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Dr Yipeng Zhou is a senior lecturer in the School of Computing at Macquarie University (MQ). Prior to joining MQ, he was a research fellow at the University of South Australia and a lecturer at Shenzhen University. He earned his PhD and MPhil degrees from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his BS degree from the University of Science and Technology of China. Dr Zhou was awarded the 2023 Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence Award and the 2023 IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society Best Editor Award. He was also the recipient of the 2018 Australia Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Currently, he serves as the secretary of the Frontier AI Research (FAIR) Center at MQ and as an associate editor for Springer Nature Scientific Reports. His research interests include federated learning, data privacy preservation, and medical data analysis. Dr. Zhou has published over 130 papers in leading venues, including ICML, INFOCOM, IJCAI, AAAI, TheWebConf, ICNP, ToN, TDSC, JSAC, TPDS, and TMC.
Research Interest:
large language models
federated learning
data privacy-preservation
networking
Contact Information:
Mailing Address: Room 371, 4 Research Park Drive, Macquarie Park, 2119, North Ryde
Email: yipeng.zhou at mq.edu.au
Awards:
Best Editor Award, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2023
Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Awards, Macquarie University, 2023
Discover Early Career Researcher Award, Australia Research Council, 2018
Early Career Research Networking Award, University of South Australia, 2017
19th place in the world final of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM/ICPC), San Antonio, Texas, USA, 2006.
6th place in ACM/ICPC Regional Contest, Beijing China, 2005.
Students and Visiting Scholars
Students and Visiting Scholars
Behnaz Soltani, PhD at MQ 2021.11-present (Rising Star, School of Computing, MQ)
Shazia Riaz, visiting PhD 2023.4-2023.11
Chonghe Zhao, visiting PhD 2023.7-2024.6 (Rising Star, School of Computing, MQ)
Saqr Thabet, PhD at MQ 2023.9-present
Zekun Xu, visiting PhD 2023.9-2024.9
Xianzhi Zhang, visiting PhD 2024.4-2025.8 (Rising Star, School of Computing, MQ)
Prof Shengli Zhang, visiting scholar 2024.8-2025.8
Nader Awad, Honours student at MQ 2025.2-present
Vichayuth Ngamsittipong, visiting student from Mohidol University in Thailand, 2025.05-2025.08
Jakkaphat Jumratboonsom, visiting student from Mohidol University in Thailand, 2025.05-2025.08
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