Zhongming Yao (姚钟铭)

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark, under the supervision of Prof. Christian S. Jensen and Prof. Yan Zhao. I received my Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University in 2025 under the supervision of Prof. Junchang Xin. From 2022 to 2024, I was a visiting Ph.D. student at Aalborg University, hosted by Associate Prof. Tianyi Li.

Research Interests

  • Spatio-temporal Data Management and Analysis
  • Blockchain Technology
  • Energy Management

Education

  • Northeastern University, China - Ph.D.
    • Sep. 2020 – Jan. 2026
    • Major: Computer Science and Technology, Shenyang, China
  • Aalborg University, Denmark - Guest Ph.D.
    • Dec. 2023 – Dec. 2025
    • Major: Computer Science, Aalborg, Denmark
  • Northeastern University, China - Master
    • Sep. 2018 – Jul. 2020
    • Major: Biomedical Engineering, Shenyang, China
  • Northeastern University, China - Bachelor
    • Sep. 2013 – Jul. 2017
    • Major: Computer Science and Technology, Shenyang, China

Publications

† denotes the corresponding author

ReCATS: Replay-Free Continual Anomaly Detection for Non-Stationary Multivariate Time Series.
Qiuyang Li, Qian Ma, Zhongming Yao, Shikai Guo, Yu Gu, Ge Yu, Tianyi Li.
[CORE A*] ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2026.
Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion via Relation-Aware Negative Sampling with Diffusion-based Interpolation.
Qian Ma, Linfei Dai, Zhongming Yao, Yu Gu, Tianyi Li, Christian S. Jensen, Ge Yu.
[CORE A*] International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), 2026.
Replacing Multi-Step Assembly of Data Preparation Pipelines with One-Step LLM Pipeline Generation for Table QA.
Fengyu Li, Junhao Zhu, Kaishi Song, Lu Chen, Zhongming Yao, Tianyi Li, Christian S. Jensen.
[CORE A*] International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), 2026.
TCRL: Temporal-Coupled Adversarial Training for Robust Constrained Reinforcement Learning in Worst-Case Scenarios.
Wentao Xu, Zhongming Yao†, Weihao Li, Zhenghang Song, Yumeng Song, Tianyi Li, Yushuai Li.
[CORE A*] International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2026.
One-for-All Community Search on Unseen Graphs.
Mo Li, Zhaosong Zhao, Linlin Ding, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Zhongming Yao, Jianxin Li.
[CORE A*] International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2026.
FOgym: A Bottom-Up Home Energy Management Framework Based on FlexOffers and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.
Jiachen Xu, Torben Bach Pedersen, Zhongming Yao, Tianyi Li, Yushuai Li.
ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy), 2026.
VeriTS: Verifiable Model-Enhanced Time-Series Queries on Blockchain Systems.
Zhongming Yao†, Jun Pang, Chenxu Wang, Qian Ma, Peiyuan Guan, Shiliang Zhang.
[CORE A*] IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Workshops, 2026.
Time Series Agentic AI for Energy Systems.
Xiaoyu Zhang, Jiachen Xu, Zhongming Yao, Tianyi Li, Yushuai Li.
[CORE A*] IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Workshops, 2026.
EVT² : Efficient and Verifiable Trajectory Top-k Queries in Hybrid-Storage Blockchains.
Yusen Mao, Zhongming Yao, Junchang Xin, Chenchen Yan, Yumeng Song, Zhongzhong Jiang, and Zhiqiong Wang.
[CORE C] APWeb-WAIM joint International Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM), 2026.
HotBC: A Data Hotness–Aware Blockchain Storage Mechanism through Off-Chain Offloading.
Chenchen Yan, Zhongming Yao, Zhiqiong Wang, Kun Hao, Yusen Mao, Yushuai Li, Tianyi Li, and Junchang Xin.
International Conference on Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys), 2026.
StyleTimeQAM: Modeling Learning Style and Temporal Dynamics for Question-Answer Matching in Online Teaching Groups.
Xinyang Li, Zhihong Cui, Zhongming Yao, Zhangkai Wu, Hengyu Liu, Kristian Torp, Minghe Yu, Tiancheng Zhang, Ge Yu.
International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC), 2026.
Towards Heterogeneous Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with ASR Errors via Multi-Granularity Contrastive Coordination.
Qi Shen, Junchang Xin, Bingtian Dai, Zhongming Yao, Xinyao Liu, Zhihong Huang, Zhiqiong Wang.
[CORE A*, JCR Q1] IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2026.
Digital Twin for Multitimescale Economic Dispatch in Cyber-Physical Energy Systems.
Jiaqi Tian, Bonan Huang, Tianyi Li, David Wenzhong Gao, Zhongming Yao, Yumeng Song, Yushuai Li.
[JCR Q1] IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), 2026.
A Survey on Large Language Models Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Smart Grid.
Xiaoyu Zhang, Qiuye Sun, Tianyi Li, Yumeng Song, Zhongming Yao, Yushuai Li.
[JCR Q1] Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE), 2026.
MiRoCPO: Mutual Information and RoCoF-Aware Constrained Policy Optimization for Robust Load Frequency Control Against Temporal-Coupled Attacks.
Wentao Xu, Yushuai Li, Zhongming Yao, Tianyi Li, Zhenghang Song, and Yan Zhang.
Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (CPES), 2026.
VGQ: Enabling Verifiable Graph Queries on Blockchain Systems.
Zhongming Yao, Tianyi Li, Junchang Xin, Yushuai Li, Chenxu Wang, Zhiqiong Wang, Divesh Srivastava, Christian S Jensen.
[CORE A*] The IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2025.
Clustered Federated Learning for Energy-Harvesting Smart Meters in P2P Energy Trading.
Ziming Liu, Bonan Huang, Cheng Zhang, Zhongming Yao, Tianyi Li, Qiuye Sun, Yushuai Li.
[JCR Q1] IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN), 2025.
Networked Digital Twins for Autonomous Vehicles: A New Perspective.
Tianyi Li, Yushuai Li, Yumeng Song, Zhongming Yao, Wei Gao, David Wenzhong Gao.
[JCR Q1] IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (TIV), 2024.
Efficient Blockchain Data Trusty Provenance Based on the W3C PROV Model.
Zhongming Yao, Zhiqiong Wang, Liang Wen, Kun Hao, Junming Xu.
[CORE C] The International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), 2023.
A Fine-Grained Verification Method for Blockchain Data Based on Merkle Path Sharding.
Liang Wen, Zhiqiong Wang, Tingyu Cui, Caiyun Shi, Baoting Li, Zhongming Yao.
[CORE C] The International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), 2023.
Learned Index Based Semantic Keyword Query on Blockchain.
Zhongming Yao, Junchang Xin, Kun Hao, Zhiqiong Wang, Wancheng Zhu.
[JCR Q1] Mathematics, 2023.
Efficient and Secure Data Sharing Scheme on Interoperable Blockchain Database.
Kun Hao, Junchang Xin, Zhiqiong Wang, Zhongming Yao, Guoren Wang.
[JCR Q1] IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 2023.
On Efficient Top-k Transaction Path Query Processing in Blockchain Database.
Kun Hao, Junchang Xin, Zhiqiong Wang, Zhongming Yao, Guoren Wang.
[CORE B, JCR Q3] Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 2022.
A Join Query Optimization Algorithm in Multi-Blockchain Environment.
Sihan Dong, Junchang Xin, Kun Hao, Zhongming Yao, Jinyi Chen.
Journal of Zhejiang University (Engineering Science), 2022.

Academic Services

Session Chair

  • Organizer | IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) Special Session
    Topic: Trustworthy Multimodal, Generative, and Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Systems, 2026

PC Member and Reviewer

  • 2027: ICDE, AAAI, WSDM, DASFAA
  • 2026: AAAI, CIKM, ICDM, APWeb-WAIM
  • 2025: ICDM, APWeb-WAIM

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases (DPD)
  • Computing
  • IEEE Network
  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (WWWJ)

Patents & Software Copyrights

  • A blockchain cross-chain data cross-storage method. CN201910908631.6, Chinese Patent, 2019. (2nd inventor)
  • Data interaction method based on local-global blockchain cooperation. CN201910908719.8, Chinese Patent, 2019. (2nd inventor)
  • Multi-copy reliability verification method based on blockchain encryption. CN201910908742.7, Chinese Patent, 2019. (2nd inventor)
  • Data interaction method based on blockchain on-chain and off-chain collaboration. CN201910908610.4, Chinese Patent, 2019. (2nd inventor)
  • Blockchain consensus method based on improved proof of work and proof of stake. CN201910908746.5, Chinese Patent, 2019. (2nd inventor)
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  • Data dynamic reliability verification method based on blockchain. CN201910908619.5, Chinese Patent, 2019. (2nd inventor)
  • Connection query optimization method based on multi-blockchain environment. CN202110692472.8, Chinese Patent, 2021. (4th inventor)
  • A spatio-temporal keyword query method in a hybrid-storage blockchain environment. CN202210650145.0, Chinese Patent, 2022. (4th inventor)
  • A smart contract vulnerability detection method based on fusion of local and sequential features. CN202210710381.7, Chinese Patent, 2022. (4th inventor)
  • Construction method of multi-frequency brain network discriminative subnetwork pairs for auxiliary diagnosis of AD. CN202110684023.9, Chinese Patent, 2021. (6th inventor)
  • Lung nodule computer-aided diagnosis device and method based on improved CNN. CN201910406366.1, Chinese Patent, 2019. (6th inventor)
  • Magnetic resonance image denoising method based on sparse dictionary learning. CN201910768659.4, Chinese Patent, 2019. (7th inventor)
  • A distributed index construction method based on improved iSAX encoding. CN202310424710.6, Chinese Patent, 2023. (4th inventor)
  • A storage-scalable consortium blockchain sharding method. CN202310553853.7, Chinese Patent, 2023. (4th inventor)
  • A topic auto-annotation method based on YAKE! keyword extraction. CN202310947698.7, Chinese Patent, 2024. (4th inventor)
  • A verifiable provenance query method for multi-chain environments. CN202311485265.0, Chinese Patent, 2024. (4th inventor)
  • A blockchain-based keyword semantic searchable encryption method in an inter-cloud environment. CN202410473425.8, Chinese Patent, 2024. (4th inventor)
  • Inter-cloud Element Blockchain Homomorphic Encryption Storage and Query System V1.0. 2025SR0176512, Chinese Software Copyright, 2025. (5th author)
  • Inter-cloud Element Blockchain Secure Acquisition and Fusion System V1.0. 2024SR0336274, Chinese Software Copyright, 2024. (7th author)