Federated Online Learning to Rank with Evolution Strategies: A Reproducibility Study
Shuyi Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon, European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2021 (Reproducibility Paper)
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CV
Education
- Ph.D Candidate in Computer Science, The University of Queensland, Australia, 2020 - current
- M.S. in Applied Statistics, Southeast University, China, 2015 - 2017
- B.S. in Statistics, Nanjing Normal University, China, 2011 - 2015
Work experience
- Data Analyst, Suning Financial Services Group, China, 07/2017 - 12/2019
- Duties included: Improving the performance in Marketing and Risk Management with Data Analysis techniques and Machine Learning methods.
Publications
Effective and Privacy-preserving Federated Online Learning to Rank
Shuyi Wang, Bing Liu, Shengyao Zhuang, Guido Zuccon, International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), 2021 (Full Paper, 🏆 Best Student Paper Award)
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Is non-IID Data a Threat in Federated Online Learning to Rank?
Shuyi Wang, Guido Zuccon, International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2022 (Full Paper)
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An Analysis of Untargeted Poisoning Attack and Defense Methods for Federated Online Learning to Rank Systems
Shuyi Wang, Guido Zuccon, International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), 2023 (Full Paper)
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How to Forget Clients in Federated Online Learning to Rank?
Shuyi Wang, Bing Liu, Guido Zuccon, European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2024 (Full Paper, *finding*)
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Honors & Awards
- Google PhD Fellowship, 2022
- Best Student Paper Award, ICTIR 2021 (first author)
- SIGIR Student Travel Grant, SIGIR （2022, 2023)
- Honorable Mention (top 20%), International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), 2014
- First Prize of Academic Scholarships, Nanjing Normal University, 2014
- Excellent Student, Nanjing Normal University, from 2012 to 2014
Academic Service
- Reviewer: AISTATS (2023, 2024), WWW (2023, 2024, 2025), SIGIR (2024), KDD (2023), ICTIR (2023)
- Subreviewer: SIGIR (2022)
- Session chair of the Privacy and Cybersecurity session at CIKM (2021)
- Student Volunteer: CIKM (2021), SIGIR (2021)
Teaching
- Tutoring of Data Science Capstone Project (DATA7901/7902/7903) at The University of Queensland (St Lucia campus)
- Master course
- Semester 1 & 2, 2021
- Supervision for Master Capstone Project on Federated Learning
- Tutoring of Thesis Project Course (COMP7811/7861/7881/DECO7861/ENGG7813/7817/METR4911/REIT4841/4881) at The University of Queensland (St Lucia campus)
- Honour and Master course
- Semester 1 & 2, 2023
- Supervision for Honour’s and Master’s Project on Robust Information Retrieval
Language
- Mandarin Chinese (native)
- English (fluent)