About me

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of North Carolina Greensboro, UNCG. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Department of Computer Science from University at Connecticut, UCONN in December 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Jinbo Bi, M.S. and B.S. in Mathematics from Zhengzhou University.

Research interests

My research interests include Machine Learning; Stochastic Optimization; Deep Learning; Differential Privacy; Sparse Learning; Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) and Federated Learning.

News

• (March 2023) I have joined the department of Computer Science at UNCG in Spring 2023.

• (Feb 2023) Reviewer for KDD 2023.

• (Dec 2022) Achieved doctoral degree from University at Connecticut.

• (Oct 2022) Our paper “Stochastic privacy-preserving methods for nonconvex sparse learning” is accepted by Information Sciences.

Teaching

• Instructor: CSC405+605(Fall2023): Data Science; CSC350(Fall2023): Foundations of Computer Science II. University of North Carolina Greensboro.
• Teaching Assistant: CSE1010: Introduction to Computing for Engineers; CSE5820: Machine Learning. University at Connecticut.

Contact

Email: q_tong@uncg.edu