Yuan YAO（姚远）

Guangming Lab Distinguished Associate Research Fellow Email: yaoyuan.hitsz (at) gmail.com “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” -- Albert Einstein

Short Bio

• I received my Ph.D. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2021.

• My research focuses on transfer learning, semi-supervised learning, federated learning, and model watermarking.

• Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in the above research areas. Let's work together to do some impactful research!

News

• 05/2026: One paper got accepted by ICML 2026.

• 02/2026: One paper got accepted by CVPR 2026.

• 11/2025: One paper got accepted by ACM TIST.

• 11/2025: One paper got accepted by AAAI 2026.

• 05/2024: One paper got accepted by ICML 2024.

Education

• 2015.09 – 2021.07: Harbin Institute of Technology, China

  • Ph.D. in Computer Software and Theory; GPA: 3.27/4.0 ; Advisors: Prof. Yunming Ye & Prof. Xutao Li

• 2011.09 – 2015.07: Northwest Minzu University, China

  • B.E. in Computer Science and Technology; Ranking: 1/79

Experience

• 2026.06 – Now: Guangming Lab, Shenzhen

  • Distinguished Associate Research Fellow

• 2022.10 – 2026.05: CAICT Teleinfo Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing

  • Researcher; AI Department

• 2021.08 – 2022.10: Baidu Inc., Beijing

  • Senior Research and Development Engineer; Search Strategy Department

• 2019.10 – 2020.07: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Visiting Student; Advisor: Prof. Sinno Jialin Pan

• 2017.10 – 2018.04: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

  • Visiting Research Intern; Advisors: Prof. Qiang Yang & Prof. Yu Zhang