Boyu Fan PhD Student Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Helsinki Yliopistonkatu 3, 00014, Helsinki, Finland Email: boyu.fan@helsinki.fi

Biography

I am currently a third-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 Pervasive Computing, Federated Learning and Machine Learning.

Publications [Google Scholar]

• Behave Differently when Clustering: a Semi-Asynchronous Federated Learning Approach for IoT.
  Boyu Fan, Xiang Su, Sasu Tarkoma, and Pan Hui.
  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, accepted on 12/2023.

• 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

• China Central Depository & Clearing Co., Ltd, Beijing, China
  May. 2020 – Sep. 2021
  
  Full-time AI Engineer.
  Use artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies 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 Teaching

• Reviewer: IJCAI 2022, IEEE PerCom 2022, 2023, 2024, ACM MM 2023, IEEE Trans on Mobile Computing.
• Web Chair and local organizer of ACM MobiSys 2023.
• TA for IMT4306 - Introduction to Research in Decentralised Systems, NTNU, Norway, 2023.
• TPC member of the workshop Data-driven Smart Cities (DASC) in IEEE ICDE 2023, 2024.

[Last update: 2024-01-23]