Our lab is focused on deep learning with a specific interest in Trustworthy and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI). That is, we are interested in understanding the weaknesses of AIs and making them robust and accurate in rare, unseen scenarios. We are also interested in building AIs that are interpretable to scientists and/or explainable to the end-users as the future of the world is to be heavily dependent on AIs and how they work with humans. We’re looking for talented Ph.D. students and postdocs!
Sponsors
Our lab has been grateful to receive funding from:
- National Science Foundation CAREER (#2145767)
- NaphCare Charitable Foundation (gift)
- National Science Foundation CRII (#1850117)
- Auburn University
- Adobe Systems Inc
- Amazon: AWS Educate & AWS Cloud Credits for Research
- Google Cloud Platform Education
- Nvidia GPU Donations
The following prestigious fellowships have supported our students:
- AU Presidential Graduate Research Fellowships (PGRF): Giang Nguyen (2021), Huy Hung Nguyen (2023)
- Woltosz Fellowship: Michael Alcorn (2018), Hai Phan (2021)
- AL EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholar: Hai Phan (2022)
- AU Charles Gavin Research Fellowship: Pooyan Rahmanzadehgervi (2022)
Our partner industry companies have recruited our students for summer internships:
- Adobe Research: Michael Alcorn (2019), Thang Pham (2021), Hai Phan (2022), Thang Pham (2023), Mohammad Taesiri (2024)
- Bosch: Qi Li (2020), Renan Gomez (2021)
- Noteworthy AI: Peijie Chen (2023, 2024)
Members
| Name | Status | Before Auburn | Internships during Ph.D. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thang Pham | Ph.D. student (2018 – present) | ML engineer @ AIST (Tokyo); BS @ VNUHCM (Vietnam) | 2021 Adobe, 2023 Adobe |
| Peijie Chen | Ph.D. student (2019 – present) | BS @ Shenzhen U | 2022 Noteworthy AI; 2024 Noteworthy AI |
| Hai Phan | Woltosz Fellow, EPSCoR GRSF Fellow Ph.D. student (2021 – present) | MS @ Carnegie Mellon U (Pittsburgh); BS @ VNUHCM | 2022 Adobe; 2022 Meta |
| Giang Nguyen | AU PGRF Fellow Ph.D. student (2021 – present) | BS @ HUST (Hanoi); MS @ KAIST (Korea) | |
| Pooyan Rahmanzadehgervi | AU Charles Gavin Research Fellow Ph.D. student (2022 – present) | MS @ Ferdowsi U of Mashhad (Iran) | |
| Tin Nguyen | Ph.D. student (2022 – present) | BS @ VNUHCM (Vietnam); MS @ Sejong U (Korea) | |
| Hung Huy Nguyen | AU PGRF Fellow Ph.D. student (2023 – present) | BS @ HUST (Vietnam); MS @ Seoul National University (Korea) | |
| Ali Yildirim | Ph.D. student (2024 – present) | BS @ Auburn U; AI Engineer @ KOBIL |
Alumni
| Name | Status | Before Auburn | Internships during Ph.D. | After Auburn | Now (as of 04/2024) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammad Reza Taesiri | Remote collaborator (2020 – 2024) | M.S. Sharif U | 2023 Ubisoft, 2024 Adobe | Ph.D. student at U Alberta | Ph.D. student at U Alberta |
| Renan Alfredo Rojas Gomez | Ph.D. student (2021-2023) co-advised with Prof. Minh Do at UIUC | 2021 Adobe | Ph.D. student at UIUC | ||
| Michael Alcorn | 2018 Woltosz Fellow
Ph.D. student (2018-2021) |
ML engineer @ Red Hat; MS @ UT Dallas; BS @ Auburn | 2019 Adobe
2020 Cleveland Indians; |
Postdoc at USDA | Senior ML Engineer Bear Flag Robotics |
| Qi Li | M.S. student (2018-2021) | BS @ Southeast U (Nanjing) | 2020 Bosch intern | Ph.D. student | |
| Chirag Agarwal | Ph.D. student (2018-2020) | MS @ U Illinois at Chicago | 2017 Kitware intern
2018 Tempus labs intern 2018 Bosch intern |
Postdoc at Harvard, Research Scientist at Adobe Research | Research Fellow at Harvard |
| Naman Bansal | M.S. student (2018-2020) | BS @ IIT-G | 2022 Facebook/Meta intern | Ph.D. student at Auburn | |
| Zhitao Gong | Ph.D. student (2017 – 2019) co-advised with Prof. Wei-shinn Ku | BS @ Nanjing U | 2017 Google intern
2018 Facebook intern |
Research Engineer at DeepMind | Research Engineer at DeepMind |
| Nader Akoury | Remote collaborator (2017 – 2018) | BS @ Duke; Software Engineer at Yelp | Ph.D. student at U Mass Amherst | ||
| Vishaal Kabilan | Research Intern (2017 – 2018) | MS @ Worcester Polytechnic | Data scientist at IBM Bangalore | ||
| Brandon Morris | B.S. student (2017 – 2018) | DoD SMART Ph.D. student at ASU |