Tianyu Zhang

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

The University of Iowa

Office: 201F MacLean Hall (MLH), lowa City, lA 52242

Email: [email protected]

I am an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at The University of Iowa. Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow working with Song Han at the School of Computing at the University of Connecticut. In 2022, I worked with Nan Guan as a postdoc at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. I obtained my Ph.D. from Northeastern University, China, and was supervised by X. Sharon Hu during my visit to Notre Dame.

My research interest centers around real-time cyber-physical systems subject to stringent timing and reliability requirements. Examples of applications include industrial internet-of-things (IIoT), autonomous vehicles, avionics, etc. My current research focuses mainly on the resource management and scheduling framework design/analysis/implementation for emerging IIoT systems, including industrial 5G, time-sensitive networking (TSN), and wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSANs). My general research goal is to make real-time cyber-physical systems deterministic, reliable, and secure. 

We are actively looking for talented master/PhD students and interns to work on real-time cyber-physical systems. If you are interested, please drop me an email with your CV. 


News

  • [Paper] A paper "5G-TPS: A Two-Phase Real-Time Scheduling and Adaptation Framework for 5G Radio Access Networks" is accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025. 
  • [Paper] A paper "Flexibility-Aware Network Resource Partitioning for Multi-State Real-Time Mission-Critical Applications" is accepted (with shepherding) in the 46th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2025. 
  • [Paper] A paper "A Survey and Experimental Study of Real-Time Scheduling Methods for 802.1Qbv TSN Networks" is accepted in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2025. 
  • [Service] Serve as the TPC member for RTAS, 2025.
  • [Paper] A paper "Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) for Industrial Automation: Current Advances and Future Direction" is accepted in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2024. Check ACM Showcase.
  • [Service] Serve as the TPC member for RTCSA, 2024.
  • [Paper] A paper "Real-Time Scheduling for 802.1Qbv Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN): A Systematic Review and Experimental Study" is accepted in the 29th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), part of the CPS-IoT Week, 2024.
  • [Paper] A paper "Towards Cost-Effective Real-Time High-Throughput End Station Design for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)" is accepted in the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2024.
  • [Service] Serve as the TPC member for RTAS, 2024.
  • [Paper] A paper "Real-Time Flow Scheduling in Industrial 5G New Radio" is accepted in the 44th IEEE Real-Time System Symposium (RTSS), 2023,
  • [Paper] A paper "Minimizing AoI of Non-uniform Multi-source Real-time Data Updates: Model Generalization, Analysis and Performance Evaluation" is accepted in the 44th IEEE Real-Time System Symposium (RTSS), 2023,
  • [Paper] A paper "Contention-Free Configured Grant Scheduling for 5G URLLC Traffic" is accepted in the 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference DAC'23.
  • [Service] Serve as the TPC member for RTCSA 2023.
  • [Service] Serve as the Registration Chair for CPS-IoT Week, 2023.
  • [Paper] A paper "Reliable Dynamic Packet Scheduling with Slot Sharing for Real-Time Wireless Networks" is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).