CV

Contact Information

Name Zhiwei Li
Professional Title PhD Candidate
Email lizhw.cs@outlook.com

Professional Summary

PhD candidate at UTS AAII researching privacy-preserving personalized recommender systems under federated, multimodal, and foundation-model settings.

Education

  • 2023 - present

    Sydney, Australia

    PhD Candidate
    University of Technology Sydney
    Analytics (Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute)
    • Advisor — Prof. Guodong Long.
    • Research focus — privacy-preserving personalized recommender systems under federated, multimodal, and foundation-model settings.
  • 2020 - 2023

    Shanghai, China

    M.S.
    ShanghaiTech University
    Computer Science and Technology
    • Advisor — Prof. Lu Sun.
    • Research focus — multi-view / multi-label learning.
  • 2016 - 2020

    Zhengzhou, China

    B.E.
    Zhengzhou University
    Computer Science and Technology
    • Member of the ZZU-DROID bipedal-robot team (2017–2020).
    • RoboCup Asia-Pacific / China Open competitions, 2017–2019.

Experience

  • 2023 - 2023

    Shanghai, China

    Research Assistant
    ShanghaiTech University
    Continued research with Prof. Lu Sun on multi-view multi-label learning.
  • 2022 - 2022

    Shanghai, China

    Teaching Assistant — Machine Learning
    ShanghaiTech University
    Instructor — Prof. Sibei Yang (Fall 2022).
  • 2022 - 2022

    Shanghai, China

    Teaching Assistant — Machine Learning
    ShanghaiTech University
    Instructor — Prof. Hao Wang (Spring 2022).

Awards

  • 2025
    Best Reviewer
    AISTATS 2025

    Recognized as one of the Best Reviewers at the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.

  • 2024
    AAII Student Best Paper Award 2024
    Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, UTS

    Top student award in the AI Application category at AAII, UTS.

  • 2022
    Merit Student
    ShanghaiTech University

    Awarded for outstanding academic performance during M.S. studies.

  • 2018
    Outstanding Student Cadre
    Zhengzhou University (School of Information Engineering)
  • 2019
    2nd Place
    RoboCup Asia-Pacific Tianjin Invitational Tournament 2019

    With the ZZU-DROID bipedal-robot team.

  • 2019
    3rd Place
    RoboCup China Open 2019, Standard Platform League (NAO)

    With the ZZU-DROID bipedal-robot team.

  • 2017
    2nd Prize
    Softbank Robot Cup — 2017 China Robot Skills Competition

    With the ZZU-DROID bipedal-robot team.

Service

Conference Reviewer / PC Member: ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, ECAI, AISTATS
Journal Reviewer: IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TAFFC, IEEE TAI
Tutorial Speaker: Personalized Federated Recommender Systems @ WWW 2025
Invited Speaker / Workshop Host: FL@FM-AJCAI 2024 — Federated Learning for Foundation Models

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin) : Native speaker
English : Fluent