Carlos Guestrin
Fortinet Founders Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Develops scalable machine learning systems and methods for interpretable and reliable AI.
Carlos Guestrin's lab at Stanford works on trustworthy & safe ML and interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs. 16 papers since 2023, 11 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and ICLR. 11 PhD students. 24 alumni, most often to Google and Apple. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 69%
- PhD students
- 11
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 24
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 5
- 4 papers2024 · T1 2
- 2 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, NAACL, SIGMOD
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Trustworthy & safe ML0 papers
- Interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs0 papers
- scalable machine0 papers
- develops scalable0 papers
- interpretable0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20263 papers
- ICLR (T1)Obfuscated Activations Bypass LLM Latent-Space Defenses (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Relational Transformer: Toward Zero-Shot Foundation Models for Relational Data (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Data Eng. Bull.Towards AI-Native Data Systems with the Semantic Operator Model and LOTUS (opens in a new tab)
20257 papers
- NAACL (T1)Benchmarking Distributional Alignment of Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)metaTextGrad: Automatically optimizing language model optimizers (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Model Equality Testing: Which Model is this API Serving? (opens in a new tab)
- Nat.Optimizing generative AI by backpropagating language model feedback (opens in a new tab)
- VLDB (T1)Semantic Operators and Their Optimization: Towards AI-Based Data Analytics with Accuracy Guarantees (opens in a new tab)
- CIDRText2SQL is Not Enough: Unifying AI and Databases with TAG (opens in a new tab)
20244 papers
- SIGMOD (T1)ACORN: Performant and Predicate-Agnostic Search Over Vector Embeddings and Structured Data (opens in a new tab)
- SPExploiting Programmatic Behavior of LLMs: Dual-Use Through Standard Security Attacks (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Post-Hoc Reversal: Are We Selecting Models Prematurely? (opens in a new tab)
- SaTMLUnifying Corroborative and Contributive Attributions in Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went24 listed, 38% to industry
Industry 6Academia 10
Most often to
- Apple
- Meta
Also to
- Arizona State University
- Ben-Gurion University
- Caltech
Apply to StanfordFall 2027
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