Contact me if you are interested in applying for Ph.D., exchange, RA, Research Fellow @ NTU
My name is Wei Yang Bryan Lim (林伟杨).
I am an Assistant Professor with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU)'s College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) since September 2023.
You may find my google scholar profile here. However, we are in the process of reinventing our research direction/taste, so it is better to see our most recent works listed at the Research page.
Email: bryan.limwy(ατ)ntu.edu.sg
Aug 2025: We won the MOE Tier 2 grant!
Aug 2025: I will serve as Area Chair for ICLR 2026.
May 2025: I won the Inauguration Grant under Ministry of Education (MOE) Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent Scheme (START)!
Apr 2025: One paper on Continual Learning accepted by TNNLS, congrats Zhengyi!
Feb 2025: One paper on federated unlearning accepted by CVPR, congrats Zhengyi!
Feb 2025: We won the Japan-Singapore Joint Call for Proposals on Artificial Intelligence (AI)! Our Japan counterpart/PI is Prof Cao Yang from Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Tech). This is an exciting project that also involves collaborators from University of Tokyo, Universiti Malaya, SUTD, Bosch etc.
Jan 2025: One paper on federated learning over statistically heterogeneous clients (multi-domains) accepted by ICLR, congrats Jingyuan!
Jan 2025: One paper on enhancing security of federated learning in the presence of malicious clients accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), congrats Wenjie!
Main Projects
[New] Principal Investigator, MOE Tier 2, Federated Learning for Foundation Models; $542k
[New] Co-PI, DTC Digital Innovation Grant - Employing trusted AI to enable maritime decarbonisation and digitalisation (with Prof Yan Ran)
[New] Japan-Singapore Joint Call for Proposals on Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and A*Star ~$350k
Principal Investigator, Collaborative Model-as-a-Service, work package under Alibaba-NTU Global e-Sustainability CorpLab (ANGEL) ~S$1 million
Co-PI, Environmental Sustainability in AI Development Built on Interdisciplinary Foundations, work package under ANGEL
Co-PI, Social Sustainability in AI Development through Fair, Explainable, and Human-centered AI; work package under ANGEL
Principal Investigator, NTU Startup Grant; S$150k
Principal Investigator, Wallenberg-NTU PPF; S$100k
Others
Collaborator, MOE Tier 1, "Reputation-driven Optimized Worker Selection for Collaborative Distributed Learning".
Collaborator, MoE AcRF Tier 1 Thematic Call for Bringing the Metaverse to Reality: Technical Challenges and Other Issues
[New] Inauguration Grant under Ministry of Education (MOE) Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent Scheme (START)
[New] World's Top 2% Scientist (Stanford University study; listed by ntu ccds)
[New] Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship, visiting @ University of Tokyo
Alibaba Talent Programme: Most Promising Industrial Postgraduate Programme Student Award
IEEE Technical Community on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award
IEEE Asia Pacific Board (APB) Outstanding Paper Award 2022
Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship award
Best paper award – IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC 2020)
Best paper award – IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Technical Committee best paper
Best paper award – IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE Trustcom 2021)
Best paper award – 19th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems (WINSYS 2021)
Best paper award – ACM Mobicom-Dronecom Workshop 2020
20th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (IEEE EUC 2022) Outstanding Leadership Award
Dean's List (Five times, with NUS during undergraduate studies)
2024-2025: Tan Chin Tuan fellow @ University of Tokyo
2022-2023: Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral fellowship @ NTU and KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2019-2022: Alibaba Talent Programme
2014-2018: NUS (two first-class honours)
[New] Area Chair, ICLR 2026
[New] AAAI 2026 Program Committee
[New] TrustCom 2025 Program Vice-Chair
Programme Committee @ FedGenAI-IJCAI'25
Associate editor @ IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
TPC member: International Workshop on Federated Learning in the Age of Foundation Models @ IJCAI 2024
TPC member: Federated Learning workshop@WWW
Co-editor: FGMV-08 "Design criteria and technical requirements for sustainable metaverse ecosystems" International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems (TPDS)
Guest Editor: IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
Assistant to the Editor-in Chief, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials [2021-2022]
Program Vice Chair, IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (IEEE EUC'2022)
Session Chair, 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN 2021)
TPC Member, IEEE VTC-Spring-22, IEEE TrustCom-22, IEEE WCNC 2022, IEEE WCNC 2023, IEEE MetaCom 2023
TPC Member, International Workshop on Federated and Transfer Learning for Data Sparsity and Confidentiality in Conjunction with IJCAI 2021 (FTL-IJCAI 2021)
TPC Member, Workshop on Federated Learning held in conjunction with AAAI 2022 (AAAI-FL 2022)
Reviewer: ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, IJCAI, TPMAI, IEEE TPDS, TNNLS, JSAC, TMC, TDSC, TWC, Network, Communications magazine, WCM, TVT, IoTJ, IJHCI, Scientific Reports, Proceedings of IEEE, and more.