About
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin Madison
. I am a member of machine learning@uw-madison
and a faculty affiliate with the Data Science Institute
. Previously I was as a postdoc researcher in the Computer Science department at Stanford University
, working with Christopher RĂ©
.
I completed my PhD from Cornell University
in 2017, where I was fortunate to be advised by John E. Hopcroft
.
My research focuses on algorithmic and theoretical foundations of safe and reliable AI, addressing challenges in both model development and deployment in the open world. This involves handling out-of-distribution data, quantifying uncertainty and learning novel structures and categories therein. Currently, our emphasis is on building responsible foundation models, such as large language models and vision-language models. We are driven to deeply understand how they work, when they fail, and effectively align them with human needs and desires.
[Openings] : I am looking for creative and curiosity-driven minds to join my lab, with fully funded positions. The admission decision at UW-Madison is committee-based. For questions regarding the application process, please see the FAQ . I highly recommend reading my [Advising Statement ] before you apply or email me.
Updates
12/3/2024
: I will be co-organizing two workshops at ICLR 2025 on responsible AI and uncertainty quantification for LLM.
11/1/2024
: Will be presenting 6 works at NeurIPS - see you in Vancouver!
5/1/2024
: 4 papers accepted by ICML 2024, congratulations to Xuefeng, Froilan, Shawn and Yifei!
1/16/2024
: 4 papers accepted by ICLR 2024.
9/12/2023
: Honored to be named "Innovator of the Year" by MIT Technology Review
, highlighted among the TR35 cohort this year.
7/19/2023
: Yiyou defended his Ph.D. thesis
- congratulations Dr. Sun!
6/26/2023
: Received funding from ONR to support OOD detection research - thanks ONR!
6/21/2023
: Received NSF CAREER Award
on "Foundations of Human-Centered Machine Learning in the Wild".
4/24/2023
: 3 papers accepted by ICML. Congratulations team!
2/11/2023
: Xuefeng received the inaugural Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship
.
12/14/2022
: Grateful to receive the AFOSR Young Investigator (YIP) Award
, sponsoring our work on "Human-Aligned Learning in the Open World (HALLOW)".
11/21/2022
: Received NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award
.
11/11/2022
: Excited to receive funding from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence
(CASMI), and partner on safe AI research.
11/2022
: Received Google-Initiated Research Grant.
9/14/2022
: 4 papers accpeted to NeurIPS 2022 and 1 paper accepted to NeurIPS 2022 Datasets and Benchmarks Track. Congrats to the team and co-authors!
8/26/2022
: Received Amazon Research Award
.
6/8/2022
: Received American Family Funding Intiative Award
.
5/15/2022
: 4 papers accepted by ICML, congratulations to the team!
4/15/2022
: Received ICLR Outstanding Paper Award Honorable Mention
.
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Misc
I travel and occasionally take photos. Here is my pictorial Travel Memo
. This is the treasure
I shoot with.
Sponsors
We are thankful for the generous funding award and gift from the following sponsors: