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Asst Prof Zhao Jun
Assistant Professor, College of Computing & Data Science

Biography

Jun Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He received a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and a bachelor's degree in Information Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Research Interests

• Maritime cybersecurity, Maritime operational technology (OT), Maritime information technology (IT)
• Cybersecurity and Privacy: Maritime cybersecurity, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), Privacy-preserving Techniques (PP-Tech), Homomorphic Encryption
• AI: Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM Hallucination
• Blockchain/Metaverse: DePIN, DeFi, RWA, Token Economy, Play to Earn
• Networks/Systems: Federated Learning, Edge Computing, Wireless Communications
 

Current Grants

  • Strategic Centre For Research In Privacy-Preserving Technologies & Systems (SCRIPTS)
  • Blockchain Theory and Practice: Security, Scalability and Novel Applications
  • Digital Trust Centre (a.k.a. The National Centre for Research in Digital Trust (NCDT))
  • Deep reinforcement learning based scheduling strategy for federated learning in sensor-cloud systems
  • Integration of Physics and Artificial-Intelligence: Deriving synergies to Capture Aeroelastic Phenomenon
  • Quantum Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Variational Quantum Circuits: Learning Efficiency and Credit Assignment
  • System Design in Federated Learning: Reinforcement Learning, Clustering, and Optimization for Device Selection and Channel Access