Dean’s Professor of ECE and CS Departments, University of Southern California
He is a professor, the inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning (Trusted AI), and the director of the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Computer Science Department of University of Southern California. He is also the co-founder and CEO of FedML. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2008. He does research in the areas of information theory, decentralized and federated machine learning, secure and privacy-preserving learning and computing.