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

• 🎉Jun. 2026: We will organize a UbiComp / ISWC 2026 Workshop “Ubiquitous Connectivity for Agentic and Physical AI”, welcome to submit papers!
• 🎉May. 2026: Our paper “AsyncFed-SAR: Towards Communication-Efficient Asynchronous Federated Learning for SAR Image Target Recognition” has been accepted by IEEE TMC (CCF A).
• 🎉May. 2026: Our paper “NEEM: A Neighborhood Entropy Energy-Based Model for High-Dimensional Data Distribution Estimation in Intelligent Communication Networks” has been accepted by DCAN (CIC T1).
• 🎉Apr. 2026: We will organize a Special Issue “Pervasive Collaborative Intelligence: Federated and Distributed Model Learning across the Cloud–Edge–End Continuum” in CCF TPCI (CCF B), welcome to submit papers!
• 🎉Apr. 2026: Our paper “FedTDC: Federated teacher-guided distillation with representation and aggregation calibration” has been accepted by KBS (A1).
• 🎉Apr. 2026: Our paper “RIS-Assisted Cascaded AF-DF Relaying for IoV: Performance Analysis and PSO-Based Power Allocation” has been accepted by IotJ (A1).
• 🎉Apr. 2026: Our paper “Graph Attention-Based MARL for AoI and Reliability-Aware Resource Allocation in RIS-Assisted V2X Networks” has been accepted by TMC (CCF A).
• 🎉Apr. 2026: Our paper “Sift: Channel-Wise Historical Embedding for High Efficiency Distributed Graph Neural Network Training with Accuracy Guarantee” has been accepted by TACO (CCF A).
• 🎉Mar. 2026: Our paper “Intrusion Detection for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks: Diffusion-enhanced Spatiotemporal Graph Network with Dual Self-attention” has been accepted by CN (CCF B).
• 🎉Feb. 2026: Our paper “Hierarchical Dual-Strategy Unlearning for Biomedical and Healthcare Intelligence Using Imperfect and Privacy-Sensitive Medical Data” has been accepted by IEEE TCE (A1).
• 🎉Jan. 2026: Our paper “Secure Communication in the Presence of an RIS-Enhanced Eavesdropper in MIMO Networks” has been accepted by IEEE TWC (CCF B).
• 🎉Nov. 2025: Our paper “Neighborhood and Global Perturbations Supported Sharpness-aware Minimization in Federated Learning: From Local Tweaks To Global Awareness” has been accepted by IEEE TNSE (A1).
• 🎉Nov. 2025: Our paper “A Radical Heavy-Ball Method for Gradient Acceleration in Communication-Efficient Mobile Federated Learning” has been accepted by IEEE TMC (CCF A).
• 🎉Nov. 2025: Our paper “Towards Secure SAR Image Generation via Federated Angle-Aware Generative Diffusion Framework” has been accepted by IEEE IotJ (A1).
• 🎉Nov. 2025: Our paper “HiHa: Introducing hierarchical harmonic decomposition to implicit neural compression for atmospheric data” has been accepted by Computers & Geosciences.
• 🎉Oct. 2025: Our paper “LBKD: Rethinking Federated Backdoors for Low-Altitude Economy via LLMs and Bidirectional Knowledge Distillation” has been accepted by IEEE TNSE (A1).
• 🎉Sep. 2025: Our paper “Federated Dynamic Aggregation Selection Strategy-based Multi-Receptive Field Fusion Classification Framework for Point Cloud Classification” has been accepted by CMC.
• 🎉Aug. 2025: Our paper “Heterogeneity-Aware High-Efficiency Federated Learning with Hybrid Synchronous-Asynchronous Splitting Strategy” has been accepted by NN (CCF B).
• 🎉Jul. 2025: Our paper “Robust Single Image Sand Removal by Leveraging Uncertainty-aware SAM Priors and Prompt Learning with Refined Perceptual Loss” has been accepted by ACM MM (CCF A).
• 🎉Jun. 2025: Our paper “GDOSphere: A spherical graph neural network framework with neural operators for weather forecasting” has been accepted by PHYSICA A.
• 🎉May. 2025: Our paper “CGGM: A conditional graph generation model with adaptive sparsity for node anomaly detection in IoT networks” has been accepted by DCAN (CIC T1).
• 🎉Aug. 2024: Our paper “Exploiting Complex Network-based Clustering for Personalization-Enhanced Hierarchical Federated Edge Learning” has been accepted by IEEE TMC (CCF A).

📝 Publications

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

Journal Papers:

TMC 2026

AsyncFed-SAR: Towards Communication-Efficient Asynchronous Federated Learning for SAR Image Target Recognition

Yuchao Hou, Dongming Lv, Minghui Liwang, Jie Wang, Zijian Li*, Xiaoyu Xia, Di Wu, Youliang Tian, Tony Q.S. Quek, Xianbin Wang

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2026 (CCF A)

TMC 2026

Graph Attention-Based MARL for AoI and Reliability-Aware Resource Allocation in RIS-Assisted V2X Networks

Baofeng Ji*, Pengchao Yu, Rongfeng Lu, Chenggang Yan, Hui Zhang, Huitao Fan, Boyuan Li*, Zijian Li*, Shahid Mumtaz, Tony Q.S. Quek

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2026 (CCF A)

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)

CN 2026

Intrusion Detection for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks: Diffusion-enhanced Spatiotemporal Graph Network with Dual Self-attention

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

Computer Networks (CN), 2026 (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)

• NEEM: A Neighborhood Entropy Energy-Based Model for High-Dimensional Data Distribution Estimation in Intelligent Communication Networks
  Naiyao Wang, Xirong Fu, Changdong Zhou, Houhua Shao, Jiahui Li, Zijian Li*, Tony Q.S. Quek
  Digital Communications and Networks (DCAN), 2026 (CIC T1)
  
• FedTDC: Federated teacher-guided distillation with representation and aggregation calibration
  Ping Zhang, An Bao, Wenlong Lu, Mingkai Hu, Boyuan Li, Kai Guo, Zhuo Jin*, Zijian Li
  Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), 2026 (A1 TOP)
  
• RIS-Assisted Cascaded AF-DF Relaying for IoV: Performance Analysis and PSO-Based Power Allocation
  Baofeng Ji*, Wenjuan Chai, Kaipeng Sun, Boyuan Li*, Zijian Li*, Tony Q.S. Quek
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IotJ), 2026 (A1 TOP)
  
• Sift: Channel-Wise Historical Embedding for High Efficiency Distributed Graph Neural Network Training with Accuracy Guarantee
  Zhewen Xu, Hongliang Li, Junze Han, Hengshan Yue, Hairui Zhao, Dongyuan Tian, Zijian Li, Xiaohui Wei
  ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2026 (CCF A)
  
• Secure Communication in the Presence of an RIS-Enhanced Eavesdropper in MIMO Networks
  Gaoyuan Zhang, Ruisong Si, Boyuan Li*, Zijian Li*, Baofeng Ji, Chenqi Zhu, Tony Q.S. Quek
  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), 2026 (CCF B)
  
• Hierarchical Dual-Strategy Unlearning for Biomedical and Healthcare Intelligence Using Imperfect and Privacy-Sensitive Medical Data
  Yi Zhang, Chao Zhang, Zijian Li, Tianxiang Xu, Kunyu Zhang, Zhan Gao, Meinuo Li, Xiaohan Zhang, Qichao Qi, Bing Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE), 2026 (A1 TOP)
  
• A Quantization Strategy for Federated Learning in Agricultural Internet of Things Devices
  Jing Liu, Boyuan Li, Cui Liu, Shengbo Chen*, Zijian Li*, Wenying Chen
  Internet of Things, 2026 (Q1)
  
• Privacy-preserving federated SAR image target recognition with adaptive resource management in space-air-ground integrated networks
  Yuchao Hou, Bo Yu, Zhiqin Yang, Jie Wang, Wei Xiang, Di Wu, Minghui Liwang, Xiaoyu Xia, Zijian Li, Youliang Tian, Yuzhou Sun
  Pattern Recognition, 2026 (CCF B)
  
• YOLO-CAB: An Efficient Deep Learning-Based Underwater Object Detection Method for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  Runze Li,Changdong Yu, Shuaiyu Bao, Zijian Li, Jinyi Yao
  Mathematics, 2026 (Q1)
  
• Resource Allocation for UAV-Assisted Vehicular Networks with Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Computing in Emergency Scenarios
  Baofeng Ji, Zhan Huo, Boyuan Li, Yiwei Li, Huitao Fan, Zijian Li
  Physical Communication, 2026
  
• 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 TOP)
  
• 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)
  
• FedC-DAC: A Federated Clustering with Dynamic Aggregation and Calibration Method for SAR Image Target Recognition
  Yuchao Hou, Shuai Zhao, Xiaoyu Xia, Minghui Liwang, Zijian Li, Nan Xu, Di Wu, Youliang Tian, Tony Q.S. Quek
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), 2025 (Q1)
  
• 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)
• 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
• 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
  
• SHARP: Blockchain-Powered WSNs for Real-Time Student Health Monitoring and Personalized Learning
  Zeqiang Xie, Zijian Li*, Xinbing Liu
  Sensors, 2025
• 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)
• A Blockchain Multi-Chain Federated Learning Framework for Enhancing Security and Efficiency in Intelligent Unmanned Ports
  Zeqiang Xie, Zijian Li*
  Electronics, 2024
• 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)
  

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

• TPC Co-Chair, UbiComp/ISWC Workshop 2026
• 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, CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction (CCF B), Special Issue on “Pervasive Collaborative Intelligence: Federated and Distributed Model Learning across the Cloud–Edge–End Continuum”
• Guest Editor, Electronics, Special Issue on “Empowering IoT with AI: AIoT for Smart and Autonomous Systems”

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 Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
• IEEE Transactions on Big Data
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• Expert Systems With Applications
• Chinese Journal of Electronics
• Knowledge-Based Systems
• Information Sciences
• China Communications
• IET Software
• MM 2026
• AAAI 2025
• ICASSP 2025