Jiayu Pan   Assistant Professor (PhD Advisor) ZJU100 Young Professor Zhejiang University Address: No. 405, Building 3, Dept. Software Technology Email: jiayupan26@zju.edu.cn Google Scholar Homepage at University LinkedIn

Biography

I received my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ohio State University in 2023. My graduate advisors are Prof. Ness B. Shroff (Distinguished Professor, IEEE Fellow) and Prof. Yin Sun. Before that, I received my B.S. degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017, advised by Prof. Xinbing Wang and Prof. Luoyi Fu. Starting from 2023.09, I joined the School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University. In 2024, I am granted by the National Level Young Talents Project (Oversea), and the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Starting from 2025.05, I am a ZJU100 young professor in Zhejiang University.

My main research contributions in the past years are about network science. Specifically, I used some mathematical tools such as reinforcement learning, stopping rules to model various wireless network environments. For each environment, I obtained an exact but simple solution to optimize essential metrics, such as estimation error and age of information. In addition, in the US, I have participated in multiple national level projects that are closely related to my research, such as Office of Naval Research (coding based) and National Science Foundation.

My current research interest includes: (i) Networking: How to obtain similar solutions under complex networks; (ii) Quantum Networks: When Quantum cirtuits take part in communications, how should we adjust the transmission strategies to improve the network performance; (iii) Generative AI for networking: How should these communication networks adapt to the widespread employment of Generative AI.

Courses

2024 Autumn/Winter Semester: Reinforcement Learning (2 credit points), Quantum Computation (2 credit points)

Publications

• Sampling the Ornstein Uhlenbeck Process for Remote Estimation over an Unreliable Channel
  Miao Pan, Jiayu Pan, Rui Chai, Xuhong Zhang and Jianwei Yin
  Submitted to ACM MobiHoc, 2025
  
• Cluster-Based Multi-Objective Optimization for Digital Twin in Vehicular Networks
  Rui Chai, Miao Pan, Jiayu Pan and Jianwei Yin
  Submitted to IEEE TMC, 2025
  
• Age optimal sampling for unreliable channels under unknown channel statistics
  Hongyi He, Haoyue Tang, Jiayu Pan, Jintao Wang, Jian Song, and Leandros Tassiulas
  Submitted to IEEE TMC, 2025
  
• Timely Gossip on Lines: Hybrid Ageing
  Han Xu, Jiayu Pan, Yinfei Xu, Shuo Shao and Tiecheng Song
  IEEE ISIT, 2025
  
• On the Information Freshness under Random Jamming Attacks
  Han Xu, Yulu Yang, Jiayu Pan and Yinfei Xu
  Submitted to IEEE WCL, 2025
  
• Facial Data Minimization: Shallow Model as Your Privacy Filter
  Yuwen Pu, Jiahao Chen, Jiayu Pan, Hao li, Diqun Yan, Xuhong Zhang, and Shouling Ji
  IEEE TDSC, 2025
  
• Asynchronous Fractional Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Age-Minimal Mobile Edge Computing
  Lyudong Jin, Ming Tang, Jiayu Pan, Meng Zhang, and Hao Wang
  Submitted to IEEE/ACM ToN, 2024
  
• Age optimal sampling for unreliable channels under unknown channel statistics
  Hongyi He, Haoyue Tang, Jiayu Pan, Jintao Wang, Jian Song, and Leandros Tassiulas
  IEEE Wiopt, 2023, Invited Paper
  
• Sampling for Remote Estimation of the Wiener Process over an Unreliable Channel
  Jiayu Pan, Yin Sun, and Ness B. Shroff
  ACM Sigmetrics, 2024
  Acceptance rate: 15.9%
  Abstract Paper
• Optimal Sampling for Data Freshness: Unreliable Transmissions with Random Two-way Delay
  Jiayu Pan, Ahmed M. Bedewy, Yin Sun, and Ness B. Shroff
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (IEEE/ACM ToN), 2023
  
• Age-optimal Scheduling over Hybrid Channels
  Jiayu Pan, Ahmed M. Bedewy, Yin Sun, and Ness B. Shroff
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing(IEEE TMC), 2022
  
• Optimizing Sampling for Data Freshness: Unreliable Transmissions with Random Two-way Delay
  Jiayu Pan, Ahmed M. Bedewy, Yin Sun, and Ness B. Shroff
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE Infocom), 2022
  Acceptance rate: 19.9%
• Minimizing Age of Information via Scheduling over Heterogeneous Channels
  Jiayu Pan, Ahmed M. Bedewy, Yin Sun, and Ness B. Shroff
  ACM MobiHoc, 2021
  Acceptance rate: 20.1%
• Minimizing Age of Information in Multi-channel Time-sensitive Information Update Systems
  Zhenzhi Qian, Fei Wu, Jiayu Pan, Kannan Srinivasan, and Ness B. Shroff
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE Infocom), 2020
  Acceptance rate: 19.8%
• Core Percolation in Coupled Networks
  Jiayu Pan, Yuhang Yao, Luoyi Fu, and Xinbing Wang
  ACM MobiHoc poster session, 2017
  

Academic Service

TPC Member: ACM MobiHoc 2025, MSN 2024, IEEE WiOpt 2024 (Session Chair)

Present conference talks, including Sigmetrics 2024, INFOCOM 2022, MobiHoc 2021, and INFOCOM 2020