Dongfang Zhao

Dongfang Zhao

Dr. Dongfang Zhao joined the University of Washington (UW) in 2023, as a tenure-track assistant professor of computer science in the UW Tacoma School of Engineering and Technology. Before that, he was a faculty member at the University of Nevada and the University of California, Davis.
    Professional Services
  • Editorial Board: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
  • Senior Program Committee: AAAI'27, AAAI'26
  • Open-Source Contributor (GitHub ID: HPDIC):
    • Meta/Facebook Faiss (CUDA kernel)
    • Microsoft DiskANN (C++ main branch)
    Recent papers (after joining UW in 2023)
  • Technical Reports (not peer-reviewed)
  • [KDD'26] RAE: A Neural Network Dimensionality Reduction Method for Nearest Neighbors Preservation in Vector Search (acceptance rate 18%)
  • [HPDC'26] SIVF: GPU-Resident IVF Index for Streaming Vector Analytics (acceptance rate 14%)
  • [ICDE'26] QPAD: Quantile-Preserving Approximate Dimension Reduction for Nearest Neighbors Preservation in High-Dimensional Vector Search
  • [CVPR'26] BadRSSD: Backdoor Attacks on Regularized Self-Supervised Diffusion Models
  • [WWW'26] Reliable Non-Leveled Homomorphic Encryption for Web Services (acceptance rate 20%)
  • [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 (acceptance rate 19%)
    Some older papers (before joining UW in 2023)
  • [SIGMOD'23] Toward Efficient Homomorphic Encryption for Outsourced Databases through Parallel Caching
  • [SC'21] BAASH: lightweight, efficient, and reliable blockchain-as-a-service for HPC systems
  • [AAAI'20] 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