Reach me at fengtian (at) arizona.edu (Yes, I do drive a Toyota)
Reach me at fengtian (at) arizona.edu (Yes, I do drive a Toyota)
University of Arizona, (2022 - present)
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, minor in Statistics, under the supervision of Dr. Ravi Tandon.
University of Pennsylvania, (2020 - 2022)
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering
University of Calgary, (2015 - 2020)
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering
Bachelor of Science - BS, Actuarial Science
My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, privacy, and large-scale data analysis. I focus on developing and applying techniques in differential privacy to enable secure and efficient distributed model training or inference.
I am also interested in exploring privacy-preserving approaches in large language models and advancing natural language processing methods for real-world quantitative applications.
November 2024:
Awardees for PETs for Public Health Challenge:
In collaboration with the University of Virginia and Georgia Tech, under the guidance of Dr. Anil Vullikanti, Dr. Ravi Tandon, and Dr. Aditya B Prakash. We presented our work on Epidemic data analysis with Differential Privacy guarantees.