Profile

Lingjuan is a senior research scientist and team leader in Sony AI. She was an expert researcher in Ant Group, Research Fellow in National University of Singapore, and Research Fellow (Level B3, same level as lecturer/assistant professor) in Australian National University. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. She was a winner of the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Worldwide and contributed to various professional activities, including ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, WWW, etc. Her current research interests span federated learning, AI privacy and security, fairness, edge intelligence, etc. She has published over 40 papers in top conferences and journals, including NeurIPS, ICLR, IJCAI, SIGIR, etc. Her paper won the best paper award in FL-IJCAI’20.

Message

“The Sony AI Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) team conducts cutting-edge research on trustworthy AI. Our team aims to integrate more privacy-preserving and robust AI solutions across Sony products. In the long-term, I hope that we can make the industrial AI systems privacy-compliant and robust for social good.”

Publications

Protecting Intellectual Property of Language Generation APIs with Lexical Watermark

AAAI, 2022
Xuanli He*, Qiongkai Xu*, Lingjuan Lyu, Fangzhao Wu*, Chenguang Wang*

Nowadays, due to the breakthrough in natural language generation (NLG), including machine translation, document summarization, image captioning, etc NLG models have been encapsulated in cloud APIs to serve over half a billion people worldwide and process over one hundred bil…

DADFNet: Dual Attention and Dual Frequency-Guided Dehazing Network for Video-Empowered Intelligent Transportation

AAAI, 2022
Yu Guo*, Wen Liu*, Jiangtian Nie*, Lingjuan Lyu, Zehui Xiong*, Jiawen Kang*, Han Yu*, Dusit Niyato*

Visual surveillance technology is an indispensable functional component of advanced traffic management systems. It has been applied to perform traffic supervision tasks, such as object detection, tracking and recognition. However, adverse weather conditions, e.g., fog, haze …

Blog

November 29, 2021 | Sony AI

Meet the Team : Lingjuan, Jerone and Roberto

What do privacy, pattern recognition, and percussion all have in common? They are concepts and creative endeavors that have inspired Sony AI team members Lingjuan, Jerone and Roberto. Read on to learn more about these three Sony…

What do privacy, pattern recognition, and percussion all have in common? They are concepts and creative endeavors that have insp…