Talks

  • Invited Talk at Facebook (Meta) AI about Distributed/Federated ML (slides). Nov 12th, 2021
  • Invited Talk at Facebook (Meta) AI about “LightSecAgg: A Lightweight and Versatile Design for Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning”, team work with our lab. Nov 11th, 2021
  • Invited Talk at Stanford MLSys about Distributed ML System and Federated Learning [slides]. August 5th, 2021
  • Invited Talk at USC ISI about Distributed ML System and Federated Learning [slides] September 10th, 2021
  • Invited Talk at USC-Amazon Center Kick-off meeting. September 24th, 2021
News
  • 11/21/2021: FL4NLP Workshop Proposal (Federated Learning for Natural Language Processing) has been accepted to ACL 2022. Welcome to submit your excellent works! Check this PDF for more details (topics, speaker, organizer, etc). You can read our FedNLP paper to find some interesting topics. We will release the next step soon.
  • 08/05/2021: Invited Talked at Stanford MLSys [youtube recording] about Distributed ML System and Federated Learning [slides].
  • 04/20/2021: Released FedML.ai, a federated learning research ecosystem (LinkedIn, Tweet)
  • 06/01/2020: Congratulations to my wife! She got her 2nd master's degree in the US (from USC; yes, we are alumni for the 2nd time) and started to work around Greater Los Angeles.
  • 08/02/2018: Joined USC in August 2018
  • 12/1/2017: [Tencent] I started to lead a Data Mining and data platform team at Tencent Cloud
  • 04/15/2017: I received PhD offers from CMU, USC, Georgia Tech, and UCSB.
  • 6/1/2015: [Tencent] I was promoted to Team Manager(L1-2) to manage a software development team including 10+ engineers.