Ang Li

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I am currently a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland College Park. Before joining UMD, I was a Research Associate in Qualcomm AI Research. I obtained Ph.D. from Duke University under the supervision of Professor Yiran Chen. My research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning and edge computing, with a focus on building large-scale networked and trustworthy intelligent systems to solve practical problems in a collaborative, scalable, secure, and ubiquitous manner.

Openings: I’m looking for highly motivated Ph.D., master students, and research interns to join my group. If you are interested, please send an email to angliece@umd.edu with you CV and transcripts attached.

News

06/07/2025 I am very thrilled to share that two Ph.D. students (Guoheng Sun and Shwai He) in our group have been awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, and they are one of only 17 teams receiving the 2025 award!
05/01/2025 Our paper “Speculate, then Collaborate: Fusing Knowledge of Language Models during Decoding” has been accepted by ICML 2025!
04/07/2025 Our paper “EdgeLoRA: An Efficient Multi-Tenant LLM Serving System on Edge Devices” has been accepted by 2025 ACM MobiSys!
01/22/2025 Our paper “Towards Counterfactual Fairness thorough Auxiliary Variables” has been accepted by ICLR 2025!
01/15/2025 I have received the Cisco Research Award! I deeply appreciate Cisco’s generous support, which will empower our ongoing research and innovation.
01/15/2025 I have been invited to serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).
10/16/2024 Our paper “Moderator: Moderating Text-to-Image Diffusion Models through Fine-grained Context-based Policies” received Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS’24. Congrats to all the co-authors!
09/26/2024 We have three papers accepted by NeurIPS 2024 (2 Main Conference + 1 Dataset & Benchmark Track)! Congratulations to my students and collaborators.
08/26/2024 Invited to serve as area chair for ICLR 2025.
02/26/2024 Our research paper titled “MAPSeg: Unified Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Heterogeneous Medical Image Segmentation Based on 3D Masked Autoencoding and Pseudo-Labeling” has been accepted by CVPR 2024.

Selected Publications

  1. SEC
    LotteryFL: empower edge intelligence with personalized and communication-efficient federated learning
    Ang Li, Jingwei Sun, Binghui Wang, and 4 more authors
    In 2021 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2021
  2. KDD
    TIPRDC: task-independent privacy-respecting data crowdsourcing framework for deep learning with anonymized intermediate representations
    Ang Li, Yixiao Duan, Huanrui Yang, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD international conference on knowledge discovery & data mining, 2020
  3. MobiCom
    Hermes: an efficient federated learning framework for heterogeneous mobile clients
    Ang Li, Jingwei Sun, Pengcheng Li, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2021
  4. SenSys
    Fedmask: Joint computation and communication-efficient personalized federated learning via heterogeneous masking
    Ang Li, Jingwei Sun, Xiao Zeng, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2021