Hello everyone 👋

My name is Zhengru Fang (方政儒). I am a PhD student from the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), under the supervision of Prof. Yuguang "Michael" Fang. I received my M.S. degree from Tsinghua University (2019-2022) and B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2015-2019). I received the Outstanding Thesis Award from Tsinghua University in 2022, and the Excellent Master Thesis Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2023.

My research interests focus on collaborative perception, V2X communications, age of information, and mobile edge computing. I have published several papers at top journals (e.g., IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC) and conferences (e.g., CVPR, ACM MM, IEEE ICRA) .

Contact: I'm always open to academic discussions and collaborations! Feel free to email me at zhefang4-c[AT]my[DOT]cityu[DOT]edu[DOT]hk

📎 Homepages

• Personal Website: https://zhengrufang.com/
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yggQMJMAAAAJ
• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhengru-Fang

🔥 News

• Notice: The latest news will be posted on my personal page promptly.
• 2024.12: Our work on edge video analytics was accepted by IEEE/ACM ToN!
• 2024.10: Submitted our work on real-time collaborative perception to IEEE JSAC
• 2024.08: Three papers accepted! One in IEEE TMC and two in IEEE Globecom
• 2024.04: Submitted our work on LLM-empowered collaborative driving to IEEE TITS
• 2024.01: Our work on vehicle collaborative perception was accepted by IEEE ICRA 2024
• 2023.03: 🎉 Honored to receive the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS)
• 2023.03: 🏆 My master's thesis received the Excellent Master Thesis Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics (Top 25 in China)

💻 Selected Research Works

🚗 Collaborative Perception & Edge Computing

• R-ACP: Real-Time Adaptive Collaborative Perception Leveraging Robust Task-Oriented Communications, IEEE JSAC, 2025
• PIB: Prioritized Information Bottleneck Framework for Edge Video Analytics, IEEE/ACM ToN, 2025
• PACP: Priority-Aware Collaborative Perception for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, IEEE TMC, 2024

📡 Age of Information & IoT

• Age of Information in Energy Harvesting Aided Massive Multiple Access Networks, IEEE JSAC, 2022
• Average Peak Age of Information in Underwater Information Collection With Sleep-Scheduling, IEEE TVT, 2022
• Stochastic Optimization-Aided Energy-Efficient Information Collection in Internet of Underwater Things Networks, IEEE IoTJ, 2022
• AoI-Inspired Collaborative Information Collection for AUV-Assisted Internet of Underwater Things, IEEE IoTJ, 2021

🎓 Academic Service

I serve as a reviewer for several prestigious journals including:

• ACM Computing Surveys
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS)