Rate My Professor Yipeng Zhou

Dr. Yipeng Zhou is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2006, followed by an MPhil in Information Engineering in 2008 and a PhD in Information Engineering in 2012, both from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His career includes a postdoctoral fellowship at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2013, a lectureship at Shenzhen University from 2013 to 2016, and a research fellowship at the University of South Australia from 2016 to 2018, before joining Macquarie University. Dr. Zhou serves as the Secretary of the Centre for Frontier AI Research (FAIR) at Macquarie University and holds positions as Associate Editor for Springer Nature Scientific Reports and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.

Dr. Zhou's research interests encompass federated learning, data privacy preservation, medical data analysis, large language models, and networking. He has authored over 130 papers in prestigious venues such as ICML, INFOCOM, IJCAI, AAAI, TheWebConf, ICNP, ToN, TDSC, JSAC, TPDS, and TMC, with his work cited more than 4,100 times according to Google Scholar. Key publications include 'Energy-efficient federated learning with dynamic model pruning for industrial IoT' (IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2026), 'Fairness-aware federated recommender design with heterogeneous privacy budgets' (IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2026), 'Fed-GTopK: expediting in-network federated learning by transmitting global top model updates' (IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2026), 'Knowledge-Flow Contrastive Learning for recommendation' (Information Fusion, 2026), and 'A simple model for analyzing P2P streaming protocols' (IEEE ICNP, 2007). His contributions have earned him the 2023 Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence Award, the 2023 Faculty of Science and Engineering Award for Inter-School Collaboration, the 2023 IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society Best Editor Award, and the 2018 Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.