Ping Xu (徐平)
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Email: ping.t.xu@utrgv.edu
Office: EENGR 3.278
I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of UTRGV. I received my Ph.D. (2022) and M.S. (2018) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University advised by Prof. Zhi (Gerry) Tian on the topics of decentralized machine learning and wireless communication systems, respectively.
My research interests span the areas of machine learning and optimization, signal processing, dynamical systems, and cooperative control. I am looking for motivated undergrad and grad students. If you are interested, please contact me and include your research interest, CV, transcripts, as well as writing samples (if any) in your email.
News
Mar. 2024: Our paper on "Robust Distributed Learning Against Both Distributional Shifts and Byzantine Attacks" is accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
Feb. 2024: Congratulations to Kaichuang Zhang for being selected as CECS Outstanding Graduate Student at UTRGV!
Jan. 2024: Three papers are accepted by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2024 Joint Rail Conference (JRC2024) Proceedings.
Jan. 2024: Welcome Alina Basharat to join our group!
Dec. 2023: Our paper on "Communication-Efficient Decentralized Dynamic Kernel Learning" is accepted for presentation at ICASSP 2024.
Dec. 2023: I will present our work on "H-nobs: Achieving Certified Fairness and Robustness in Distributed Learning on Heterogeneous Datasets" at NeurIPS 2023.
Sept. 2023: Welcome Kaichuang Zhang and Ethan Villalobos to join our group!
Aug. 2023: Our paper on "QC-ODKLA: Quantized and Communication-Censored Online Decentralized Kernel Learning via Linearized ADMM" is accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
Aug. 2022: I was honored to be named a “Rising Star in EECS” 2022. See you in Austin!
May 2022: I received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award 2022 from GMU College of Computing and Engineering!
April 2022: I successfully defended my thesis!