US Georgia TechSchool of Computational Science and Engineering Dec 15
Chao Zhang Edenfield Early-Career Associate Professor Researches label-efficient text mining, knowledge extraction and natural language processing with large language models.
Large language models Knowledge, QA & retrieval Efficient training & inference2026 MLE-Smith: Scaling MLE Tasks with Automated Multi-agent Pipeline ICLR 2026 Towards Diverse Scientific Hypothesis Search with Large Language Models ICML 51 T1 · 66 papers · 9 members · 9 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Works on computer vision and generative models, including image editing and efficient multimodal AI systems.
Image & video generation Vision-language & multimodal Multimodal & grounded language2026 DuoGen: Towards Autonomous Interleaved Multimodal Generation CVPR 2026 MapReduce LoRA: Advancing the Pareto Front in Multi-Preference Optimization for Generative Models CVPR 48 T1 · 77 papers · 14 members SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Designs hardware accelerators and interconnection networks for machine learning.
Accelerators, chips & architecture2026 Compositional AI Beyond LLMs: System Implications of Neuro-Symbolic-Probabilistic Architectures ASPLOS 2026 Demystifying AI Platform Design for Distributed Inference of Next-Generation LLM Models ICCAD 43 T1 · 87 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS Georgia TechElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Pan Li Associate Professor Studies machine learning on graphs, including geometric deep learning for science and graph methods for trustworthy LLMs.
Trustworthy & safe ML Graph learning Geometry processing & modeling2026 ∇-Reasoner: LLM Reasoning via Test-Time Gradient Descent in Latent Space ICLR 2026 How Can State Space Models Enhance Machine Learning on Graphs? TPAMI 41 T1 · 60 papers · 7 members · 20 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Animesh Garg Stephen Fleming Early Career Asisstant Professor Leads the PAIR group on generalizable robot autonomy through representation, reinforcement and imitation learning.
Manipulation & robot learning2026 AMPLIFY: Actionless Motion Priors for Robot Learning from Videos ICRA 2026 An Empirical Study of Data-Loading Bottlenecks (and Non-Bottlenecks) in Robotic Imitation Learning CoRL 40 T1 · 52 papers · 16 members · 53 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Studies natural language processing and information extraction with minimal supervision, including from social media.
Language & society Knowledge, QA & retrieval Computational social science2026 Camellia: Benchmarking Cultural Biases in LLMs for Asian Languages EMNLP 2026 Do Vision-Language Models Respect Contextual Integrity in Location Disclosure? ICLR 36 T1 · 45 papers · 10 members · 8 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Computer Science Dec 15
Leads the EIC Lab on efficient machine learning through co-design of algorithms, accelerators and chips.
Accelerators, chips & architecture Efficient training & inference2025 A Unified Accelerator for Real-Time Rendering Across Diverse Neural Renderers HPCA 2025 Early-Bird Diffusion: Investigating and Leveraging Timestep-Aware Early-Bird Tickets in Diffusion Models for Efficient Training CVPR 36 T1 · 45 papers · 9 members · 15 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Bo Zhu Associate Professor Develops physics simulation algorithms for fluids and scientific machine learning for computational design.
Physics-based simulation & animation Geometry processing & modeling Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 A Few-Step Generative Model on Cumulative Flow Maps TOG 2026 Audible World Models: Spatially Aware Sound Generation for 3D Worlds NeurIPS 34 T1 · 48 papers · 8 members · 49 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Leads the GLAMOR Lab on grounding language in perception and robot actions.
Multimodal & grounded language Robot perception & SLAM2026 Auditing Multi-Agent LLM Reasoning Trees Outperforms Majority Vote and LLM-as-Judge EMNLP 2026 Believing without Seeing: Quality Scores for Contextualizing Vision-Language Model Explanations ACL 32 T1 · 62 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Sehoon Ha Associate Professor Combines physics-based animation and deep reinforcement learning for legged robot control and computational robot design.
Legged locomotion & humanoids Planning, control & multi-robot systems Physics-based simulation & animation2026 A Design Co-Pilot for Task-Tailored Manipulators IJRR 2026 FiLM-Nav: Efficient and Generalizable Navigation via VLM Fine-tuning ICRA 30 T1 · 51 papers · 14 members · 21 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Wei Xu Associate Professor Studies natural language processing, including text generation, stylistics, information extraction and writing assistance.
Knowledge, QA & retrieval Dialogue, generation & summarization2026 Camellia: Benchmarking Cultural Biases in LLMs for Asian Languages EMNLP 2026 Do Vision-Language Models Respect Contextual Integrity in Location Disclosure? ICLR 30 T1 · 38 papers · 13 members · 14 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering Dec 15
Studies trustworthy AI for robotics and autonomous systems.
Autonomous vehicles & drones Embodied & active vision Trustworthy & safe ML2026 AutoFocus-IL: VLM-based Saliency Maps for Data-Efficient Visual Imitation Learning without Extra Human Annotation ICRA 2026 CommCP: Efficient Multi-Agent Coordination via LLM-Based Communication with Conformal Prediction ICRA 29 T1 · 44 papers · 9 members · 30 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Researches speech recognition and deep learning for speech and audio signal processing.
Speech recognition & spoken language Music, audio & sound Signal processing & information theory2025 An Explicit Consistency-Preserving Loss Function for Phase Reconstruction and Speech Enhancement ICASSP 2025 The Multimodal Information Based Speech Processing (MISP) 2025 Challenge: Audio-Visual Diarization and Recognition Interspeech 24 T1 · 40 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Computational Science and Engineering Dec 15
B. Aditya Prakash Professor, Associate Chair for Academic Affairs Develops data mining and machine learning for networks and sequences, with applications to epidemic forecasting.
Data management & big data2026 AHA: Scalable Alternative History Analysis for Operational Timeseries Applications KDD 2026 Beyond Magic Words: Sharpness-Aware Prompt Evolving for Robust Large Language Models with TARE ICLR 23 T1 · 37 papers · 12 members · 8 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Danfei Xu Assistant Professor Develops robot learning methods such as imitation and reinforcement learning for physical autonomy in human environments.
Manipulation & robot learning Reinforcement learning2026 Compositional Visual Planning via Inference-Time Diffusion Scaling ICLR 2026 EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the World RSS 23 T1 · 35 papers · 19 members · 14 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Mechanical Engineering Dec 15
Ye Zhao Assistant Professor Directs the LIDAR lab on legged locomotion planning and control for humanoid robots.
Legged locomotion & humanoids Planning, control & multi-robot systems2026 ACLM: ADMM-Based Distributed Model Predictive Control for Collaborative Loco-Manipulation IROS 2026 Probabilistically-Safe Bipedal Navigation over Uncertain Terrain via Conformal Prediction and Contraction Analysis ICRA 20 T1 · 46 papers · 24 members · 63 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Computational Science and Engineering Dec 15
Anqi Wu Edenfield Early-Career Assistant Professor Develops probabilistic latent variable models for neural and behavioral data in computational neuroscience.
Probabilistic & causal inference Computational neuroscience & cognition Neuroscience & brain-computer interfaces2026 A Disentangled Low-Rank RNN Framework for Uncovering Neural Connectivity and Dynamics ICML 2026 A Hitchhiker's Guide to Poisson Gradient Estimation ICML 19 T1 · 21 papers · 6 members · 13 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Uses computational social science and language analysis of social media to reason about mental health and well-being.
Accessibility, health & wellbeing Social computing & responsible AI Language & society2026 (Re)mediators of Epistemic Injustice: Generative AI and Hermeneutic Resource Provision in Intimate Partner Violence In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI , to appear 2026 Adverse Mental Health Events As a Trigger for Online Harassment: Evidence from Online Conversations of Youth Experiencing Psychiatric Hospitalizations In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM , to appear 19 T1 · 76 papers · 23 members · 129 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Computer Science Dec 15
Abhishek Shetty Catherine M. and James E. Allchin Early-Career Assistant Professor Studies learning theory at the intersection of machine learning, theoretical computer science and statistics, including smoothed online learning and data…
Learning theory & optimization Data management & big data2026 An Empirical Bayes Perspective on Heteroskedastic Mean Estimation COLT 2026 Characterizing Online and Private Learnability under Distributional Constraints via Generalized Smoothness COLT 18 T1 · 23 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Studies machine learning for perception and robotics, including continual learning, semi-supervised learning and multi-sensor fusion.
Computational imaging & photography Embodied & active vision Robot perception & SLAM2026 FindingDory: A Benchmark to Evaluate Memory in Embodied Agents ECCV 2026 Let's Think in Two Steps: Mitigating Agreement Bias in MLLMs with Self-Grounded Verification ICLR 18 T1 · 54 papers · 20 members · 47 alumni Save