Xian Shuai   帅先

shuaixiannee at hotmail.com
8/F, Bio-Informatics Centre, Hong Kong Science Park

I am currently a researcher at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, conducting research on foundation models and AI agent.

From 2018 to 2022, I spent four years at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to obtain my Ph.D. degree, under the supervision of Professor Guoliang Xing (IEEE Fellow). During Ph.D., my research interests lie in the Sensing and Computing for Edge AI Systems. I got my Bachelor degree from School of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2018.

When I have free time, I enjoy studying business models across various industries and researching how to invest based on fundamental analysis. Some of my random thoughts can be found in the 知乎专栏, 雪球专栏
I am also a part-time photographer. Click my gallery to have a look: Lofter


Research Interests

Throughout my Ph.D., I conduct research on the Sensing and Computing for Edge AI Systems. My research involves the following three directions:

  • Sensor-Specific Data Processing
    I have been working on the data processing algorithms on a variety of sensors, including RGB-D cameras, IMUs, and mmWave radars. Applications include object detection, object tracking, activity recognition and vital sign sensing.

  • Machine Learning Algorithms for Real-World Data
    Due to the imbalanced data distribution, data insufficiency and domain shift, machine learning using the real-world data is highly challenging. I have been working on corresponding solutions on federated learning, long-tailed learning, few-shot learning and domain adaptation, etc.

  • High-Performance Inference on the Edge
    The deployment of the deep learning models on edge devices is the last mile of building an AIoT application. My studies aim to accelerate the on-device inference of neural networks via hardware-aware tensor program generation using both intra-operator and inter-operator optimizations.

Selected Publications

Full list in Google Scholar (* denotes equal contribution):

  • Siyang Jiang*, Xian Shuai*, Guoliang Xing. ArtFL: Exploiting Data Resolution in Federated Learning for Dynamic Runtime Inference via Multi-Scale Training. IPSN '24 (Best Paper Award).    PDF

  • Xiaomin Ouyang, Xian Shuai, Yang Li, Li Pan, Xifan Zhang, Heming Fu, Sitong Cheng, Xinyan Wang, Shihua Cao, Jiang Xin, Hazel Mok, Zhenyu Yan, Doris Sau Fung Yu, Timothy Kwok, Guoliang Xing. ADMarker: A Multi-Modal Federated Learning System for Monitoring Digital Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease. MobiCom '24.    PDF

  • Xian Shuai, Yulin Shen, Siyang Jiang, Zhihe Zhao, Zhenyu Yan, Guoliang Xing. BalanceFL: Addressing Class Imbalance in Long-Tail Federated Learning. IPSN '22.    PDF

  • Xiaomin OUYANG, Xian Shuai, Ivy Wang Shi, Jiayu Zhou, Jianwei Huang, Guoliang Xing. Cosmo: Contrastive Fusion Learning with Small Data for Multimodal Human Activity Recognition. MobiCom '22.    PDF

  • Xian Shuai, Yulin Shen, Yi Tang, Shuyao Shi, Luping Ji, Guoliang Xing. milliEye: A Lightweight mmWave Radar and Camera Fusion System for Robust Object Detection. IoTDI '21 (Best Student Paper Award).    PDF


Education Background

Doctor of Philosophy

Supervisor: Prof. Guoliang Xing
Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Augest 2018 - October 2022

Bechelor of Science

Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
September 2014 - June 2018

Summer Semester

University of British Colombia (UBC)
July 2016 - Augest 2016


Activities

Experience
Conference/Journal Reviewer
  • 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
  • 2023, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
  • 2023, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (TIV)
  • 2022, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
  • 2022, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)

Honors and Awards

  • 2024, Best Paper Award, The 23th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN).
  • 2018 - 2022. Postgraduate Scholarship, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
  • 2021, Best Student Paper Award, The 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI).
  • 2021. Silver Award. The 7th Anhui Province College Students' “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
  • 2017, 2015, Outstanding Student Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
  • 2013, The First Price (Sichuan Province), Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO)