Ziren Xiao

Research Associate

Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University

[email protected] Loughborough, UK

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Large Language ModelDigital TwinDeep Reinforcement LearningRoboticsDistributed System

Publications

2026

  • Portable multiclass lateral flow assay for dry eye disease based on machine learning and smartphone imaging
    Sixuan Duan, Ziren Xiao, Jihong Sun, Letian Hu, Kaizhu Huang, Kai Hoettges, Pengfei Song
    Biomedical Instrumentation
  • Secure and Cost-Efficient Microservice Placement in MEC Through Network-Aware Adaptation
    Feng He, Armir Bujari, Paolo Bellavista, Peisong Li, Ziren Xiao, Nicolò Romandini, Yu Qiu
    ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
    CCF B
  • Unified 5G-IoT Framework with CAMARA Gateways and SDN Federation
    Zihan Jia, Ze Wang, Chen Chen, Ziren Xiao, Fung Po Tso
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.27589
  • HAN: Adaptive DRL-based Congestion Control via Model Uncertainty
    Zihan Jia, Chen Chen, Alia Asheralieva, Lin Guan, Ziren Xiao
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
    CCF C

2025

  • Reinforcement learning based edge-end collaboration for multi-task scheduling in 6G enabled intelligent autonomous transport systems
    Peisong Li, Ziren Xiao, Honghao Gao, Xinheng Wang, Ye Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
    CCF B
  • Dynamic Collaborative Material Distribution System for Intelligent Robots In Smart Manufacturing
    Ziren Xiao, Ruxin Xiao, Chang Liu, Xinheng Wang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.11723
  • Generalised Rate Control Approach For Stream Processing Applications
    Ziren Xiao
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.11710

2024

  • MACNS: A generic graph neural network integrated deep reinforcement learning based multi-agent collaborative navigation system for dynamic trajectory planning
    Ziren Xiao, Peisong Li, Chang Liu, Honghao Gao, Xinheng Wang
    Information Fusion
  • Multiagent reinforcement learning-based multimodel running latency optimization in vehicular edge computing paradigm
    Peisong Li, Ziren Xiao, Xinheng Wang, Muddesar Iqbal, Pablo Casaseca-De-La-Higuera
    IEEE Systems Journal
  • Intelligent Data Source Emission Rate Control for Optimising the Performance of Streaming Applications
    Ziren Xiao, Christopher Leckie, Maria A Rodriguez
    IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid)
    CCF B
  • Graph-based Proximal Policy Optimization Empowered Adaptive Task Scheduling Leveraging Cloud-edge Collaboration for Consumer Electronics
    Peisong Li, Meng Yi, Muddesar Iqbal, Xinheng Wang, Ziren Xiao
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
  • KAN-PPO: A Fast Convergence and Stable Proximal Policy Optimization Powered by Kolmogorov–Arnold Network
    Ruxin Xiao, Jialu Sun, Yuchen Wang, Ziren Xiao, Honghao Gao, Muddesar Iqbal, Peng Ren, Cai Luo, Xinheng Wang
    International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing
    CCF C Best Paper
  • A Collaborative Multi-Autonomous-Vehicle System for Persistent Area Monitoring Under Communication Constraints
    Chenhao Tong, Ziren Xiao, Maria A Rodriguez, Richard O Sinnott
    4th International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence (RAAI)

2023

  • A collaborative and dynamic multi-source single-destination navigation algorithm for smart cities
    Ziren Xiao, Chang Liu, Shan Luo, Kaizhu Huang, Honghao Gao, Xiaolong Xu, Xinheng Wang
    Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments
  • EPtask: Deep reinforcement learning based energy-efficient and priority-aware task scheduling for dynamic vehicular edge computing
    Peisong Li, Ziren Xiao, Xinheng Wang, Kaizhu Huang, Yi Huang, Honghao Gao
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
  • Multi-agent reinforcement learning based collaborative multi-task scheduling for vehicular edge computing
    Peisong Li, Ziren Xiao, Xinheng Wang, Kaizhu Huang, Yi Huang, Andrei Tchernykh
    International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing
    CCF C

2022

  • Optimal rate control for latency-constrained high throughput big data applications
    Ziren Xiao, Aaron Harwood, Maria A Rodriguez
    IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
    CCF C

Education