Shaohan Hu

Executive Director	JPMorgan Chase - Future Lab for Applied Research and Engineering	New York, NY	January 2021 - Present
Research Staff Member	IBM Research	Yorktown Heights, NY	September 2016 - December 2020
Research Assistant	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Urbana, IL	January 2012 - December 2016
Graduate Intern Technical	Intel Corporation	Santa Clara, CA	May 2014 - September 2014
Teaching Assistant	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Urbana, IL	August 2011 - December 2011
Teaching Assistant	Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH	September 2008 - September 2010
Teaching Assistant	University of Massachusetts at Amherst	Amherst, MA	January 2008 - May 2008

PhD	Computer Science	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	May 2017
MS	Computer Science	Dartmouth College	June 2011
BS	Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics	University of Massachusetts at Amherst	May 2008

Publications

2020

A Cloud Native Platform for Stateful Streaming
Scott Schneider, Xavier Guerin, Shaohan Hu, Kun-Lung Wu
arXiv - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing, May, 2020.

Parallelization of Classical Numerical Optimization in Quantum Variational Algorithms
Marco Pistoia, Peng Liu, Richard Chen, Shaohan Hu, Stephen Wood
The 13th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST 2020), Porto, Portugal. August 24-28, 2020.

Road Grade Estimation Using Crowd-sourced Smartphone Data
Abhishek Gupta, Shaohan Hu, Weida Zhong, Adel Sadek, Lu Su, Chunming Qiao The 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2020), Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2020.

2019

A Domain-agnostic, Noise-resistant, Hardware-efficient Evolutionary Variational Quantum Eigensolver
Arthur G. Rattew, Shaohan Hu, Marco Pistoia, Richard Chen, Steve Wood
arXiv - Quantum Physics, October, 2019.
Eugene: Towards Deep Intelligence as a Service
Tarek Abdelzaher, Shuochao Yao, Yifan Hao, Yiran Zhao, Ailing Piao, Huajie Shao, Dongxin Liu, Shengzhong Liu, Shaohan Hu, Dulanga Weerakoon, Kasthuri Jayarajah, Archan Misra
The 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019), Dallas, Texas USA. July 7-10, 2019.
Reduction-based Problem Mapping for Quantum Computing
Shaohan Hu, Peng Liu, Chun-Fu Richard Chen, Marco Pistoia, Jay Gambetta
IEEE Computer, Volume 52 Number 06, June, 2019.
Stochastic Optimization of Quantum Programs
Peng Liu, Shaohan Hu, Marco Pistoia, Chun-Fu Richard Chen, Jay Gambetta
IEEE Computer, Volume 52 Number 06, June, 2019.
Efficient Circuits for Quantum Search over 2D Square Lattice Architecture
Shaohan Hu, Dmitri Maslov, Marco Pistoia, and Jay Gambetta
The 56th Design Automation Conference - Latest Breaking Results (DAC 2019 LBR), Las Vegas, Nevada USA, June 2-6, 2019.
STFNets: Learning Sensing Signals from the Time-Frequency Perspective with Short-Time Fourier Neural Networks
Shuochao Yao, Ailing Piao, Wenjun Jiang, Yiran Zhao, Huajie Shao, Shengzhong Liu, Dongxin Liu, Jinyang Li, Tianshi Wang, Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Jiawei Han, Tarek Abdelzaher
The Web Conference (WWW 2019), San Francisco, CA USA, May 13-17, 2019.
SADeepSense: Self-Attention Deep Learning Framework for Heterogeneous On-Device Sensors in Internet of Things Applications
Shuochao Yao, Yiran Zhao, Huajie Shao, Dongxin Liu, Shengzhong Liu, Yifan Hao, Ailing Piao, Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Tarek Abdelzaher
The 38rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019), Paris, France, April 29-May 2, 2019.

2018

SenseGAN: Enabling Deep Learning for Internet of Things with a Semi-Supervised Framework
Shuochao Yao, Yiran Zhao, Huajie Shao, Chao Zhang, Aston Zhang, Shaohan Hu, Dongxin Liu, Shengzhong Liu, Lu Su, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 2 Issue 3, Article No. 144, September, 2018
Presented at UbiComp, Singapore, October 9-11, 2018.
Automatically Solving NP-Complete Problems on a Quantum Computer
Shaohan Hu, Peng Liu, Chun-Fu Richard Chen, Marco Pistoia
The 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018) Posters, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27-June 3, 2018.
QualityDeepSense: Quality-Aware Deep Learning Framework for Internet of Things Applications with Sensor-Temporal Attention
Shuochao Yao, Yiran Zhao, Shaohan Hu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
The 2nd International Workshop on Embedded and Mobile Deep Learning (EMDL 2018), Munich, Germany, June 15, 2018.
Deep Learning for the Internet of Things
Shuochao Yao, Yiran Zhao, Aston Zhang, Shaohan Hu, Huajie Shao, Chao Zhang, Lu Su, Tarek Abdelzaher
IEEE Computer, Volume 51 Number 05, May, 2018.
Towards Quality Aware Information Integration in Distributed Sensing Systems
Wenjun Jiang, Chenglin Miao, Lu Su, Qi Li, Shaohan Hu, Shiguang Wang, Jing Gao, Hengchang Liu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Jiawei Han, Xue Liu, Yan Gao, Lance Kaplan
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), Volume 29, Number 1, January, 2018.
Athena: Towards Decision-Centric Anticipatory Sensor Information Delivery
Jongdeog Lee, Kelvin Marcus, Tarek Abdelzaher, Md Tanvir A. Amin, Amotz Bar-Noy, William Dron, Ramesh Govindan, Reginald Hobbs, Shaohan Hu, Jung-Eun Kim, Lui Sha, Shuochao Yao, and Yiran Zhao
Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (JSAN), Volume 7 Number 1, Article Number 5, January, 2018.

2017

VibeBin: A Vibration-Based Waste Bin Level Detection System
Yiran Zhao, Shuochao Yao, Shen Li, Shaohan Hu, Huajie Shao, Tarek Abdelzaher
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 1 Issue 3, Article No. 122, September, 2017
Presented at UbiComp, Maui, HI USA, September 13-15, 2017.
On Exploiting Structured Human Interactions to Enhance Sensing Accuracy in Cyber-physical Systems
Hongwei Wang, Yunlong Gao, Shaohan Hu, Shiguang Wang, Renato Mancuso, Minje Kim, Poliang Wu, Lu Su, Lui Sha, Tarek Abdelzaher
ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (IEEE TCPS), Volume 1, Number 3, July, 2017.
Decision-driven Execution: A Distributed Resource Management Paradigm for the Age of IoT
Tarek Abdelzaher, Tanvir Al Amin, Amotz Bar-Noy, William Dron, Ramesh Govindan, Reginald Hobbs, Shaohan Hu, Jung-Eun Kim, Jongdeog Lee, Kelvin Marcus, Shuochao Yao and Yiran Zhao
The 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta, GA USA. June 5-8, 2017.
Stark: Optimizing In-Memory Computing For Dynamic Dataset Collections
Shen Li, Md Tanvir Al Amin, Raghu Ganti, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Shaohan Hu, Yiran Zhao and Tarek Abdelzaher
The 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta, GA USA. June 5-8, 2017.
VehSense: Slippery Road Detection Using Smartphones
Yunfei Hou, Abhishek Gupta, Tong Guan, Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Chunming Qiao
The IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2017), Sydney, Australia, June 4-7, 2017.
Efficient 3G/4G Budget Utilization in Mobile Sensing Applications
Chao Xu, Shaohan Hu, Zheng Wei, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Pan Hui, Zhiheng Xie, Hengchang Liu, John Stankovic
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), Volume 16, Number 6, June, 2017.
GreenDrive: A Smartphone-based Intelligent Speed Adaptation System With Real-time Traffic Signal Prediction
Yiran Zhao, Shen Li, Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Shuochao Yao, Huajie Shao and Tarek Abdelzaher
The 8th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2017), Pittsburgh, PA USA, April 18-21, 2017. (Best paper award)
DeepSense: A Unified Deep Learning Framework for Time-Series Mobile Sensing Data Processing
Shuochao Yao, Shaohan Hu, Yiran Zhao, Aston Zhang, Tarek Abdelzaher
The 26th International International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017.

2016

Participatory Sensing Meets Opportunistic Sharing: Automatic Phone-to-Phone Communication in Vehicles
Xiaoshan Sun, Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Pan Hui, Wei Zheng, Hengchang Liu, John Stankovic
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), Volume 15, Number 10, October, 2016.
An Experimental Evaluation of Datacenter Workloads On Low-Power Embedded Micro Servers
Yiran Zhao, Shen Li, Shaohan Hu, Hongwei Wang, Shuochao Yao, Huajie Shao, Tarek Abdelzaher
The 42nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2016), New Delhi, India, September 5-9, 2016.
Cognitive Models of Prediction as Decision Aids
Christian Lebiere, Don Morrison, Tarek Abdelzaher, Shaohan Hu, Cleotilde Gonzalez, Norbou Buchler, Vladislav D. Veksler
The 14th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2016), College Park, PA USA, August 4-6, 2016.
On Source Dependency Models for Reliable Social Sensing: Algorithms and Fundamental Error Bound
Shuochao Yao, Shaohan Hu, Shen Li, Yiran Zhao, Lu Su, Lance Kaplan, Aylin Yener, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
The 36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2016), Nara, Japan, June 27-30, 2016.
Recursive Ground Truth Estimator for Social Data Streams
Shuochao Yao, Md Tanvir Amin, Lu Su, Shaohan Hu, Shen Li, Shiguang Wang, Yiran Zhao, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lance Kaplan, Charu Aggarwal, Aylin Yener
The 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2016), Vienna, Austria, April 11-14, 2016.
Experiences with GreenGPS -- Fuel-Efficient Navigation using Participatory Sensing
Fatemeh Saremi, Omid Fatemieh, Hossein Ahmadi, Hongyan Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Raghu Ganti, Hengchang Liu, Shaohan Hu, Shen Li, and Lu Su
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), Volume 15, Number 3, March, 2016.

2015

Data Acquisition for Real-time Decision-making under Freshness Constraints
Shaohan Hu, Shuochao Yao, Haiming Jin, Yiran Zhao, Yitao Hu, Xiaochen Liu, Nooreddin Naghibolhosseini, Shen Li, Akash Kapoor, William Dron, Lu Su, Amotz Bar-Noy, Pedro Szekely, Ramesh Govindan, Reginald Hobbs, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
The 36th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2015), San Antonio, TX USA, December 1-4, 2015. [slides]
Reliable Social Sensing with Physical Constraints: Analytic Bounds and Performance Evaluation
Dong Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lance Kaplan, Raghu Ganti, Shaohan Hu, Hengchang Liu
Journal of Real-Time Systems (JRTS), Volume 51, Number 6, November, 2015.
Experiences with eNav: A Low-power Vehicular Navigation System
Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Shen Li, Shiguang Wang, Chenji Pan, Siyu Gu, Md Tanvir Amin, Hengchang Liu, Suman Nath, Romit Roy Choudhury, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
The ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2015), Osaka, Japan, September 7-11, 2015. [slides]
Pyro: A Spatial-Temporal Big-Data Storage System for Dynamic Workload Hotspots
Shen Li, Shaohan Hu, Raghu Ganti, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Tarek Abdelzaher
USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 2015), Santa Clara, CA USA, July 8-10, 2015.
SmartRoad: Smartphone-based Crowd Sensing for Traffic Regulator Detection and Identification
Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Hengchang Liu, Hongyan Wang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (ACM TOSN), Volume 11, Number 4, July, 2015.
On Exploiting Logical Dependencies for Minimizing Additive Cost Metrics in Resource-Limited Crowdsensing
Shaohan Hu, Shen Li, Shuochao Yao, Lu Su, Ramesh Govindan, Reginald Hobbs, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
The 11th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2015), Fortaleza, Brazil, June 10-12, 2015. [slides]
Scalable Social Sensing of Interdependent Phenomena
Shiguang Wang, Lu Su, Shen Li, Shaohan Hu, Tanvir Amin, Hongwei Wang, Shuochao Yao, Lance Kaplan, Tarek Abdelzaher
The 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2015), Seattle, WA USA, April 13-17, 2015.
The Packing Server for Real-time Scheduling of MapReduce Workflows
Shen Li, Shaohan Hu, Tarek Abdelzaher
The 21st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2015), Seattle, WA USA, April 13-16, 2015.
Exploiting Structured Human Interactions to Enhance Estimation Accuracy in Cyber-physical Systems
Yunlong Gao, Shaohan Hu, Renato Mancuso, Hongwei Wang, Minje Kim, PoLiang Wu, Lu Su, Lui Sha, Tarek Abdelzaher
The 6th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2015), Seattle, WA USA, April 14-16, 2015. [slides]

2014

Generalized Decision Aggregation in Distributed Sensing Systems
Lu Su, Qi Li, Shaohan Hu, Shiguang Wang, Jing Gao, Hengchang Liu, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jiawei Han, Xue Liu, Yan Gao, Lance Kaplan
The 35th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2014), Rome, Italy, December 2-5, 2014.
WOHA: Deadline-Aware Map-Reduce Workflow Scheduling Framework over Hadoop Cluster
Shen Li, Shaohan Hu, Shiguang Wang, Lu Su, Tarek Abdelzaher, Indranil Gupta, Richard Pace
The 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2014), Madrid, Spain, June 30-July 3, 2014.
WattValet: Heterogenous Energy Storage Management in Data Centers for Improved Power Capping
Shen Li, Shaohan Hu, Shiguang Wang, Siyu Gu, Chenji Pan, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
The 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2014), Philadelphia, PA USA, June 18-20, 2014.
Data Extrapolation in Social Sensing for Disaster Response
Siyu Gu, Chenji Pan, Hengchang Liu, Shen Li, Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Shiguang Wang, Dong Wang, Md Tanvir A Amin, Ramesh Govindan, Charu Aggarwal, Raghu Ganti, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Amotz Bar-Noy, Peter Terlecky, Tarek Abdelzaher
The 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2014), Marina Del Rey, CA USA, May 26-28, 2014.
Towards Automatic Phone-to-Phone Communication for Vehicular Networking Applications
Shaohan Hu, Hengchang Liu, Lu Su, Hongyan Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Pan Hui, Wei Zheng, Zhiheng Xie, John Stankovic
The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2014), Toronto, Canada, April 27-May 2, 2014. [slides]
Poster Abstract: eNav -- a Smartphone-based Energy Efficient Vehicular Navigation System
Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Shen Li, Shiguang Wang, Chenji Pan, Siyu Gu, Md Tanvir Al Amin, Hengchang Liu, Suman Nath, Romit Roy Choudhury, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
The 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2014), Berlin, Germany, April 15-17, 2014. (Best poster award)
Community Similarity Networks
Nicholas D. Lane, Ye Xu, Hong Lu, Shaohan Hu, Tanzeem Choudhury, Andrew T. Campbell, and Feng Zhao
ACM/Springer Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC), Special Issue on Cross-Community Mining, February, 2014.

2013

Exploitation of Physical Constraints for Reliable Social Sensing
Dong Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lance Kaplan, Raghu Ganti, Shaohan Hu, Hengchang Liu
The 34th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2013), Vancouver, Canada, December 4-6, 2013.
Demo Abstract: Extrapolation from Participatory Sensing Data
Hengchang Liu, Siyu Gu, Chenji Pan, Wei Zheng, Shen Li, Shaohan Hu, Shiguang Wang, Dong Wang, Tanvir Amin, Lu Su, Zhiheng Xie, Ramesh Govindan, Charu Aggarwal, Amotz Barnoy, Tarek Abdelzaher
The 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2013), Rome, Italy, November 11-15, 2013.
MINERVA: Information-Centric Programming for Social Sensing
Shiguang Wang, Shaohan Hu, Shen Li, Hengchang Liu, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, and Tarek Abdelzaher
The 22nd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2013), Nassau, Bahamas July 30-August 2, 2013.
Proteus: Power Proportional Memory Cache Cluster in Data Centers
Shen Li, Shiguang Wang, Fan Yang, Shaohan Hu, Fatemeh Saremi, Tarek Abdelzaher
The 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2013), Philadelphia, PA USA, July 8-11, 2013.
Efficient 3G Budget Utilization in Mobile Participatory Sensing Applications
Hengchang Liu, Shaohan Hu, Wei Zheng, Zhiheng Xie, Shiguang Wang, Pan Hui, and Tarek F. Abdelzaher
The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2013), Turin, Italy, April 14-19, 2013. [slides]
Poster Abstract: SmartRoad: A Crowd-Sourced Traffic Regulator Detection and Identification System
Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Hengchang Liu, Hongyan Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher
The 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2013), Philadelphia, PA USA, April 8-11, 2013.

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