| May 01, 2026 | Our paper JacQuant is available on arXiv! |
| May 01, 2026 | Gold Reviewer of ICML 2026. |
| May 01, 2026 | WinQ has been accepted for publication in ICML 2026! |
| Sep 01, 2025 | Invited to be the reviewer for AISTATS 2026 and ICLR 2026. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | PhD Dissertation has been submitted to arXiv. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | FedComLoc has been accepted for publication in TMLR! |
| Sep 01, 2025 | Accepted to be the reviewer for ICLR 2026. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | Program Committee Member of AAAI 2026. |
| Aug 01, 2025 | Started as a Research Scientist at Meta, Sunnyvale! |
| Jun 01, 2025 | Reviewer for NeurIPS 2025, TMC x2. |
| Apr 01, 2025 | Scafflix has been accepted for publication in TMLR! |
| Apr 01, 2025 | Successfully defended my PhD titled “Strategies for Improving Communication Efficiency in Distributed and Federated Learning: Compression, Local Training, and Personalization.” I’m truly grateful to my committee, colleagues, friends, and schoolmates for their amazing support on this special day! |
| Mar 01, 2025 | SymWanda has been accepted for presentation at SLLM@ICLR 2025. |
| Feb 01, 2025 | Invited as a reviewer for ACM Multimedia and NeurIPS 2025. |
| Jan 01, 2025 | Our paper SymWanda is available on arXiv! |
| Jan 01, 2025 | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) x2. |
| Dec 01, 2024 | Invited to serve as a reviewer for ICML 2025. |
| Dec 01, 2024 | Attending NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver, Canada. If you’re also here, let’s connect! |
| Oct 01, 2024 | Our paper Cohort Squeeze has been accepted by NeurIPS FL@FM Workshop as an Oral! |
| Sep 01, 2024 | Our paper PV-Tuning has been accepted by NeurIPS 2024 as an Oral (acceptance rate 0.4%, 61/15671)! |
| Aug 01, 2024 | Invited as a reviewer for ICLR 2025. |
| Jul 01, 2024 | Invited as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. |
| Jun 01, 2024 | Our paper Cohort Squeeze is available on arXiv! |
| May 01, 2024 | Our paper Sparse-ProxSkip is available on arXiv! |
| May 01, 2024 | Our paper PV-Tuning is available on arXiv! Code has been released. |
| May 01, 2024 | Reviewer for NeurIPS 2024. |
| May 01, 2024 | Attending ICLR 2024 in Vienna, Austria. |
| Apr 01, 2024 | Passed the PhD proposal defense with the title “Exploring Real-World Challenges in Federated Learning: Personalization, Sparsity, and Scalability”! |
| Apr 01, 2024 | Our paper FedP3 is available on arXiv. Code has been released. |
| Mar 01, 2024 | New paper “FedComLoc: Communication-Efficient Distributed Training of Sparse and Quantized Models” is available on arXiv. |
| Mar 01, 2024 | An improved version of DACZSL is on arXiv. |
| Jan 01, 2024 | Invited as a reviewer for ECCV 2024. |
| Jan 01, 2024 | Our paper FedP3 has been accepted by ICLR24! |
| Nov 01, 2023 | Reviewer for CVPR 2024. |
| Sep 01, 2023 | Reviewer for AISTATS 2024. |
| Sep 01, 2023 | Our paper DACZSL has been accepted by the ICCV23 OOD-CV workshop. |
| Aug 01, 2023 | Reviewer for Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). |
| Jul 01, 2023 | Our paper IGCZSL has been accepted by ICCV 2023! |
| Jul 01, 2023 | Program Committee member for AAAI 2024. |
| Jun 01, 2023 | Research Internship at SonyAI. |
| Jun 01, 2023 | Reviewer for IJCV. |
| May 01, 2023 | Reviewer for NeurIPS 2023, WACV 2024, BMVC 2023. |
| May 01, 2023 | Our paper “Explicit Personalization and Local Training: Double Communication Acceleration in Federated Learning” is available on arXiv. Code is available here. |
| Mar 01, 2023 | Reviewer for ICCV 2023, IJCV, T-PAMI. |
| Dec 01, 2022 | Attending NeurIPS 2022 in New Orleans, LA. |
| Nov 01, 2022 | Reviewer for ICLR 2023, CVPR 2023. |
| Oct 01, 2022 | Reviewer for AISTATS 2023. |
| Sep 01, 2022 | Two papers (EF-BV and VR-ProxSkip) accepted by NeurIPS 2022! |
| Sep 01, 2022 | Program Committee member (PC) for AAAI 2023. |
| Aug 01, 2022 | Serve as an Orientation Leader at KAUST 2022 Fall. |
| Jul 01, 2022 | Our paper “Variance Reduced ProxSkip: Algorithm, Theory and Application to Federated Learning” is available on arXiv. |
| Jul 01, 2022 | HGR-Net for large-scale zero-shot learning has been accepted by ECCV 2022! Code is available here. |
| Jun 01, 2022 | Reviewer for WACV 2023, BMVC 2022. |
| Jun 01, 2022 | I moved from Building-1 L4 to Building-1 L2. |
| Jun 01, 2022 | Reviewer for NeurIPS 2022. |
| Jun 01, 2022 | Continue serving as a Student Ambassador 2022-2023 at KAUST CEMSE! |
| May 01, 2022 | Our paper “EF-BV: A Unified Theory of Error Feedback and Variance Reduction Mechanisms for Biased and Unbiased Compression in Distributed Optimization” is available on arXiv! |
| Apr 01, 2022 | Our paper “Creative Walk Adversarial Networks: Novel Art Generation with Probabilistic Random Walk Deviation from Style Norms” has been accepted by ICCC 2022! |
| Apr 01, 2022 | Our short paper “Language-Guided Imaginative Walks: Generative Random Walk Deviation Loss for Unseen Class Recognition using Text” has been accepted by CVPR22 L3D-IVU Workshop! |
| Mar 01, 2022 | HGR-Net for large-scale zero-shot learning is available on arXiv. |
| Mar 01, 2022 | Our paper VisualGPT is accepted by CVPR22! code has been released. |
| Feb 01, 2022 | Reviewer for ECCV22, CVPR22, ICML22, IJCV, TIP. |
| Feb 01, 2022 | Teaching Assistant for CS283: Deep Generative Modeling. |
| Dec 01, 2021 | DACZSL is available on arXiv. |
| Dec 01, 2021 | Glad to be a PhD student at Optimization and Machine Learning Lab led by Prof. Peter Richtárik! |
| Dec 01, 2021 | Graduated from KAUST with a Master degree. Thanks a lot to my MS supervisor Prof. Mohamed Elhoseiny and colleagues. Also congratulations to myself! |
| Nov 01, 2021 | My Master’s thesis is available, homepage. |
| Nov 01, 2021 | Successfully defended my Master’s thesis! |
| May 01, 2021 | Our unsupervised open-set recognition work has been accepted to ICIP 2021! |
| Apr 28, 2021 | Spotlight talk of CIZSL++ at KAUST AI Initiative. link. |
| Apr 01, 2021 | Our imaginative walk paper is available on arXiv! –> homepage |
| Dec 01, 2020 | Our paper VisualGPT is on arXiv. code. |
| Dec 01, 2020 | Our paper CIZSL++ has been submitted to PAMI. arXiv paper and code are available. |
| Dec 01, 2020 | Start research internship at Tencent AI Lab. |
| Aug 01, 2020 | Technical report of Legendre decomposition in machine learning is available on arXiv. |
| May 01, 2020 | Start research at KAUST Vision-CAIR group. |
| Apr 01, 2020 | Glad to be a MS/PhD student at KAUST. |
| Feb 01, 2020 | Join CMU Xulab as a remote research intern. |