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)
Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a minor in Statistics, at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
My doctoral research is under the guidance of Dr. Ravi Tandon.
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 2025:
Paper accepted 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.
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.