Assistant Professor, UCSB ECE
Affiliated Faculty, UCSB CS
Co-director of REAL AI ๐ฆพ
๐งย first name at ucsb dot edu
๐ผย Harold Frank Hall 3161
๐ย Ph.D @ Carnegie Mellon University
๐ย B.Eng @ KAIST
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Weโre hiring two postdoc positions at REAL AI. See more information here.
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Check out our REAL AI Bootcamp launching this September! All highschool students are welcome ๐
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Our Lab News(Sep โ25) Weโre launching REAL AI Bootcamp in collaboration with UCSBโ School of Scientific Thought program.
(Aug โ25) Congratulations Rasta for passing the Major Area Exam at UCSBโs CS department ๐ฅณ
(Jul โ25)Sid presented a poster on โCosmoFlow: Scale-Aware Representation Learning for Cosmology with Flow Matchingโ at ICML 2025 Workshop on ML4Astro.
(Jul โ25)Rastaโs work on โFAIM: Fair Imputation with Adversarial Training for Mitigating Bias in Missing Dataโ got accepted at ICML 2025 workshop on DataWorld: Unifying Data Curation Frameworks Across Domains. (Jun โ25)Arjun gave a talk on our paper โGone With the Bits: Revealing Racial Bias in Low-Rate Neural Compression for Facial Imagesโ at FAccT 2025. In parallel, Tian and Rasta, two other PhD students who led the project, presented a poster at โLearn to Compress & Compress to Learnโ workshop at ISIT 2025.
(Jun โ25) Congratulations Iain Weissburg for graduation๐จ๐ปโ๐๐ He has participated in three papers while he was working at our lab. Incredible achievement and exciting next step at Nvidia!
(May โ25)Iain and Sathvika presented our work on โLLMs are biased teachers: Evaluating llm bias in personalized educationโ at NAACL 2025.
(Apr โ25)Youngseok presented our work on โModel Collapse in the Self-Consuming Chain of Diffusion Finetuning: A Novel Perspective from Quantitative Trait Modelingโ at the DATA-FM@ICLRโ25 workshop.
(Apr โ25) Our collaborator Richard (JP Morgan AI Research) presented our work on "Can We Catch the Two Birds of Fairness and Privacy?โ at theFinancial AI @ICLR 2025 workshop.
(Apr โ25)PI Jeong presented a paper on โCorrelated privacy mechanisms for differentially private distributed mean estimationโ at SatML โ25.
(Feb โ25)PI Jeong gave a public talk at Pacific Views Lecture Series on โEthical AI: Serving Humanity or Falling Short?โ
Research
Our labโs mission is to do science for machine learning and machine learning for science. We advance our fundamental understanding of machine learning algorithms and we apply data-driven approaches to solve challenging scientific problems. Specifically, our labโs research centers around three research themes: reliable computing for ML, responsible AI, and ML for science. See below for more information about each theme.
Keywords:Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Algorithmic Fairness, Generative Models, Information Theory, Differential Privacy, Distributed Computing, Fault-tolerant Computing, Quantum Computing, AI for Science, AstroAI
Research Themes
Responsible AI
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Responsible AI
Reliable Computing (Classical + Quantum)
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Reliable Computing (Classical + Quantum)
ML for Science
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ML for Science
Current Lab Members
Rasta Tadayon
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Rasta Tadayon
4th year PhD Student (CS)
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rastadayon.github.io
Neel Sankaran
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Neel Sankaran
2nd year Masters Student (ECE)
๐ฌML for Science
Sid Kannan
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Sid Kannan
4th Year Undergrad, Physics and Computing
๐ฌML for Science
sidk2.github.io
Rohan Bhatt
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Rohan Bhatt
3rd Year Physics Undergraduate Student
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Daniel Holmberg
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Daniel Holmberg
4th year PhD Student
๐ฌML for Science
danielholmberg.fi
Arjun Nichani
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Arjun Nichani
3rd year PhD Student (CS)
๐๏ธResponsible AI
arjunnichani.com
Tian Qiu
Tian Qiu
2nd year PhD Student (ECE)
๐๏ธResponsible AI๐ฌML for Science
qiutiantxwd.github.io
Youngseok Yoon
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Youngseok Yoon
2nd year PhD Student (ECE)
๐๏ธResponsible AI
youngseok-yoon.github.io
Lab Alumni
Dainong Hu
Dainong Hu
MS Alumni
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Harold Mo
Harold Mo
BS Alumni
๐๏ธResponsible AI
Iain Weissburg
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Iain Weissburg
BS/MS Alumni; Now MLE @ Nvidia
๐๏ธResponsible AI
Jack Shoemaker
Jack Shoemaker
BS Alumni
๐๏ธResponsible AI
Jai Uparkar
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Jai Uparkar
alumni
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Cheryl Stanley
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Cheryl Stanley
BS Alumni, Now at UCSD
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Jin Lee
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Jin Lee
MS alumni, Currently a UCSB PhD student
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