Boyuan Zhang is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering, King’s College London, supervised by Professor Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei.

He received his MSc in Mobile and Personal Communications with Distinction from King’s College London in 2024, where his research on improving federated transfer learning led to a paper accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2025. He also received the Best Paper Award at the 52nd World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF). He is a student member of the IEEE and IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc).

Research Interests

• Federated Learning
• Wireless Communications
• Communication and Computing
• Sensing

Thesis Title

Optimisation of Federated Learning with Efficient Communication and Computation

Supervisor Team

First Supervisor: Professor Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Second Supervisor: Professor Toktam Mahmoodi

Publications

• Improving Federated Transfer Learning for Different Levels of Non-IID Data with Multi-round Transfer and Forgetting Mitigation. Published in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2025.
• Federated Learning Enhancement Through Transfer and Continual Learning Integration: Analyzing Effects of Different Levels of Dirichlet Distribution. Published in the 52nd World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF), 2024.