Jiahao Xu | University of Nevada, Reno

About Me

I am Jiahao Xu, a third-year Ph.D. ~~student~~ candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), where I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Rui Hu. I also have the privilege of working closely with Dr. Olivera Kotevska during my internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). I received my M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in March 2023, where I worked with Dr. Divya Saxena in the Department of Computing. I earned my B.Eng. from Fujian Normal University in June 2021.

Research Interests

Federated Learning: Security, Privacy, Model Watermarking
Large Language Models: Text Watermarking

News

[Apr. 2026] I have passed the comprehensive exam and am now a Ph.D. candidate!
[Apr. 2026] Our work XMark is accepted to ACL 2026 as a main!
[Apr. 2026] I received the Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher Scholarship, thank you GSA!
[Jan. 2026] Our paper GDPFed is accepted to IEEE IoT-J.
[Jan. 2026] Two papers: TraMark and PLoRA are accepted to ICLR 2026.
[Nov. 2025] We won first place in the poster competition at the UNR Cybersecurity Conference for three consecutive years!
[Oct. 2025] I received the Student Travel Grant from MobiHoc 2025, big thank you MobiHoc!
[Sep. 2025] I have started my internship as a Graduate Researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Olivera Kotevska.
[Sep. 2025] I received a Travel Grant from the Graduate Student Association at UNR, big thanks!
[Aug. 2025] I received the Student Publication & Travel Support from NSF EPSCoR HDRFS, big thanks!
[Aug. 2025] Our survey paper on potential vulnerabilities of federated learning for smart grids is accepted to ACM TCPS.
[Jul. 2025] Our paper SoDa-BNGuard is accepted to MobiHoc 2025.
[Jul. 2025] The extended version of our previous work ReGAN (CVPR 2023) is accepted to IEEE TPAMI.
[Jul. 2025] Our paper Fed-HeLLo is accepted to IEEE TNNLS.
[Apr. 2025] I received the Travel Support Award from CVPR 2025, big thank you CVPR!
[Feb. 2025] Our paper AlignIns is accepted to CVPR 2025 as a Highlight.
[Jan. 2025] I received the 2024 Nevada WaterReuse Research Grant as principal investigator from WateReuse Nevada, big thanks!
[Nov. 2024] I received a Travel Grant from the Graduate Student Association at UNR, big thanks!
[Oct. 2024] Our papers MASA and Reconfig-MIT are accepted to WACV 2025.
[Aug. 2024] Our paper LASA is accepted to WACV 2025 as an Oral presentation.
[Dec. 2023] Our paper RGGAN is accepted to AAAI 2024.
[Aug. 2023] I joined University of Nevada, Reno as a Ph.D. student.
[Mar. 2023] I started my Research Assistant appointment in the Department of Computing at PolyU.
[Feb. 2023] Our paper ReGAN is accepted to CVPR 2023.

Services

Conference Reviewer / Program Committee

CVPR'25, 26; ICCV'25; IPDPS'25; NeurIPS'25; WACV'26; AAAI'26; ICLR'26; ICML'26; ...

Journal Reviewer

IEEE OJCOMS; IEEE TMC; IEEE TAI; IEEE TPAMI; IEEE TDSC; IEEE TNNLS; ...