Fei Wu

Fei Wu

Third-year Ph.D. candidate
at University of Exeter

Fei Wu (吴飞)

Overview

I am a fully funded Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, supervised by Prof. Jia Hu and Prof. Geyong Min. I also work in close collaboration with Prof. Shiqiang Wang. I received my M.Eng. degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2022.

My research interests focus on Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning, Federated Fine-Tuning for Foundation Models, Algorithm-Hardware Co-design, and Efficient AI Systems for resource-constrained environments.

News

  • [Jan. 2026] Our paper PSOFT was accepted to ICLR 2026.
  • [Jan. 2026] Our paper FedARA was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Computers.
  • [Dec. 2025] Completed AMD training on Accelerating Your Application with AMD GPUs.
  • [Mar. 2025] Attended the Flower AI Summit 2025 in London, UK.
  • [Dec. 2024] Completed NVIDIA training on Efficient Large Language Model (LLM) Customization.
  • [Oct. 2024] Awarded the additional doctoral funding support.
  • [Oct. 2023] Started PhD at the University of Exeter.

Selected Publications

  • [ICLR’26] Efficient Orthogonal Fine-Tuning with Principal Subspace Adaptation [Paper] [Code]

    Fei Wu, Jia Hu, Geyong Min, Shiqiang Wang
    The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), 2026.

  • [IEEE TC] Adaptive Rank Allocation for Federated Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Language Models [Paper]

    Fei Wu, Jia Hu, Geyong Min, Shiqiang Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Accepted, 2026.

  • [IEEE TCAS-II] NVP: A Flexible and Efficient Processor Architecture for Accelerating Diverse Computer Vision Tasks including DNN [Paper]

    Ye Liu, Fei Wu, Neng Zhao, Qirong Zhang, Wenqiang Wang, Yutong Yang, Xiangting Li, Sixu Li, Zili Huang, Shuang Hao, Guangbin Ou, Liang Zhou, Liang Chang, Shuisheng Lin, Ningyi Xu, Jun Zhou
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II), vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 271–275, 2023.

Awards

Competitions

  • National Third Prize, The China Graduate Circuit Design Contest (2021)
  • National Third Prize, The China Graduate Electronics Design Contest (2021) (Top 8.3%)
  • National Second Prize, The China Graduate Electronics Design Contest (2020) (Top 3.7%)
  • National Second Prize, Huawei Special Competition, The China Graduate Electronics Design Contest (2020)

Honors

  • Outstanding Graduate, Sichuan Province (2022) (nominated from Top 32 in Department)
  • Outstanding Graduate, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (2022)

Scholarships

  • Fully funded scholarship, with additional doctoral funding support (2023-2027)
  • First-Class Academic Scholarship of UESTC (2021)

Services

Reviewer

  • Conference: ICML’26, ICLR’26, AAAI’26, ICDCS‘24, TrustCom’25, HPCC’25
  • Journal: IEEE TPDS, IEEE TC, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE TAI

Supervision

Mentored an undergraduate student (Harry Min) from the University of Cambridge on a summer research project at Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter (Aug. - Sept. 2024), under the supervision of Prof. Jia Hu.

Trainings and Workshops

  • AMD Training - Accelerating Your Application with AMD GPUs (2025)
  • Flower AI Summit 2025 in London, UK (2025)
  • NVIDIA Training - Efficient Large Language Model (LLM) Customization (2024)