Nan Yan bio photo

Email

My CV

LinkedIn

Github

Google Scholar

About Me

Here is Nan Yan (闫楠).

I am a second-year graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Wuhan University (WHU), advised by Prof. Yuqing Li, within Data Security Lab. I also work closely with Prof. Jing Chen and Prof. Xiong Wang. Before that, I received my B.Eng. degree in School of Computer Science and Engineering from Shandong University (SDU) in 2023.

If you are interested in any aspect of me, I am always open to discussions and collaborations. Feel free to reach out to me at - nanyan [at] whu.edu.cn

I am actively seeking a PhD position for 2026 Fall admission. If you have any information, please contact me. Thank you!

Research Interests

  • Trustworthy AI
  • Federated Learning
  • Privacy Preserving Machine Learning

News

  • Oct 2024: Won National Scholarship.
  • May 2024: Presented our work FedPHE at IEEE INFOCOM 2024.
  • Dec 2023: One paper accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2024. Congrats to my collaborators!

Publications

  • Efficient and Straggler-Resistant Homomorphic Encryption for Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Nan Yan, Yuqing Li*, Jing Chen, Xiong Wang, Jiannan Hong, Kun He, and Wei Wang IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2024. [pdf] [code] [slides] [html]

Scholarships and Honors

  • National Scholarship (Top 0.2% nationwide), Ministry of Education, China (2024)
  • Metrit Student, WHU (2024)
  • First Class Scholarship (Award Rate: 5% school-wide), WHU (2024)
  • Cybersecurity Academy Student Innovation Grant Program (2023)
  • Outstanding Graduate Award, SDU (2023)
  • Alumni Council Representative (Dept. CSE, 6/101), SDU (2023)
  • The Power of Role Models Academy Person of the Year (Dept. CSE, Top 1), SDU (2023)
  • Excellent Student Cadre, SDU (2022)
  • Second Class Scholarship (Award Rate: 10% school-wide), SDU (2020, 2022)
  • Merit-Based Scholarship, SDU (2020, 2022×3)

Competition Awards

  • Second Prize of The 7-th National College Cryptography Mathematics Contest, Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research, China (2022)
  • Second Prize of The 15-th National College Student Information Security Competition, Cyber Security Association, China (2022)
  • First Prize of The 7-th National College Cryptography Mathematics Contest, Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research, North China Division (2022)
  • First Prize of China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Shandong Province (2021)

Patents and Software Copyrights

  • “Large language model training method and system based on elastic federated low-rank

    adaptive fine-tuning”, China Patent Application CN119443311A, PatentPending (Feb 2025)

  • “Method for constructing a vertical federated learning system based on participant selection and parameter freezing”, China Patent Application CN202411465068.7, PatentPending (Jan 2025)

  • “Differential privacy-based heterogeneous federal fine tuning language model construction method and system”, China Patent Application CN119150357A, PatentPending (Dec 2024)

  • “Cross-silo heterogeneous federated learning system based on homomorphic encryption V1.0”, China Software Copyrights 2024SR1516588 (Oct 2024)

  • “Method and device for constructing cross-silo heterogeneous federated learning system based on homomorphic encryption”, China Patent Application CN117892322A, PatentPending (Apr 2024)

  • “Network traffic obfuscation method, device, equipment and medium”, China Patent Application CN117749402A, PatentPending (Mar 2024)