I’m a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Sciences and Technology, Tongji University. My advisor is Prof. Kai Yang. My research interests include distributed machine learning, bilevel optimization, robust optimization, and LLMs. I received the B.S. degree from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2020.

I was a visiting Ph.D. student at Columbia University, under the guidance of Prof. Xiaodong Wang.

I was a visiting Ph.D. student at CUHK Shenzhen, under the guidance of Prof. Jianwei Huang.

Published Works

Y Jiao, K Yang, et al. Distributed Distributionally Robust Optimization with Non-Convex Objectives. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36. (NeurIPS 2022).

Y Jiao, K Yang, et al. Asynchronous Distributed Bilevel Optimization. Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations. (ICLR 2023)

Y Jiao, K Yang, et al. Provably Convergent Federated Trilevel Learning. (AAAI 2024)

Y Jiao, X Wang, K Yang. PR-Attack: Coordinated Prompt-RAG Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Large Language Models via Bilevel Optimization. (SIGIR 2025)

Y Jiao, K Yang, et al. TimeAutoAD: Autonomous Anomaly Detection With Self-Supervised Contrastive Loss for Multivariate Time Series [J]. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2022, 9(3): 1604-1619.

K Huang, Y Jiao, et al. Robust network structure reconstruction based on Bayesian compressive sensing [J]. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2019, 29(9): 093119.

C Jian, K Yang, Y Jiao. Tri-Level Navigator: LLM-Empowered Tri-Level Learning for Time Series OOD Generalization. (NeurIPS 2024)

P Han, S Wang, Y Jiao, J Huang. Federated Learning While Providing Model as a Service: Joint Training and Inference Optimization. (IEEE INFOCOM 2024)

S Dou, K Yang, Y Jiao, C Qiu, K Ren. Anomaly Detection in Event-triggered Traffic Time Series via Similarity Learning). (IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing)

Conference & Journal Reviewers

Reviewer at NeurIPS 2023.

Reviewer at NeurIPS 2024.

Reviewer at NeurIPS 2025.

Reviewer at ICLR 2024.

Reviewer at ICLR 2025.

Reviewer at ICML 2024.

Reviewer at ICML 2025.

Reviewer at AISTATS 2025.

Reviewer at Globecom 2024.

Reviewer/PC member at IJCAI 2024.

Reviewer/PC member at AAAI 2025.

Reviewer/PC member at AI4TS workshop in ICDM.

Reviewer/PC member at AI4TS workshop in AAAI.

Reviewer at APATN workshop in ICC 2024.

Reviewer at AI4TS in IJCAI 2024.

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence.

Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.

Reviewer at IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

Reviewer at Pattern Recognition.

Reviewer at Neurocomputing.

Awards

Outstanding Doctoral Scholarship at Tongji University

Outstanding Ph.D. Student Short-Term Overseas Research Funding at Tongji University

Outstanding Student of Tongji University

Outstanding Student of Central South University

Central South University Scholarship

Outstanding Graduate of Central South University

News

[2025/04] One paper has been accepted at SIGIR 2025.

[2025/04] Invited to serve as Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

[2025/03] Invited to serve as Reviewer in Neural Networks.

[2025/02] Invited to serve as Reviewer in NeurIPS 2025.

[2024/12] Invited to serve as Reviewer in ICML 2025.

[2024/12] Invited to serve as Reviewer in AI4TS workshop at AAAI 2025.

[2024/10] Invited to serve as Reviewer in AISTATS 2025.

[2024/08] Invited to serve as Reviewer in Pattern Recognition.

[2024/08] Invited to serve as Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

[2024/08] Invited to serve as Reviewer in ICLR 2025.

[2024/07] Invited to serve as Reviewer in AAAI 2025.

[2024/07] Invited to serve as Reviewer in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

[2024/06] I’m currently a visiting Ph.D. student at Columbia University in the City of New York, under the guidance of Professor Xiaodong Wang.

[2024/05] Invited to serve as Reviewer in Sixth Artificial Intelligence for Time Series Analysis (AI4TS) in IJCAI 2024.

[2024/05] Invited to serve as Reviewer in NeurIPS 2024.

[2024/05] Invited to serve as Reviewer in Globecom 2024.

[2024/04] Invited to serve as Reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.