grant Award, “Optimizing the Performance of Artificial Intelligence Application Enabled Mobile Devices”, Stockton University, 2022- 2023
Research and Professional Development Grant Award, “Evaluating Students’ Computer Program Comprehension by Eye-Tracking Analysis”, Stockton University, 2020- 2021
University Research Council Grant Award, Western Illinois University, “Real-time Learning Technique on Embedded Computer System”, Western Illinois University, 2017
University Research Council Grant Award, Western Illinois University, “Wear-out Tolerable Reconfiguration Techniques for Many-Core Mixed Criticality Systems”, 2016