Yongxin Tong is a Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment (SKLSDE) of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Beihang University (BUAA). He received a Ph.D. degree in Computing Science and Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), under Prof. Lei Chen’s supervision. He also received a Master degree in Software Engineering at Beihang University and a Double Bachelor degree in Economics from China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University.

Office: G1135, New main building, Beihang University
E-mail: yxtong@buaa.edu.cn or yongxintong@gmail.com

Research Interests

• Federated computing
  • Federated LLM
  • Federated fine-tuning
  • Federated graph learning
  • Heterogeneous federated learning
• Spatial-temporal big data driven intelligent computing
  • Spatial-temporal LLM
  • Time series forecasting
  • Trajectory mining
• Vector databases
  • High-dimensional vector retrieval for LLM
  • Federated vector databases
• Crowd intelligence
  • LLM agent
  • Task assignment
  • Spatial crowdsourcing

Honors

• First Prize of the Natural Sciences, Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2022.
• Best Paper Award, IEEE MDM Conference, 2021.
• Champion (Team Coach) of the RL Track in KDD Cup 2020 Competition, ACM KDD Conference, 2020.
• NSFC Outstanding Young Scholar, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018.
• DAMO Academy Young Fellow (1, 2), Alibaba DAMO Academy, 2018.
• Best Paper Award , WAIM Conference, 2016.
• VLDB 2014 Excellent Demonstration Award, VLDB Conference, 2014.
• Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship (1, 2), MSRA, 2012.
• Excellent Master Dissertation Award, Beihang University, 2010.
• Tencent Technology Excellence Scholarship, Beihang University, 2009.
• Sa Shixuan Best Student Paper Award, NDBC Conference, 2009.

Group

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