Seven new members joined the distinguished community of CSE faculty in the last two years
Raj Ammanabrolu
Ph.D from Georgia Tech
Expertise: Machine Learning, Language Models
Ammanabrolu works to create trustworthy and responsible language-based AI agents that can align to human preferences after getting feedback, and can use neurosymbolic world models to guide their actions in grounded environments. He aims to imbue these agents with the ability to understand and generate contextually relevant natural language.
Trevor Bonjour
Ph.D. from Purdue University
Expertise: AI Education, Machine Learning
Bonjour’s work focuses on AI and AI education, with interests in machine learning, reinforcement learning, and causal inference. His current research focuses on developing reinforcement learning techniques for adaptive agents in novel, multi-agent environments. He also works on creating evidence-based approaches to enhance student learning of complex AI concepts.
Loris D’ Antoni
Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania
Expertise: Software, Machine Learning
D’Antoni focuses on helping people write software they can trust. His research combines formal techniques and machine learning approaches to generate computer programs that match human intents and to help people understand what the software they wrote does. His work has been applied to decisionmaking software, network confi gurations, and personalized education.
Yufei Ding
PhD from North Carolina State University
Expertise: Quantum Computing
Ding specializes in programming systems, influencing realms from machine learning to quantum computing. As a leader in intelligent programming, her work delves deeply into domain-specific language innovations, GPU-optimized library development, and cutting-edge compiler and architecture designs.
Deepak Kumar
PhD from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Online Saftey
Kumar’s research takes an empirical approach to studying the security and digital safety threats that emerge when people interact with sociotechnical systems at scale. Using large-scale, data-driven measurements and human-centered studies, he tries to understand how threats ranging from phishing to online abuse are operationalized in practice and how people experience them
Qipeng Liu
PhD from Princeton University
Expertise: Quantum Computing
Liu focuses on quantum computing, quantum information and cryptography in a quantum world. His research includes analyzing and understanding how safe existing cryptographic systems will be once quantum computing becomes widely available. He also works to build cryptography powered by quantum computing and information.
Lianhui Qin
PhD from University of Washington
Expertise: Machine Learning, Language Models
Qin’s research seeks to draw connections between reasoning and language generation. Her interests lie in natural language processing and machine learning, especially commonsense reasoning in text and conversation generation.
I am pleased to welcome these new faculty members who will join the ranks of acclaimed CSE faculty dedicated to impactful research, serving our students and improving society. They will also help further our important mission to foster a diverse and inclusive community.”
Haojian Jin
Jin’s research helps developers create systems with enhanced privacy and security features and helps users safeguard their privacy and security.
Yu-Xiang Wang
Wang’s research applies math and computing to design faster, stronger and more efficient ML algorithms with provable guarantees and to solve societal challenges that emerge in the AI era.
Hao Zhang
Zhang studies the intersection of machine learning and systems, with an interest in designing/building scalable, practical distributed systems and algorithms that can support real-world machine learning workloads.
Alex Gantman
Gantman is the Vice President of Security Engineering and Head of Product Security at Qualcomm. He is responsible for Secure Systems Development and Product Security at Qualcomm. He engages in CSE through teaching, mentoring and in an advisory role on issues related to security/privacy.
