About

Stephen Fan

Assistant Professor, Computing Sciences

P: 825-901-4968
Education
  • Ph.D., University of Alberta
  • MSc., University of Alberta
  • B.Sc., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Biography

Caixiang (Stephen) Fan is an Assistant Professor of Computing Science. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Software Engineering from the University of Alberta in 2019 and 2023, respectively. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2012. In between, he worked as an IT engineer at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China for four years. After his Ph.D. program under co-supervision of Dr. Hamzeh Khazaei and Dr. Petr Musilek, he had one year of postdoctoral research experience at the ENTAIL – ENergy digiTizAtIon Lab led by Dr. Musilek, at the University of Alberta.

Research Interests

His research interests include blockchain, distributed ledger systems, transactive energy, performance evaluation and modelling, and zero knowledge machine learning.

Recent Publications

Fan, C; Sohrabbeiga, A; Musilek, P. (2025). Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning Models for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading. Elsevier Internet of Things.

Fan, C; Khazaei, H; Musilek, P. (2024). BPET: A Unified Blockchain-Based Framework for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading. MDPI Future Internet. 16(5): 162-180.

Lin, C; Mahmoudi, N; Fan, C; Khazaei, H. (2022). Fine-grained performance and cost modeling and
optimization for faas applications. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 34(1): 180-194.

Fan, C; Ghaemi, S; Khazaei, H; Chen, Y; Musilek, P. (2021). Performance analysis of the IOTA DAG-based
distributed ledger. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems.
6(3): 1-20.

Fan, C; Ghaemi, S; Khazaei, H; Musilek, P. (2020). Performance evaluation of blockchain systems: A
systematic survey. IEEE Access. 8: 126927-126950.

Fan, C; Lin, C; Khazaei, H; Musilek, P. (2022). Performance analysis of hyperledger besu in private
blockchain. 2022 IEEE international conference on decentralized applications and infrastructures (DAPPS).
2022 IEEE international conference on decentralized applications and infrastructures (DAPPS), Newark,
United States of America (64-73)

Fan, C; Khazaei, H; Chen, Y; Musilek, P. (2019). Towards A Scalable DAG-based Distributed Ledger for
Smart Communities. 2019 IEEE 5th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT). 2019 IEEE 5th World
Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Limerick, Ireland