I received a B.S. and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Jilin University (JLU), Changchun, China, in 2017 and 2023, respectively. My Ph.D advisor is Prof. Xiaohui Wei. I have been a Visiting Student in the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), mentored by Prof. Tony Q.S. Quek, in 2022. I have been a postdoctoral research fellow with Dalian Maritime University (DMU), Dalian, China, from 2023 to 2025, collaborating with Prof. Hongbo Liu. Currently, I am a lecturer with the College of Artificial Intelligence, Dalian Maritime University.

My research interest includes edge intelligence, federated learning, distributed computing, and crowdsensing.

🔥 News

• 🎉Nov. 2025: Our paper accepted by TNSE.
• 🎉Nov. 2025: Our paper accepted by IEEE TMC (CCF A).
• 🎉Nov. 2025: Our paper accepted by IotJ.
• 🎉Nov. 2025: Our paper accepted by Computers & Geosciences.
• 🎉Oct. 2025: Our paper accepted by TNSE.
• 🎉Sep. 2025: Our paper accepted by CMC.
• 🎉Aug. 2025: Our paper accepted by NN (CCF B).
• 🎉Jul. 2025: Our paper accepted by ACM MM (CCF A).
• 🎉Jun. 2025: Our paper accepted by PHYSICA A.
• 🎉May. 2025: Our paper accepted by DCAN (CIC T1).
• 🎉Aug. 2024: Our paper accepted by IEEE TMC (CCF A).

📝 Publications

^† denotes co-first authors, and * denotes the corresponding authors.

Journal Papers:

TMC 2025

A Radical Heavy-Ball Method for Gradient Acceleration in Communication-Efficient Mobile Federated Learning

Boyuan Li^†, Zijian Li^†, Yafei Li*, Mingliang Xu*, Shengbo Chen, Cong Shen, Tony Q.S. Quek

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2025 (CCF A)

TMC 2024

Exploiting Complex Network-based Clustering for Personalization-Enhanced Hierarchical Federated Edge Learning

Zijian Li, Zihan Chen, Xiaohui Wei*, Shang Gao, Hengshan Yue, Zhewen Xu, Tony Q.S. Quek*

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2024 (CCF A)

NN 2025

Heterogeneity-Aware High-Efficiency Federated Learning with Hybrid Synchronous-Asynchronous Splitting Strategy

Zijian Li, Boyuan Li, Kunyu Zhang, Bingcai Wei, Hongbo Liu*, Zihan Chen*, Xinqiang Xie, Tony Q.S. Quek

Neural Networks (NN), 2025 (CCF B)

TNSE 2025

LBKD: Rethinking Federated Backdoors for Low-Altitude Economy via LLMs and Bidirectional Knowledge Distillation

Haoquan Wang, Boyuan Li, Panpan Chen, Libing Wu*, Zijian Li*, Tony Q.S. Quek

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2025 (A1)

DCAN 2025

CGGM: A conditional graph generation model with adaptive sparsity for node anomaly detection in IoT networks

Munan Li, Xianshi Su, Runze Ma, Tongbang Jiang, Zijian Li*, Tony Q.S. Quek

Digital Communications and Networks (DCAN), 2025 (CIC T1)

• Neighborhood and Global Perturbations Supported Sharpness-aware Minimization in Federated Learning: From Local Tweaks To Global Awareness
  Boyuan Li, Zihao Peng, Yafei Li*, Zijian Li*, Shengbo Chen, Cong Shen, Tony Q.S. Quek
  IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2025 (A1)
  
• Towards Secure SAR Image Generation via Federated Angle-Aware Generative Diffusion Framework
  Yuchao Hou, Yue Wang, Xiaoyu Xia, Youliang Tian, Zijian Li*, Tony Q.S. Quek
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IotJ), 2025 (A1)
  
• HSM-SMCS: Task Assignment Based on Hybrid Sensing Modes in Sparse Mobile Crowdsensing
  Xiaohui Wei, Zijian Li, Chenghao Ren, Tao Guo, Shang Gao*
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IotJ), 2022 (First author is supervisor, A1 TOP)
  
• SDLSC-TA: Subarea Division Learning Based Task Allocation in Sparse Mobile Crowdsensing
  Xiaohui Wei, Zijian Li, Yuanyuan Liu, Shang Gao*, Hengshan Yue
  IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), 2021 (First author is supervisor, A1)
  
• DGFormer: a physics-guided station level weather forecasting model with dynamic spatial-temporal graph neural network
  Zhewen Xu, Xiaohui Wei*, Jieyun Hao, Junze Han, Hongliang Li*, Changzheng Liu, Zijian Li, Dongyuan Tian, Nong Zhang
  GeoInformatica, 2024 (CCF B)
• HiHa: Introducing hierarchical harmonic decomposition to implicit neural compression for atmospheric data
  Zhewen Xu, Baoxiang Pan, Xiaohui Wei, Hongliang Li*, Dongyuan Tian, Zijian Li, Changzheng Liu
  Computers & Geosciences, 2025 (Q1)
• Federated Dynamic Aggregation Selection Strategy-based Multi-Receptive Field Fusion Classification Framework for Point Cloud Classification
  Yuchao Hou, Biaobiao Bai, Shuai Zhao, Yue Wang, Jie Wang, Zijian Li*
  CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, 2025
  
• A Blockchain Multi-Chain Federated Learning Framework for Enhancing Security and Efficiency in Intelligent Unmanned Ports
  Zeqiang Xie, Zijian Li*
  Electronics, 2024
• SHARP: Blockchain-Powered WSNs for Real-Time Student Health Monitoring and Personalized Learning
  Zeqiang Xie, Zijian Li*, Xinbing Liu
  Sensors, 2025
• GDOSphere: A spherical graph neural network framework with neural operators for weather forecasting
  Zhewen Xu, Baoxiang Pan, Xiaohui Wei*, Hongliang Li*, Dongyuan Tian, Zijian Li
  Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2025

Conference Papers:

MM 2025

Robust Single Image Sand Removal by Leveraging Uncertainty-aware SAM Priors and Prompt Learning with Refined Perceptual Loss

Bingcai Wei, Hui Liu*, Chuang Qian, Zijian Li*, Wangyu Wu, Zijie Meng

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2025 (CCF A)

• HPFL-CN: Communication-Efficient Hierarchical Personalized Federated Edge Learning via Complex Network Feature Clustering
  Zijian Li, Zihan Chen, Xiaohui Wei*, Shang Gao, Chenghao Ren, Tony Q.S. Quek
  19th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), 2022 (CCF B)
  
• CFPA: Cognitive Federated Partial Adaptation for Effective Personalization
  Xiaohui Wei, Didi Jiao, Shiyu Tong, Zijian Li*, Chenghao Ren, Hengshan Yue
  19th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), 2023 (CCF C)
  
• AreaTransfer: A Cross-City Crowd Flow Prediction Framework Based on Transfer Learning
  Xiaohui Wei, Tao Guo, Hongmei Yu, Zijian Li, Hao Guo, Xiang Li*
  International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication (SmartCom), 2021 (Best Paper)

💻 Services

Conference Organization

• Web Chair, IEEE BigDataSE 2025

Technical Program Committee Membership

• CCF HPC China 2025, Track of Programming and System
• VTC2025-Fall, Workshops and Recent Results
• UIC 2024, Special Session on Intelligent Signal Processing

Journal Editorship

• Guest Editor, Electronics, 2024-present

Selected Technical Reviewer:

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• Information Sciences
• Knowledge-Based Systems
• Expert Systems With Applications
• IET Software
• Chinese Journal of Electronics
• China Communications
• AAAI 2025
• ICASSP 2025