FPAI-HPC'26The 3rd Workshop onFederated and Privacy-Preserving AI for HPC

In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2026

Location
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Date
September 22, 2026

Bringing together researchers and practitioners shaping collaborative AI across edge, cloud and high performance computing - without compromising data sovereignty.

01 / About

Advancing Trustworthy Federated AI at HPC Scale.

The 3rd Workshop on Federated and Privacy-Preserving AI for HPC (FPAI-HPC'26) brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, government, and research laboratories to advance trustworthy AI across distributed supercomputing environments without centralizing sensitive data. The workshop explores scalable federated training, communication efficiency, privacy and security, foundation models, scientific applications, sustainable AI, and agentic workflows while fostering shared platforms, meaningful evaluation metrics, and new collaborations for AI at HPC scale.

02 / Scope

From Foundations to Practice: Challenges in Federated and Privacy-Preserving AI.

Building on previous FPAI-HPC workshops at the Supercomputing conference series (SC), this edition brings together academia, industry, federal agencies, and research laboratories to advance federated and privacy-preserving AI for distributed HPC environments. Its scope spans the full stack—from foundation models, scalable aggregation, and communication-efficient systems to security, sustainability, scientific computing, and agentic workflows—connecting foundational theory with deployable systems and real-world applications.

Models

Collaborative Foundation models

Federated pretraining and fine-tuning of language, vision, and multimodal models across distributed supercomputing facilities.

Scale

Scalability & aggregation

Hierarchical federated learning, hybrid parallelism, and workload-aware optimization for multi-cluster systems.

Systems

Compute + Communication efficiency

Methods that bridge fast intra-facility interconnects and slower, higher-latency links between facilities.

Trust

Security & privacy

Adversarial robustness, backdoor vulnerabilities, data sovereignty, and differential privacy trade-offs.

Efficiency

Sustainable AI

Energy-aware resource allocation that maintains accuracy for federated AI at HPC scale.

Science

Scientific computing

Collaborative model training for climate science, genomics, physics simulations, and experimental facilities.

Agents

Federated Agentic AI

Federated learning within agentic workflows and intelligent agents that orchestrate federated pipelines.

What technologies, metrics, and safeguards make federated AI successful in the long term?

03 / Program

Featuring current developments across industry, academia and national laboratories.

Tentative, final schedule to be updated soon...

Symposium format

Talks, insights, and connect.

The workshop combines invited talks with a panel discussion on current and future challenges. All the talks and presentations will be made available on this page following the conference proceedings.

TimeActivityFormat
Opening remarksWelcome
Keynote speakerKeynote
Invited talk 1Invited talk
Morning breakBreak
Invited talk 2Invited talk
Ziyue XuInvited talk
Ang LiInvited talk
Yijiang LiInvited talk
Panel discussionPanel
Concluding remarksClosing

04 / Speakers

Voices across Federated AI and HPC.

Keynote and talk-title details will be added as the program is finalized.

Keynote

Keynote speaker

To be announced

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Speaker biography and profile details will be added when the keynote is announced.

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Ziyue Xu

Senior Scientist

NVIDIA, USA

Read bioClose bioZiyue Xu develops machine learning and computer vision methods for biomedical and clinical imaging, with research spanning medical AI, shape modeling, and graph-based analysis.

Ziyue Xu develops machine learning and computer vision methods for biomedical and clinical imaging, with research spanning medical AI, shape modeling, and graph-based analysis.

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Ang Li

Assistant Professor

University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Read bioClose bioAng Li works at the intersection of machine learning and edge computing, building collaborative, scalable, secure, and trustworthy intelligent systems with a focus on federated learning.

Ang Li works at the intersection of machine learning and edge computing, building collaborative, scalable, secure, and trustworthy intelligent systems with a focus on federated learning.

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Yijiang Li

Assistant Computational Mathematician

Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Read bioClose bioYijiang Li develops scalable federated learning for scientific computing, including cross-facility foundation-model training and queue-aware coordination across leadership-class HPC systems.

Yijiang Li develops scalable federated learning for scientific computing, including cross-facility foundation-model training and queue-aware coordination across leadership-class HPC systems.

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Jin-Hee Cho

Associate Professor

Virginia Tech, USA

Read bioClose bioJin-Hee Cho directs the Trustworthy Cyberspace Lab at Virginia Tech, working on trust management, uncertainty-aware decision-making, and AI for cybersecurity, with additional interests in moving target defense, deceptive defense, and network science.

Jin-Hee Cho directs the Trustworthy Cyberspace Lab at Virginia Tech, working on trust management, uncertainty-aware decision-making, and AI for cybersecurity, with additional interests in moving target defense, deceptive defense, and network science.

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TBA speaker

Invited speaker

To be announced

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Speaker biography and profile details will be added when this invited speaker is announced.

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05 / Committee

01

Organizers

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Sahil Tyagi

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Read bioClose bioSahil Tyagi is a postdoctoral research associate in ORNL's Analytics and AI Methods at Scale group. His work explores distributed and federated machine learning, with an emphasis on efficient training across heterogeneous clusters and unpredictable networks.

Sahil Tyagi is a postdoctoral research associate in ORNL's Analytics and AI Methods at Scale group. His work explores distributed and federated machine learning, with an emphasis on efficient training across heterogeneous clusters and unpredictable networks.

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Olivera Kotevska

Senior Research Scientist

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Read bioClose bioOlivera Kotevska is a senior research scientist in ORNL's Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Her research focuses on machine learning, secure AI, privacy-preserving technologies, and their use in scientific applications.

Olivera Kotevska is a senior research scientist in ORNL's Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Her research focuses on machine learning, secure AI, privacy-preserving technologies, and their use in scientific applications.

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02

Advisory Committee

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Georgia Tourassi

Associate Laboratory Director

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Read bioClose bioGeorgia Tourassi is Associate Laboratory Director of ORNL's Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. Her research spans high-performance computing and artificial intelligence in biomedicine, and her leadership helped deliver Frontier, the first exascale system dedicated to open science.

Georgia Tourassi is Associate Laboratory Director of ORNL's Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. Her research spans high-performance computing and artificial intelligence in biomedicine, and her leadership helped deliver Frontier, the first exascale system dedicated to open science.

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Feiyi Wang

Distinguished Research Scientist & Group Leader

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Read bioClose bioFeiyi Wang leads ORNL's Analytics and AI Methods at Scale group. His research interests include large-scale data analytics, distributed machine learning and benchmarking, high-performance storage systems, parallel I/O, and file systems.

Feiyi Wang leads ORNL's Analytics and AI Methods at Scale group. His research interests include large-scale data analytics, distributed machine learning and benchmarking, high-performance storage systems, parallel I/O, and file systems.

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03

Workshop Committee

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Chandreyee Bhowmick

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Read bioClose bioChandreyee Bhowmick researches resilient distributed machine learning systems that remain trustworthy under failures, attacks, and communication constraints. Her work combines ideas from machine learning, systems, and control to build reliable and scalable learning methods.

Chandreyee Bhowmick researches resilient distributed machine learning systems that remain trustworthy under failures, attacks, and communication constraints. Her work combines ideas from machine learning, systems, and control to build reliable and scalable learning methods.

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Jason Haga

Chief Senior Research Scientist

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Read bioClose bioJason Haga is a chief senior researcher at AIST. His research covers immersive visualization and analytics, user experience and interfaces, applied artificial intelligence, and edge computing.

Jason Haga is a chief senior researcher at AIST. His research covers immersive visualization and analytics, user experience and interfaces, applied artificial intelligence, and edge computing.

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Ravi Madduri

Senior Scientist & Group Leader

Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Read bioClose bioRavi Madduri is a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory whose work brings together high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine. He develops scalable, reproducible, and privacy-preserving approaches for data-intensive scientific research.

Ravi Madduri is a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory whose work brings together high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine. He develops scalable, reproducible, and privacy-preserving approaches for data-intensive scientific research.

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Truong Thao Nguyen

Senior Researcher

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Read bioClose bioTruong Thao Nguyen is a researcher at AIST specializing in high-performance computing, interconnection networks, distributed computing, and large-scale distributed deep learning.

Truong Thao Nguyen is a researcher at AIST specializing in high-performance computing, interconnection networks, distributed computing, and large-scale distributed deep learning.

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John Gounley

Computational Scientist & Group Leader

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Read bioClose bioJohn Gounley is a computational scientist at ORNL and leads the Scalable Biomedical Modeling group. His research focuses on scalable algorithms for biomedical simulations and data, including language models, distributed deep learning, and privacy-enhancing technologies.

John Gounley is a computational scientist at ORNL and leads the Scalable Biomedical Modeling group. His research focuses on scalable algorithms for biomedical simulations and data, including language models, distributed deep learning, and privacy-enhancing technologies.

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Ziyue Xu

Senior Scientist

NVIDIA, USA

Read bioClose bioZiyue Xu is a senior scientist at NVIDIA. His research focuses on image analysis and computer vision for biomedical and clinical imaging, including shape modeling, graph methods, machine learning, and federated learning.

Ziyue Xu is a senior scientist at NVIDIA. His research focuses on image analysis and computer vision for biomedical and clinical imaging, including shape modeling, graph methods, machine learning, and federated learning.

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06 / Previous workshops in the series