Boyu Fan PhD Student Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Helsinki Email: boyu dot fan at helsinki dot fi

Biography

I am currently a final-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, supervised by Prof. Pan Hui. Previously, I received the bachelor degree from Department of Computer Science and Technology in Taiyuan University of Technology in 2017 and the master degree from Beihang University in 2020. My research interests include Federated Learning, Efficient Training and Pervasive Computing.

Publications [Google Scholar]

• Federated Inference: Towards Collaborative and Privacy-Preserving Inference over Edge Devices.
  Boyu Fan, Xiang Su, Sasu Tarkoma and Pan Hui.
  ACM SIGCOMM 2025 (Poster).

• HeLoRA: LoRA-heterogeneous Federated Fine-tuning for Foundation Models. [paper]
  Boyu Fan, Xiang Su, Sasu Tarkoma and Pan Hui.
  ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2025.

• FedTSA: A Cluster-based Two-Stage Aggregation Method for Model-heterogeneous Federated Learning. [paper]
  Boyu Fan, Chenrui Wu, Xiang Su, and Pan Hui.
  ECCV 2024.

• Behave Differently when Clustering: a Semi-Asynchronous Federated Learning Approach for IoT. [paper]
  Boyu Fan, Xiang Su, Sasu Tarkoma, and Pan Hui.
  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2024. (Presented at ACM SenSys 2024)

• A Survey on Model-heterogeneous Federated Learning: Problems, Methods, and Prospects. [paper]
  Boyu Fan, Siyang Jiang, Xiang Su, Sasu Tarkoma, and Pan Hui.
  IEEE BigData 2024.

• FedLoCA: Low-Rank Coordinated Adaptation with Knowledge Decoupling for Federated Recommendations. [paper]
  Yuchen Ding, Siqing Zhang, Boyu Fan, Wei Sun, Yong Liao and Pengyuan Zhou.
  ACM RecSys, 2024.

• Federated Learning on 5G Edge for Industrial Internet of Things. [paper]
  Xiaoli Liu, Xiang Su, Guillermo Campo, Jacky Cao, Boyu Fan, et al.
  IEEE Network, 2024.

• EmgAuth: Unlocking Smartphones with EMG Signals. [paper]
  Boyu Fan, Xiang Su, Jianwei Niu, and Pan Hui.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022.

• EmgAuth: An EMG-based Smartphone Unlocking System Using Siamese Network. [paper]
  Boyu Fan, Xuefeng Liu, Xiang Su, Pan Hui, and Jianwei Niu.
  IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2020.
  Best Paper Candidate Award.

• Smart Water Flosser: A Novel Smart Oral Cleaner with IMU Sensor. [paper]
  Boyu Fan, Zhenchao Ouyang, Jianwei Niu, Shui Yu, and Joel Rodrigues.
  IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom), 2018.

• CIGAN: A Novel GANs Model Based on Category Information. [paper]
  Jianwei Niu, Zheng Li, Shasha Mo, Boyu Fan.
  IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), 2018.

• Affective Content Analysis of Online Video Clips with Live Comments in Chinese. [paper]
  Jianwei Niu, Shijie Li, Shasha Mo, Sen Yang, Boyu Fan.
  IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), 2018.

Experience

• Nokia Bell Labs, Espoo, Finland
  Jun. 2024 – Aug. 2024
  
  Full-time Research Intern.
  Federated learning on time-series forecasting.

• China Central Depository & Clearing Co., Ltd, Beijing, China
  May. 2020 – Sep. 2021
  
  Full-time AI Software Engineer.
  Use deep learning to empower traditional financial services.

• Xiaomi, Beijing, China
  Mar. 2018 – Jul. 2018
  
  Algorithm and AI Intern.
  Develop new algorithms and optimize the funcations of Mi Band and Amazfit Watch.

• China Telecom Beijing Research Institute, Beijing, China
  Mar. 2019 – Aug. 2019
  
  Research Intern.
  Extract chemical structures from documents using deep learning technology.

Services and Awards

• Reviewer: IJCAI 2022, IEEE PerCom 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, ACM MM 2023, 2024, ACM KDD 2025, IEEE Trans on Mobile Computing, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
• Web Chair of IEEE SERVICES 2025.
• Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion Encouragement Grant 2025.
• Nokia Foundation Scholarships 2024.
• Web Chair of ACM MobiSys 2023.
• TPC member of the workshop Data-driven Smart Cities (DASC) in IEEE ICDE 2023, 2024, 2025.
• TA for IMT4306 - Introduction to Research in Decentralised Systems, NTNU, Norway, 2023.

[Last update: 2025-06-15]