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Biography

Changyan Yi has been with the College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China, as a Professor, since September 2019. From September 2018 to August 2019, he worked as a Postdoc Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada. He obtained both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba in 2014 and 2018, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Jun Cai. He is a senior member of IEEE.

His research interests include stochastic optimization, game theory, incentive mechanism, queueing scheduling and artifial intelligence, with applications in resource management and decision making for wireless communication and mobile computing, industrial cyber-physical system and intelligent control, edge intelligence and digital twin network.

Experience

•  Professor: Fall 2019 to Present,
    College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China.
•  Postdoc Research Associate: Fall 2018 to Summer 2019,
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada.
•  Research Assistant (RA): Fall 2012 to Summer 2018,
    Network Intelligence and Innovation Lab (NI2L), University of Manitoba, Canada.

Selected Honors

Selected Publications

•  Book and Chapter

[B2] Samuel D. Okegbile, Jun Cai and Changyan Yi, ''Human Digital Twin: Exploring Connectivity and Security Issues'', SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, Springer press, 2024. (ISBN: 978-3-031-57533-4)

[B1] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Market-Driven Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio'', SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Springer press, 2016. (ISBN: 978-3-319-29690-6)

[BC2] Samuel D. Okegbile, Jun Cai, Jiayuan Chen and Changyan Yi, ''Blockchain for Secure Data Sharing in Zero-Trust Human Digital Twin Systems'', Blockchain and Digital Twin for Smart Hospitals, Elsevier press, 2025. (ISBN: 978-0-443-34226-4)

[BC1] You Shi, Yuye Yang, Changyan Yi, Bing Chen and Jun Cai, ''Edge-Cloud Collaboration for Industrial IoT: An Online Optimization Approach'', Edge Computing - Technology, Management and Integration, IntechOpen press, 2023. (ISBN: 978-1-83768-862-3)

•  Journal/Magazine (* denotes the corresponding author)

[J59] Haipeng Zhou, Ruoyang Chen, Changyan Yi*, Jianjun Zhang, Jiawen Kang, Jun Cai and Mohsen Guizani, ''A Repeated Coalition Formation Game for Physical Layer Security Aware Wireless Communications with Third-Party Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces'', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, accepted.

[J58] Ran Wang, Rixin Wu, Linfeng Liu, Changyan Yi, Kun Zhu, Ping Wang and Dusit Niyato, ''Joint Energy and Computation Workload Management for Geo-Distributed Data Centers'', IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, accepted.

[J57] Kun Wu, Jiayuan Chen, Lucheng Chen, Zili Liu, Changyan Yi*, Shuai Xu, Junyi Wang and Jiawen Kang, ''QoE-Aware Joint Visual and Haptic Signal Transmission with Adaptive Data Compression for Immersive Interactions in Human Digital Twin'', IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, accepted.

[J56] Zenghui Qian, Ruoyang Chen, Changyan Yi*, Xiangping Zhai and Bing Chen, ''Collision Avoidance Control for Autonomous Driving with Multiple Dynamic Obstacles in IoV: A Prediction-Enhanced APF-Based Approach'', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, accepted.

[J55] Xiaolong Li, Ruiting Deng, Jianhao Wei, Xin Wu, Jiayuan Chen, Changyan Yi, Jun Cai, Dusit Niyato and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, ''AIGC-Driven Real-Time Interactive 4D Traffic Scene Generation in Vehicular Networks'', IEEE Network Magazine, accepted.

[J54] Jialiuyuan Li, You Shi, Chen Dai, Changyan Yi, Yuxiao Yang, Xiangping Zhai and Kun Zhu, ''A Learning-Based Stochastic Game for Energy Efficient Optimization of UAV Trajectory and Task Offloading in Space/Aerial Edge Computing'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, accepted.

[J53] Samuel D. Okegbile, Haoran Gao, Oluwasegun Talabi, Jun Cai, Changyan Yi, Dusit Niyato and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, ''FLeS: A Federated Learning-Enhanced Semantic Communication Framework for Mobile AIGC-Driven Human Digital Twins'', IEEE Network Magazine, accepted.

[J52] Samuel D. Okegbile, Jun Cai, Junjie Wu, Jiayuan Chen and Changyan Yi, ''A Prediction-Enhanced Physical-to-Virtual Twin Connectivity Framework for Human Digital Twin'', IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, accepted.

[J51] Hao Xiang, Changyan Yi*, Kun Wu, Jiayuan Chen, Jun Cai, Dusit Niyato and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, ''Realizing Immersive Communications in Human Digital Twin by Edge Computing Empowered Tactile Internet: Visions and Case Study'', IEEE Network Magazine, accepted.

[J50] Songhan Zhao, Shiming Gong, Bo Gu, Lanhua Li, Bin Lyu, Dinh Thai Hoang and Changyan Yi, ''Exploiting NOMA Transmissions in Multi-UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks: From Aerial-RIS to Mode-Switching UAVs'', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 2530-2544, Mar. 2025.

[J49] Jialiuyuan Li, Changyan Yi*, Jiayuan Chen, You Shi, Tong Zhang, Xiaolong Li, Ran Wang and Kun Zhu, ''A Reinforcement Learning Based Stochastic Game for Energy-Efficient UAV Swarm Assisted MEC with Dynamic Clustering and Scheduling'', IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 255-270, Mar. 2025.

[J48] Denghui Liu, Ruoyang Chen, Changyan Yi*, Tong Zhang, Xiaolong Li, Juan Li, Ran Wang and Kun Zhu, ''A Hierarchical Game for Physical Layer Security Aware Cooperative Communications with Dynamic Interchangeable Relaying and Jamming'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 968-983, Jan. 2025.

[J47] Jiana Liao, Jinbo Wen, Jiawen Kang, Changyan Yi, Yang Zhang, Yutao Jiao, Dusit Niyato, Dong In Kim and Shengli Xie, ''Graph Attention Network-Based Block Propagation with Optimal AoB and Reputation in Web 3.0'', IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 2427-2441, Dec. 2024.

[J46] Jiayuan Chen, Changyan Yi*, Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato, Jiawen Kang, Jun Cai and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, ''A Revolution of Personalized Healthcare: Enabling Human Digital Twin with Mobile AIGC'', IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 234-242, Nov. 2024.

[J45] Yuye Yang, You Shi, Changyan Yi*, Jun Cai, Jiawen Kang, Dusit Niyato and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, ''Dynamic Human Digital Twin Deployment at the Edge for Task Execution: A Two-Timescale Accuracy-Aware Online Optimization'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 12262-12279, Dec. 2024.

[J44] Jinbo Wen, Jiangtian Nie, Yue Zhong, Changyan Yi, Xiaohuan Li, Jiangming Jin, Yang Zhang and Dusit Niyato, ''Diffusion Model-Based Incentive Mechanism with Prospect Theory for Edge AIGC Services in 6G IoT'', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 21, pp. 34187-34201, Nov. 2024.

[J43] Jiayuan Chen, You Shi, Changyan Yi*, Hongyang Du, Jiawen Kang and Dusit Niyato, ''Generative AI-Driven Human Digital Twin in IoT-Healthcare: A Comprehensive Survey'', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 21, pp. 34749-34773, Nov. 2024.

[J42] Ran Wang, Xue Yu, Qiang Wu, Changyan Yi, Ping Wang and Dusit Niyato, ''Efficient Deployment of Partial Parallelized Service Function Chains in CPU+DPU-Based Heterogeneous NFV Platforms'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 9090-9107, Oct. 2024.

[J41] Qiang Zhang, Yuye Yang, Changyan Yi*, Samuel D. Okegbile and Jun Cai, ''Energy and Cost-Aware Offloading of Dependent Tasks with Edge-Cloud Collaboration for Human Digital Twin'', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 17, pp. 29116-29131, Sep. 2024.

[J40] Bingkun Lai, Jinbo Wen, Jiawen Kang, Hongyang Du, Jiangtian Nie, Changyan Yi, Dong In Kim and Shengli Xie, ''Resource-Efficient Generative Mobile Edge Networks in 6G Era: Fundamentals, Framework and Case Study'', IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 66-74, Aug. 2024.

[J39] You Shi, Yuye Yang, Changyan Yi*, Bing Chen and Jun Cai, ''Towards Online Reliability-Enhanced Microservice Deployment with Layer Sharing in Edge Computing'', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 13, pp. 23370-23383, Jul. 2024.

[J38] Samuel D. Okegbile, Jun Cai, Jiayuan Chen and Changyan Yi, ''A Reputation-Enhanced Shard-Based Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Scheme for Secure Data Sharing in Zero Trust Human Digital Twin Systems'', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 22726-22741, Jun. 2024.

[J37] Xue Yu, Ran Wang, Jie Hao, Qiang Wu, Changyan Yi, Ping Wang and Dusit Niyato, ''Priority-Aware Deployment of Autoscaling Service Function Chains based on Deep Reinforcement Learning'', IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1050-1062, Jun. 2024.

[J36] Ruoyang Chen, Changyan Yi*, Kun Zhu, Bing Chen, Jun Cai and Mohsen Guizani, ''A Three-Party Hierarchical Game for Physical Layer Security Aware Wireless Communications with Dynamic Trilateral Coalitions'', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 4815-4829, May 2024.

[J35] Jiayuan Chen, Changyan Yi*, Samuel D. Okegbile, Jun Cai and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, ''Networking Architecture and Key Supporting Technologies for Human Digital Twin in Personalized Healthcare: A Comprehensive Survey'', IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 706-746, Firstquarter 2024.

[J34] Shanfei Shang, Changyan Yi*, Tong Zhang, Ruoyang Chen and Jun Cai, ''Latency-Energy Aware Dynamic Application Placement for Edge Computing: A Vacation Queue Based Optimization Approach'', IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 2249-2263, Mar.-Apr. 2024.

[J33] You Shi, Changyan Yi*, Ran Wang, Qiang Wu, Bing Chen and Jun Cai, ''Service Migration or Task Rerouting: A Two-Timescale Online Resource Optimization for MEC'', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 1503-1519, Feb. 2024.

[J32] Qiang Wu, Ran Wang, Xiangyang Duan, Changyan Yi and Ping Wang, ''A Lean Networking Framework (LeaNet): Potential Technical Space and Approaches for Latency Sensitive Services'', IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 280-287, Jan. 2024.

[J31] Samuel D. Okegbile, Jun Cai, Hao Zheng, Jiayuan Chen and Changyan Yi, ''Differentially Private Federated Multi-Task Learning Framework for Enhancing Human-to-Virtual Connectivity in Human Digital Twin'', IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 3533-3547, Nov. 2023.

[J30] Ran Wang, Hui Wang, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi, Ping Wang and Dusit Niyato, ''Mobile Charging Services for Internet of Electric Vehicles: Concepts, Scenarios and Challenges'', IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 110-119, Sep. 2023.

[J29] Chen Ying, Zhen Zhao, Changyan Yi*, You Shi and Jun Cai, ''An AoTI-Driven Joint Sampling Frequency and Access Selection Optimization for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 9, pp. 12311-12325, Sep. 2023.

[J28] Jialiuyuan Li, Changyan Yi*, Jiayuan Chen, Kun Zhu and Jun Cai, ''Joint Trajectory Planning, Application Placement and Energy Renewal for UAV-Assisted MEC: A Triple-Learner Based Approach'', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 15, pp. 13622-13636, Aug. 2023.

[J27] Changyan Yi, Jun Cai, Tong Zhang, Kun Zhu, Bing Chen and Qiang Wu, ''Workload Re-Allocation for Edge Computing with Server Collaboration: A Cooperative Queueing Game Approach'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 3095-3111, May 2023.

[J26] Samuel D. Okegbile, Jun Cai, Changyan Yi and Dusit Niyato, ''Human Digital Twin for Personalized Healthcare: Vision, Architecture and Future Directions'', IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 262-269, Apr. 2023.

[J25] Jiayuan Chen, Changyan Yi*, Ran Wang, Kun Zhu and Jun Cai, ''Learning Aided Joint Sensor Activation and Mobile Charging Vehicle Scheduling for Energy-Efficient WRSN-Based Industrial IoT'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 5064-5078, Apr. 2023.

[J24] Kun Zhu, Yue Zhou, Changyan Yi* and Ran Wang, ''Computation Resource Configuration with Adaptive QoS Requirements for Vehicular Edge Computing: A Fluid-Model Based Approach'', IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 21148-21162, Nov. 2022.

[J23] Yong Yuan, Changyan Yi*, Bing Chen, You Shi and Jun Cai, ''A Computation Offloading Game for Jointly Managing Local Pre-Processing Time-Length and Priority Selection in Edge Computing'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 9, pp. 9868 - 9883, Sep. 2022.

[J22] You Shi, Changyan Yi*, Bing Chen, Chenze Yang, Kun Zhu and Jun Cai, ''Joint Online Optimization of Data Sampling Rate and Preprocessing Mode for Edge-Cloud Collaboration Enabled Industrial IoT'', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 17, pp. 16402-16417, Sep. 2022.

[J21] Kun Zhu, Jiawei Liang, Juan Li and Changyan Yi, ''Coded Distributed Computing with Predictive Heterogeneous User Demands: A Learning Auction Approach'', IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 2426-2439, Aug. 2022.

[J20] Houming Qiu, Kun Zhu, Nguyen Cong Luong, Changyan Yi, Dusit Niyato and Dong In Kim, ''Applications of Auction and Mechanism Design in Edge Computing: A Survey'', IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1034-1058, Jun. 2022.

[J19] Changyan Yi, Jun Cai, Kun Zhu and Ran Wang, ''A Queueing Game Based Management Framework for Fog Computing with Strategic Computing Speed Control'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 1537-1551, May 2022.

[J18] Chen Dai, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi and Ekram Hossain, ''Decoupled Uplink-Downlink Association in Full-Duplex Cellular Networks: A Contract-Theory Approach'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 911-925, Mar. 2022.

[J17] Jiequ Ji, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi and Dusit Niyato, ''Energy Consumption Minimization in UAV-assisted Mobile Edge Computing Systems: Joint Resource Allocation and Trajectory Design'', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 8570-8584, May 2021.

[J16] Changyan Yi, Shiwei Huang and Jun Cai, ''Joint Resource Allocation for Device-to-Device Communication Assisted Fog Computing'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 1076-1091, Mar. 2021.

[J15] Changyan Yi, Jun Cai and Zhou Su, ''A Multi-User Mobile Computation Offloading and Transmission Scheduling Mechanism for Delay-Sensitive Applications'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 29-43, Jan. 2020.

[J14] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Delay-Dependent Priority-Aware Transmission Scheduling for E-Health Networks: A Mechanism Design Approach'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 6997-7010, Jul. 2019.

[J13] Jiefei Ding, Jun Cai and Changyan Yi*, ''An Improved Coalition Game Approach for MIMO-NOMA Clustering Integrating Beamforming and Power Allocation'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 1672-1687, Feb. 2019.

[J12] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''A Truthful Mechanism for Scheduling Delay-Constrained Wireless Transmissions in IoT-Based Healthcare Networks'', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 912-925, Feb. 2019.

[J11] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Transmission Management of Delay-Sensitive Medical Packets in Beyond Wireless Body Area Networks: A Queueing Game Approach'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 2209-2222, Sep. 2018.

[J10] Changyan Yi, Shiwei Huang and Jun Cai, ''An Incentive Mechanism Integrating Joint Power, Channel and Link Management for Social-Aware D2D Content Sharing and Proactive Caching'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 789-802, Apr. 2018.

[J9] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Ascending-Price Progressive Spectrum Auction for Cognitive Radio Networks with Power-Constrained Multi-Radio Secondary Users'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 781-794, Jan. 2018.

[J8] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''A Priority-Aware Truthful Mechanism for Supporting Multi-Class Delay-Sensitive Medical Packet Transmissions in E-Health Networks'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 2422-2435, Sep. 2017.

[J7] Changyan Yi, Jun Cai and Gong Zhang, ''Spectrum Auction for Differential Secondary Wireless Service Provisioning with Time-Dependent Valuation Information'', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 206-220, Jan. 2017.

[J6] Changyan Yi, Attahiru S. Alfa and Jun Cai, ''An Incentive-Compatible Mechanism for Transmission Scheduling of Delay-Sensitive Medical Packets in E-Health Networks'', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 2424-2436, Oct. 2016.

[J5] Suren Dadallage, Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Joint Beamforming, Channel and Power Allocation in Multi-User and Multi-Channel Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 3349-3359, May 2016.

[J4] Changyan Yi, Zhen Zhao, Jun Cai, Ricardo L. Faria and Gong Zhang, ''Priority-Aware Pricing-Based Capacity Sharing for Beyond-Wireless Body Area Networks'', Computer Networks (Elsevier), vol. 98, pp. 29-43, Apr. 2016.

[J3] Xiaolong Li, Meiping Peng, Jun Cai, Changyan Yi and Hong Zhang, ''OPNET-Based Modeling and Simulation of Mobile Zigbee Sensor Networks'', Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer), vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 414-423, Feb. 2016.

[J2] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Multi-Item Spectrum Auction for Recall-Based Cognitive Radio Networks with Multiple Heterogeneous Secondary Users'', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 781-792, Feb. 2015.

[J1] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Two-Stage Spectrum Sharing with Combinatorial Auction and Stackelberg Game in Recall-Based Cognitive Radio Networks'', IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 3740-3752, Nov. 2014.

•  Conference

[C52] Junjie Wu, Ruoyang Chen and Changyan Yi, ''A DRL-Based Deviation-Aware Federated Digital Twin Construction over Wireless Edge Network,'' International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA), Tokyou, Japan, Jun. 24-26, 2025.

[C51] Tianqing Man, Haifeng Zhu, Ruoyang Chen and Changyan Yi, ''Hierarchical DRL-Based Multi-Motor Control with Torque Synchronization in Industrial IoT,'' International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA), Tokyou, Japan, Jun. 24-26, 2025.

[C50] Jiayuan Chen, Yuxiang Li, Changyan Yi and Shimin Gong, ''Generative AI-Aided QoE Maximization for RIS-Assisted Digital Twin Interaction,'' IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), London, United Kingdom, May 19-22, 2025.

[C49] Yuxiang Li, Jiayuan Chen and Changyan Yi, ''Distributionally Robust Optimization for Digital Twin Service Provisioning over Edge Computing,'' IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), London, United Kingdom, May 19-22, 2025.

[C48] Ruoyang Chen and Changyan Yi, ''A Game-Theoretic Online Optimization for Federated Digital Twin Construction via Wireless Sensing,'' IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, Jun. 8-12, 2025.

[C47] Xiaolong Li, Heng Yang, Changyan Yi, Ruiting Deng and Xin Wu, ''Anti-Noise and Cross-Domain CSI Gesture Recognition With Multi-Features Fusion Transformer,'' IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), Cape Town, South Africa, Dec. 8-12, 2024.

[C46] Yuye Yang, You Shi, Ruoyang Chen, Changyan Yi and Jiawen Kang, ''Online Optimization of Edge Empowered Human Digital Twin Deployment and Task Offloading,'' IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Hangzhou, China, Aug. 7-9, 2024.

[C45] Denghui Liu, Ruoyang Chen, Tong Zhang and Changyan Yi, ''A DRL-Based Hierarchical Game for Physical Layer Security Aware Cooperative Communications,'' IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Hangzhou, China, Aug. 7-9, 2024.

[C44] Shuang Fu, Xiangping Zhai, Changyan Yi, Lei Pang and Chee Wei Tan, ''Energy Efficient and Low Latency Computation Offloading via Truly PPO in Mobile Edge Computing Networks With Multi-UAV,'' IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings), Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 19-22, 2024.

[C43] Kun Wu, Jiayuan Chen, Changyan Yi, Zili Liu, Xiaoping Lu, Junyi Wang and Jun Cai, ''Joint Visual and Haptic Signal Transmission for Immersive Interactions in Human Digital Twin,'' International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication (UCOM), Xi'an, China, Jul. 5-7, 2024.

[C42] You Shi, Yuye Yang, Changyan Yi and Junyi Wang, ''Layer-Aware Microservice Deployment for Edge Computing with Service Reliability Provisioning,'' International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA), Qingdao, China, Jun. 21-23, 2024.

[C41] Hao Zheng, Haifeng Zhu, Hao Wu, Changyan Yi, Keke Zhu and Xingan Dai, ''A DRL-Based Edge Intelligent Servo Control with Semi-Closed-Loop Feedbacks in Industrial IoT,'' International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA), Qingdao, China, Jun. 21-23, 2024.

[C40] Qiuyu Yu, Tong Zhang and Changyan Yi, ''Consistent Low-latency Scheduling for Microsecond-Scale Tasks in Data Centers,'' International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA), Qingdao, China, Jun. 21-23, 2024.

[C39] Haipeng Zhou, Ruoyang Chen, Changyan Yi, Juan Li and Jun Cai, ''A Three-Party Repeated Coalition Formation Game for PLS in Wireless Communications with IRSs,'' IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, UAE, Apr. 21-24, 2024.

[C38] Jialiuyuan Li, Jiayuan Chen, Changyan Yi, Tong Zhang, Kun Zhu and Jun Cai, ''Energy-Efficient UAV Swarm Assisted MEC with Dynamic Clustering and Scheduling,'' IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, UAE, Apr. 21-24, 2024.

[C37] Zishang Chen, Juan Li, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi and Tianzi Zang, ''Model Selection Based on DRL: Improving Personal Model Performance in Federated Learning,'' IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, UAE, Apr. 21-24, 2024.

[C36] Xiang Chen, Wenjie Zhu, Jiayuan Chen, Tong Zhang, Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Edge Computing Enabled Real-Time Video Analysis via Adaptive Spatial-Temporal Semantic Filtering,'' IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings), Ocean Flower Island, Hainan, China, Dec. 17-21, 2023.

[C35] You Shi, Changyan Yi, Bing Chen, Chenze Yang and Jun Cai, ''A Two-timescale Online Optimization for Balancing Service Migration and Task Rerouting in MEC,'' IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 4-8, 2023.

[C34] Renjie Jiang, Tong Zhang and Changyan Yi, ''Effective Coflow Scheduling in Hybrid Circuit and Packet Switching Networks,'' IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Tunis, Tunisia, Jul. 9-12, 2023.

[C33] Jian Wang, Changyan Yi, Ran Wang, Qiang Wu and Jun Cai, ''Adaptive Application Deployment for Multi-Access Edge Computing Based on Mobility Prediction (Invited Paper),'' Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC), Montreal, Canada, Jul. 4-Jul. 7, 2023.

[C32] Wenjie Zhu, Ruoyang Chen, Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Edge-Assisted Video Transmission with Adaptive Key Frame Selection: A Hierarchical DRL Approach,'' Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC), Montreal, Canada, Jul. 4-Jul. 7, 2023.

[C31] Mengqing Ding, Juan Li, Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Federated Learning for COVID-19 on Heterogeneous CXR Images with Noise,'' IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, May 28-Jun. 1, 2023.

[C30] Ruoyang Chen, Changyan Yi, Kun Zhu, Bing Chen and Jun Cai, ''A DRL-Based Hierarchical Game for Physical Layer Security with Dynamic Trilateral Coalitions,'' IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, May 28-Jun. 1, 2023.

[C29] Shanfei Shang, Changyan Yi, Tong Zhang and Jun Cai, ''A Vacation Queue Based Optimization for Dynamic Application Placement in Edge Computing,'' IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, May 28-Jun. 1, 2023.

[C28] Jiayuan Chen, Changyan Yi, Jialiuyuan Li, Kun Zhu and Jun Cai, ''A Triple Learner Based Energy Efficient Scheduling for Multi-UAV Assisted Mobile Edge Computing,'' IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, May 28-Jun. 1, 2023.

[C27] Xue Yu, Ran Wang, Changyan Yi and Qiang Wu, ''Priority-Aware Deployment of Multi-Objective Service Function Chains,'' International Conference on Emerging Networking Architecture and Technologies（ICENAT）, Shenzhen, China, Nov. 15-17, 2022.

[C26] Chen Ying, Zhen Zhao, Changyan Yi, You Shi and Ran Wang, ''AoTI Minimization for Multi-Type Data Sampling in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks,'' IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), Wuhan, China, Oct. 28-30, 2022.

[C25] Jinxin Yu, Changyan Yi, Tong Zhang, Fang Zhu and Jun Cai, ''A Time Utility Function Driven Scheduling Scheme for Managing Mixed-Criticality Traffic in TSN,'' International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), Dalian, China, Aug. 26-28, 2022.

[C24] Wenqiu Zhang, Ran Wang, Changyan Yi and Kun Zhu, ''Joint Optimization of Computation Task Allocation and Mobile Charging Scheduling in Parked-Vehicle-Assisted Edge Computing Networks,'' International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), Dalian, China, Aug. 26-28, 2022.

[C23] Jiaqi Feng, Tong Zhang and Changyan Yi, ''Reliability-Aware Comprehensive Routing and Scheduling in Time-sensitive Networking,'' International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), Dalian, China, Aug. 26-28, 2022.

[C22] Zhenxian Ma, Ran Wang, Changyan Yi and Kun Zhu, ''Optimal Deployment and Scheduling of a Mobile Charging Station in the Internet of Electric Vehicles,'' International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), Dalian, China, Aug. 26-28, 2022.

[C21] Mingzhu Qiang, Changyan Yi, Juan Li, Kun Zhu and Jun Cai, ''Joint Task Offloading and VM Placement for Edge Computing with Time-Sequential IIoT Applications,'' IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Rhodes, Greece, Jun. 30-Jul. 3, 2022.

[C20] Jiawei Liang, Juan Li, Kun Zhu and Changyan Yi, ''Learning Auction in Coded Distributed Computing with Heterogeneous User Demands,'' IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Rhodes, Greece, Jun. 30-Jul. 3, 2022.

[C19] Jiayuan Chen, Changyan Yi, Ran Wang, Kun Zhu and Jun Cai, ''A Joint Optimization of Sensor Activation and Mobile Charging Scheduling in Industrial Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks,'' IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Seoul, Korea, May 16-20, 2022.

[C18] You Shi, Changyan Yi, Bing Chen, Chenze Yang, Xiangping Zhai and Jun Cai, ''Closed-Loop Control of Edge-Cloud Collaboration Enabled IIoT: An Online Optimization Approach,'' IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Seoul, Korea, May 16-20, 2022.

[C17] Zizhen Li, Ran Wang, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi, Linfeng Liu and Dusit Niyato, ''Joint Energy and Computation Workload Management for Geo-Distributed Data Centers in Smart Grid,'' International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing (GPC), Haikou, China, Dec. 17-19, 2021.

[C16] Hui Wang, Ran Wang, Hu Xu, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi and Dusit Niyato, ''Multi-Objective Mobile Charging Scheduling on the Internet of Electric Vehicles: A DRL Approach,'' IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), Madrid, Spain, Dec. 7-11, 2021.

[C15] Man Xiong, Changyan Yi and Kun Zhu, ''Vehicular Path Planning for Balancing Traffic Congestion Cost and Fog Computing Reward: A Routing Game Approach,'' International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), Nanjing, China, Jun. 25-27, 2021.

[C14] Yue Zhou, Changyan Yi and Kun Zhu, ''Computation Resource Configuration for Vehicular Edge Computing: A Fluid-Model Based Approach,'' IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC WKSHPS), Montreal, Canada, Jun. 14-23, 2021.

[C13] Aijin Zhang, Kun Zhu, Ran Wang and Changyan Yi, ''Missing Data Inference for Crowdsourced Radio Map Construction: An Adversarial Auto-Encoder Method,'' IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Nanjing, China, Mar. 29-Apr. 1, 2021.

[C12] Jiequ Ji, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi, Ran Wang and Dusit Niyato, ''Joint Resource Allocation and Trajectory Design for UAV-assisted Mobile Edge Computing Systems,'' IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 7-11, 2020.

[C11] Chengzhen Xu, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi and Ran Wang, ''Data Pricing for Blockchain-based Car Sharing: A Stackelberg Game Approach,'' IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 7-11, 2020.

[C10] Zhitian Tu, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi and Ran Wang, ''Blockchain-based Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Spectrum Sharing,'' International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), Qingdao, China, Sep. 13-15, 2020.

[C9] Changyan Yi, Jun Cai, Ran Wang and Kun Zhu, ''Computation Offloading Game for Edge Computing with Strategic Local Pre-Processing Time-Length,'' IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Victoria, Canada, Oct. 4-7, 2020.

[C8] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''A Queueing Game Approach for Fog Computing with Strategic Computing Speed Control,'' IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), Waikoloa, HI, USA, Dec. 9-13, 2019.

[C7] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''A Truthful Mechanism for Delay-Dependent Prioritized Medical Packet Transmission Scheduling,'' IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 9-13, 2018.

[C6] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''A Truthful Mechanism for Prioritized Medical Packet Transmissions in Beyond-WBANs,'' IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington DC, USA, Dec. 4-8, 2016.

[C5] Shiwei Huang, Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''A Sequential Posted Price Mechanism for D2D Content Sharing Communications,'' IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington DC, USA, Dec. 4-8, 2016.

[C4] Zhen Zhao, Changyan Yi, Jun Cai and Huijin Cao, ''Queueing Analysis for Medical Data Transmissions with Delay-Dependent Packet Priorities in WBANs,'' International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China, Oct.13-15, 2016.

[C3] Changyan Yi Jun Cai and Gong Zhang, ''Online Spectrum Auction in Cognitive Radio Networks with Uncertain Activities of Primary Users,'' IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, Jun. 8-12, 2015.

[C2] Changyan Yi and Jun Cai, ''Combinatorial Spectrum Auction with Multiple Heterogeneous Sellers in Cognitive Radio Networks,'' IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Sydney, Australia, Jun. 10-14, 2014.

[C1] Changyan Yi and Ken Ferens, ''An Energy Efficient and Minimum Latency Routing Protocol for Multihop WSNs,'' International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN) , Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jul. 22-25, 2013.

Professional Activities

• Editorship

— Journal of Information and Intelligence
— Computer and Telecommunication Engineering
— CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua

• TPC Member

— IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
— IEEE Global Communication Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM), 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
— IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2023, 2024, 2025.
— IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC), 2019-Fall, 2020-Fall, 2021-Spring, 2024-Spring.
— IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC), 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
— IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm) 2022, 2024.
— International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
— IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications (IEEE VCC), 2023, 2024.
— Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC), 2023 (Publicity Chair).
— International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication (Ucom), 2023, 2024, 2025.
— IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (IEEE GreenCom), 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024.
— IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (IEEE iThings), 2020, 2021.
— IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT), 2018.
— International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 2016, 2017.
— IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (IEEE ISSNIP), 2015.
— IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special Issue on Recent Advances in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks, 2015.

• Reviewer

— IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
— IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
— IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
— IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
— IEEE Transactions on Communications
— IEEE Transactions on Computers
— IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
— IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
— IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
— IEEE Transactions on Service Computing
— IEEE Communication Magazine
— IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine
— IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
— IEEE Internet of Things Journal
— IEEE Systems Journal
— IEEE Communications Letters
— IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
— IEEE Networking Letters
— Computer Networks (Elsevier)
— Computer Communications (Elsevier)
— Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier)
— INFORMS Journal on Computing
— IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, WCNC, VTC, PIMRC, etc.

Teaching

• Lecturer at NUAA
— Graduate Course: Mechanism Design Theory and Optimization Algorithm, Fall 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
— Undergraduate Course: Embedded Systems, Spring 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
• Guest Lecturer at University of Manitoba
— ECE 7260: Broadband Communication Networks, Fall 2017.
— ECE 4260: Communication Systems, Fall 2018.

Graduate Students

We form an active research group, called "SmilinNet" (smart mobile innovative networking), with several openings for both PhD and Master students every year. Interested applicants are welcome to contact Prof. Changyan Yi via Email (changyan.yi@nuaa.edu.cn).