I investigate large-scale systems, services, and applications operating across the interconnected environments of cloud, edge, and NextG networks. Previously, I completed my Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Professor Baoliu Ye (叶保留) and Zhuzhong Qian (钱柱中) at Nanjing University (南京大学). To date, I have published or had more than 17 papers accepted in renowned journals and conferences, including IEEE TMC, IEEE/ACM TON, Computer Networks, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE SECON, IEEE ISPA, IEEE ICC, IEEE ICPADS, IEEE/ACM IWQOS poster, and BigCom. My first-author paper was honored with the Best Paper Award at BigCom 2023. In addition, I have conducted extensive research on various topics, advised by Lei Jiao at the University of Oregon. My research interests encompass LLM, CPN, In-band Network Telemetry, P4 switch, SDN, Federated Learning, Big Data Analytics, and Distributed Machine Learning.

🔥 News

• 2025.11: Serve as a Guest Editor in Electronics (SCI).
• 2025.11: Serve as a Session Chair in IFIP NPC 2025 (CCF-C).
• 2025.03:  🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
• 2024.12:  🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Computer Networks, congratulations to Yunqi Sun!
• 2024.12:   Outstanding Graduate Student of Nanjing University.
• 2024.11:  🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Computer Networks!
• 2024.10:  🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by IEEE SECON 2024.
• 2024.09:  🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Journal of Computer Science and Technology.
• 2024.05:  🎉🎉 Our paper receives Minor Revision from Journal of Computer Science and Technology.
• 2024.01:  🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Computer Networks!
• 2023.12:  🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Computer Networks, congratulations to Tuo Cao!
• 2023.10:  🎉🎉 Our two papers have been accepted by IEEE ICPADS 2023!
• 2023.08:  🎉🎉 We won the Best Paper Award in BigCom 2023!

📝 Publications

Edge AI Inference as a Service via Dynamic Resources from Repeated Auctions

Mingtao Ji, Hehan Zhao, Lei Jiao, Sheng Zhang, Xin Li, Zhuzhong Qian, Baoliu Ye.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing: 2025-03-12.
Poster: IEEE SECON 2023: 2023-07.

CPN Meets Learning: Online Scheduling for Inference Service in Computing Power Network

Mingtao Ji, Ji Qi, Lei Jiao, Gangyi Luo, Hehan Zhao, Xin Li, Baoliu Ye, Zhuzhong Qian

Journal: Computer Networks: 2024-11-05.
Conference: IEEE ICPADS 2023: Acceptance Rate 19.44%, 196/1008, 2023-10-27.

Online Scheduling of Federated Learning with In-Network Aggregation and Flow Routing

Mingtao Ji, Lei Jiao, Yitao Fan, Yang Chen, Zhuzhong Qian, Ji Qi, Gangyi Luo, Baoliu Ye

IEEE SECON 2024: Accepted, 2024-10-21.

Orchestrating In-network Aggregation for Distributed Machine Learning via In-band Network Telemetry

Mingtao Ji, Yibo Jin, Zhuzhong Qian, Tuo Cao, Baoliu Ye.

Journal of Computer Science and Technology: Accepted, 2024-09-03.

INTaaS: Provisioning In-band Network Telemetry as a Service via Online Learning

Mingtao Ji, Chenwei Su, Yitao Fan, Zhuzhong Qian, Yuting Yan, Yibo Jin, Tuo Cao, Yu Chen, Sheng Zhang, Baoliu Ye.

Journal: Computer Networks: 2024-01-22.
Poster: [invited] IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2023: 2023-04.

INTView: Adaptive Planner for In-Band Network Telemetry without Detours

Mingtao Ji, Chenwei Su, Yuting Yan, Zhuzhong Qian, Yu Chen, Yibo Jin, Sheng Zhang, Baoliu Ye.

IEEE ICC 2023: 2023-01-17.

Intel 2022 China Hackathon: 2022-12-01.

• Towards Strong Continuous Consistency in Edge-Assisted VR-SGs: Delay-Differences Sensitive Online Task Redistribution, Yunqi Sun, Elsevier Computer Networks 2024.

• Adaptive Provisioning In-band Network Telemetry at Computing Power Network [invited], Mingtao Ji, Chenwei Su, Yuting Yan, Zhuzhong Qian, Sheng Zhang, Yu Chen, Tuo Cao, Xiaohang Shi, Luis Vasquez, Baoliu Ye, IEEE IWQOS 2023.

• Walking on Two Legs: Joint Service Placement and Computation Configuration for Provisioning Containerized Services at Edges, Tuo Cao, Qinhui Wang, Yuhan Zhang, Zhuzhong Qian, Yue Zeng, Mingtao Ji, Hesheng Sun, Baoliu Ye, Elsevier Computer Networks 2023.

• Accelerating Federated Learning With Adaptive Extra Local Updates Upon Edge Networks, Yitao Fan, Mingtao Ji, Zhuzhong Qian, IEEE ICPADS 2023. (19.44%, 196/1008)

• SAC: Dynamic Caching upon Sketch for In-Memory Big Data Analytics, Mingtao Ji, Mingxian Zhou, Haodong Zou, Ming Tang, Zhuzhong Qian, Xiaoliang Wang, BigCom 2023. (1/42/74, Best Paper Award)

• Scheduling In-Band Network Telemetry with Convergence-Preserving Federated Learning, Yibo Jin, Lei Jiao, Mingtao Ji, Zhuzhong Qian, Sheng Zhang, Ning Chen, Sanglu Lu, IEEE/ACM TON 2023.

• Crowd2: Multi-agent Bandit-based Dispatch for Video Analytics upon Crowdsourcing, Yu Chen, Sheng Zhang, Yuting Yan, Zhuzhong Qian, Yibo Jin, Ning Chen, Mingtao Ji, Mingjun Xiao, IEEE INFOCOM 2023.

• Workload-Aware Scheduling for Data Analytics upon Heterogeneous Storage, Zhuzhong Qian, Yuan Gao, Mingtao Ji, Hui Peng, Peng Chen, Yibo Jin, Sanglu Lu, IEEE ISPA 2019: 580-587.

• Run Data Run! Re-Distributing Data via Piggybacking for Geo-Distributed Data Analytics, Yefei Li, Yibo Jin, Haiyang Chen, Wenchao Xi, Mingtao Ji, Sheng Zhang, Zhuzhong Qian, Sanglu Lu, IEEE ISPA 2019: 356-363.

📝 Patents

• 一种面向云的带内计算部署方法、装置和系统, 吉明涛(第一发明人), 钱柱中, 韦磊, 缪巍巍, 曾锃. 公开号: CN114124732A, 授权日: 2022/11/25.

• 面向云数据中心智能化监测应用任务部署方法、装置和系统, 吉明涛(第一学生发明人)，钱柱中. 公开号: CN116032778A, 授权日: 2023/06/06.

📞 Service

• Guest Editor: Electronics (SCI), Special Issue: Recent Advances in Intelligent Data Mining Methods, Systems, and Applications for the AI-Driven Era

• Session Chair: IFIP NPC 2025, Session 0: Optimization and Coordination: AI and Edge Networks
• Reviewer: INFOCOM’20/21/22, JCST’21, TMC’21, INFOCOM’21, CN’22, MASS’22, INFOCOM’22, INFOCOM’23, ToN’23/24, IWQoS’24, ICA3PP’25, MSN’25, ICPADS’25, ICNC’25

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024, Outstanding Graduate Student of Nanjing University
• 2024, First Prize of Nanjing University Talent Scholarship
• 2023, Best Paper Award in BigCom 2023
• 2021, Excellent Graduate Cadres
• 2021, Postgraduate Scholarship
• 2018, Postgraduate Scholarship
• 2015, Top 100 Young Students in NUAA

📖 Educations

• 2021.09 - 2025.06, Nanjing University, School of Computer Science.
• 2018.09 - 2021.06, Nanjing University, Department of Computer Science and Technology.
• 2014.09 - 2018.06, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. College of Computer Science and Technology.

💴 Grants

• Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities（河海大学中央高校基本科研业务费项目）, 2025. ¥5W.
• Short term study abroad program for doctoral students of Nanjing University, 2023. ≈ $9600.

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