Li Ju
Scholar

Li Ju

Google Scholar ID: tlXTHUEAAAAJ
Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University
Federated LearningDistributed OptimizationUncertainty QuantificationMultimodal Language Models
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
193
 
H-index
5
 
i10-index
4
 
Publications
9
 
Co-authors
6
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Paper 'Exploiting the Asymmetric Uncertainty Structure of Pre-trained VLMs on the Unit Hypersphere' accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
  • Team Cat Quartet won 2nd place (1st in Europe) at Huawei Wireless Communication Global Hackathon 2025.
  • Team Hello Kitty secured 2nd place at Huawei Sweden Hackathon 2024.
  • Poster presentation at Swedish e-Science Academy about logit adjustment in heterogeneous federated learning.
  • Paper 'Accelerating Fair Federated Learning: Adaptive Federated Adam' accepted by IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking.
  • Paper 'Federated Learning for Predicting Compound Mechanism of Action Based on Image-data from Cell Painting' accepted by Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences.
  • Paper 'Blades: A Unified Benchmark Suite for Byzantine Attacks and Defenses in Federated Learning' accepted by IoTDI ‘24.
  • Poster presentation at Swedish e-Science Academy about accelerating fair federated learning in Umeå, Sweden.
  • Released Blades, a simulator for Byzantine-robust federated learning with attacks and defenses.
  • Paper 'Proactive autoscaling for edge computing systems with kubernetes' accepted by UCC ‘21.
Research Experience
  • During Ph.D. studies at Uppsala University, participated in multiple research projects including developing a denoising neural SVD operator for wireless communications, using machine learning methods to solve wireless localization problems, etc.
Education
  • Ph.D. candidate in Scientific Computing at Uppsala University, supervised by Associate Professor Andreas Hellander; M.Sc. in Computational Science, Uppsala University; M.Sc. in Chemometrics, University of Science and Technology of China; B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China.
Background
  • Research Interests: Learning from distributed heterogeneous data, particularly interested in data heterogeneity problems in federated learning and uncertainty quantification for multi-modal language models.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests not mentioned.