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We are the Intelligent System (IntelliSys) Lab at the ECE Department of Stevens Institute of Technology. Our research bridges artificial intelligence (AI) and novel system architectures by designing efficient and robust AI algorithms and developing intelligent and high-performance computing systems. Check our roadmap.


News

06/25/2025 :pencil: Our paper ``Stealthy Backdoor Attack in Federated Learning via Adaptive Layer-wise Gradient Alignment’’ has been accepted by ICCV’25.
06/09/2025 :bookmark: Our work on serverless eco-systems for AI has been reported by News@Indiana University.
06/05/2025 :bookmark: Our first-year Stevens experience has been featured as a published story—“Inspired by Humanity & Powered by Technology”!
06/04/2025 :tada: Dr. Wang received the Research Excellence Award of the ECE Department.
05/14/2025 :calendar: We will host DuckAI 2025: The 1st iCNS/ECE Symposium on AI Research and Innovations on May 15th. Check Stevens news.
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Selected Publications

  1. KDD
    CriticalFL: A Critical Learning Periods Augmented Client Selection Framework for Efficient Federated Learning
    In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2023
  2. ASPLOS
    RainbowCake: Mitigating Cold-starts in Serverless with Layer-wise Container Caching and Sharing
    In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2024
  3. ICLR
    Backdoor Federated Learning by Poisoning Backdoor-Critical Layers
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024
  4. SC
    Stellaris: Staleness-Aware Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Serverless Computing (Best Student Paper Finalist)
    In Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) 2024

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