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Hello

I'm Dixi Yao

I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Toronto; My advisor is Baochun Li and I am a member of iQua. I recieved my bachelor degree from Department of CSE in Shanghai Jiao Tong University and my advisor was Liyao Xiang. During my undergraduate study, Iwas also a research intern at John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science. Previously, I also had an research internship (fellowship) in Max Planck Society, my advisor was Yiting Xia. My research interest is Machine Learning and Networked Systems. Recently, I'm working on AutoML for federated learning systems.

Publication

Privacy-Preserving Split Learning via Patch Shuffling over Transformers; Dixi Yao; Liyao Xiang; Hengyuan Xu; Hangyu Ye; Yingqi Chen; in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Orlando, Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2022; Acceptance rate (9.77%).
Context-Aware Compilation of DNN Training Pipelines across Edge and Cloud Dixi Yao; Liyao Xiang; Zifan Wang; Jiayu Xu; Chao Li; Xinbing Wang; in Proc. ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies IMWUT, Issue 4, Vol. 5, December 2021. / Ubicomp, Atlanta, Sept 11 - 15, 2022.
Federated Model Search via Reinforcement Learning; Dixi Yao*; Lingdong Wang*; Jiayu Xu; Liyao Xiang; Shuo Shao; Yingqi Chen; Yanjun Tong; in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Virtual, July 7 –10, 2021.
Context-Aware Deep Model Compression for Edge Cloud Computing; Lingdong Wang; Liyao Xiang; Jiayu Xu; Jiaju Chen; Xing Zhao; Dixi Yao; Xinbing Wang; Baochun Li; in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Singapore, July 8 - 10, 2020.

Preprint

Shuffled Transformer for Privacy-Preserving Split Learning;Hengyuan Xu; Liyao Xiang; Hangyu Ye; Dixi Yao; Pengzhi Chu; Baochun Li;

Professional Services

Paper Review
2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.
2023 ACM Multimedia Systems Conference.
2023 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service.
2022 IEEE the 8th International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC).
Teaching Experience
Teaching assistant for UofT ECE243 Computer Organization.
Teaching assistant for SJTU MA500 Application of fuzzy Math.
Teaching assistant for SJTU CS214 Algorithm and Complexity.
Course Lab Designer for SJTU EE447 Mobile Internet.
Two open lecutres for courses: CS154 C++, CS149 Data Structure at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Member of SEIEE reserve of talents for academic guidance, 2020, 2021, 2022.
Member of Study Assistance Committee in the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
Student Assosiation and Volunteer
Department Leader of Propaganda in students’ committee under SJTU Office of Undergraduate Education. 2020, 2021.
Volunteer in Shanghai Marathon. 2020.
International volunteer in Sri Lanka. 2019
                                                                   

Honors and Academic Awards

Graduate
Czeslaw and Irene Klawe Scholarship. 2023
Ewing Rae Graduate Scholarship. 2023
Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Scholarships. 2022, 2023
Bachelor
Shanghai Jiao Tong University outstanding graduates. 2022
National outstanding college student project of innovation. 2022
Alumni Scholarship Awarded to only 0.5% in the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering. 2021
Honor for outstanding students Awarded to only 2% students in the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
HuaWei Scholarship Awarded to only 1% in the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering. 2020
Honorable Mention in Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling 2020.
East Dong Businiess Scholarship Awarded to only 1 student in the Department of Computer Science. 2019
First prize in China Collegiate Mathematics contest. 2019
High School
First prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces. (NOIP)
First prize in Minds and Hands: engineering better life awared by MIT
Second prize Shanghai Adolescents Science and Technology Innovation Contest