Scholar
Flint Xiaofeng Fan
Google Scholar ID: MfU2wj8AAAAJ
ETH Zurich, NUS, A*STAR International Fellow
Citations & Impact
Citations
230
H-index
7
i10-index
4
Publications
16
Co-authors
20
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 1. Top Reviewer Award, NeurIPS 2025
- 2. AAMAS 2025 Student Scholarship Nominee (Selected based on research merit, but not conferred due to timing of PhD conferral)
- 3. A*STAR International Fellowship (2024)
- 4. AAMAS 2024 Student Scholarship (2024)
- 5. Research Achievement Award | School of Computing, NUS (AY2021-2022)
- 6. A*STAR Computing and Information Science Scholarship (2020 - 2024)
- 7. AWS Machine Learning Scholarship | Udacity (May 2020)
- 8. Dean's List (Top 5%) | College of Engineering, NTU (AY2017 - AY2018)
- 9. Dean's List (Top 5%) | College of Engineering, NTU (AY2016 - AY2017)
- 10. NTU President Research Scholar (Sep. 2017)
- 11. NTU Science and Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship (2015 - 2019)
- 12. SM2 Scholarship | Ministry of Education, Singapore (2014 - 2015)
- 13. National Third Prize | The 30th Chinese Physics Olympiad (Sep 2013)
- 14. Paper accepted by IEEE TrustCom 2025: Revisiting the Byzantine Resilience of Federated Reinforcement Learning: A Distillation Perspective
Research Experience
- 1. Postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich's Distributed Computing Group (DISCO), supervised by Prof. Roger Wattenhofer
- 2. Scientist at A*STAR's Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), hosted at A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), supervised by Prof. Ong Yew Soon (IEEE Fellow; President's Chair Professor at NTU; A*STAR Chief AI Scientist)
Education
- 1. Ph.D., Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS), Jan 2020 -- Feb 2025, Supervisors: Prof. Wei Tsang Ooi (NUS), Dr. Cheston Tan (A*STAR), and Prof. Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
- 2. Visiting Ph.D., D-ITET, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Sep 2022 -- Apr 2023
- 3. Exchange, EEE, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Jan 2017 -- Jun 2017
- 4. B.Eng., EEE, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Aug 2015 -- Jul 2019
Background
- Scientist in Multi-agent Systems of ML/AI; A*STAR International Fellow. Research interests include rigorously analyzing the theoretical underpinnings of decision-making in multi-agent systems, particularly collaborative, distributed, decentralized, and federated decision-making (e.g., through reinforcement learning). Recently, also started looking into LLMs, mainly post-training and RLHF.
Miscellany
- 1. Born Nov 1996
- 2. Currently residing in Zurich, Switzerland
