Updates

• Sept 2025: Two papers accepted by NeurIPS. Congrats to Wang Che and Wu Fan, as well as other co-authors from our team. 

• 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!

Research Grants

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

Selected Recognitions

• [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) 

Academics

• 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)

Selected services 

• [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.