I am currently a PhD student of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. My main major is computer science, and supervised by Arvind Easwaran. I am a research student of the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Group @ NTU, Singapore.

📎 Download my Curriculum Vitae .

My research interest includes:

• real-time scheduling
• mobile edge computing system
• cyber-physical system
• approximation algorithm

I am actively looking for cooperation in the following topics: (i) mobile edge-cloud computing systems; (ii) collaborative perception in wireless networks; and (iii) Simulator-based experimental platform design.

Feel free to contact me if we share common research interests!

🎓 Education

• 2013.08 - 2017.06, undergraduate , School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• 2020.01 - 2021.08, master , School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2021.08 - , PhD , Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

💻 Open Source Project

• mecRT, an Mobile Edge Computing Simulator for Real-Time Applications

📝 Publication

2025

• Chuanchao Gao, Arvind Easwaran, “Real-Time Service Subscription and Adaptive Offloading Control in Vehicular Edge Computing”, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2025.
• Chuanchao Gao, Arvind Easwaran, “Energy-Efficient Joint Offloading and Resource Allocation for Deadline-Constrained Tasks in Multi-Access Edge Computing”, IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2025. [HTML] [Download]
• Chuanchao Gao and Arvind Easwaran, ``VecSim, a Vehicular Edge Computing Simulator for Real-Time Applications’’, Demo Session of IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2025. [HTML] [Download] [Open Source Project: mecRT]
• Chuanchao Gao and Arvind Easwaran. 2025. Local Ratio based Real-time Job Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Real-time and IntelliGent Edge computing (RAGE ‘25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 6, 1–6. [HTML] [Download]

2024

• Chuanchao Gao, Niraj Kumar, Arvind Easwaran, “Energy-Efficient Real-Time Job Mapping and Resource Management in Mobile-Edge Computing”, 2024 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), York, UK, 2024. [HTML] [Download] [Experiments Data]
• Niraj Kumar, Chuanchao Gao, Arvind Easwaran, “Optimal Fixed Priority Scheduling in Multi-Stage Multi-Resource Distributed Real-Time Systems”, 2024 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Valencia, Spain, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.23919/DATE58400.2024.10546551. [HTML] [Download] [Experiments Data]

2022

• Chuanchao Gao, Aryaman Shaan, Arvind Easwaran, “Deadline-constrained Multi-resource Task Mapping and Allocation for Edge-Cloud Systems,” GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022, pp. 5037-5043, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10001137.

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• Chuanchao Gao, Arvind Easwaran, “Work-in-Progress: Deadline-Constrained Multi-Resource Allocation in Edge-Cloud System,” 2022 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Houston, TX, USA, 2022, pp. 503-506, doi: 10.1109/RTSS55097.2022.00052. [HTML] [Download]

2021

• Chuanchao Gao, Heejong Park, and Arvind Easwaran. 2021. An anomaly detection framework for digital twin driven cyber-physical systems. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS ‘21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 44–54, doi: 10.1145/3450267.3450533

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🏅Patents

• Heejong Park, Gao Chuanchao, Arvind Easwaran and Cheng Chia Loon, “Material Handling Method Based On Digital Twin”, Taiwan Patent No. I806148 B. Patent application filed through NTU and Delta Research Center, Singapore.

🏅Awards

• Best Demo Award: ``VecSim: A Vehicle Edge Computing Simulator for Real-Time Applications’’, RTCSA 2025 [mecRT]
• NTU Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, 2021-2025
• NTU Science and Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, 2013-2017

💻 Work Experience

• 2017.06 - 2020.01, United Microelectronics Corporation (Singapore Branch), Equipment Engineer
• 2020.06 - 2021.06, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Research Assistant