Yuanzhe Peng

Yuanzhe Peng

Assistant Professor, School of Computing
University of North Florida

Email: y.peng@unf.edu
Office: Bldg. 15, Office 3121
Address: 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL

About Me

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Florida. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where I was advised by Prof. Jie Xu. My research focuses on (1) Edge Computing and Edge AI, (2) distributed learning and optimization, (3) security, privacy, and robustness, and (4) next-generation wireless networks.

Recent News

Selected Publications

  1. Y. Peng, W. Zhao, Z. Lu, and J. Xu, “Equilibrium-Driven Vertical Federated Learning with Selective Privacy Protection,” AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026. Oral Presentation.
  2. W. Zhao, Y. Peng, X. Li, J. Xu, Y. Liu, and Z. Lu, “Malicious Forgetting: Backdoor Injection in Active Federated Unlearning and Countermeasure Design,” IEEE INFOCOM, 2026.
  3. Y. Peng, L. Zhang, and J. Xu, “Ripple-Inspired In-Context Learning for Radio Map Estimation,” IEEE ICC, 2026.
  4. K. Lei, Y. Peng, L. Zhang, and J. Xu, “Importance-Aware Resource Allocation for Collaborative Task-Oriented Semantic Communication,” IEEE VTC, 2026.
  5. Y. Peng and J. Xu, “In-Context Radio Map Estimation via Ripple Autoregressive Modeling,” NeurIPS Workshop, 2025.
  6. Y. Peng, Y. Wu, J. Bian, and J. Xu, “Hybrid Federated Learning for Multimodal IoT Systems,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2024.
  7. Y. Peng, J. Bian, and J. Xu, “Federated Multi-Modal Learning with Modality Heterogeneity in Computational Pathology,” IEEE ICASSP, 2024.
  8. Y. Peng, Z. Lu, and J. Xu, “Joint Horizontal and Vertical Federated Learning for Multimodal IoT,” ACM MobiCom Workshop, 2024. Testbed demonstration.

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