Zuobin Xiong

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science @UNLV

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Office: AEB-200, 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154

Phone:  (702)774-3407

Email:  zuobin.xiong AT

        unlv DOT edu

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University under the supervision of Dr. Wei Li and Dr. Zhipeng Cai. I received my M.E. degree and B.S. degree from Department of Computer Science, Harbin Engineering University in 2019 and Department of Mathematics, Northeast Forestry University in 2016, respectively. I have published papers on and served as reviewer for bunch of premier conferences and journals, including IEEE ICDM, AAAI, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), etc.

Research Interests

Distributed Machine Learning       (Generative) Artificial Intelligence
Machine Unlearning AI4Healthcare
Differential Privacy Privacy in IoT
Adversarial Machine Learning Cybersecurity
   

🚀💡🏳️‍🌈 Currently recruiting❗❗❗

I am looking for self-motivated students with strong mathematical and programming skills to work with me on Machine Learning, Generative AI, Cybersecurity, and IoT projects. If you are interested, please email me your CV and indicate your goals.

News

May 27, 2024 Our paper “FCFL A Fairness Compensation-based Federated Learning Scheme with Accumulated Queues” is accepted by European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD) 2024.
May 7, 2024 Our internal proposal “Are You Ready for College? An Explainable AI-Supported Efficient Solution for College Students Mental Health Condition Detection and Beyond” is selected for funding.
May 2, 2024 Our paper “Appro-Fun: Approximate Machine Unlearning in Federated Setting” is accepted by ICCCN 2024.
Apr 25, 2024 Our proposal “Intelligent IoT Security: Next-Generation Cyber Defense Mechanisms and Vulnerability Exploration Using Language Models” is selected for funding.
Sep 23, 2023 Our papers “Exact-Fun: An Exact and Efficient Federated Unlearning Approach” and “Backdoor Attack on 3D Grey Image Segmentation” are accepted by ICDM 2023.

Selected publications

  1. ECML
    FCFL: A Fairness Compensation-based Federated Learning Scheme with Accumulated Queues
    Lingfu Wang, Zuobin Xiong, Chunguang Luo, and 2 more authors
    In European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2024
  2. ICCCN
    Appro-Fun: Approximate Machine Unlearning in Federated Setting
    Zuobin Xiong, Wei Li, and Zhipeng Cai
    In 2024 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2024
  3. ICDM
    Exact-Fun: An Exact and Efficient Federated Unlearning Approach
    Zuobin Xiong, Wei Li, Yingshu Li, and 1 more author
    In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2023
  4. CSUR
    Generative adversarial networks; A survey toward private and secure applications
    Zhipeng Cai, Zuobin Xiong, Honghui Xu, and 3 more authors
    ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021
  5. TII
    Privacy threat and defense for federated learning with non-iid data in AIoT
    Zuobin Xiong, Zhipeng Cai, Daniel Takabi, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2021
  6. TDSC
    Towards neural network-based communication system - attack and defense
    Zuobin Xiong, Zhipeng Cai, Chunqiang Hu, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022