Xuefeng Xu

Modified

September 23, 2026

Education

  • University of WarwickCoventry, UK
    Ph.D. in Computer Science09/2024 - Present
    Supervisor: Graham Cormode and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
  • Beihang UniversityBeijing, China
    M.E. in Cyberspace Security09/2019 - 01/2022
  • Jilin UniversityChangchun, China
    B.E. in Communication Engineering09/2015 - 07/2019

Experience

  • University of OxfordOxford, UK
    Visiting Research Student09/2026 - Present
    Host: Graham Cormode
  • University of HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland
    Visiting Doctoral Researcher01/2026 - 04/2026
    Host: Antti Honkela
  • PrimiHubBeijing, China
    Privacy Engineer12/2022 - 08/2024
  • OPPO ResearchShenzhen, China
    Machine Learning Intern05/2022 - 08/2022

Research

Preprints
  1. Continuous Monitoring of Bayesian A/B Tests under Differential Privacy
    Xuefeng Xu, Joonas Jälkö, Antti Honkela, Graham Cormode
    Draft available on request
  2. SPRINT: Scalable Private Retrieval with Indexed Neighbor Trees
    Xuefeng Xu, Graham Cormode, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
    Draft available on request
Published
  1. Federated Computation of ROC and PR Curves
    Xuefeng Xu, Graham Cormode
    International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2027
  2. FedPS: Federated Preprocessing for structured data via aggregated Statistics
    Xuefeng Xu, Graham Cormode
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2026
  3. Power Transform Revisited: Numerically Stable, and Federated
    Xuefeng Xu, Graham Cormode
    Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2026
  4. Deep Learning Algorithms Design and Implementation Based on Differential Privacy
    Xuefeng Xu, Yanqing Yao, Lei Cheng
    International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security 2020

Teaching

Teaching Assistant
    @ University of Warwick
  • CS275 Probability and StatisticsAutumn 2025
  • CS909 Machine Learning Algorithms and PracticeSpring 2025
  • CS133 Professional SkillsAutumn 2024
    @ Beihang University
  • 39112201 Abstract AlgebraAutumn 2019

Service

Conference Reviewer
  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)2026
  • Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)2026 - 2027
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)2025 - 2027