Weifeng Zhong

Ph.D., Associate Professor

School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology

Room 421, No. 2 Engineering Building, 100 Waihuanxi Road, Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou 510006, China

Email: wfzhongs AT gdut.edu.cn

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Biography

Weifeng Zhong is currently an Associate Professor at Guangdong University of Technology, China. He was listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (2023-2025). He received his Ph.D. degree from Guangdong University of Technology in 2019. He was a Visiting Scholar with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Visiting Student with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. His research interests include low-altitude wireless networks, connected vehicles, and smart grid. He published more than 70 research papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He won 6 Best Paper Awards in international conferences. He is a Youth Editorial Member of the Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Southern Energy Construction, among others. He was a co-chair and a TPC member of IEEE iThings, IEEE VTC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE Globecom, etc.

Research Interest

Low-altitude wireless networks, drone inspection, drone-vehicle cooperation
Connected vehicles, vehicular networks, intelligent transportation
Smart grid, vehicle-to-grid (V2G), multi-energy systems, energy trading, carbon trading

Selected Publications

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Dongmei Ye, Zhengqing Sun, Weifeng Zhong*, Jiawen Kang, Xumin Huang, Dong In Kim, Shengli Xie, Chau Yuen, “Optimal Flight Speed Scheduling and Battery Swapping in UAV-Enabled Mobile Edge Computing,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025, Early Access.
Weifeng Zhong, Wei Su, Xumin Huang*, Jiawen Kang, Chau Yuen, Ruilong Deng, Yan Zhang, Shengli Xie, “Joint Energy-Computation Management for Electric Vehicles under Coordination of Power Distribution Networks and Computing Power Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 1549-1561, Mar. 2025.
Shichu Rong, Weifeng Zhong*, Xumin Huang, Jiawen Kang, Shengli Xie, Chau Yuen, “Joint Path Selection, Energy Trading, and Task Offloading in Electric Vehicle Computing and Charging Network,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 17067-17081, May 2024.
Weifeng Zhong, Kan Xie, Yi, Liu*, Shengli Xie, Lihua Xie “Chance Constrained Scheduling and Pricing for Multi-Service Battery Energy Storage,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 5030-5042, Nov. 2021.
Weifeng Zhong, Shengli Xie, Kan Xie, Qiyu Yang*, Lihua Xie “Cooperative P2P Energy Trading in Active Distribution Networks: A MILP-based Nash Bargaining Solution,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1264-1276, Mar. 2021.

Experience

Jul. 2021 - Present, Associate Professor

School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, China

Jul. 2019 - Jul.2021, Postdoctoral Fellow

School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, China

Adviser: Prof. Zuyuan Yang

Jan. 2020 - Jan. 2021, Visiting scholar

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Adviser: Prof. Lihua Xie (IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow, SAEng Fellow)

Dec. 2015 - Jun. 2016, Visiting student

C2E Group@HKUST, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Adviser: Prof. Danny H.K. Tsang (IEEE Fellow, HKIE Fellow)

Education

Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2019, Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering

Guangdong University of Technology, China

Adviser: Prof. Shengli Xie (IEEE Fellow)

Sep. 2013 - Jun. 2016, M.Eng. in Control Engineering

Guangdong University of Technology, China

Adviser: Prof. Shengli Xie (IEEE Fellow)

Sep. 2009 - Jun. 2013, B.Eng. in Automation

Guangdong University of Technology, China

Funding

Provision and Optimization of Electric Vehicle Diversified Services under Collaboration of Energy and Computing, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2026 to 2029, PI.
Coordinated Optimization and Multi-resource Trading of Power Networks and Computing Networks, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, 2024 to 2025, PI.
Electric Vehicle Resource Management based on Collaboration of Power Grids and Computing Networks, Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, 2024-2026, PI.
Frequency Regulation Market and Optimal Distribution Network Control for Diversified V2G Demands, Electric Power Research Institute, China Southern Power Grid, 2023-2024, PI.
Optimal Scheduling for Complex Power Grids with Multi-Agent Interaction, Guangzhou Science and Technology Bureau, 2023-2025, PI.
Interaction Model and Optimal Decision-Making of Multiple Agents in Smart Distribution Networks, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2022-2023, PI.
Start-up Grant, Guangdong University of Technology, 2021-2026, PI.
Optimal Management of Multi-Dimensional Coupling Electricity Resources in Active Distribution Networks, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2021-2023, PI.
Cooperative Management of Heterogeneous Energy Storage Resources in New Energy Microgrids, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2019-2021, PI.

Awards

First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Artificial Intelligence and Automation Society, 2024
First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award, Guangdong Intelligent Transportation Association, 2024
Best Paper Award, ICCEIC, Guangzhou, 2024
Best Student Paper Award, IEEE VTC2024-Spring, Singapore, 2024
Best Paper Award, ECNCT, Guangzhou, 2023
Best Paper Award, IEEE IWCMC, Dubrovnik, 2022
Best Paper Award, IEEE CIT, Liverpool, 2015
Best Paper Award, EAI INISCOM, Tokyo, 2015
IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award, Publicity Chair, IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, Wuhan, 2022.
IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award, Session Chair, IEEE Hyper-Intelligence Congress, Haikou, 2021.
Postdoctoral Grants, Guangdong Excellent Young Talents International Training Program, Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Guangdong Province, China, 2020
National Scholarship for Ph.D. Students, Ministry of Education of China, 2018
National Scholarship for Master Students, Ministry of Education of China, 2015
Guangdong Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Education of Guangdong Province, China, 2019
Guangdong Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Education of Guangdong Province, China, 2016
Ten Innovative Figures, Guangdong University of Technology, China, 2019 (Awarded to 10/47,000 students)
Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, Guangdong University of Technology, China, 2017

Services

Youth Editorial Member, Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering (2025-2027)
Youth Editorial Member, Computer Engineering (in Chinese) (2023-2026)
Youth Editorial Member, Southern Energy Construction (in Chinese) (2024-2026)
Youth Editorial Member, Advanced Engineering Science (in Chinese) (2024-2026)
Guest Editor, Symmetry (2023-2024), Energies (2022-2023)
Co-chair, Workshop TPC Chair of IEEE Metaverse 2024, IEEE iThings 2022, Publicity Chair of IEEE EUC 2022, Publication Chair of SAPA 2024, IEEE iThings 2023, Session Chair of IWCMC 2022, IEEE SmartCity 2021.
TPC Member of IEEE TrustCom-2025, IEEE VTC 2025 Fall, IEEE VTC 2025 Spring, ICNC'25 NAPE, IEEE ISPA 2024, IEEE TrustCom-2024, IEEE SmartGridComm'24, IEEE ICCC'24, IEEE VTC 2024 Fall, IEEE VTC 2024 Spring, IEEE VTC 2023 Fall, ICNC'24 NAPE, IEEE Globecom 2023 MWN, IEEE ICCC'23, IEEE INFOCOM AidTSP 2023, IEEE VTC 2023 Spring, IEEE WCNC 2023, IEEE WCNC 2022, IEEE VTC 2022 Spring, IEEE TrustCom 2022, IEEE EUC 2022.
Active Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, etc.

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