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Jacky Cao

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Research areas

Augmented reality

Enhancing the physical world with virtual and digital augmentations

5G

Low latency cellular connections between thousands of nodes

Edge computing

Computation servers located near end users

Experience


University of Helsinki / Finland

Postdoctoral Researcher (Apr 2024-)

University of Helsinki / Finland

Visiting Researcher (Dec 2023 - Mar 2024)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology / Norway

Researcher (Oct 2021 - May 2022)

University of Oulu / Finland

Doctoral Researcher (Aug 2019 - Feb 2024)

Education

2019 –

University of Oulu, Finland

Aiming for a Doctor of Science (Technology) degree in Computer Science and Engineering

2015 – 2019

Durham University, UK

Obtained an integrated (undergraduate + masters) MPhys Physics degree

2013 – 2015

Xaverian College, UK

Physics, Maths, Further Maths A-levels and an Ancient History AS-level

Published research

Liu, X., Su, X., Del Campo, G., Cao, J., Fan, B., Saavedra, E., ... & Tarkoma, S. (2024). Federated Learning on 5G Edge for Industrial Internet of Things. IEEE Network.

Cao, J., Liu, X., Su, X., Hædahl, J. E., Fjellestad, T. B., Haziri, D., ... & Hui, P. (2023). Head-mounted display-based augmented reality for water quality visualisation. Water Science and Engineering.

Bartolomeo, G., Cao, J., Su, X., & Mohan, N. (2023, December). Characterizing Distributed Mobile Augmented Reality Applications at the Edge. In Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (pp. 9-18).

Cao, J., Su, X., & Hui, P. (2023, October). Towards Optimising Transport Protocols on the 5G Edge for Mobile Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Interactive eXtended Reality (pp. 3-9).

Cao, J., Lam, K. Y., & Lee, L. H. (2023, June). Real-Time WebXR Edge-based Object Detection for AR. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (pp. 590-591).

Cao, J., Mehmood, H., Liu, X., Tarkoma, S., Gilman, E., & Su, X. (2022). Fighting Pandemics with Augmented Reality and Smart Sensing-based Social Distancing. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

Cao, J., Lam, K. Y., Lee, L. H., Liu, X., Hui, P., & Su, X. (2023). Mobile augmented reality: User interfaces, frameworks, and intelligence. ACM Computing Surveys, 55(9), 1-36.

Motlagh, N. H., Loven, L., Cao, J., Liu, X., Nurmi, P., Dustdar, S., ... & Su, X. (2022). Edge Computing: The Computing Infrastructure for the Smart Mega-cities of the Future. Computer: a publication of the IEEE Computer Society.

Su, X., Jiang, A., Cao, J., Zhang, W., Hui, P., & Ye, J. (2022, March). Enabling Continuous Object Recognition in Mobile Augmented Reality. In 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 42-45).

Cao, J., Su, X., Finley, B., Pauanne, A., Ammar, M., & Hui, P. (2021, December). Evaluating Multimedia Protocols on 5G Edge for Mobile Augmented Reality. In 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN) (pp. 199-206). IEEE.

Cao, J., Liu, X., Su, X., Tarkoma, S., & Hui, P. (2021, December). Context-Aware Augmented Reality with 5G Edge. In 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Cao, J., & Su, X. (2021, March). 5G Edge Computing Enhanced Mobile Augmented Reality. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops) (pp. 416-417). IEEE.

Su, X., Liu, X., Motlagh, N. H., Cao, J., Su, P., Pellikka, P., ... & Tarkoma, S. (2021). Intelligent and Scalable Air Quality Monitoring with 5G Edge. IEEE Internet Computing.

Su, X., Cao, J., & Hui, P. (2020, September). 5G edge enhanced mobile augmented reality. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (pp. 1-3).

Teaching

CSM13001 Distributed Systems / University of Helsinki Teaching assistant, Autumn 2024

521043S Internet of Things / University of Oulu Teaching assistant, Autumn 2023

521283S Big Data Processing and Applications / University of Oulu Teaching assistant, Spring 2023

IMT4306 Introduction to Research in Mobile/Wearable Technology / Norwegian University of Science and Technology Master's project supervision, course guest lecturer, Spring 2023

521283S Big Data Processing and Applications / University of Oulu Teaching assistant, Spring 2022

IDG2001 Cloud Technologies / Norwegian University of Science and Technology Teaching assistant, Spring 2022

IMT4306 Introduction to Research in Mobile/Wearable Technology / Norwegian University of Science and Technology Master's project supervision, course guest lecturer, Spring 2022

521043S Internet of Things / University of Oulu Teaching assistant, Autumn 2021

521283S Big Data Processing and Applications / University of Oulu Teaching assistant, Spring 2021

IMT4306 Introduction to Research in Mobile/Wearable Technology / Norwegian University of Science and Technology Master's project supervision, course guest lecturer, Spring 2021

CSM13001 Distributed Systems / University of Helsinki Guest lecturer, Autumn 2020

521043S Internet of Things / University of Oulu Teaching assistant, Spring 2020

Professional activities

Local Committee Member / IEEE World Congress on SERVICES 2025

Reviewer / METABUILD Workshop (IEEE VR 2022), Data-driven Smart Cities Workshop (IEEE ICDE 2022), CHI Late-Breaking Work (ACM CHI 2023)

Web Chair / Data-driven Smart Cities Workshop (IEEE ICDE 2022), (IEEE ICDE 2023), (IEEE ICDE 2024)