I have published 60+ refereed journal and conference papers (Googe Scholar ~2,600 citations, h-index=24, by April. 2024), including top ACM/IEEE Transactions and conference proceedings such as TPDS, TC, TKDE, TNNLS, TSC, TOIS, TKDD, JPDC, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), VLDB, ICDE, WWW, SC, ICDCS, DSN, SoCC, SECON, IJCAI, etc. I won the Best Paper Award in IEEE ISADS 2013 for energy-efficient computing and Alan Turing Institute Post-Doctoral Enrichment Award 2022 for resilient deep reinforcement learning, and was awarded the Grand Class of Scientific and Technological Progress Award of Chinese Institute of Electronics of year 2017 (the only grand class award since the award is established) for the key contribution to the reliable resource management at massive scale and its industrial and societal impact.

I co-authored/co-led several national and international projects, including UK EPSRC, Innovate UK, EU Horizon 2020, UK Alan Turing Institute Research Grants, China 973/863/Key R&D Programme, etc., worth more than £8 million over the last five years. I co-founded the highly successful and internationally leading research consortium COLAB between Leeds, Alibaba and Beihang University. I am currently acting as an associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys, and on the program committees of many conferences, including IJCAI, ECAI, AAAI, CLOUD, etc., I was also the program/area chair of multiple conferences.