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Research interests
Trustworthy AI
Develop data-driven technology that can be trusted to do the critical work
CPS Security
Protect the critical infrastructure against cyber and physical attacks
Human-centric Technology
Design methods that respect human-centric needs and values
Future Energy Systems
Ensure sustainable and reliable access to power and energy for society
Selected Awards
- 1st Place Winner of the 2021 CityLearn Challenge (2021)
- Siebel Scholar (class of 2018)
- Best paper award, Building and Environment (2018)
- Best paper runner-up award at EAI MobiQuitous (2016)
- Best paper award at UBICOMM (2015)
News
Mar 2024Join us at IJCAI 2024 Workshop on Trustworthy Interactive Decision Making with Foundation Models (Call for Contributions)
Jan 2024Our project on LLMs for Supply Chain Cybersecurity, in collaboration with Prof. Peter Beling, has been selected for support by Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI).
Nov 2023Our project on safe RL for power systems, in collaboration with Prof. Javad Lavaei, has been selected for support by NSF under the Safe Learning-Enabled System Program.
Aug 2023Our project on Safe RL for Interactive Systems with Stakeholder Alignment has been selected for support by Amazon-VT Initiative in Efficient and Robust Machine Learning.
Aug 2023Paper on Optimization Autoformalism that uses large language models to craft optimization solutions for decision-making
Mar 2023Paper on certified robustness for neural ODE accepted in IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS)
Mar 2023Paper on derivative-free meta blackbox (nonconvex) optimization on manifold at L4DC 2023 (oral presentation)
Mar 2023Two papers theoretical analysis of Sobolev training and decision-focused variational inequality at IFAC World Congress 2023
Feb 2023One paper adversarial ML (sifting out clean data from poisoned data) at USENIX Security 2023
Jan 2023Three papers on meta-safe reinforcement learning (spotlight), model-agnostic data valuation (spotlight), and adversarial ML (certified robustness against UAP/backdoors) at ICLR 2023
Nov 2022Three papers at AAAI on winning the CityLearn Challenge (oral), approximation/statistical properties of solution functions (oral), and nonstationary risk-sensitive RL (oral)
Jun 2022Paper on dynamic regret for online optimization "Dynamic Regret Bounds for Online Nonconvex Optimization" to appear in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
Mar 2022Paper on general bi-level optimization "Iterative Implicit Gradients for Nonconvex Optimization with Variational Inequality Constraints"
Mar 2022Thanks The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) for supporting our research
Mar 2022Presentation at PMS 406 Autonomy MRE workshop on assured RL for dynamical systems
Feb 2022Paper on learning under specifications "Learning Neural Networks under Input-Output Specifications" (arXiv) to appear in ACC 2022