Rui Zhang (张瑞)

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Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Computing (COMP)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)


Office: PQ509, Mong Man Wai Building
Email: csrzhang1 [AT] comp.polyu.edu.hk
Contact: LinkedIn | Google Scholar

News

  • [03/2024]: One paper named “GradFilt: Class-wise Targeted Data Reconstruction from Gradients in Federated Learning” got accepted by WWW 2024!

  • [03/2024]: One paper named “Posterior Probability-based Label Recovery Attack in Federated Learning” got accepted by ICLR-PML 2024!

  • [12/2023]: I have received the PolyU ICCPS conference support grant to attend NDSS 2024!

  • [11/2023]: I was shortlisted for the final round of the 4MT Competition at GLOBECOM 2023!

  • [04/2023]: One paper named “Exploiting Privacy Inference for Data Auditing” got accepted by SAIDD 2023!

Biography

Rui Zhang is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, co-supervised by Prof. Song Guo and Prof. Ping Li. Before that, he received his M.Eng. degree from Zhejiang University in 2020, co-supervised by Prof. Peng Cheng and Prof. Jiming Chen, and his B.Eng. degree from Northeastern University in 2017.

His research interest broadly lies in: Trustworthy Machine Learning, Federated Learning, and Differential Privacy. Some specific topics such as gradient inversion, label recovery, data auditing, and privacy-preserved learning are highly involved.

Education

  • B.Eng.: Northeastern University, Sep. 2013 - Jun. 2017
    Overall GPA: 90.0 / 100.0 (rank top 5%).

Publications

Papers

Patents

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer

  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM: 2022 / 2023 / 2024)

  • IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR: 2024)

  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI: 2022 / 2024)

  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI: 2022)

  • International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom: 2022)

  • IEEE Global Communications Conferences (GLOBECOM: 2019)

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC: 2018 / 2019)

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS)

  • ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CUSR)

Professional Experiences

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning (COMP4432), Spring 2023.

  • Teaching Assistant, Artificial Intelligence (COMP4431), Fall 2022.

  • Teaching Assistant, Artificial Intelligence (COMP4431), Fall 2021.

  • Teaching Assistant, Wireless Network and Mobile Computing (COMP5327), Spring 2021.

Internship Experience

Selected Honors & Awards

  • PolyU Fast-track PhD Scholarship.
    Awarded by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Aug. 2020.

  • Provincial Outstanding Postgraduate.
    Awarded by Zhejiang Province, Jun. 2020.

  • Graduate of Merit / Triple A Graduate.
    Awarded by Zhejiang University, Dec. 2019.

  • Endress+Hauser Scholarship.
    Awarded by Endress+Hauser Fund, Nov. 2018.

  • Provincial Outstanding Undergraduate.
    Awarded by Hebei Province, June 2017.

  • Outstanding Winner in ‘‘SIEMENS Cup’’ China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge.
    Awarded by SIEMENS China Ltd., Aug. 2016.

  • National Scholarship.
    Awarded by The Ministry of Education of China, Nov. 2015.