CV

Education

• Ph.D in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (香港科技大学), Guangzhou, CHN, 2023-？
  • Internet of Things Thrust, Information Hub
  • Advised by Assoc Prof. Hong Xing
• Master in Xiamen University (厦门大学), Xiamen, CHN, 2020-2023
  • Major in Signal and Information Processing
  • School of Informatics, Smart DSP Lab
  • Advised by Prof. Xinghao Ding (co-advised by Xiaotong Tu)
• Bachelor in Shenzhen University (深圳大学), Shenzhen, CHN, 2016-2020
  • Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), majoring in Electronic Information Engineering, College of Electronics and Information Engineering
  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.), double majoring in Statistics, College of Mathematics and Statistics

Academic records

• Master in Xiamen University (厦门大学), Xiamen, CHN
  • GPA: 3.80/4.0 [details (EN)] [details (CN)]
  • Rank: 1/102
• Bachelor in Shenzhen University (深圳大学), Shenzhen, CHN
  • GPA: 3.86/4.5 [details (EN)] [details (CN)]
  • Centesimal grade average: 89.2 [details (EN)] [details (CN)]
  • Rank: 6/155

Awards & Honors

• Outstanding Graduate Students, Xiamen University, 2022
• Outstanding Student Caders, Xiamen University, 2022
• The First Price Scholarship, Xiamen University, 2022
• Outstanding Volunteers, Xiamen University, 2022
• Outstanding Graduate Students, Xiamen University, 2021
• Outstanding Graduates, Shenzhen University, 2020
• The First Price Scholarship, Shenzhen University, 2019
• The Second Price Academic Scholarship, Shenzhen University, 2019
• The Second Price Academic Scholarship, Shenzhen University, 2017

Skills

• Programming: Matlab, LaTex, Python, PyTorch
• Languages: Chinese, English
• Software: Office, Endnote

Publications

1. An Improved Privacy and Utility Analysis of Differentially Private SGD with Bounded Domain and Smooth Losses
   Liang, Hao and Zhang, Wanrong and He, Xinlei and Wu, Kaishun and Xing, Hong*
   in 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
   

2. Learning an Interpretable End-to-End Network for Real-Time Acoustic Beamforming
   Liang, Hao and Zhou, Guanxing, and Tu, Xiaotong*, and Jakobsson, Andreas and Ding, Xinghao and Huang, Yue
   Journal of Sound and Vibration (JSV), 2024
   

3. Adaptive Sparse Estimation of Nonlinear Chirp Signals using Laplace Priors
   Tu, Xiaotong and Liang, Hao* and Jakobsson, Andreas and Huang, Yue and Ding, Xinghao
   The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), 2024
   

4. Learning to Sound Imaging by a Model-based Interpretable Network
   Zhang, Yonghua and Tu, Xiaotong* and Abbas, Saqlain and Liang, Hao and Huang, Yue and Ding, Xinghao
   Signal Processing, 2023
   

5. Adaptive Nonlinear Group Delay Mode Estimation
   Mao, Yijin and Tu, Xiaotong* and Abbas, Saqlain and Liang, Hao and Huang, Yue and Ding, Xinghao
   Signal Processing, 2023
   

6. Acoustic-Net: A Novel Neural Network for Sound Localization and Quantification
   Zhou, Guanxing and Liang, Hao and Ding, Xinghao and Huang, Yue and Tu, Xiaotong* and Abbas, Saqlain
   in 19th Asia-Pacific Vibration Conference (APVC), 2022
   

7. Sparse Optimization for Nonlinear Group Delay Mode Estimation
   Liang, Hao and Ding, Xinghao and Jakobsson, Andreas and Tu, Xiaotong* and Huang, Yue
   The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), 2022
   

8. A Robust Low-Rank Matrix Completion Based on Truncated Nuclear Norm and Lp-norm
   Liang, Hao and Li, Kang* and Huang, Jianjun
   The Journal of Supercomputing, 2022
   

9. Adaptive Variational Nonlinear Chirp Mode Decomposition
   Liang, Hao and Ding, Xinghao and Jakobsson, Andreas and Tu, Xiaotong* and Huang, Yue
   in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022
   

10. High-Resolution Source Localization Exploiting the Sparsity of the Beamforming Map
    Ding, Xinghao and Liang, Hao and Jakobsson, Andreas and Tu, Xiaotong* and Huang, Yue
    Signal Processing, 2022