Associate Professor

Electrical and Systems Engineering

Computer and Information Science

Office: Amy Gutmann Hall, 513

Research Areas

  • Submodular optimization and its applications in machine learning
  • Robustness of neural networks
  • Distributed/Federated learning
  • Modern coding theory
  • (Large-scale) Probabilistic models
  • Graph matching: theory and algorithms

Awards

Projects/Papers

Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots
Watermark Smoothing Attacks against Language Models
Optimal Multitask Linear Regression and Contextual Bandits under Sparse Heterogeneity

Students

PhDs:

Davis Brown (co-advised with Eric Wong)