About

Dr. Feng Xia received the BSc and PhD degrees from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He was a Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is currently a Full Professor in School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, China. Dr. Xia has authored/co-authored two books and over 200 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests include data science, big data, knowledge engineering, social computing, and systems engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.

01 What's New

02 Research Interests

Data Science

Big data, graph learning, matching, scholarly big data, educational big data, computational intelligence, computational social science.

Knowledge Engineering

Knowledge discovery, knowledge graph, knowledge sharing, information systems, business intelligence, digital publishing.

Systems Engineering

Network science, social computing, intelligent systems, smart cities, human dynamics, science of science, mobile social networks.

03 Selected Publications

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  1. Shuo Yu, Feng Xia, Huan Liu. Academic Team Formulation Based on Liebig's Barrel: Discovery of Anti Cask Effect, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2019.2913460
  2. Feng Xia, Jinzhong Wang, Xiangjie Kong, Da Zhang, and Zhibo Wang. Ranking Station Importance with Human Mobility Patterns Using Subway Transaction Datasets, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2019.2920962
  3. Liangtian Wan, Yuyuan Yuan, Feng Xia, Huan Liu. To Your Surprise: Identifying Serendipitous Collaborators, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TBDATA.2019.2921567
  4. Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia, Kai Ma, Jianxin Li, Qiuyuan Yang. Discovering Transit-Oriented Development Regions of Mega Cities Using Heterogeneous Urban Data, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2019.2919960
  5. Zhaolong Ning, Peiran Dong, Xiaojie Wang, Joel Rodrigues, Feng Xia. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vehicular Edge Computing: An Intelligent Offloading System, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2019. DOI: 10.1145/3317572
  6. Jinzhong Wang, Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia, Lijun Sun. Human Mobility: Data-Driven Modeling and Prediction, ACM SIGKDD Explorations, 2019, 21(1): 1-19. DOI: 10.1145/3331651.3331653
  7. Bo Xu, Xiufeng Shi, Yueqin Yin, Zhehuan Zhao, Wei Zheng, Hongfei Lin, Zhihao Yang, Jian Wang, and Feng Xia. Incorporating User Generated Content for Drug Drug Interaction Extraction Based on Full Attention Mechanism, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, 18(3): 360-367, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2019.2919188
  8. Xiangjie Kong, Xiaoteng Liu, Behrouz Jedari, Menglin Li, Liangtian Wan, Feng Xia. Mobile Crowdsourcing in Smart Cities: Technologies, Applications and Future Challenges, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2921879
  9. Ram Prasad Padhy, Feng Xia, Suman Kumar Choudhury, Pankaj Kumar Sa, and Sambit Bakshi. Monocular Vision Aided Autonomous UAV Navigation in Indoor Corridor Environments, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 4(1): 96-108, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TSUSC.2018.2810952
  10. Feng Xia, Haoran Wei, Shuo Yu, Da Zhang, Bo Xu. A Survey of Measures for Network Motifs, IEEE Access, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2926752
  11. Xiangjie Kong, Kai Ma, Shen Hou, Di Shang, Feng Xia. Human Interactive Behaviour: A Bibliographic Review, IEEE Access, 7(1): 4611-4628, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2887341 Invited Paper
  12. Wei Wang, Jiaying Liu, Zhuo Yang, Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia. SCORE: Sustainable Collaborator Recommendation Based on Conference Closure, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2019.2898198
  13. Xiangjie Kong, Menglin Li, Gaoxing Zhao, Huijie Zhang, and Feng Xia. COOC: Visual Exploration of Co-occurrence Mobility Patterns in Urban Scenarios, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2018.2883582
  14. Zhaolong Ning, Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia, Weigang Hou, Xiaojie Wang. Green and Sustainable Cloud of Things: Enabling Collaborative Edge Computing, IEEE Communications Magazine, 57(1): 72-78, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2018.1700895
  15. Zhaolong Ning, Xiaojie Wang, Feng Xia, Joel Jose Rodrigues. Joint Computation Offloading, Power Allocation, and Channel Assignment for 5G-enabled Traffic Management Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(5): 3058-3067, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2019.2892767
  16. Dongyu Zhang, Teng Guo, Hanxiao Pan, Jie Hou, Zhitao Feng, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin and Feng Xia. Judging a Book by Its Cover: The Effect of Facial Perception on Centrality in Social Networks, The Web Conference (WWW), San Francisco, USA, May 13-17, 2019
  17. Xiangjie Kong, Yajie Shi, Shuo Yu, Jiaying Liu, Feng Xia. Academic Social Networks: Modeling, Analysis, Mining and Applications, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Volume 132, April 2019, Pages 86-103. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2019.01.029
  18. Shuo Yu, Hayat Dino Bedru, Ivan Lee, Feng Xia. Science of Scientific Team Science: A Survey, Computer Science Review, Volume 31, February 2019, Pages 72-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosrev.2018.12.001
  19. Jiaying Liu, Jiahao Tian, Xiangjie Kong, Ivan Lee, Feng Xia. Two decades of information systems: a bibliometric review, Scientometrics, 118(2), 617-643, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2974-5
  20. Liwei Cai, Jiahao Tian, Jiaying Liu, Xiaomei Bai, Ivan Lee, Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia. Scholarly impact assessment: a survey of citation weighting solutions, Scientometrics, 118(2): 453-478, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2973-6
  21. Xiaomei Bai, Mengyang Wang, Ivan Lee, Zhuo Yang, Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia. Scientific Paper Recommendation: A Survey, IEEE Access, 2019, 7(1): 9324-9339. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2890388
  22. Xiangjie Kong, Menglin Li, Kai Ma, Kaiqi Tian, Mengyuan Wang, Zhaolong Ning, Feng Xia. Big Trajectory Data: A Survey of Applications and Services, IEEE Access, Volume 6, pp: 58295-58306, October 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2873779
  23. Zhibo Wang, Yongquan Zhang, Honglong Chen, Zhetao Li, Feng Xia. Deep User Modeling for Content-based Event Recommendation in Event-based Social Networks, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Honolulu, USA, April 2018
  24. Bo Xu, Yu Liu, Shuo Yu, Lei Wang, Lei Liu, Hongfei Lin, Zhihao Yang, Jian Wang, and Feng Xia. Multipath2vec: Predicting Pathogenic Genes via Heterogeneous Network Embedding, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 3-6 December 2018, Madrid, Spain
  25. Bo Xu, Kun Li, Xiaoxia Liu, Delong Liu, Yijia Zhang, Hongfei Lin, Zhihao Yang, Jian Wang, and Feng Xia. Protein Complexes Detection Based on Global Network Representation Learning, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 3-6 December 2018, Madrid, Spain
  26. Azizur Rahim, Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia, Zhaolong Ning, Noor Ullah, Jinzhong Wang, Sajal K. Das. Vehicular Social Networks: A Survey, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 43, Jan 2018, pp: 96-113. DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2017.12.004
  27. Jiaying Liu, Tao Tang, Xiangjie Kong, Amr Tolba, Zafer AL-Makhadmeh, Feng Xia. Understanding the advisor-advisee relationship via scholarly data analysis, Scientometrics, July 2018, Volume 116, Issue 1, pp: 161-180. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2762-2
  28. Xiangjie Kong, Menglin Li, Tao Tang, Kaiqi Tian, Luis Moreira-Matias, and Feng Xia. Shared Subway Shuttle Bus Route Planning Based on Transport Data Analytics, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Volume 15, Issue 4, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2018.2865494
  29. Feng Xia, Jinzhong Wang, Xiangjie Kong, Zhibo Wang, Jianxin Li, and Chengfei Liu. Exploring Human Mobility Patterns in Urban Scenarios: A Trajectory Data Perspective, IEEE Communications Magazine, 56(3): 142-149, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2018.1700242
  30. Feng Xia, Azizur Rahim, Xiangjie Kong, Meng Wang, Yinqiong Cai, and Jinzhong Wang. Modeling and Analysis of Large-scale Urban Mobility for Green Transportation, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2018, 14(4): 1469-1481. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2017.2785383
  31. Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia, Zhaolong Ning, Azizur Rahim, Yinqiong Cai, Zhiqiang Gao, Jianhua Ma. Mobility Dataset Generation for Vehicular Social Networks Based on Floating Car Data, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2018, 67(5): 3874-3886. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2017.2788441
  32. Honglong Chen, Wei Lou, Zhibo Wang, Feng Xia. On Achieving Asynchronous Energy-Efficient Neighbor Discovery for Mobile Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2018, 6(4): 553-565. DOI: 10.1109/TETC.2016.2586192
  33. Behrouz Jedari, Feng Xia, Zhaolong Ning. A Survey on Human-centric Communications in Non-cooperative Wireless Relay Networks, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 20(2): 914-944, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2018.2791428
  34. Syed Adeel Ali Shah, Ejaz Ahmed, Feng Xia, Ahmad Karim, Muhammad Shiraz, Rafidah MD Noor. Adaptive Beaconing Approaches for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Survey, IEEE Systems Journal, 2018, 12(2): 1263-1277. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2016.2573680
  35. Jianxin Li, Chengfei Liu, Lu Chen, Zhenying He, Amitava Datta, Feng Xia. iTopic: Influential Topic Discovery from Information Networks via Keyword Query, The 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Demo Track, Perth, Australia, 3-7 April 2017 Best Demo Award
  36. Shuo Yu, Feng Xia, Kaiyuan Zhang, Zhaolong Ning, Jiaofei Zhong and Chengfei Liu. Team Recognition in Big Scholarly Data: Exploring Collaboration Intensity, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (DataCom), Orlando, Florida, USA, November 6-10, 2017 Best Paper Award
  37. Wei Wang, Jiaying Liu, Feng Xia, Irwin King, Hanghang Tong. Shifu: Deep Learning Based Advisor-advisee Relationship Mining in Scholarly Big Data, The 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Perth, Australia, 3-7 April 2017
  38. Wei Wang, Zixin Cui, Tong Gao, Shuo Yu, Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia. Is Scientific Collaboration Sustainability Predictable? The 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Poster Track, Perth, Australia, 3-7 April 2017
  39. Ivan Lee, Feng Xia, Goran Roos. An Observation of Research Complexity in Top Universities Based on Research Publications, The 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Companion Volume, Perth, Australia, 3-7 April 2017
  40. Xiaomei Bai, Jie Hou, Hongzhuang Du, Xiangjie Kong and Feng Xia. Evaluating the impact of articles with geographical distances between institutions, The 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Companion Volume, Perth, Australia, 3-7 April 2017
  41. Zhibo Wang, Yongquan Zhang, Yijie Li, Qian Wang, Feng Xia. Exploiting Social Influence for Context-Aware Event Recommendation in Event-based Social Networks, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 1-4 May 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA
  42. Feng Xia, Wei Wang, Teshome Megersa Bekele, Huan Liu. Big Scholarly Data: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2017, pp: 18-35. DOI: 10.1109/TBDATA.2016.2641460
  43. Feng Xia, Nana Yaw Asabere, Haifeng Liu, Zhen Chen, and Wei Wang. Socially-Aware Conference Participant Recommendation with Personality Traits, IEEE Systems Journal, 11(4): 2255-2266, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2014.2342375
  44. Qingchen Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Zhikui Chen, Feng Xia. A High-Order Possibilistic C-Means Algorithm for Clustering Incomplete Multimedia Data, IEEE Systems Journal, 11(4): 2160-2169, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2015.2423499
  45. Wei Wang, Xiaomei Bai, Feng Xia, Teshome Megersa Bekele, Xiaoyan Su, Amr Tolba. From triadic closure to conference closure: The role of academic conferences in promoting scientific collaborations, Scientometrics, 113(1), 177-193, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2468-x
  46. Jun Zhang, Zhaolong Ning, Xiaomei Bai, Xiangjie Kong, Jinmeng Zhou, Feng Xia. Exploring time factors in measuring the scientific impact of scholars, Scientometrics, 112(3): 1301-1321, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2458-z
  47. Wei Wang, Shuo Yu, Teshome Megersa Bekele, Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia. Scientific collaboration patterns vary with scholars' academic ages, Scientometrics, Vol. 112, No. 1, pp: 329-343, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2388-9 Reported by Nature Index (see the report)
  48. Haifeng Liu, Feng Xia, Zhen Chen, Nana Yaw Asabere, Jianhua Ma, and Runhe Huang. TruCom: Exploiting Domain-Specific Trust Networks for Multi-Category Item Recommendation, IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp: 295-304, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2015.2427193
  49. Zhaolong Ning, Feng Xia, Noor Ullah, Xiangjie Kong, and Xiping Hu. Vehicular Social Networks: Enabling Smart Mobility, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp: 49-55, May 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600263
  50. Xiangjie Kong, Feng Xia, Jinzhong Wang, Azizur Rahim, and Sajal K. Das. Time-Location-Relationship Combined Service Recommendation Based on Taxi Trajectory Data, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp: 1202-1212, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2017.2684163
  51. Zhaolong Ning, Feng Xia, Xiping Hu, Zhikui Chen, and Mohammad S. Obaidat. Social-oriented Adaptive Transmission in Opportunistic Internet of Smartphones, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp: 810-820, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2016.2635081
  52. Tie Qiu, Aoyang Zhao, Feng Xia, Weisheng Si, Dapeng Wu. ROSE: Robustness Strategy for Scale-Free Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25(5): 2944-2959, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2017.2713530
  53. Zhaolong Ning, Li Liu, Feng Xia, Behrouz Jedari, Ivan Lee, and Weishan Zhang. CAIS: A Copy Adjustable Incentive Scheme in Community-based Socially-Aware Networking, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 66(4): 3406-3419, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2016.2593051
  54. Honglong Chen, Guolei Ma, Zhibo Wang, Feng Xia, Jiguo Yu. Probabilistic Detection of Missing Tags for Anonymous Multi-Category RFID Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 66(12): 11295-11305, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2017.2726005
  55. Jun Zhang, Feng Xia, Wei Wang, Xiaomei Bai, Shuo Yu, Teshome Megersa Bekele and Zhong Peng. CocaRank: A Collaboration Caliber-based Method for Finding Academic Rising Stars, The 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Companion Volume, Montreal, Canada, April 11-15, 2016
  56. Jun Zhang, Zhaolong Ning, Xiaomei Bai, Wei Wang, Shuo Yu and Feng Xia. Who are the Rising Stars in Academia? ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Newark, NJ, USA, June 19-23, 2016
  57. Ibrahim Abaker Targio Hashem, Nor Badrul Anuar, Abdullah Gani, Ibrar Yaqoob, Feng Xia, Samee Ullah Khan. MapReduce: Review and open challenges, Scientometrics, Volume 109, Issue 1, pp 389-422, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1945-y
  58. Feng Xia, Haifeng Liu, Ivan Lee, Longbing Cao. Scientific Article Recommendation: Exploiting Common Author Relations and Historical Preferences, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 1 2016, pp: 101-112. DOI: 10.1109/TBDATA.2016.2555318
  59. Feng Xia, Behrouz Jedari, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Jianhua Ma, and Runhe Huang. A Signaling Game for Uncertain Data Delivery in Selfish Mobile Social Networks, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2016, pp: 100-112. DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2016.2584103
  60. Feng Xia, Li Liu, Behrouz Jedari, and Sajal K. Das. PIS: A Multi-dimensional Routing Protocol for Socially-aware Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 15(11): 2825-2836, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2016.2517649
  61. Feng Xia, Hannan Bin Liaqat, Jing Deng, Jiafu Wan, Sajal K. Das. Overhead Control with Reliable Transmission of Popular Packets in Ad-Hoc Social Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 65(9): 7647-7661, Sept 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2015.2484418
  62. Feng Xia, Li Liu, Jie Li, Jianhua Ma, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. Socially-Aware Networking: A Survey, IEEE Systems Journal, 2015, Vol 9, No 3, pp: 904-921. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2013.2281262
  63. Yashar Najaflou, Behrouz Jedari, Feng Xia, Laurence T. Yang, Mohammad S. Obaidat. Safety Challenges and Solutions in Mobile Social Networks, IEEE Systems Journal, 2015, Vol 9, No 3, pp: 834-854. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2013.2284696
  64. Joao Dias, Joel Rodrigues, Feng Xia, Constandinos Mavromoustakis. A Cooperative Watchdog System to Detect Misbehavior Nodes in Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 62, No. 12, pp: 7929-7937, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2015.2425357
  65. Feng Xia, Ahmedin Mohammed Ahmed, Laurence Tianruo Yang, and Zhongxuan Luo. Community-based Event Dissemination with Optimal Load Balancing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 64, No. 7, July 2015, pp: 1857-1869. DOI: 10.1109/TC.2014.2345409
  66. Feng Xia, Li Liu, Jie Li, Ahmedin Mohammed Ahmed, Laurence Tianruo Yang, and Jianhua Ma. BEEINFO: An Interest-based Forwarding Scheme Using Artificial Bee Colony for Socially-aware Networking, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp: 1188-1200, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2014.2305192
  67. Biao Zhu, Hongxin Zhang, Wei Chen, Feng Xia, Ross Maciejewski. ShotVis: Smartphone-based Visualization of OCR Information from Images, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, Vol. 12, No. 1s, Article 12, October 2015. DOI: 10.1145/2808210
  68. Hannan Bin Liaqat, Feng Xia, Jianhua Ma, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Ahmedin Mohammed Ahmed, and Nana Yaw Asabere. Social Similarity-aware TCP with Collision Avoidance in Ad-hoc Social Networks, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, pp: 1273-1284, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2014.2305191
  69. Atta ur Rehman Khan, Mazliza Othman, Feng Xia, Abdul Nasir Khan. Context-Aware Mobile Cloud Computing & Its Challenges, IEEE Cloud Computing, 2015, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp: 42-49
  70. Feng Xia, Nana Yaw Asabere, Haifeng Liu, Nakema Deonauth and Fengqi Li. Folksonomy Based Socially-Aware Recommendation of Scholarly Papers for Conference Participants, The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Companion Volume, Seoul, Korea, April 7-11, 2014
  71. Jing Li, Feng Xia, Wei Wang, Zhen Chen, Nana Yaw Asabere and Huizhen Jiang. ACRec: A Co-authorship based Random Walk Model for Academic Collaboration Recommendation, The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Companion Volume, Seoul, Korea, April 7-11, 2014
  72. Poria Pirozmand, Guowei Wu, Behrouz Jedari, Feng Xia. Human Mobility in Opportunistic Networks: Characteristics, Models and Prediction Methods, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Volume 42, June 2014, Pages 45-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2014.03.007
  73. Saeid Abolfazli, Zohreh Sanaei, Abdullah Gani, Feng Xia, Laurence T. Yang. Rich Mobile Applications: Genesis, Taxonomy, and Open Issues, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 40, April 2014, pp: 345-362. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2013.09.009
  74. Ahmedin Mohammed Ahmed, Tie Qiu, Feng Xia, Behrouz Jedari, and Saeid Abolfazli. Event-Based Mobile Social Networks: Services, Technologies and Applications, IEEE Access, 2: 500-513, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2014.2319823
  75. Feng Xia, Zhen Chen, Wei Wang, Jing Li, Laurence T. Yang. MVCWalker: Random Walk Based Most Valuable Collaborators Recommendation Exploiting Academic Factors, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2(3): 364-375, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TETC.2014.2356505
  76. Feng Xia, Ahmedin Mohammed Ahmed, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Jianhua Ma, Joel Rodrigues. Exploiting Social Relationship to Enable Efficient Replica Allocation in Ad-hoc Social Networks, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 25(12): 3167-3176, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.2295805
  77. Nana Yaw Asabere, Feng Xia, Wei Wang, Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues, Filippo Basso, and Jianhua Ma. Improving Smart Conference Participation through Socially-Aware Recommendation, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 44(5): 689-700, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/THMS.2014.2325837
  78. Saeid Abolfazli, Zohreh Sanaei, Mojtaba Alizadeh, Abdullah Gani, Feng Xia. An Experimental Analysis on Cloud-based Mobile Augmentation in Mobile Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 146-154, Feb 2014
  79. Feng Xia, Nana Yaw Asabere, Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues, Filippo Basso, Nakema Deonauth, Wei Wang. Socially-Aware Venue Recommendation for Conference Participants, The 10th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), Vietri sul Mare, Italy, December 2013 Best Paper Award
  80. Feng Xia, Nana Yaw Asabere, Ahmedin Mohammed Ahmed, Jing Li, and Xiangjie Kong. Mobile Multimedia Recommendation in Smart Communities: A Survey, IEEE Access, vol. 1, pp. 606-624, 2013

04 Recent Professional Activities

Editorial Board Member / Guest Editor

  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
  • IEEE Access
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
  • PLoS One
  • PeerJ Computer Science
  • Computational Social Networks
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Journal of Data and Information Science

Conference Leadership & Reviewing

  • General Chair, Program Committee (Vice-)Chair, Workshop Chair, Publicity Chair: 30+ conferences/workshops
  • Program Committee Member: 50+ conferences

Invited Reviewer for prestigious journals, including:

  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
  • ACM Computing Surveys

Keynote Speeches

  • Scholarly Social Computing, WIMS 2019, Seoul, Korea, 26-28 June 2019; link
  • The Web of Scholars, iiWAS 2018, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 19-21 Nov 2018; link
  • Data Science in Science, IMCOM 2018, Langkawi, Malaysia, 5-7 Jan 2018
  • Network Science Meets Data Science: Opportunities and Challenges, FIT 2017, Islamabad, Pakistan, 18-20 Dec 2017
  • Embracing Computational Social Science: In the Name of Data, DataCom 2017, Orlando, Florida, USA, 6-10 Nov 2017
  • Computational Social Science Meets Big Data, CIT 2016, Yanuca Island, Fiji, 7-10 Dec 2016
  • Big Scholarly Data: Towards Connected Scholars, APWConCSE 2016, Denarau Island, Fiji, 4-6 Dec 2016

Invited Talks

  • Scholarly Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Apr 2019
  • Scholarly Big Data, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia, Mar 2019
  • Big Scholarly Data: Towards the Web of Scholars, Hefei University of Technology, Jan 2019
  • Scholarly Big Data, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Oct 2018
  • Big Data-Driven Computational Social Science, UESTC, Chengdu, China, May 2018
  • Computational Social Science in Big Scholarly Data, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan, Dec 2017
  • Socially-Aware Networking: Towards Efficient Data Delivery in Mobile Social Networks, FIT 2017, Islamabad, Dec 2017
  • Scholarly Big Data Analysis and Mining, ODI 2017, Beijing, China, Jul 2017
  • Making Sense of Scholarly Big Data, iConference, Wuhan, China, Mar 2017
  • Big Scholarly Data, Jilin University, China, Jul 2016
  • From Cyber-Physical Systems towards Big Scholarly Data, University of South Australia, Jul 2015
  • From Socially-Aware Networking towards Big Data Computing, Wuhan University, China, Apr 2015
  • From Cyber-Physical Systems towards Social Computing, Zhejiang University Ningbo Institute, Jan 2015
  • Big Scholarly Data, City Dynamics and Social Intelligence Workshop, Shanghai, China, 29 Jun 2014
  • From Cyber-Physical Systems towards Mobile Social Networks, University of Malaya, KL, Malaysia, May 2014

05 Teaching

  • Computer Networking (2010 ); for undergraduates
  • Complex Systems (Spring 2014 ); for PhD students

06 Selected Honors & Awards

Most Cited Chinese Researcher, Elsevier, 20142018 (中国高被引学者)
Outstanding Associate Editor of 2018, IEEE Access, 2019
Best Demo Award, WWW 2017
Best Paper Award, IEEE DataCom 2017
Outstanding Young Scholar, Dalian University of Technology, 2015
ACM Senior Member, 2014
Young Science & Technology Star of Dalian City, 2014
Outstanding Employee of the Year, DUT, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
Best Paper Award, IEEE UIC 2013
Outstanding Master Supervisor in Liaoning Province, 2013
IEEE Senior Member, 2012
Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE CPSCom 2011
Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE iThings 2011

07 Contact Info