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📜 About

I am an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), affiliated with Prof. Junlong Zhou's research team. I received my Ph.D. at the School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in June 2022, supervised by Prof. Hongli Xu and Prof. Liusheng Huang. Prior to that, I received my B.S. degree from USTC in 2014. From July 2022 to July 2024, I served as a post-doctoral researcher at Purple Mountain Laboratories. I have published more than 20 papers in top journals and conferences, including IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE/ACM ToN. My research interests include edge intelligence, federated learning, and distributed machine learning.

🎓 Experience

2024.08 - now	Nanjing University of Science and Technology	Associate Professor
2022.07 - 2024.07	Purple Mountain Laboratories	Post-doctoral Researcher
2019.09 - 2022.06	University of Science and Technology of China, USTC-INT Group	Ph.D.
2017.09 - 2019.06	University of Science and Technology of China, USTC-INT Group	M.S.
2010.09 - 2014.06	University of Science and Technology of China	B.S.

📰 News

🎉 2025.12	One paper Air-FedGA about federated learning via over-the-air computation accepted by IEEE TON.
🎉 2025.12	My co-author's paper DUPLEX about decentralized federated graph learning accepted by IEEE TMC.
🎉 2025.11	One project I participated was granted by the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
🎉 2025.11	My co-author's paper FedQuad about activation quantization for federated fine-tuning accepted by IEEE TMC.
🎉 2025.10	One paper CADER about cloud application deployment in multi-clouds accepted by IEEE TCC.
🎉 2025.05	I have been granted the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
🎉 2025.05	One paper DTORA about task offloading and resource allocation in MEC accepted by JSA.
🎉 2025.05	My co-author's paper FedAlt about knowledge distillation in federated learning accepted by Journal of Software.
🎉 2025.04	My co-author's paper FedACS about federated graph learning accepted by IEEE TMC.
🎉 2024.12	One paper Air-FedGA about federated learning via over-the-air computation accepted by IPDPS 2025.
🎉 2024.12	My co-author's paper COACH about end-cloud collaborative inference accepted by INFOCOM 2025.
🎉 2024.08	I have been granted the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund Project.
🎉 2024.05	One paper SC-ADFL about asynchronous decentralized federated learning accepted by WASA 2024.
🎉 2024.04	My co-author's paper FedACS about client selection in federated learning accepted by IWQoS 2024.
🎉 2024.02	One paper FedUC about unified clustering for hierarchical federated learning accepted by IEEE TMC.
🎉 2024.02	One paper FedCD about hybrid federated learning framework accepted by IEEE IoTJ.
🎉 2023.11	One paper FDTO about fully distributed task offloading in VEC accepted by IEEE TVT.
🎉 2023.11	One paper FedGA about group asynchronous federated learning accepted by Journal on Communications.
🎉 2023.10	One paper FRACTAL about topology construction for decentralized federated learning accepted by IEEE TBD.
🎉 2023.10	My co-author's paper YOGA about decentralized federated aggregation accepted by IEEE/ACM TON.
🎉 2023.10	My co-author's paper FedCD about hybrid federated learning framework accepted by ICPADS 2023.
🎉 2023.05	I have been granted the Jiangsu Province Excellent Postdoctoral Program.
🎉 2023.04	One paper DMPS about collaborative traffic measurement in SDN accepted by IEEE TNSE.
🎉 2021.09	One paper FedSA about semi-asynchronous federated learning accepted by IEEE JSAC.
🎉 2019.04	Oral presentation for NSPA about collaborative traffic measurement in SDN at INFOCOM 2019.

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📚 Publications

Selected Publications Full Publications

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- Asynchronous Federated Learning over Non-IID Data via Over-the-air Computation [Link][PDF][BIB]
Qianpiao Ma, Xiaozhu Song, Junlong Zhou, Haibo Wang, Yunming Liao, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu
IEEE Transactions on Networking (TON), 2025CCF-A

- FedUC: A Unified Clustering Approach for Hierarchical Federated Learning [Link][PDF][BIB]
Qianpiao Ma, Yang Xu, Hongli Xu, Jianchun Liu, Liusheng Huang
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2024, 23(10): 9737-9756CCF-A中科院一区

- FedSA: A Semi-Asynchronous Federated Learning Mechanism in Heterogeneous Edge Computing [Link][PDF][BIB]
Qianpiao Ma, Yang Xu, Hongli Xu, Zhida Jiang, Liusheng Huang, He Huang
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 2021, 39(12): 3654-3672CCF-A中科院一区

- 异构边缘计算环境下异步联邦学习的节点分组与分时调度策略 [Link][PDF][BIB]
马千飘, 贾庆民, 刘建春, 徐宏力, 谢人超, 黄韬
通信学报, 2023, 44(11): 79-93CCF-T1

- Air-FedGA: A Grouping Asynchronous Federated Learning Mechanism Exploiting Over-the-air Computation [Link][PDF][BIB]
Qianpiao Ma, Junlong Zhou, Xiangpeng Hou, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu, Jianeng Miao, Qingmin Jia
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Milano, Italy, 2025: 1-12CCF-B

- FRACTAL: Data-aware Clustering and Communication Optimization for Decentralized Federated Learning [Link][PDF][BIB]
Qianpiao Ma*, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu, Qingmin Jia, Renchao Xie
IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 2025, 11(5), 2102-2118中科院二区

- Fully Distributed Task Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing [Link][PDF][BIB]
Qianpiao Ma*, Hongli Xu, Haibo Wang, Yang Xu, Qingmin Jia, Chunming Qiao
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2024, 73(4), 5630-5646中科院二区

- CADER: Cost-Efficient Cloud Application Deployment with Tenant Requirement Guarantee in Multi-Clouds [Link][PDF][BIB]
Huaqing Tu, Ziqiang Hua, Qianpiao Ma*, Hanguang Luo, Tao Zou, Gongming Zhao, Hongli Xu
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2025, 13(4): 1091-1104中科院二区

- Distributed Strategy for Collaborative Traffic Measurement in a Multi-Controller SDN [Link][PDF][BIB]
Da Yao, Qianpiao Ma*, Haibo Wang, Min Chen, Hongli Xu
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2024, 11(3): 2450-2461中科院二区

- FedCD: A Hybrid Federated Learning Framework for Efficient Training With IoT Devices [Link][PDF][BIB]
Jianchun Liu, Yujia Huo, Pengcheng Qu, Sun Xu, Zhi Liu, Qianpiao Ma*, Jinyang Huang
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOT), 2024, 11(11): 20040-20050中科院二区

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2025

- FedQuad: Adaptive Layer-wise LoRA Deployment and Activation Quantization for Federated Fine-Tuning [Link][BIB]
Jianchun Liu, Rukuo Li, Hongli Xu, Qianpiao Ma, Jiaming Yan, Liusheng Huang
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025CCF-A中科院一区

- Towards Communication-Efficient Decentralized Federated Graph Learning over Non-IID Data [Link][BIB]
Shilong Wang, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu, Chenxia Tang, Qianpiao Ma, Liusheng Huang
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025CCF-A中科院一区

- FedACS: An Adaptive Client Selection Framework for Communication-Efficient Federated Graph Learning [Link][PDF][BIB]
Hongli Xu, xianjun Gao, Jianchun Liu, Qianpiao Ma, Liusheng Huang
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025, 24(10): 9760-9773CCF-A中科院一区

- Accelerating End-Cloud Collaborative Inference via Near Bubble-free Pipeline Optimization[Link][PDF][BIB]
Luyao Gao, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu, Sun Xu, Qianpiao Ma, Liusheng Huang
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), London, United Kingdom, 2025: 1-10CCF-A

- Dynamic Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Energy-Harvesting End-Edge-Cloud Computing Systems [Link][PDF][BIB]
Xiaozhu Song, Qianpiao Ma, Zheng Gan, Liying Li, Peijin Cong, and Junlong Zhou
Journal of Systems Architecture: Embedded Software Design, 2025, 103469CCF-B

- 基于块级多输出和知识自蒸馏的高效联邦学习框架 [Link][BIB]
刘建春,梁文艺,徐宏力,马千飘,黄刘生
软件学报, 2025CCF-T1

- Deterministic computing power networking: Architecture, technologies and prospects [Link][PDF][BIB]
Qingmin Jia, Yujiao Hu, Xiaomao Zhou, Qianpiao Ma, Kai Guo, Huayu Zhang, Renchao Xie, Tao Huang, Yunjie Liu
China Communications, 2025

2024

- Dynamic Staleness Control for Asynchronous Federated Learning in Decentralized Topology [Link][PDF][BIB]
Qianpiao Ma, Jianchun Liu, Qingmin Jia, Xiaomao Zhou, Yujiao Hu, Renchao Xie
The 18th International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA), 2024: 99-117CCF-C

- Yoga: Adaptive layer-wise model aggregation for decentralized federated learning [Link][PDF][BIB]
Jun Liu, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu, Yunming Liao, Zhiyuan Wang, Qianpiao Ma
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2024, 32(2): 1768-1780CCF-A

- Towards Communication-Efficient Federated Graph Learning: An Adaptive Client Selection Perspective [Link][PDF][BIB]
Xianjun Gao, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu, Qianpiao Ma, Lun Wang
IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Guangzhou, China, 2024: 1-10CCF-B

2023

- FedCD: A Hybrid Centralized-Decentralized Architecture for Efficient Federated Learning [Link][PDF][BIB]
Pengcheng Qu, Jianchun Liu, Zhiyuan Wang, Qianpiao Ma, Jinyang Huang
IEEE 29th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), IEEE, 2023: 964-971CCF-C

- 自智算力网络: 架构, 技术与展望 [Link][PDF][BIB]
周晓茂, 贾庆民, 胡玉姣, 郭凯, 马千飘, 刘辉, 谢人超
物联网学报, 2023, 7(4): 1-12CCF-T2

Before 2022

- Lightweight flow distribution for collaborative traffic measurement in software defined networks [Link][PDF][BIB]
Hongli Xu, Shigang Chen, Qianpiao Ma, Liusheng Huang
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Paris, France, 2019: 1108-1116CCF-A

- Service Placement Considering Robustness and Dynamic in Edge Computing [Link][PDF][BIB]
Yang Liu, Qianpiao Ma
IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics (ICCCBDA), 2021: 369-374

🏆 Grants

主持项目

国家自然科学基金委员会, 青年基金, 62402537, 面向预训练模型的边缘联邦学习关键技术研究, 2025-01-01 至 2027-12-31, 30万元
中央高校基本科研业务费, 基础研究专项, 30925010408, 面向端侧设备的联邦微调关键技术研究, 2025-06-01 至 2027-06-30, 10万元
江苏省人社厅, 江苏省卓越博士后计划（揭榜领题）, JB23085, 大规模异构网络下的边缘智能关键技术研究, 2023-5-1 至2025-4-30, 30万元

参与项目

国家自然科学基金委员会, 联合基金项目, U25A20442, 边云协同的多模态行为可信感知与稳健解析研究, 2026-01-01 至 2029-12-31, 258万元
国家自然科学基金委员会, 重点项目, 62132019, 边缘侧大数据计算基础理论与技术, 2022-01-01 至 2026-12-31, 298万元
国家自然科学基金委员会, 重大研究计划, 92367104, 工业互联网生成式人工智能方法与关键技术, 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31, 80万元

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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
计算机学报
Computer Networks
Journal of Systems Architecture: Embedded Software Design
Information Sciences
IEEE Transactions on Big Data
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Future Generation Computer Systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
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