Yuvraj Sahni, PhD
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Assistant Professor – Electrical Engineering
Biography
Dr. Sahni received the B.E. (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, in 2015 and the PhD degree from the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 2021. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity, Vietnam. Prior to that, he worked as a Research Fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from July 2025 to December 2025. He also worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, from April 2022 to June 2025. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from April 2021 to March 2022. His research interests include Edge Computing and Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Smart Buildings. He has published papers in several top-tier conferences and journals, including ACM/IEEE SEC, IEEE SOSE, IEEE CLOUD, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TMC, IEEE TCC, IEEE TSC, IEEE TII, IEEE IoTJ, Elsevier FGCS, and Computer Networks.
Dr. Sahni has received several awards and recognitions, including the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship 2016-2020, the 2020 IEEE TCCLD Research Innovation Award (Team award), and the 2024 IEEE TCC Best Paper Award. Dr. Sahni has been an active member of the professional community and served as a program and organizing committee member for international conferences. He is also an active reviewer for several top journals, including ACM CSUR, ACM TIOT, IEEE/ACM TNET, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TCC, IEEE TWC, IEEE TVT, IEEE TMC, and many others. He is currently a member of IEEE and ACM.
· Edge Computing and Intelligence
· Internet of Things
· Smart Buildings
· Computer Networking
· Edge Computing
· Internet of Things
· Han Li, Yuvraj Sahni, Jiannong Cao, and Fu Xiao. “TADEL: Task-Aware Dynamic Ensemble of Lightweight LLMs for Improved Inference Accuracy in Edge AI.” In 2025 IEEE Annual Congress on Artificial Intelligence of Things (IEEE AIoT).
· Yuvraj Sahni, Fu Xiao, and Shengwei Wang. “Edge AI Platform for Practical Learning in Introductory Course on Smart Building Technologies.” In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2024.
· Xiangchun Chen, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Mingjin Zhang, Zhixuan Liang, and Lei Yang. “Mobility-aware Dependent Task Offloading in Edge Computing: a Digital Twin-assisted Reinforcement Learning Approach.” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2024).
· Xiangchun Chen, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Shan Jiang, and Zhixuan Liang. “Dynamic Task Offloading in Edge Computing based on Dependency-aware Reinforcement Learning.” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2024), DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2024.3381646
· Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Xiangchun Chen, and Shan Jiang. “Resource-efficient Parallel Split Learning in Heterogeneous Edge Computing.” In 2024 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Big Island, HI, USA, 2024, pp. 794-798
· Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, Liang Zhang, Yuvraj Sahni, and Shan Jiang. “ENTS: An Edge-native Task Scheduling System for Collaborative Edge Computing.” In 2022 IEEE/ACM 7th Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), pp. 149-161. IEEE, 2022.
· Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Qianyi Chen, Shan Jiang, and Tao Wu. “Eaas: A service-oriented edge computing framework towards distributed intelligence.” In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), pp. 165-175.
· Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Yuvraj Sahni, Qianyi Chen, Shan Jiang, and Lei Yang. “Blockchain-based collaborative edge intelligence for trustworthy and real-time video surveillance.” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 19, no. 2 (2022): 1623-1633
· Yuvraj Sahni, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, and Yusheng Ji. “Multi-Hop Multi-Task Partial Computation Offloading in Collaborative Edge Computing.” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 32, no. 5 (2021): 1133-1145
· Yuvraj Sahni, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, and Yusheng Ji. “Multihop offloading of multiple DAG tasks in collaborative edge computing.” IEEE Internet of Things Journal 8, no. 6 (2020): 4893-4905
· Yuvraj Sahni, Jiannong Cao, and Lei Yang. “Data-Aware Task Allocation for Achieving Low Latency in Collaborative Edge Computing.” IEEE Internet of Things Journal 6, no. 2 (2019): 3512-3524
· 2021: PhD in Computer Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
· 2015: B.E.(Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India
· IEEE TCC 2024 Best Paper Award (Dynamic Task Offloading in Edge Computing Based on Dependency-Aware Reinforcement Learning)
· IEEE Computer Society TCCLD Research Innovation Award, 2020 – For outstanding contributions in task partition and scheduling in cloud and edge computing. Awarded to: Prof. Jiannong Cao, and his team (Dr. Lei Yang and Mr. Yuvraj Sahni)
· HK PhD Fellowship Award 2016/2017 by the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong
· COMP PhD Scholarship 2016-2020 by the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
· Merit-cum-need scholarship 2012-2015 by the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
