Gladwin Development Chair
Assistant Professor
Illinois Institute of Technology
Office: Stuart Building 226D
Mail: 10 W. 31st Street Room 226D, Chicago, IL 60616
E-mail: kshu at iit.edu
[11/2023] Received a DHS grant through CAOE to study combating misinformation in LLM era.
[10/2023] Received a Cisco Faculty Research Award to study large language models (LLMs).
[10/2023] Elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
[10/2023] One paper is accepted in EMNLP 2023 Findings.
[9/2023] Received the 2023 Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Award [Microsoft News].
[9/2023] One paper is accepted in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023.
[8/2023] Received a DOE grant to study machine learning surrogate modeling for distributed system simulations.
[6/2023] Invited to serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks.
[6/2023] Invited to serve as a Senior PC for AAAI 2024.
[5/2023] Received the DARPA AI Forward Scholarship [Workshop Recap].
[5/2023] One paper is accepted in KDD 2023.
[5/2023] Invited to serve as the PC Vice-Chair for Bench'23.
[4/2023] Received an IARPA grant on interpretable authorship attribution and obfuscation [IIT News].
[4/2023] Two papers are accepted in ACM SIGSIM-PADS’23.
[3/2023] Keynote invitation in BeyondFacts 2023 workshop, collocated in TheWebConf'23
[2/2023] AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Data Mining, Aminer 2023.
[2/2023] Grateful to receive a NSF SaTC grant to study the computational approaches for disinformation.
[2/2023] One paper is accepted in TheWebConf 2023.
[1/2023] One paper is accepted in EACL 2023.
[11/2022] Selected for the AAAI-2023 New Faculty Highlights Program.
Kai Shu is a (tenure-track) Gladwin Development Chair Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology since Fall 2020. His research lies in machine learning, data mining, social computing with applications such as disinformation, education, and healthcare. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at Arizona State University in July 2020, under the supervision of Professor Huan Liu. He was the recipients of 2023 Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Award, 2023 DARPA AI Forward Scholarship Award, 2023 AAAI New Faculty Highlights, 2023/2022 Cisco Faculty Research Awards, the finalist of a 2022 Meta Research Award, and 2020 ASU Engineering Dean's Dissertation Award. He interned at Microsoft Research AI, Yahoo Research and HP Labs. His research is generously supported by federal agencies such as NSF, DARPA, IARPA, DHS, and DOE, as well as industrial collaborators such as Cisco, Google, and Microsoft.
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