π 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
π 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: π One paper is accepted at CVPR 2026.
- 2025.08: π I finished my Research internship at Sony AI.
- 2025.06: π One paper is accepted at MobiSys 2025.
- 2025.02: π One paper is accepted at ICML 2025.
- 2024.10: π Two papers are accepted at CCS 2024. One of the papers received the Distinguished Paper Award. Congrats to all co-authors!
- 2024.09: π Two papers are accepted at NeurIPS 2024.
- 2024.08: π I finished my Research internship at IBM Research.
- 2024: π One paper is accepted at ICLR 2024.
- 2023: π 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.
2026
CVPR
Ziyao Wang, Chen Chen, Jingtao Li, Weiming Zhuang, Jiabo Huang, Ang Li, Lingjuan Lyu
TMLR
Ziyao Wang, Bingying Wang, Hanrong Zhang, Tingting Du, Tianyang Chen, Guoheng Sun, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Wanghao Ye, Ang Li
ICML
Guoheng Sun*, Ziyao Wang*, Xuandong Zhao, Bowei Tian, Zheyu Shen, Yexiao He, Jinming Xing, Ang Li
Position Paper Β· * equal contribution
Findings EMNLP
Guoheng Sun, Ziyao Wang, Bowei Tian, Meng Liu, Zheyu Shen, Shwai He, Yexiao He, Wanghao Ye, Yiting Wang, Ang Li
NeurIPS
Guoheng Sun, Tingting Du, Kaixi Feng, Chenxiang Luo, Xingguo Ding, Zheyu Shen, Ziyao Wang, Yexiao He, Ang Li
arXiv
Ziyao Wang, Nizhang Li, Pingzhi Li, Guoheng Sun, Tianlong Chen, Ang Li
arXiv
Ziyao Wang*, Daeun Jung*, Yexiao He, Guoheng Sun, Zheyu Shen, Myungjin Lee, Ang Li
* equal contribution
2025
ICML
Ziyao Wang, Muneeza Azmat, Ang Li, Raya Horesh, Mikhail Yurochkin
ICLR
Bowei Tian, Ziyao Wang, Shwai He, Wanghao Ye, Guoheng Sun, Yucong Dai, Yongkai Wu, Ang Li
MobiSys
Zheyu Shen, Yexiao He, Ziyao Wang, Yuning Zhang, Guoheng Sun, Wanghao Ye, Ang Li
arXiv
Ziyao Wang, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Yu Li, Guoheng Sun, Myungjin Lee, Ang Li
arXiv
Ziyao Wang, Guoheng Sun, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Bowei Tian, Ang Li
arXiv
Ziyao Wang, Bowei Tian, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Luyang Liu, Ang Li
2024
NeurIPS
Ziyao Wang, Zheyu Shen, Yexiao He, Guoheng Sun, Hongyi Wang, Lingjuan Lyu, Ang Li
NeurIPS
Yexiao He, Ziyao Wang, Zheyu Shen, Guoheng Sun, Yucong Dai, Yongkai Wu, Hongyi Wang, Ang Li
ICLR
Ziyao Wang, Jianyu Wang, Ang Li
CCS
Peiran Wang, Qiyu Li, Longxuan Yu, Ziyao Wang, Ang Li, Haojian Jin
Distinguished Paper Award
CCS
Xueluan Gong, Rubin Wei, Ziyao Wang, Yuchen Sun, Jiawen Peng, Yanjiao Chen, Qian Wang
TDSC
Xueluan Gong, Yanjiao Chen, Huayang Huang, Weihan Kong, Ziyao Wang, Chao Shen, Qian Wang
arXiv
Bowei Tian, Yexiao He, Meng Liu, Yucong Dai, Ziyao Wang, Shwai He, Guoheng Sun, Zheyu Shen, Wanghao Ye, Yongkai Wu, Ang Li
2023
Findings EMNLP
Ziyao Wang, Thai Le, Dongwon Lee
WWW
Xueluan Gong, Ziyao Wang, Yanjiao Chen, Qian Wang, Cong Wang, Chao Shen
TIFS
Xueluan Gong*, Ziyao Wang*, Shuaike Li, Yanjiao Chen, Qian Wang
* equal contribution
TDSC
Xueluan Gong*, Ziyao Wang*, Yanjiao Chen, Meng Xue, Qian Wang, Chao Shen
* equal contribution