Ju Ren
Associate Professor
Works on on-device and edge intelligence, including on-device large-model inference, memory systems, and privacy and security of large models.
Ju Ren's lab at Tsinghua works on security & privacy, efficient training & inference and large language models. 80 papers since 2023, 42 at top venues, mostly MobiCom and INFOCOM. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 21/ year
- at T1 venues
- 53%
- PhD students
- —
- MS students
- —
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 22 papers2026 · T1 17 · collecting
- 16 papers2025 · T1 6
- 28 papers2024 · T1 14
- 14 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: MobiCom, INFOCOM, ICML, ICLR, KDD
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Efficient training & inference19 papers
- Large language models14 papers
- Security & privacy5 papers
- on-device4 papers
- large-model inference0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202622 papers
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and SecurityA Fine-Tuning Data Recovery Attack on Generative Language Models via Backdooring
- KDD (T1)Accelerating Graph-Based RAG Retrieval via Locality-Aware Device–Cloud Collaboration
- ICML (T1)AdamO: A Collapse-Suppressed Optimizer for Offline RL
- MobiCom (T1)Attacking mmWave Imaging Using Metasurfaces Based on Intensity and Time-of-Flight Manipulation
- USENIX NSDIBridging Storage and Execution: A Semantic Virtual Bus for On-Demand Application Streaming
- CVPR (T1)CoIn: Coverage and Informativeness-Guided Token Reduction for Efficient Large Multimodal Models
- ICLR (T1)Context Learning for Multi-Agent Discussion
- INFOCOM (T1)EarAuth: Towards Practical Cardiac Vibration Authentication on COTS Wireless Earbuds
- ICML (T1)Executable Agentic Memory for GUI Agent
- ACM/IEEE Transactions on NetworkingFOVA: Offline Federated Reinforcement Learning with Mixed-Quality Data
- ICML (T1)Learning to Explore: Scaling Agentic Reasoning via Exploration-Aware Policy Optimization
- ICLR (T1)Less is more: Clustered Cross-Covariance Control for Offline RL
202516 papers
- ACM/IEEE Transactions on NetworkingAugFL: Augmenting Federated Learning with Pretrained Models
- MobiCom (T1)CGMM: Non-Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Wearables Using Metasurfaces
- EMNLP (T1)ConCISE: Confidence-guided Compression in Step-by-step Efficient Reasoning
- ACM MobiSysCoT-LM: A Data-Free Collaborative Fine-Tuning Framework for Large and Small Language Models
- ACM IMWUT/UbicompCross-Modal Federated Learning Among Unimodal Devices
- IEEE/ACM IWQoSFedAF: Alignment-Augmented Fusion for Federated Multimodal Learning with Small Labels
- MobiCom (T1)FocusX: All-in-Focus Image Synthesis for Dynamic Scenes on Mobile Devices
- USENIX ATCJenga: Enhancing Long-Context Fine-tuning of LLMs with Contextual Token Sparsity
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingMagicWrite: One-Dimensional Acoustic Tracking-Based Air Writing System
- IEEE/ACM IWQoSMalva: A Jitter-aware Online Pruning Framework for DNN Inference Tasks
- ACM MobiSysMetaGen: LLM-Driven Generative Framework for Intelligent Metasurface Element
- ACM/IEEE Transactions on NetworkingMomentum-Based Contextual Federated Reinforcement Learning
202428 papers
- ACM/IEEE Transactions on NetworkingA Communication-Efficient Hierarchical Federated Learning Framework Via Shaping Data Distribution at Edge
- ACM MobiSysAdaptive Metasurface-Based Acoustic Imaging using Joint Optimization
- INFOCOM (T1)AeroRec: An Efficient On-Device Recommendation Framework using Federated Self-Supervised Knowledge Distillation
- MobiCom (T1)Automated Optimization of mmWave Coverage using Low-cost Metasurfaces
- INFOCOM (T1)BR-DeFedRL: Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Reinforcement Learning with Fast Convergence and Communication Efficiency
- IEEE ICDCSEdgeVPR: Transformer-based Real-Time Video Person Re-Identification at the Edge
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingEfficient Resource Management and Expansion Scheme for Collaborative Edge-Cloud Computing
- ACM MobiSysEmpowering In-Browser Deep Learning Inference on Edge Through Just-In-Time Kernel Optimization
- INFOCOM (T1)Federated Offline Policy Optimization with Dual Regularization
- Chinese Journal of ElectronicsFederated Offline Reinforcement Learning with Proximal Policy Evaluation
- MobiCom (T1)GPMS: Enabling Indoor GNSS Positioning using Passive Metasurfaces
- ICML (T1)How to Leverage Diverse Demonstrations in Offline Imitation Learning
202314 papers
- INFOCOM (T1)A Hierarchical Knowledge Transfer Framework for Heterogeneous Federated Learning
- ICLR (T1)CLARE: Conservative Model-Based Reward Learning for Offline Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- IEEE Communications Surveys and TutorialsDistributed Artificial Intelligence Empowered by End-Edge-Cloud Computing: A Survey
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingDistributed Pricing and Bandwidth Allocation in Crowdsourced Wireless Community Networks
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingEfficient Dependent Task Offloading for Multiple Applications in MEC-Cloud System
- ACM/IEEE Transactions on NetworkingEfficient Revenue-based MEC Server Deployment and Management in Mobile Edge-Cloud Computing
- SenSys (T1)FedINC: An Exemplar-Free Continual Federated Learning Framework with Small Labeled Data
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsFL-AMM: Federated Learning Augmented Map Matching With Heterogeneous Cellular Moving Trajectories
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingHiMoDepth: Efficient Training-free High-resolution On-device Depth Perception
- CCS (T1)Learning from Limited Heterogeneous Training Data: Meta-Learning for Unsupervised Zero-day Web Attack Detection across Web Domains
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingMVPose: Realtime Multi-Person Pose Estimation using Motion Vector on Mobile Devices
- DAC (T1)Privacy-Preserving DNN Training with Prefetched Meta-Keys on Heterogeneous Neural Network Accelerators
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Apply to TsinghuaFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (international applicants)
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- RMB 800
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