Dr. Bo Sheng

About

I am a Full Professor and Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. I received my Ph.D. from College of William and Mary and my B.S. from Nanjing University (China), both in Computer Science.

My research interests include collaborative AI, edge computing, mobile computing, cloud computing, cyber security, and wireless networks.

Undergraduate Program FAQ

As Undergraduate Program Director, I've collected answers to the questions CS students ask most: BS vs. BA, degree requirements, course sequencing rules, and where to get help.

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News

May 28, 2026

Congratulations, Class of 2026!

This week I attended the College of Science and Mathematics Honor Convocation, the University's Graduate Commencement, and the University's Undergraduate Commencement. Congratulations to all graduates!

Recent Courses

Fall 2026

CS446: Introduction to Internetworking (Canvas)

CS646: Computer Communication Networks (Canvas)
Spring 2026

CS480: Introduction to Quantum Computing (Canvas)

Research Areas

AI / ML

Collaborative AI, Federated learning, Physical AI, Trustworthy AI, Mobile and edge AI
Mobile Computing and Edge Computing

Internet of things, Security and privacy, Wireless networks, Sensor networks / RFID
Cloud Computing

Big data analytics, Resource management, Data center storage, Data center networking, Security

Ph.D. Students

Current Students

Allen Yang

5th Year

Xiangtao Fu

2nd Year

Jing Chen

1st Year

Alumni

Publications

[MSWiM '26] Age-Optimal Target Wake Time: Provably Good Wake Schedules for Energy-Constrained Wi-Fi Status Updating

Haoyu Wang, Bo Sheng, Xiaoqian Zhang

The 28th International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems,Paris, France, 2026(Acceptance rate: 19%)

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[ICNC '26] Collision-Responsive Micro-Scheduling for 802.11: Broadcast NAKs and Contender-Count Scaled Backoff

Haoyu Wang, Daniel Kaseya, Bang Tran, Peng Jiang, Bo Sheng, Xiaoqian Zhang

2026 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC),Maui, Hawaii, USA, 2026(Acceptance rate: 27%)

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[HPCC '25] PECO: Probabilistic Evaluation-based Client Selection for Federated Learning with Overlapping Clients

Allen Yang, Shiyue Hou, Yiming Xie, Bo Sheng, Ningfang Mi

The 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications,Exeter, UK, 2025(Acceptance rate: 30%)

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[ICNC '25] DCTCP-FQ: Enhancing Fairness and Convergence in Data Center Congestion Control

Haoyu Wang, Xiaoqian Zhang, Allen Yang, Bo Sheng

International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications,Honolulu, HI, USA, 2025(Acceptance rate: 30%)

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Office Hours

Fall 2026

Tuesday and Thursday: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Or by appointment

Location

McCormack Hall
Room M-3-201-23
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125

About

Undergraduate Program FAQ

News

Congratulations, Class of 2026!

Recent Courses

Fall 2026

Spring 2026

Research Areas

AI / ML

Mobile Computing and Edge Computing

Cloud Computing

Ph.D. Students

Current Students

Allen Yang

Xiangtao Fu

Jing Chen

Alumni

Dr. Xiaoqian Zhang

Dr. Tengpeng Li

Son Nam Nguyen

Dr. Teng Wang

Jiayin Wang

Ying Mao

Publications

[MSWiM '26] Age-Optimal Target Wake Time: Provably Good Wake Schedules for Energy-Constrained Wi-Fi Status Updating

[ICNC '26] Collision-Responsive Micro-Scheduling for 802.11: Broadcast NAKs and Contender-Count Scaled Backoff

[HPCC '25] PECO: Probabilistic Evaluation-based Client Selection for Federated Learning with Overlapping Clients

[ICNC '25] DCTCP-FQ: Enhancing Fairness and Convergence in Data Center Congestion Control

[TCC '24] Learning-Based Dynamic Memory Allocation Schemes for Apache Spark Data Processing

[IPDPS '23] SRC: Mitigate I/O Throughput Degradation in Network Congestion Control of Disaggregated Storage Systems

[ICNC '23] DIRS: Dynamic Initial Rate Setting in Congestion Control for Disaggregated Storage Systems

[IPCCC '21a] CODS: Cloud-assisted Object Detection for Streaming Videos on Edge Devices

[IPCCC '21b] SNIS: Storage-Network Iterative Simulation for Disaggregated Storage Systems

[TCC '21a] New Scheduling Algorithms for Improving Performance and Resource Utilization in Hadoop YARN Clusters

[TCC '21b] New YARN Non-Exclusive Resource Management Scheme Through Opportunistic Idle Resource Assignment

[ACCESS '21] Optimizing Internal Overlaps by Self-Adjusting Resource Allocation in Multi-Stage Computing Systems

[COMNET '20] Revenue sharing in edge-cloud systems: A Game-theoretic perspective

[INFOCOM '20] PROMAR: Practical Reference Object-based Multi-user Augmented Reality

[IPCCC '19] Atumm: Auto-tuning Memory Manager in Apache Spark

[ICNC '19] FARES: Fast and Accurate Recognition of Exact Scenes on Mobile Devices

[IPCCC '18] A Game-theoretic Framework for Revenue Sharing in Edge-cloud Computing System

[ICCCN '18] ROVER: Robust and Verifiable Erasure Code for Hadoop Distributed File Systems

[CLOUD '18a] Intermediate Data Caching Optimization for Multi-Stage and Parallel Big Data Frameworks

[CLOUD '18b] OWLBIT: Orchestrating Wireless Transmissions for Launching Big Data Platforms in an Internet of Things Environment

[CLOUD '18c] BloomStream: Data Temperature Identification for Flash Based Memory Storage Using Bloom Filters

[SCPE '18] AutoAdmin: Automatic and Dynamic Resource Reservation Admission Control in Hadoop YARN Clusters

[ICCCN '17a] EA2S2 : An Efficient Application-Aware Storage System for Big Data Processing in Heterogeneous Clusters

[ICCCN '17b] EDOS: Edge Assisted Offloading System for Mobile Devices

[ICCCN '17c] AutoPath: Harnessing Parallel Execution Paths for Efficient Resource Allocation in Multi-Stage Big Data Frameworks

[TCC '17] Self-Adjusting Slot Configurations for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters

[ICNC '17] SEINA: A Stealthy and Effective Internal Attack in Hadoop Systems

[IPCCC '16a] eSplash: Efficient Speculation in Large Scale Heterogeneous Computing Systems

[IPCCC '16b] GREM: Dynamic SSD Resource Allocation In Virtualized Storage Systems With Heterogeneous IO Workloads

[ICCCN '16] OpERA: Opportunistic and Efficient Resource Allocation in Hadoop YARN by Harnessing Idle Resources

[ADHOC '16] A New Packet Scheduling Algorithm for Access Points in Crowded WLANs

[ICNC '16] Mobile Message Board: Location-based Message Dissemination in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks (Best Paper Award Nomination)

[IPCCC '15a] OMO: Optimize MapReduce Overlap with a Good Start (Reduce) and a Good Finish (Map) (Best Student Paper Runner-up Award)

[IPCCC '15b] Building Smartphone Ad-Hoc Networks With Long-range Radios

[IPCCC '15c] PROTA: A Privacy-Preserving Protocol for Real-Time Targeted Advertising

[UIC '15] WiGroup: A Lightweight Cellular-assisted Device-to-Device Network Formation Framework

[TCC '15] LsPS: A Job Size-Based Scheduler for Efficient Assignments in Hadoop

[CC '15] SLA-aware Data Migration in a Shared Hybrid Storage Cluster

[IM '15] Admission Control in YARN Clusters Based on Dynamic Resource Reservation

[ICNP '14] LAAR: Long-range Radio Assisted Ad-Hoc Routing in MANETs

[MobiSPC '14] DAB: Dynamic and Agile Buffer-control for Streaming Videos on Mobile Devices (Best Paper Award)

[ICCCN '14] PASA: Passive Broadcast for Smartphone Ad-hoc Networks

[CLOUD '14a] HaSTE: Hadoop YARN Scheduling Based on Task-Dependency and Resource-Demand

[CLOUD '14b] FRESH: Fair and Efficient Slot Configuration and Scheduling for Hadoop Clusters

[ICC '14] Skyfiles: Efficient and Secure Cloud-assisted File Management for Mobile Devices

[IWCA '14] Live Data Migration For Reducing SLA Violations In Multi-tiered Storage Systems

[CLOUD '13] Using a Tunable Knob for Reducing Makespan of MapReduce Jobs in a Hadoop Cluster

[IM '13] Scheduling Heterogeneous MapReduce Jobs for Efficiency Improvement in Enterprise Clusters

[IJSNET '13] Incentive-Compatible Adaptive-Width Channel Allocation for Non-Cooperative Wireless Networks

[MSN '12] Scalable Keyword-Based Data Retrievals in Future Content-Centric Networks

[HST '12] Group Authentication in Heterogeneous RFID Networks

[WASA '12] AMPLE: A Novel Incentive Approach to Adaptive-Width Channel Allocation in Multi-hop, Non-Cooperative Wireless Networks

[ADHOC '12] Performance Evaluation of Dissemination Schemes for Coded Packets in Heterogeneous Sparse Ad Hoc Networks

[IPCCC '11] DAT: An AP Scheduler using Dynamically Adjusted Time Windows for Crowded WLANs

[TMC '11] Verifiable Privacy-Preserving Sensor Network Storage for Range Query