Contact

• Zoom: washington.zoom.us/j/2066010000
• Email: dzhao@uw.edu

Research

• If you are interested in working on AI/DB/HPC with me, here in the following are some potential topics:
  • [AAAI'26] Order-Preserving Dimension Reduction for Multimodal Semantic Embedding (acceptance rate 17%)
  • [ICDM'25] ProHD: Projection-Based Hausdorff Distance Approximation (acceptance rate 13%)
  • [ECAI'25] IPBA: Imperceptible Perturbation Backdoor Attack in Federated Self-Supervised Learning (acceptance rate 23%)
  • [ICWS'24] Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence on Edge Devices: A Homomorphic Encryption Approach
  • [PAKDD'24] Towards Nonparametric Topological Layers in Neural Networks
  • [SIGMOD'23] Toward Efficient Homomorphic Encryption for Outsourced Databases through Parallel Caching
  • [IPDPS'22] Topological Modeling and Parallelization of Multidimensional Data on Microelectrode Arrays
  • [IPDPS'22] DEAN: A Lightweight and Resource-efficient Blockchain Protocol for Reliable Edge Computing
  • [ICDE'21] SciChain: Blockchain-enabled Lightweight and Efficient Data Provenance for Reproducible Scientific Computing
  • [SC'21] BAASH: lightweight, efficient, and reliable blockchain-as-a-service for HPC systems
  • [AAAI'20 oral] HDK: Toward High Performance Deep-Learning-Based Kirchhoff Analysis
  • [SC'19] Swift machine learning model serving scheduling: a region based reinforcement learning approach
  • [VLDB'17] Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads
  • [TPDS'16] Towards Exploring Data-Intensive Scientific Applications at Extreme Scales through Systems and Simulations
  • [IPDPS'13] ZHT: A Light-Weight Reliable Persistent Dynamic Scalable Zero-Hop Distributed Hash Table
  • [TPAMI'09] Incremental Isometric Embedding of High-Dimensional Data Using Connected Neighborhood Graphs

Teaching

I regularly teach the following courses every year (quarters may vary though):

• TCSS 558: Distributed Computing
• TCSS 590: Database Encryption

Selected Professional Services

• Associate Editor: Journal of Big Data (Springer)
• Editorial Board: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)

Resources

• UW Web: ovid.u.washington.edu
• UW HPC: klone.hyak.uw.edu
• TACC CPU: 129.114.109.34
• TACC GPU: 129.114.109.59
• UChicago GPU: 192.5.87.159