Barry Menglong Yao is a PhD student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Lifu Huang. Before that, he was a master’s student of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo, advised by Dr. Changyou Chen. He was also a graduate research assistant in Dr. David Doermann’s Federated Learning project. He received the Best Paper Award Honorable Mention from SIGIR 2023 and the Best MS Research Award from the CSE department at the University at Buffalo.

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