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I'm currently an Asst. Prof. in ECE, AU. I was a Research Assoc. Prof. in USTC from 2021 to 2023. Before that, I was a PostDoc at CS, Univ. of Helsinki, where I got my PhD in 2020 mainly funded by EU Marie Curie ITN. My research interests focus on building Trustworthy AI (publications) -XR (publications) systems, especially regarding efficiency, privacy, and fairness. I have publications as the corresponding author on Ubicomp, ICPP, WWW, WSDM, RecSys, ECCV, MM, PIEEE, etc., and served as TPC for AAAI, IJCAI, MM, ISMAR, etc. I have extensive supervision experience. I have an open position for a PhD student on multimodal learning, and several Student Assistant positions with good salary on topics of volumetric streaming and virtual reality, drop me an email if you are interested. I'm also open to master thesis students with interesting ideas.
Research
I focus on building trustworthy extended reality (XR) backed by advanced AI algorithms, to guarantee the efficiency, fairness, and privacy of XR systems.
Here are a few recent XR works (as corresponding author):
Unleashing GPT on the Metaverse: Savior or Destroyer? Proceedings of the IEEE
DreamScene: 3D Gaussian-based Text-to-3D Scene Generation via Formation Pattern Sampling, ECCV 2024
3D-GOI: 3D GAN Omni-Inversion for Multifaceted and Multi-object Editing, ECCV 2024
5G MEC Computation Handoff for Mobile Augmented Reality, IEEE MetaCom 2024
Check the full list on the topic.
Here are a few recent TAI works that can be applied to XR systems (as corresponding author):
Privacy-Preserving Orthogonal Aggregation for Guaranteeing Gender Fairness in Federated Recommendation, ACM WSDM 2025 (acceptance rate: 17.3%)
FedLoCA: Low-Rank Coordinated Adaptation with Knowledge Decoupling for Federated Recommendations, ACM RecSys 2024 (acceptance rate: 22%)
Heterogeneity-Aware Federated Deep Multi-View Clustering towards Diverse Feature Representations, ACM Multimedia 2024 (acceptance rate: 26%)
A + B: A General Generator-Reader Framework for Optimizing LLMs to Unleash Synergy Potential, ACL Findings 2024 (acceptance rate: 22.1%)
Areas of expertise
- Trustworthy AI-XR
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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AUFF NOVA: Privacy-preserved Efficient Contrastive Multi-View Clustering (PEC-MVC)
Zhou, P. Y. (PI)
01/07/2025 → 30/06/2028
Project: Research
Research output
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DreamScene: 3D Gaussian-Based Text-to-3D Scene Generation via Formation Pattern Sampling
Li, H., Shi, H., Zhang, W., Wu, W., Liao, Y., Wang, L., Lee, L. H. & Zhou, P. Y., 2025, Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 - 18th European Conference, Proceedings. Leonardis, A., Ricci, E., Roth, S., Russakovsky, O., Sattler, T. & Varol, G. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 214-230 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 15132 LNCS).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Gamified Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis via Virtual Reality
Xiong, B., Li, N., Liao, Y. & Zhou, P., May 2024, Proceedings - 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2024. p. 1182-1183 2 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Heterogeneity-Aware Federated Deep Multi-View Clustering towards Diverse Feature Representations
Jiang, X., Ma, Z., Fu, Y., Liao, Y. & Zhou, P., Oct 2024, MM 2024 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., p. 9184-9193 10 p. (MM 2024 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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FedLoCA: Low-Rank Coordinated Adaptation with Knowledge Decoupling for Federated Recommendations
Ding, Y., Zhang, S., Fan, B., Sun, W., Liao, Y. & Zhou, P. Y., 8 Oct 2024, RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., p. 690-700 11 p. (RecSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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FedACK: Federated Adversarial Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Cross-Lingual and Cross-Model Social Bot Detection
Yang, Y., Yang, R., Peng, H., Li, Y., Li, T., Liao, Y. & Zhou, P., 30 Apr 2023, WWW '23: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., p. 1314-1323 10 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
18 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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Session Chair of ACM CHI Play 2024
Zhou, P. Y. (Participant)
14 Oct 2024 → 18 Oct 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference
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Session Chair of IEEE MetaCom 2023
Zhou, P. (Participant)
28 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference
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IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Journal)
Zhou, P. (Editor)
1 May 2023 → 15 Sept 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research
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Demo Chair of ACM MobiSys 2023
Zhou, P. (Participant)
1 Mar 2023 → 30 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference
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Co-Chair of 1st International Workshop on Metaverse Systems and Applications, MetaSys 2023, co-located with ACM MobiSys 2023
Zhou, P. (Participant)
18 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
Prizes
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ACM CHI PLAY 2024 Honorable Mention
Mogavi, R. H. (Recipient), Son, J. (Recipient), Yang, S. (Recipient), Wang, D. M. (Recipient), Choong, L. (Recipient), Alhilal, A. (Recipient), Zhou, P. Y. (Recipient), Hui, P. (Recipient) & Nacke, L. E. (Recipient), 7 Oct 2024
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions