Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Graduate Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Jing Gao)
August 2022 - Present
Short Bio
I am currently a Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Jing Gao in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Before joining Purdue in 2022, I worked with Prof. Song Guo at the Pervasive Edge Intelligence Laboratory (PEILab). I obtained my B.Sc. degree in Computing (major) and Applied Mathematics (minor) from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2020. During my Ph.D. study, I have been working as a research intern at Alibaba Group. I have served as a reviewer for a number of prestigious conferences, such as ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, and KDD. I was a recipient of Best Student Paper from ACM BSCI'19.
Research Interest
Federated Learning
Large-scale Optimization
Large Language Model
LLM-based Multi-agents
News
- I am now actively looking for a 2025 Summer internship. Open to any opportunities that allow me to contribute to innovative research and apply my expertise in cutting-edge AI solutions.
- [Oct. 2024] I receive a travel grant from SenSys'24.
- [Sept. 2024] Our paper on model-heterogeneous federated learning is accepted by NeurIPS'24.
- [Sept. 2024] Our paper on LLM copyright protection is accepted by EMNLP'24.
- [Sept. 2024] Our paper on heterogeneous multi-modal federated learning is accepted by SenSys'24.
Education
August 2022 - Present
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
- Advisor: Prof. Jing Gao
September 2020 - August 2022
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
- Advisor: Prof. Song Guo
- Laboratory: Pervasive Edge Intelligence Laboratory (PEILab)
- Thesis: Gradient-wise Optimization for Distributed Machine Learning [PDF]
August 2016 - September 2020
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
- Minor in Applied Mathematics
February 2019 - July 2019
The University of Twente
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
Work Experience
Alibaba Group
Research Intern (Mentor: Dr. Zitao Li, Dr. Fei Wei, and Dr. Yaliang Li)
May 2024 - August 2024
Alibaba Group Bellevue, Washington, United States
Research Intern (Mentor: Dr. Yaliang Li and Dr. Zitao Li)
May 2023 - August 2023
Pervasive Edge Intelligence Laboratory (PEILab), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong
Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Song Guo)
September 2020 - August 2022
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Wei Cai)
July 2019 - September 2019
The University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Victor C.M. Leung)
July 2018 - September 2018
Teaching
ENG 2003 Information Technology
Teaching Assistant @ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Spring 2022
COMP 1011 Programming Fundamentals
Teaching Assistant @ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Fall 2021
Professional Activities
Conference TPC/Reviewer
ACM BSCI 2020, ECML-PKDD 2020, ICML 2022, NeurIPS 2022, ICML 2023, NeurIPS 2023, ICLR 2024, ICML 2024, KDD 2024, NeurIPS 2024, ACL Rolling Review (June 2024), KDD 2025, ICLR 2025
Journal Reviewer
IEEE OJ-CS 2021, ACM TOMM 2022
* indicates equal contribution.
* indicates equal contribution.