Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão, PhD

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I’m a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Surrey. My research interests include Distributed Machine Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision.

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Sep 01, 2023 :sparkles: 📢 I am joining the NICE Research Group at the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in Computer Science.
Aug 01, 2023 Our paper “L-DAWA: Layer-wise Divergence Aware Weight Aggregation in Federated Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning” was accepted at ICCV 2023.
Mar 31, 2023 :sparkles: Thrilled to announce that our submission to the NIST Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Prize Challenge has won :trophy: First Prize :trophy:. Please see the video announcement from the Summit for Democracy introduced by DSIT Secretary Michelle Donelan here. More information can be found at the following links:
  • The updated PETs Prize Challenges website is available here
  • The UK HMG press release here
  • The White House press release here
  • Blog profiling the UK winners here
Mar 22, 2023 :sparkles: Our work Decentralized Training of 3D Lane Detection with Automatic Labeling Using HD Maps was accepted at the Vehicular Technology Conferece - VTC2023-Spring.

selected publications

  1. ICCV
    L-DAWA: Layer-wise Divergence Aware Weight Aggregation in Federated Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning
    Yasar Rehman, Yan Gao, Jiajun Shen, and 3 more authors
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
  2. USENIX
    FedVal: Different good or different bad in federated learning
    Viktor Valadi, Xinchi Qiu, Mina Alibeigi, and 2 more authors
    In the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23 Winter), 2023
  3. JMLR
    A first look into the carbon footprint of federated learning
    Xinchi Qiu, Titouan Parcollet, Javier Fernandez-Marques, and 5 more authors
    Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2023
  4. VTC
    Decentralized Training of 3D Lane Detection with Automatic Labeling Using HD Maps
    Yadong Mao, Zhuqi Xiao, Che-Tsung Lin, and 4 more authors
    2023