Dezhong YAO (姚德中)

Associate Professor

School of Computer Science and Technology

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

E-mail:
dyaonospam_email:yao2019@ibm.comhust DOT edu DOT cn@yahoo.com
Address:

East Fifth Building, Room 222,
1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, China 430074

Biography: Dezhong Yao is currently an associate professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He is a member of the National Engineering Research Center for Big Data Technology and System at HUST. He obtained his BS and Ph.D. in computer science from HUST in 2006 and 2016 respectively. Before joining HUST in 2019, He was a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University. From 2010 to 2012, He was a visiting student at Carnegie Mellon University.

My research interests include distributed machine learning, federated learning and distributed optimization systems in ubiquitous environment. Specific topics include:

  • Edge Intelligence
  • Edge Container & Edge Native
  • Distributed Machine Learning and Systems

Open Positions: I have Research Position (including PhD student) on machine learning systems and optimization. If you are interested please drop me an email.

Recent Publications

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  • FedGKD: Towards Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Global Knowledge Distillation
    Dezhong Yao; Wanning Pan; Yutong Dai; Yao Wan; Xiaofeng Ding; Chen Yu; Hai Jin; Zheng Xu; Lichao Sun
    TC'23: IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2023
    DOI / Code

  • Mining Geospatial Relationships from Text
    Pasquale Balsebre; Dezhong Yao; Gao Cong; Weiming Huang; Zhen Hai
    SIGMOD'23: Proc. of ACM International Conference on Management of Data, 2023
    DOI / Code

  • Personalized Edge Intelligence via Federated Self-Knowledge Distillation
    Hai Jin, Dongshan Bai, Dezhong Yao, Yutong Dai, Lin Gu, Chen Yu, Lichao Sun
    TPDS'22: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2022
    DOI / Code

  • You See What I Want You to See: Poisoning Vulnerabilities in Neural Code Search
    Yao Wan, Shijie Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Yulei Sui, Guandong Xu, Dezhong Yao, Hai Jin, Lichao Sun
    ESEC/FSE'22: Proc. of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2022
    DOI / Code

  • Entity Resolution with Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks
    Dezhong Yao, Yuhong Gu, Gao Cong, Hai Jin, Xinqiao Lv
    SIGMOD'22: Proc. of ACM International Conference on Management of Data, 2022
    DOI / Code

  • Geospatial Entity Resolution
    Pasquale Balsebre, Dezhong Yao, Gao Cong, Zhen Hai
    WWW'22: Proc. of the ACM Web Conference, 2022
    DOI / Code

  • FedBERT: When Federated Learning Meets Pre-Training
    Yuanyishu Tian, Yao Wan, Lingjuan Lyu, Dezhong Yao, Hai Jin, Lichao Sun
    TIST'22: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2022
    DOI / Code

  • Using Crowdsourcing to Provide QoS for Mobile Cloud Computing
    Dezhong Yao, Chen Yu, Laurence T. Yang, Hai Jin
    TCC'19: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2019
    DOI

  • High-dimensional Similarity Learning via Dual-sparse Random Projection
    Dezhong Yao, Peilin Zhao, Tuan-Anh Nguyen Pham, Gao Cong
    IJCAI'18: Proc. of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018
    DOI

Research Grants

  • National Key Research and Development（R&D） Program Project（国家重点研发计划课题）, 2022YFB4502001, Project leader (课题负责人), 2023/03 - 2026/02.
  • National Key Research and Development（R&D） Program Project（国家重点研发计划）, 2021YFB1714600, Participant (参与人), 2021/11 - 2024/10.
  • The National Natural Science Foundation of China (面上项目), “面向边缘环境的深度学习系统关键技术研究”, 62072204, Principal Investigator (负责人), 2021/01 - 2024/12.
  • The National Natural Science Foundation of China (重点项目), “云计算环境下操作系统虚拟化内核技术”, 62032008, Participant (参与人), 2021/01 - 2025/12.
  • The National Natural Science Foundation of China (地区项目), “基于车联网感知层的异构无线传感器网络可靠性评估的研究”, 61862024, Participant (参与人), 2019/01 - 2022/12.
  • The National Natural Science Foundation of China (面上项目), “基于时空上下文数据的关联关系挖掘与推理技术研究”, 61472149, Participant (参与人), 2015/01 - 2018/12.
  • Graduate Innovation Fund of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, “深度学习并行化技术研究”, Principal Investigator (负责人), 2013/11 - 2014/10.
  • The National Natural Science Foundation of China (青年项目), “移动容迟网络的路由与拥塞控制方法研究”, 61003220, Participant (参与人), 2011/01 - 2013/12.

Research Students

I am delightful to work with some great students:

  • Mr. Yuanyishu Tian, PhD., 2020/09
  • Mr. Sifan Zhao, PhD., 2020/09
  • Mr. Junhao Wu, PhD., 2023/09
  • Mr. Ziqi Zhou, PhD., 2023/09 (co-supervise)
  • Mr. Sanmu Li, Master, 2021/09
  • Mr. Tongtong Liu, Master, 2021/09
  • Mr. Ziquan Zhu, Master, 2021/09
  • Mr. Yuexing Shi, Master, 2022/09
  • Mr. Hao Feng, Master, 2022/09 (co-supervise)
  • Miss Jing Dong, Master, 2023/09
  • Mr. Xingting Huang, Master, 2023/09
  • Mr. Wang Yang, Master, 2023/09 (co-supervise)

Alumni:

Name Degree Enrolled Research Topic Highlights Work
Mr. Yuhong Gu Master 2019/09 Entity linking SIGMOD 2022 志凌海纳
SmartX
Miss Yan Yu Master 2020/09 Blockchain
+ Data fusion		 NPC 2022 联影武汉
United-Imaging
Mr. Ziyi Xia Master 2020/09 Blockchain
+ Federated learning		 阿里杭州
Ali
Miss Wanning Pan Master 2020/09 Heterogeneous
Federated learning		 TC 2023 字节北京
ByteDance
Mr. Dongshan Bai Master 2020/09 Personal
Federated learning		 TPDS 2023 阿里杭州
Ali
Mr. Yun Yang Master 2020/09 Graph Computing
Acceleration		 华为2012实验室
Huawei

Teaching

h1 h2 h3
for undergraduate students
CST0541 Computer Network, 2020 Fall, 2021 Fall, 2022 Fall, 2023 Fall
CST5551 Natural Language Processing,         2022 Spring, 2023 Spring, 2024 Spring
for graduate students
210131028 Pervasive Computing and Edge Computing, 2022 Fall, 2024 Spring

Professional Activities

  • Program Committee:
    • 2024: AAAI, IJCAI, ICML, ICLR, CIKM, ECAI
    • 2023: ECAI, IJCAI, ICML, CIKM, NeurIPS
    • 2022: AAAI, IJCAI, ICML, CIKM, NeurIPS
    • 2021: AAAI, IJCAI(SPC)
    • 2020: AAAI, IJCAI
    • 2019: AAAI, AI
    • 2017: ADMA
  • Journal Review:
    • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
    • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
    • IEEE Communications Magazine
    • IEEE Systems Journal
    • Machine Learning
    • Neural Networks
    • Knowledge-Based Systems
    • Neurocomputing
    • Information Fusion
    • Future Generation Computer Systems
    • Decision Analytics Journal