Yi-Rui Yang @ NJUCS

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Yi-Rui Yang (Y.-R. Yang)

Ph.D. Student, LAMDA Group
Department of Computer Science and Technology
State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology
Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China

Room 327, Building of Computer Science and Technology,
Xianlin Campus of Nanjing University



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Currently I am a third year Ph.D. student of Department of Computer Science and Technology in Nanjing University and a member of LAMDA Group (LAMDA Publications), led by professor Zhi-Hua Zhou.



Supervisor

Professor Wu-Jun Li.

Biography

I received my B.Sc. degree in Information and Computing Science in June 2019 from Nanjing University. In the same year, I was admitted to study for a Ph.D. degree in Nanjing University without entrance examination.

Research Interest

  • Distributed Machine Learning
  • Byzantine-Resilient Learning
  • Federated Learning

Publications

  • BASGD: Buffered Asynchronous SGD for Byzantine Learning.
    Yi-Rui Yang, Wu-Jun Li.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021.
    [link]

Services

  • Program committee member: ICML'21, NeurIPS'21, ICLR'22, ICML'22, NeurIPS'22
  • Journal reviewer: TPAMI

Internship Experiences

  • Alibaba DAMO Academy, Hangzhou. Research intern, summer 2019.

Awards & Honors

Selected:
  • Gold Medal in Applied Math. & Computational Math. direction, 1st Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition, Mar. 2019
  • Excellent Graduate of Nanjing University, Jun. 2019
  • Excellent Postgraduate Student of Nanjing University, Dec. 2021
Others (since 2019):
  • Financial Leasing Scholarship of Jiangsu Province, 2021
  • The First Class Academic Scholarship of Nanjing University, 2021
  • The First Class Academic Scholarship of Nanjing University, 2020
  • The First Class Academic Scholarship of Nanjing University, 2019
  • Presidential Special Scholarship of Nanjing University, 2019