Ziyao Wang

πŸŽ“ About Me

I am a Ph.D. student (ECE) at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Ang Li. Before that, I received my B.E. in Cyber Engineering from Wuhan University, where I worked with Prof. Qian Wang. I have been fortunate to intern at IBM Research (Summer 2024), Sony AI (Summer 2025), and Amazon (Summer 2026).

Quick links: Curriculum Vitae Β· Publications Β· Google Scholar


πŸ” Research Interests

My research focuses on building collaborative, trustworthy, and deployable foundation model systems, spanning federated learning, model adaptation, privacy and security, and efficient multimodal and embodied AI.


News and Updates

  • 2026.02: πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted at CVPR 2026.
  • 2025.08: πŸŽ‰ I finished my Research internship at Sony AI.
  • 2025.06: πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted at MobiSys 2025.
  • 2025.02: πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted at ICML 2025.
  • 2024.10: πŸŽ‰ Two papers are accepted at CCS 2024. One of the papers received the Distinguished Paper Award. Congrats to all co-authors!
  • 2024.09: πŸŽ‰ Two papers are accepted at NeurIPS 2024.
  • 2024.08: πŸŽ‰ I finished my Research internship at IBM Research.
  • 2024: πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted at ICLR 2024.
  • 2023: πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted at EMNLP 2023.

Professional Experience

  • Amazon β€” Research Intern (Summer 2026)
  • Sony AI β€” Research Intern (Summer 2025)
  • IBM Research β€” Research Intern (Summer 2024)

Publications

Complete publication list, with links to papers and publicly available code. * indicates equal contribution.

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