Yao Du

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Doctoral Student

Mr. Yao Du is a first-year Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC. He is jointly supervised by Prof. Victor Leung and Dr. Zehua Wang. He received his M.S. degree with the School of Information and Communication Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His previous research is about optimization and algorithm design in Mobile Edge Computing. He is the first author of one IEEE transaction paper and two GLOBECOM conference papers. His current research interests include privacy-persevering decentralized machine learning and the design of zero-knowledge proof for verification in decentralized systems.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.

Blockchain@UBC

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