About Me

Hi, there. I am Haotian Xu (徐昊天), a third-year Master student in the Department of Computer Science and Technology & Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study & State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), supervised by Prof. Mingjun Xiao. This is my CV.

My research interests include Federated Learning, Distributed Learning and Efficient LLM.

📝 Publications

Preprint

• Haotian Xu, Jinrui Zhou, Xichong Zhang, Mingjun Xiao, He Sun, Yin Xu. “SFedKD: Sequential Federated Learning with Discrepancy-Aware Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation”, Arxiv’ 25[Paper]

Conferences

• [ICASSP’26] Haotian Xu, Jinrui Zhou, Xichong Zhang, Mingjun Xiao, “One-Shot Sequential Federated Learning with Dual-Distillation”, ICASSP’26
• [INFOCOM’26] Jinrui Zhou, Yin Xu, Haotian Xu, Mingjun Xiao, Jie Wu, “Age-of-Information-Aware Mobile Crowdsensing for Uncertain Event Capture”, INFOCOM’26
• [ICDE’25] Xichong Zhang, Haotian Xu, Yin Xu, Mingjun Xiao, Jie Wu, Jinrui Zhou, “Online Federated Learning on Distributed Unknown Data Using UAVs”, ICDE’25

Journals

• [TII’24] Yin Xu, Mingjun Xiao, Jie Wu, Guoju Gao, Datian Li, Haotian Xu, Tongxiao Zhang. “Enhancing Decentralized Federated Learning with Model Pruning and Adaptive Communication”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2024
• [ToN’25] Jinrui Zhou, Haotian Xu, Yin Xu, Mingjun Xiao, Jie Wu, “Efficient Parallel-Sequential Federated Learning with Training Structure Optimization”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2025 (Under Review)

# 📝 Experiences

2023.09 - Now, M.S. Student supervised by Mingjun Xiao.

School of Computer Science and Technology, mentored by Xiangyang Li/State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, mentored by Enhong Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

2019.09 - 2023.07, B.S. Student.

School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui.

🎖 Honors and Awards

Honors

• Outstanding Student Scholarship at USTC (2022.10)
• National Encouragement Scholarship at USTC (2020-2022)

Competitions Awards

• First Prize in Anhui Province, National College Student Mathematics Competition, 2021

🎓 Educations

2023.09 - Now, M.S. Student.

School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (CS, USTC), Hefei, Anhui.

2019.09 - 2023.06, B.S. Student.

School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (CS, USTC), Hefei, Anhui.