About the PI

Zining Zhu (朱子宁)
Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science
Office: Gateway North 414
Email: zzhu41@stevens.edu

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering and Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology. I direct the Explainable and Controllable AI lab. I’m also affiliated with the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) and the Center for Research Toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT). I am broadly interested in Natural Language Processing and Explainable AI. My research involves understanding the mechanisms and abilities of AI systems, explaining them in natural languages, and incorporating the findings into controlling the AI systems. I look forward to building safe and trustworthy AIs that can assist humans to better perform high-stake tasks. I received Ph.D. degree at the University of Toronto and Vector Institute, advised by Dr. Frank Rudzicz.

Recruitment
I’m looking for students to work on explainable and safe NLP and AI systems. If you are interested in working on these directions, please send me an email.

News
2024/06: I’m invited to serve as an Action Editor at ARR June / EMNLP 2024.
2024/06: We present a tutorial at NAACL: Explanation in the Era of Large Language Models.
2024/02: We organize a workshop at AAAI: Multimodal Machine Learning for Mental Healthcare.
2024/03: I’m invited to serve as an Area Chair at NeurIPS 2024.
2023/12: I receive a Top Reviewer Award at NeurIPS 2023.