Yuqing ZHAO



Phd Candidate
Supervisor:  Prof. Jiannong Cao
IMCL Lab,   Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

csyzhao1@comp.polyu.edu.hk
PQ504, Mong Man Wai Building



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Yuqing Zhao  


Research Interests


  • Continual Learning, Lifelong Learning
  • Automated Machine Learning
  • Internet of Things and Edge Computing
  • Computer Vision and GANs

Education


Hong Kong Polytechnic University                                     Sep 2020-Present
  Supervisor: Prof. Jiannong Cao
  IMCL Lab, Department of Computing
  • PhD Candidate
Imperial College London                                         Aug 2023-Feb 2024
  Supervisor: Prof. Julie A. McCann
  AESE Lab, Department of Computing
  • Visiting Scholar
Sichuan University                                            Sep 2016-Jun 2020
  • Bachelor of Software Engineering
  • Bachelor of Life Science

Publications & Manuscripts


  • Yuqing Zhao, Divya Saxena, and Jiannong Cao, AdaptCL: Adaptive Continual Learning for Tackling Heterogeneity in Sequential Datasets. Published in IEEE TNNLS (SCI JCR-Q1)
  • Yuqing Zhao, Divya Saxena, and Jiannong Cao. 2022. Memory-Efficient Domain Incremental Learning for Internet of Things. Published in ACM SenSys’22 (CCF-B)
  • Yuqing Zhao, Divya Saxena, Jiannong Cao, Xiaoyun Liu, and Changlin Song, SparseGrow: Addressing Growth-Induced Forgetting in Task-Agnostic Continual Learning. Under-review
  • Xiaoyun Liu, Divya Saxena, Jiannong Cao, Yuqing Zhao, and Penghui Ruan, MGAS: Multi-Granularity Architecture Search for Effective and Efficient Neural Networks. IEEE TNNLS (SCI JCR-Q1) Under-review
  • Changlin Song, Divya Saxena, Jiannong Cao and Yuqing Zhao (Corresponding author), FedDistill: Global Model Distillation for Local Model De-Biasing in Non-IID Federated Learning. IEEE IoTJ (SCI JCR-Q1) Under-review.

Awards & Patents


  • The Most Appreciated Teaching Assistant Award 2022/23                            Jan 2024
  • A patent “A METHOD FOR FOOD FRESHNESS DETECTION AND SYSTEM” on edge device            Mar 2023
  • Silver in iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition                     Sep 2018

Research Activities


Reviewer for submissions to conferences & journals:
  • Percom’23
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications in China
  • The 19th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
Invited talk:
  • Nov 2022, "Memory-Efficient Domain Incremental Learning for Internet of Things" SenSys CML-IoT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Supervision Experiences


Teaching assistant:
  • Computer Programming (ENG2002, Lecturer: Dr. Kam Fung YUEN), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Software Project Management (COMP3235, Lecturer: Dr. Kam Fung YUEN), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Software Engineering (COMP3211, Lecturer: Dr. Max Yu PEI), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Software Engineering and Development (COMP5241, Lecturer: Dr. Qixin WANG), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University