π About Me
I am a fourth year PhD student from Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, supervised by Prof. Bing Hu. I received my BE degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University in 2021. Currently, I am a visiting researcher in 5G/6G Innovation Centre of Institute for Communication Systems at University of Surrey, supervised by Prof. Rahim Tafazolli (FREng, FIEEE), Prof. Pei Xiao and Dr. Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, and sponsored by China Scholarship Council (CSC).
π Research Interests
- Distributed Machine Learning System
- LLM Distributed Training/Inference
- Federated/Split Learning
π Publications
2025
- Y. Q. Gao, B. Hu, M. B. Mashhadi, W. Wang, R. Tafazolli, and M. Debbah, βPipeDAP: An Efficient Communication Framework for Scheduling Decoupled All-Reduce Primitives in Distributed DNN Training,β IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Accepted on May. 19, 2025. (SCI Q1)
- Y. Q. Gao, Z. Zhang, B. Hu, M. B. Mashhadi, A. L. Jin and P. Xiao, βNetPlacer+: Model Parallelism based on Load Balance in Distributed Deep Learning,β IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Accepted on Feb. 25, 2025. (SCI Q1)
- Y. Q. Gao, B. Hu, M. B. Mashhadi, W. Wang, M. Bennis, βPipeSFL: A Fine-Grained Parallelization Framework for Split Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Clients,β IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1774-1791, 2025. (CCF A, SCI Q1)
- Y. Q. Gao, B. Hu, M. B. Mashhadi, W. Wang, R. Tafazolli, and M. Debbah, βA Dynamic Sliding Window based Tensor Communication Scheduling Framework for Distributed Deep Learning,β IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1080-1095, 2025. (SCI Q1)
- M. H. Chang, Y. Q. Gao, B. Hu, P. Xiao, S. C. Zhang, C. H. Gu, and Y. S. Liu, βDynamic Queuing for Approximate Fairness in Programmable Shared Memory Switches,β IEEE 26th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2025.
2024
- D. Yang, Y. Q. Gao, B. Hu, A. L. Jin, W. Wang, and Y. You, βGWPF: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning with Gradient-Wise Parameter Freezing,β Elsevier Computer Networks, vol. 255, no. 110886, 2024. (CCF B, SCI Q1)
- M. H. Chang, H. J. Lv, Y. Q. Gao, B. Hu, W. Wang, and Z. Yang, βDGS: An Efficient Delay-Guaranteed Scheduling Framework for Wireless Deterministic Networking,β IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 6582-6596, 2024. (CCF C, SCI Q1)
- Y. Q. Gao, B. Hu, M. B. Mashhadi, A. L. Jin, P. Xiao, and C. M. Wu, βUS-Byte: An Efficient Communication Framework for Scheduling Unequal-sized Tensor Blocks in Distributed Deep Learning,β IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 35, Issue. 1, pp. 123-139, 2024. (CCF A, SCI Q1)
2023
- Y. Q. Gao, Z. C. Zhang, B. Hu, A. L. Jin, and C. M. Wu, βOF-WFBP: A Near-optimal Communication Mechanism for Tensor Fusion in Distributed Deep Learning,β Elsevier Parallel Computing, Vol. 118, No.103053, pp. 1-13, 2023. (CCF B)
2020
- Y. Q. Gao, F. Luan, J. Q. Pan, X. Li, and Y. D. He, βFPGA-Based Implementation of Stochastic Configuration Networks for Regression Prediction,β MDPI SENSORS, vol. 20, no. 15, pp. 4191-4204, 2020. (SCI Q1)
- J. Q. Pan, F. Luan, Y. Q. Gao and Y. J. Wei, βFPGA-Based Implementation of Stochastic Configuration Network for Robotic Grasping Recognition,β IEEE ACCESS, vol. 8, pp. 139966-139973, 2020. (SCI Q1)
π Honors and Awards
- 2024.10 Zhejiang University Outstanding Graduate Student
- 2024.07 Public Study Abroad approved by China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- 2022.10 Zhejiang University Triple A Graduate Student (3%)
- 2022.10 Zhejiang University Outstanding Graduate Student
- 2022.10 Zhejiang University New PhD Student Scholarship
- 2021.06 Outstanding Graduate of Liaoning Province (1%)
- 2021.06 Outstanding Thesis of Northeastern University (1%)
- 2020.11 National Second Prize of Intel Embedded System Invitation Competition
- 2020.10 Postgraduate Recommendation to Zhejiang University
- 2020.10 China National Scholarship (1%)
- 2020.10 Northeastern University Outstanding Student (1%)
- 2019.10 Huawei Scholarship
- 2019.06 Second Prize of Liaoning Province of China Electronic Design Competition
- 2019.03 H Prize of the United States Mathematical Modelling Competition
- 2018.10 China National Scholarship (1%)
- 2018.10 Northeastern University Outstanding Student (1%)
- 2018.06 First Prize of Liaoning Province Electronic Design Competition
π Educations
- 2024.11 - now, Visiting Researcher, University of Surrey, Institute for Communication Systems, 5G/6G Innovation Centre
- 2021.09 - now, Ph.D. Zhejiang University, Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering
- 2017.09 - 2021.06, B.S. Northeastern University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering