News

2026

• paper Aug 2026: Our paper “PAPS: A Predictable and Adaptive Priority Scheme for Tasks with Variable Data Latency” is accepted at RTSS 2026!
• grant Aug 2026: Our proposal on adaptive robotics for XR lighting effects (RAVEN-SCAR) was granted (£20k).
• paper Aug 2026: Two workshop papers “RAVEN: A Latency-Aware Predictive Digital Twin Framework for Humanoid Robotic Cinematography in Virtual Production” and “Adaptive Decentralised Coordination Algorithms for Autonomous Swarm Robots in Planetary Surface Missions” are accepted at TAROS 2026!
• paper Jul 2026: Our paper “Reliable Resource Sharing and Analysis for Multicore Mixed-Criticality Systems” is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)!
• paper Jun 2026: Our paper “CAFT-RS: Fault-Tolerant Resource Sharing Protocols with Diverse Preemption Schemes” is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)!
• paper May 2026: Our paper “When Memory Matters: An Evaluation of LSTM-Based Multi-Agent Learning for Multi-Intersection Traffic Signal Control” is accepted at ITSC 2026!
• paper Mar 2026: Our paper “Beyond Exact: Tight WCET Analysis of GPU Kernels with Branch Divergence” is accepted at DAC 2026!
• service Feb 2026: Invited as a TPC member of RTCSA 2026.
• service Jan 2026: Invited as a TPC member of EMSOFT 2026.
• service Jan 2026: Invited as a TPC member of RTNS 2026.

2025

• paper Dec 2025: Our paper “LEFT-RS: A Lock-Free Fault-Tolerant Resource Sharing Protocol for Multicore Real-Time Systems” is accepted at RTSS 2025 (⭐Outstanding Paper⭐)!
• service Nov 2025: Invited as a TPC member of ECRTS 2026.
• service Nov 2025: Invited as a TPC member of Ada Europe 2026.
• grant Oct 2025: Our proposal to use a humanoid robot for virtual production (RAVEN-G1) was granted (£48k).
• grant Oct 2025: Our proposal on imitation training of humanoid robots for filming was granted via Google Cloud Research Credits Program (£3,731).
• paper Sep 2025: Our paper “A Hybrid Approach to Refine WCRT Bounds for DAG Scheduling Using Anomaly Classification” is published in IEEE Transactions on Computers!
• talk Aug 2025: Invited Talk, “Digital Twin for Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems”, on the Systron Lab Research and Demo day.
• service Aug 2025: Invited as a TPC member of IEEE RTSS 2025 (AE and BP sessions).
• service Aug 2025: Invited as the Publication Chair of IEEE RTAS 2026.
• paper July 2025: Our poster “Criticality-aware Scheduling and Path Planning for Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems” is published at TAROS'25!
• service July 2025: Invited as a TPC member of IEEE MOST 2026.
• grant July 2025: Our resident programme proposal was accepted by XR Stories, which will focus on robots and digital twins for virtual production (details can be found here).
• paper Mar 2025: Our paper, “A cache-aware DAG scheduling method on multicores: Exploiting node affinity and deferred executions”, is published in Journal of Systems Architecture [Paper].

2024

• service Nov 2024: Invited as a TPC member of MOST 2025.
• service Nov 2024: Invited as a TPC member of Ada Europe 2025.
• news Oct 2024: We would like to welcome everyone who will come and join us at RTSS 2024 here at the Uni. of York!
• service Sep 2024: Invited as the publication chair and a TPC member of RTAS 2025.
• service July 2024: Invited as a TPC member of RTSS 2024 BP track.
• service Apr 2024: Invited as a TPC member of TAS 2024.
• service Feb 2024: Invited as the publication chair of SIES 2024.

2023

• news Nov 2023: SCHEME project featured in the UK Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Plan.
• news Oct 2023: Started as a Lecturer in Cyber-Physical Systems at the University of York.
• service July 2023: Invited as the Publication Chair of RTAS 2024.
• news Apr 2023: I am attending the UK Systems Research Challenges workshop. See you there!
• paper Mar 2023: Two conference papers were accepted at RTNS'23: “Cache-Aware Allocation of Parallel Jobs on Multi-cores based on Learned Recency” [Paper] and “Reducing Loss of Service for Mixed-Criticality Systems through Cache- and Stress-Aware Scheduling” [Paper]
• paper Mar 2023: Two workshop papers were accepted at RAGE'23 @ CPS-IoT week: “Many-Core Real-Time Network-on-Chip I/O Systems for Reducing Contention and Enhancing Predictability” [Paper] and “Graceful Degradation with Condition- and Inference-aware for Mixed-Criticality Scheduling in Autonomous Systems” [Paper]

2022

• service Dec 2022: Invited as a TPC member of RAGE'23 @ CPS-IoT Week
• news Dec 2022: @ RTSS'22 — I will host the Workshop on Mixed-Criticality (WMC) virtually at RTSS 2022. See you all there!
• event Nov 2022: Call-for-participation: the 9th Workshop on Mixed-Criticality (WMC) will be held in December co-located with RTSS 2022. You can find the workshop program and information on registration.
• service Nov 2022: Invited as a PC member of Ada-Europe'23
• paper Nov 2022: Our paper, A High-Resilience Imprecise Computing Architecture for Mixed-Criticality Systems, is published in IEEE TC [Paper]
• talk Oct 2022: @ ISoLA'22, I am giving a talk on Digital Twin for Real-Time Embedded Systems in the Digital Twin track session
• service Sep 2022: Invited as the Web Chair and a PC member of RTAS'23
• service July 2022: Invited as a PC member (Artifacts) of RTSS'22
• service July 2022: Invited as a PC member of ICESS'22
• paper July 2022: the first journal paper of my PhD student Jie Zou, reTSN: Resilient and Efficient Time-Sensitive Network for Automotive In-Vehicle Communication, is published to IEEE TCAD [Paper]
• talk June 2022: @ Ada Europe'22 — “Resilience-aware Mixed-criticality DAG Scheduling on Multi-cores for Autonomous Systems”, presented by Jie Zou
• talk June 2022: @ ACC'22 — “Discretization and Stabilization of Energy-based Controller for Period Switching Control and Flexible Scheduling”, presented by Dr. Tafrashi
• service May 2022: Invited as a PC member of DSD'22
• service May 2022: Invited as the co-chair of WMC workshop @ RTSS'22
• service Apr 2022: Invited as the co-chair of the workshop: Innovative Defense Technologies in 5G and Beyond Networks Using ML @ MONAMI'22
• service Feb 2022: Invited as a PC member of ECRTS'22 (Artifacts Evaluation)
• service Jan 2022: Invited as a PC member of RAGE workshop @ DAC 2022

2021

• talk Nov 2021: @ 6th Annual UK System Research Challenges Workshop — Digital Twin for Scheduling in Embedded and Real-Time Systems
• service Sep 2021: Invited as a PC member of Ada-Europe'22
• service May 2021: Invited as a PC member of ICESS'21
• talk May 2021: @ RTAS'21, May 18 — “Digital Twin for Dependable Multi-Core Real-Time Systems — Requirements and Open Challenges”
• service Apr 2021: RTNS'21 — invited as the Systems Session Chair
• service Jan 2021: RTAS'21 — invited as a PC member (Brief Industry Paper track)
• service Jan 2021: Ada-Europe'21 — invited as a PC member

2020

• talk Dec 2020: @ 5th Annual UK System Research Challenges Workshop, Dec 10 — presented by Iain Bate
• talk Dec 2020: @ RTSS'20, Dec 13 — DAG Scheduling and Analysis on Multiprocessor Systems (presented by Dr. Zhao) [Video]
• service Nov 2020: ICESS'20 — Resource Management session chair
• talk Nov 2020: @ ICCAD'20, Nov 11 — Fixed-Priority Scheduling and Controller Co-Design for Time-Sensitive Networks [Video]
• service Sep 2020: RTNS'21 — invited as the Publicity Chair & PC member
• news Apr 2020: “Best PhD Thesis Award”, Department of Computer Science, University of York
• service Apr 2020: ICESS'20 — invited as a PC member
• service Feb 2020: DSD'20 — invited as the Design of CPS Session Chair & PC member