Di Wang

Email: di.wang@kaust.edu.sa
Website: [中文主页] [PRADA Lab][Google Scholar]
CV: CV (last updated in January, 2022)
Address:
Al Khawarizmi Building 1, Room 4243
Division of CEMSE
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 23955-6900

Biography

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and an affiliated faculty of Statistics in the Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), start from Spring 2021. I am also the PI of Provable Responsible AI and Data Analytics (PRADA) Lab, and a member of Center of Excellence on Generative AI.

Before that, I got my Ph.D degree in Computer Science at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 2020 under supervision of Dr. Jinhui Xu. Before my Ph.D study I took my Master degree in Mathematics at University of Western Ontario in 2015, and I received my Bachelor degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Shandong University in 2014.

Research Areas

Broadly speaking, I am interested in trustworthy machine learning, large models. Specifically, I am focusing on making Machine Learning and Generative AI have controllable and editable memorization (such as data, concept, and knowledge). Based on different projects, I am also working on AI for Science. Please see my Publications and Research for details.

  • Data: differential privacy, machine unlearning, privacy-preserving machine learning

  • Concept: explainability, fairness, concept editing

  • Knowledge: knowledge editing, alignment, culturalization

  • AI for Science: optics, optical neural networks, healthcare, material science

    • News

    Opening Positions : I am always looking for visiting scholars, Postdocs, PhD students, (remote) interns, and visiting students. If you are interested in working with me, please send me your CV and transcripts before applying. Also check our website for details!

    News (May 2025) : Four papers have been accepted at Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)!

    News (May 2025) : One paper has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Information Theory!

    News (May 2025) : One paper has been accepted at The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2025)!

    News (May 2025) : One paper has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security!

    News (May 2025) : Two papers have been accepted at ICML 2025!

    News (April 2025) : One paper has been accepted at IJCAI 2025!

    News (April 2025) : One paper has been accepted at TKDE and TMLR!

    News (January 2025) : One paper has been accepted at WWW 2025, NAACL 2025, and TKDE!

    Awards

  • Best Paper Award, Asian Conference on Machine Learning 2022

  • Invited to The ACM Transactions on Database Systems special issue on Best of PODS 2022

  • CSE Best Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2020, SUNY at Buffalo

  • SEAS Dean's Graduate Achievement Award in 2019, SUNY at Buffalo

  • Best CSE Graduate Research Award in 2018, SUNY at Buffalo

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