Mengwei Yang’s Academic Homepage

Biography

I am a third-year PhD student in the Electrical Engineering program at the University of California, Irvine, advised by Prof. Athina Markopoulou. I received my B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University (China) in 2019, my M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 2021. I was a visiting student at City University of Hong Kong in 2018, supervised by Prof. Linqi Song.

My research interests are in the areas of Federated Learning, Privacy-preserving machine learning, IoT and data privacy.

Education

  • University of California, Irvine, 09/2021 - Present
    • Degree: PhD
    • Major: Electrical Engineering
    • GPA: 4.0/4.0
  • University of Southern California, 08/2019 - 05/2021
    • Degree: Master
    • Major: Electrical Engineering
    • GPA: 3.71/4.0
  • Northeastern University (China), 09/2015 - 06/2019
    • Degree: Bachelor
    • Major: Electronic Information Engineering
    • GPA: 93/100