Guangtao Zheng

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85 Engineer's Way

Charlottesville, VA 22903

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at University of Virginia (UVA), advised by Prof. Aidong Zhang. Before joining UVA, I earned my Masterโ€™s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and my Bachelorโ€™s degree from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU).

My research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning focuses on developing robust AI systems capable of generalizing to new and diverse environments. My research involves:

  • Bias detection and mitigation
  • AI alignment
  • Meta-learning
  • Multimodal learning

In addition to solving fundamental machine learning problems, I am also passionate about application-driven machine learning, leveraging techniques such as self-supervised learning and generative modeling to accelerate knowledge discovery in genomics.

๐Ÿ“ฃ I am actively seeking internship, full-time, or postdoctoral positions and would be happy to discuss any potential opportunities.

News

Oct 2024 One paper on benchmarking spurious biases in Multimodal LLMs is accepted @NeurIPS 2024โ€™s Workshop on Responsibly Building the Next Generation of Multimodal Foundational Models ๐ŸŽ‰
Sep 2024 One paper on evaluating unsupervised vector representations of genomic regions is published @NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics ๐ŸŽ‰
Jul 2024 One paper on the method for benchmarking spurious bias in few-shot classifiers is accepted @ ECCV 2024! ๐ŸŽ‰
May 2024 One paper on mitigating spurious bias using VLMs and meta-learning is accepted @ KDD 2024! ๐ŸŽ‰
Apr 2024 One paper on mitigating spurious bias using VLMs is accepted @ IJCAI 2024! ๐ŸŽ‰
Mar 2024 Passed my PhD Dissertation Proposal ๐Ÿ˜€
Dec 2023 One paper on single domain generalization with semantic augmentations is accepted @ AAAI 2024! ๐ŸŽ‰