Mengbing Zhou standing in front of a waterfall
m.zhou2@uva.nl

Mengbing Zhou （周梦兵）

PhD CandidateUniversity of Amsterdam

Mengbing Zhou is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) group at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), under the supervision of Dr. Zhiming Zhao and Dr. Adam Belloum. His Ph.D. position is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the LTER-LIFE project. He received his Master's degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), where he worked with Dr. Yang Wang and Dr. Minxian Xu, and his Bachelor's degree from South China University of Technology (SCUT).

His research focuses on distributed digital twin systems, time-critical scheduling and optimization, and AI-driven algorithm design.

Education

  • University of Amsterdam (Dec 2025 – Present)
    PhD Candidate · Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Jul 2022 – Jul 2025)
    Master’s studies · Computer TechnologyShenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • South China University of Technology (Sep 2018 – Jun 2022)
    Bachelor’s studies · Information and Computing ScienceSchool of Mathematics

Teaching & supervision

  • Supervised one bachelor’s student at UvA, Thijmen Batelaan, who completed the bachelor’s thesis “A Middleware-Agnostic Benchmarking Framework for Multi-Agent Digital Twin Communication” ( – ).

  • Served as a teaching assistant for the MSc course DevOps and Cloud-based Software at UvA ( – ).

Industry experience

  • I worked as a back-end developer at China Telecom Cloud Technology’s Guangzhou R&D Center, developing features for a Windows cloud-desktop agent and resolving customer issues (Aug 2025 – Nov 2025).

News

  • One paper has been accepted to the 24th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2026)!

  • I joined the University of Amsterdam as a PhD candidate, working on AI-enhanced multi-agent scheduling for distributed digital twin systems.

  • One paper has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)!

  • I completed my master’s studies in Computer Technology at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  • One survey paper has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)!

  • One paper has been accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA)!

Publications

Selected Publications

  1. Load Balancing Scheduling for Batch-Ordered Job-Store: Online vs. Offline

    Year — First author PDF IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)

  2. Towards Hybrid Architectures for Big Data Analytics: Insights from Spark-MPI Integration

    Year — First author PDF IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)

Other Publications

  1. (POSTER) Multi-Agent Framework for Decentralized Digital Twins

    2026 First author PDF 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT)

  2. Multi-Agent Based Time Critical FaaS Scheduling in Edge-Cloud Continuum

    2026 Second author PDF IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW)

  3. Integrated Data Analysis and Processing Platform Based on Spark and MPI

    Year — First author PDF Journal of Integration Technology (in Chinese)

  4. Cloudhive: A Cloud-Based Framework for Smart Grid Co-Simulation, Data, and Communication

    Year — Second author PDF Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

  5. A Monte Carlo Tree Search-Based Algorithm for Workflow Scheduling

    Year — Third author PDF IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA)

  6. TollHelper: A Safe and Efficient Traffic Control Approach on Toll Plaza via Constrained Load Balancing

    Year — First author PDF IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA)