Tianyu Zhang

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

The University of Iowa

Office: 201F MacLean Hall (MLH), Iowa City, IA 52242

Email: [email protected]

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Iowa. Before joining Iowa, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Connecticut, where I worked with Song Han. I received my Ph.D. from Northeastern University, China, and was supervised by X. Sharon Hu during my visit to the University of Notre Dame.

My research centers on real-time cyber-physical systems with stringent timing and reliability requirements. Application domains include industrial internet-of-things (IIoT), autonomous systems, avionics, etc. My current work investigates resource management, scheduling, and system design/analysis/implementation for emerging industrial networking systems, including industrial 5G/6G, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), and wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSANs). My long term research goal is to make real-time cyber-physical systems more deterministic, reliable, and secure. 

Our group is looking for motivated M.S. and Ph.D. students, as well as research interns, to work on real-time cyber-physical systems. Please see the Openings page for details. 


News

  • [Paper] "BWP-aware Real-Time Scheduling for Heterogeneous UEs in Industrial 5G Systems" has been accepted to the 47th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2026. 
  • [Paper] "Ensuring schedulability and end-to-end latency in DAG-based tasks for AUTOSAR" has been accepted to Journal of Systems Architecture, 2026. 
  • [Service] Serving on the TPC of RTSS 2026. 
  • [Talk] Invited talk, "Towards Deterministic Networking for Real-Time Mission-Critical Systems," at the WiCI Webinar hosted by Iowa State University. 
  • [Service] Serving on the TPCs of EMSOFT 2026, ICDCS 2026, RTAS'BP 2026, and RTCSA 2026. 
  • [Paper] "KeepON: Supporting Deterministic Traffic on Standard NICs" has been accepted to the 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2026. 
  • [Paper] The TSNKit paper has been accepted to the 46th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (Brief Presentation) (RTSS BP), 2025. Check out our open source TSN scheduling evaluation tool, TSNKit!
  • [Paper] "5G-TPS: A Two-Phase Real-Time Scheduling and Adaptation Framework for 5G Radio Access Networks" has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025. 
  • [Paper] "Flexibility-Aware Network Resource Partitioning for Multi-State Real-Time Mission-Critical Applications" has been accepted to the 46th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2025. 
  • [Paper] "A Survey and Experimental Study of Real-Time Scheduling Methods for 802.1Qbv TSN Networks" has been accepted to ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2025. 
  • [Service] Serving on the TPC of RTAS, 2025.
  • [Paper] "Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) for Industrial Automation: Current Advances and Future Directions" has been accepted to ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2024. Check ACM Showcase.
  • [Service] Serving on the TPC of RTCSA, 2024.
  • [Paper] "Real-Time Scheduling for 802.1Qbv Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN): A Systematic Review and Experimental Study" has been accepted to the 30th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), part of the CPS-IoT Week, 2024.
  • [Paper] "Towards Cost-Effective Real-Time High-Throughput End Station Design for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)" has been accepted to the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2024.
  • [Service] Serving on the TPC of RTAS, 2024.
  • [Paper] "Real-Time Flow Scheduling in Industrial 5G New Radio" has been accepted to the 44th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2023.
  • [Paper] "Resource Virtualization with End-to-End Timing Guarantees for Multi-Hop Multi-Channel Real-Time Wireless Networks" has been accepted to the 44th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2023.
  • [Paper] "Contention-Free Configured Grant Scheduling for 5G URLLC Traffic" has been accepted to the 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference DAC'23.
  • [Service] Serving on the TPC of RTCSA 2023.
  • [Service] Serving as the Registration Chair for CPS-IoT Week, 2023.
  • [Paper] "Reliable Dynamic Packet Scheduling with Slot Sharing for Real-Time Wireless Networks" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).