Jiefeng Zhou周杰锋
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida
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I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF), advised by Prof. Jiajun Huang in the High Performance & Intelligence Lab. I work on high-performance computing and systems for AI, with a focus on collective communication and lossy compression.
Before joining USF, I received my B.S. in Mathematics-Physics Fundamental Science from the Yingcai Honors College at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). There I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yong Deng in the Information Fusion and Intelligent Systems Lab, where I worked on evidence theory and information theory.
News
- Joining the ICS 2027 Junior Program Committee.
- hZCCL2 at SC ’26 in Chicago, plus the HV-Coll poster in the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC).
- Received an SC26 ACM SRC travel grant.
- MAZ accepted to PPoPP ’27.
- hZCCL2 accepted to SC ’26.
- Joined Prof. Jiajun Huang’s High Performance & Intelligence Lab at USF to study high-performance computing.
- Joined the Tang Lab at the Peking University (PKU) Chengdu Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Biotechnologies as a research intern, where I will complete my undergraduate thesis on a language model for single-cell perturbation prediction with Dr. Ning Yang.
- Joined Prof. Yong Deng’s Information Fusion and Intelligent Systems Lab at UESTC as an undergraduate researcher, working on evidence theory and information theory.
Publications
MAZ: Advancing the ratio–throughput frontier with multi-dimensional adaptive compression
hZCCL2: Co-designing collective communication with vectorized homomorphic compression
HV-Coll: Co-designing collective communication with vectorized homomorphic compression
@inproceedings{zhou2027maz,
author = {Zhou, Jiefeng and Di, Sheng and Cappello, Franck and Huang, Jiajun},
title = {{MAZ}: Advancing the ratio--throughput frontier with multi-dimensional adaptive compression},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGPLAN} Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming ({PPoPP}~'27)},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
year = {2027},
pubstate = {accepted}
}
@inproceedings{zhou2026hzccl2,
author = {Zhou, Jiefeng and Di, Sheng and Guo, Yanfei and Guo, Yuhao and Zhang, Lingqi and Zhao, Kai and Thakur, Rajeev and Cappello, Franck and Huang, Jiajun},
title = {{hZCCL2}: Co-designing collective communication with vectorized homomorphic compression},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis ({SC}~'26)},
publisher = {IEEE},
year = {2026},
pubstate = {accepted}
}
@misc{zhou2026hvcoll,
author = {Zhou, Jiefeng},
title = {{HV-Coll}: Co-designing collective communication with vectorized homomorphic compression},
howpublished = {{ACM} Student Research Competition ({SRC}) Poster, {SC}~'26, Chicago, IL, USA},
year = {2026},
keywords = {poster}
}
@article{zhou2025limit,
author = {Zhou, Jiefeng and Li, Zhen and Cheong, Kang Hao and Deng, Yong},
title = {Limit of the maximum random permutation set entropy},
journal = {Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications},
year = {2025},
volume = {664},
pages = {130425},
publisher = {Elsevier BV},
doi = {10.1016/j.physa.2025.130425}
}
@article{zhan2024generalized,
author = {Zhan, Tianxiang and Zhou, Jiefeng and Li, Zhen and Deng, Yong},
title = {Generalized information entropy and generalized information dimension},
journal = {Chaos, Solitons \& Fractals},
year = {2024},
volume = {184},
pages = {114976},
publisher = {Elsevier BV},
doi = {10.1016/j.chaos.2024.114976}
}
@article{zhou2024improved,
author = {Zhou, Jiefeng and Li, Zhen and Deng, Yong},
title = {An improved information volume of mass function based on plausibility transformation method},
journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
year = {2024},
volume = {237},
pages = {121663},
publisher = {Elsevier BV},
doi = {10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121663}
}
@article{zhou2024random,
author = {Zhou, Jiefeng and Li, Zhen and Deng, Yong},
title = {Random walk in random permutation set theory},
journal = {Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science},
year = {2024},
volume = {34},
number = {9},
pages = {093137},
publisher = {AIP Publishing},
doi = {10.1063/5.0220154}
}Experience
Education
- University of South FloridaPh.D., Computer Science and Engineering · Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity and Computing
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaB.S., Mathematics-Physics Fundamental Science · Yingcai Honors College
Industrial and Research Experience
- High Performance & Intelligence Lab (π Lab)Research Assistant · advisor Prof. Jiajun Huang · University of South Florida · Tampa
- Tang LabResearch Intern · Peking University (PKU) Chengdu Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Biotechnologies
- Information Fusion and Intelligent Systems LabUndergraduate Research Assistant · advisor Prof. Yong Deng · UESTC · Chengdu
Awards
- Travel Grant, SC26 ACM Student Research Competition
- National Grant ×3; Dream Scholarship, China Education Development Foundation
- Model Student Scholarship ×2; Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship
- Top 7%, 17th IEEEXtreme Programming Competition
- First Prize (top 5%), 23rd UESTC Mathematical Modeling Competition
Service
- Junior Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2027)
- Peer reviewer, Expert Systems with Applications