周丽贞，2025年6月获大连理工大学软件工程博士学位，导师为徐子川教授。主要研究方向包括边缘智能、Serverless计算、服务计算、算法设计与优化等。在IEEE TC、IEEE TMC、IEEE TPDS、IEEE TON、IEEE TCOM等国际期刊以及IEEE INFOCOM等国际会议上发表多篇论文、授权发明专利1项、参与多项国家自然科学基金面上项目、蚂蚁集团校企合作项目及产学研项目等，担任中国计算机学会CCF分布式计算与系统专委、CCF A类期刊TPDS审稿人、MSN TPC member等。

发表论文：

[ToN] Zhou Xu, Lizhen Zhou(co-first author), Zichuan Xu, Wenbo Qi, Jinjing Ma, Song Yan, Yuan Yang, Min Huang, Haomiao Jiang, Qiufen Xia, Guowei Wu. Empowering Dragonfly: A Lightweight and Scalable Distribution System for Large Models with High Concurrency. IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2025. CCF-A

[TPDS] Lizhen Zhou, Zichuan Xu, Qiufen Xia, Zhou Xu, Wenhao Ren, Wenbo Qi, Jinjing Ma, Song Yan, Yuan Yang. Chasing common knowledge: Joint large model selection and pulling in MEC with parameter sharing. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2025. CCF-A

[TC] Zichuan Xu, Lizhen Zhou, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Wenzheng Xu, Wenhao Ren, Haozhe Ren, and Pan Zhou. Stateful serverless application placement in MEC with function and state dependencies. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2023. CCF-A

[TMC] Zichuan Xu, Lizhen Zhou, Sid Chau, Weifa Liang, Haipeng Dai, Lixing Chen, Wenzheng Xu, Qiufen Xia, and Pan Zhou. Near-optimal and collaborative service caching in mobile edge clouds. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023. CCF-A

[TCOM] Zichuan Xu, Lizhen Zhou, Haipeng Dai, Weifa Liang, Wanlei Zhou, Pan Zhou, Wenzheng Xu and Guowei Wu. Energy-aware collaborative service caching in a 5G-enabled MEC with uncertain payoffs. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2021. CCF-B

[CN] Qiufen Xia, Lizhen Zhou, Wenhao Ren, Yi Wang. Proactive and intelligent evaluation of big data queries in edge clouds with materialized views. Computer Networks, 2021. CCF-B

[INFOCOM] Zichuan Xu, Lizhen Zhou(advisor as the first author), Sid Chau, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia and Pan Zhou. Collaborate or separate? Distributed service caching in mobile edge clouds. Proc of INFOCOM’20, 2020. CCF-A

专利：

夏秋粉, 周丽贞, 徐子川. 一种在移动边缘网络中的分布式服务缓存方法. ZL201911300742.5, 2021

科研项目：

[1] 国家自然科学基金面上项目: 面向无服务器边缘云的智能服务部署与自动伸缩方法研究, 2021.01–2025.12, 参与

[2] 山东省自然科学基金: 边缘计算下面向 AIoT 的服务器无感知数据传输与资源调度研究, 2023.01–2025.12, 参与

[3] 支付宝（杭州）信息技术有限公司: 应用镜像加载、存储和传输技术研究, 2022.08–2023.09, 参与