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Activities

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• ACM Computing Surveys
• Journal of Cloud Computing
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Funding

1. University of St Andrews Research Scholarship, Feb. 2022 - Jul. 2024, Rakuten Mobile sponsored International scholarship – equivalent to £84,000 covering international tuition fees and living expenses.

Project

FedAdapt: Adaptive Offloading for IoT Devices in Federated Learning

FedAdapt is a holistic framework for an IoT-edge environment that surmounts the challenges of accelerating federated learning on resource constrained devices, reducing the impact of stragglers arising from computational heterogeneity of IoT devices and adapting to varying network bandwidth between devices and an edge server - Github

Publications

Published in , 1900

• EcoFed: Efficient Communication for DNN Partitioning-based Federated Learning,D. Wu, R. Ullah, P. Rodgers, P. Kilpatrick, I. Spence, B. Varghese. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2024)

Teaching

, , 1900

Queen’s University of Belfast

• CSC3067 Video Analytic and Machine Learning - Lab Demonstrator
• CSC7061 Java Programming - Lab Demonstrator

Work

1. DeepGlint Ltd., Algorithm Engineer, Sep. 2018 - Dec. 2019, DNN Pruning, Quantization, Knowledge Distillation, Reinforcement Learning.

2. ZhiWei Ltd., Data Engineer, Jun. 2015 - Jun. 2017, Social Media Data Mining.