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Carnegie Bosch Fellowship 2024 Faculty Hosts Prospective Areas of Research for Fellows

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Carnegie Bosch Fellowship 2024 Faculty Hosts Prospective Areas of Research for Fellows

Table of Contents Artificial Intelligence ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Yuejie Chi ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 John Dolan ....................................................................................................................................................... 4 Dina El-Zanfaly ................................................................................................................................................. 5 Zackory Erickson ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Motahhare Eslami ............................................................................................................................................ 6 Fei Fang ........................................................................................................................................................... 6 Mayank Goel .................................................................................................................................................... 7 Evelyn Gong ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 Pulkit Grover .................................................................................................................................................... 8 Eni Halilaj ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 Zakia Hammal .................................................................................................................................................. 9 Hoda Heidari .................................................................................................................................................. 10 Laszlo Jeni ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 Zhihao Jia ....................................................................................................................................................... 11 Carlee Joe-Wong ............................................................................................................................................ 11 Gauri Joshi ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 Eunsuk Kang ................................................................................................................................................... 12 Valerie Karplus ............................................................................................................................................... 13 Swarun Kumar ................................................................................................................................................ 13 Christian Lebiere ............................................................................................................................................ 14 Philip LeDuc ................................................................................................................................................... 14 Lei Li .............................................................................................................................................................. 15 Christopher McComb ...................................................................................................................................... 15 Axel Moore .................................................................................................................................................... 16 Yorie Nakahira ................................................................................................................................................ 16

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Graham Neubig .............................................................................................................................................. 17 Guannan Qu ................................................................................................................................................... 18 Aditi Raghunathan .......................................................................................................................................... 19 Aaditya Ramdas .............................................................................................................................................. 20 Sebastian Scherer ........................................................................................................................................... 20 Hong Shen ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 Guanya Shi ..................................................................................................................................................... 22 Dimitrios Skarlatos .......................................................................................................................................... 22 Ameet Talwalkar............................................................................................................................................. 23 Pingbo Tang ................................................................................................................................................... 23 Conrad Tucker ................................................................................................................................................ 24 Shubham Tulsiani ........................................................................................................................................... 24 Weina Wang .................................................................................................................................................. 25 Shinji Watanabe ............................................................................................................................................. 25 Osman Yağan ................................................................................................................................................. 26 Cybersecurity + Privacy .................................................................................................................................. 26 Alessandro Acquisti ........................................................................................................................................ 26 Jonathan Aldrich ............................................................................................................................................. 27 Lujo Bauer...................................................................................................................................................... 27 Cleotilde Gonzalez .......................................................................................................................................... 28 Hanan Hibshi .................................................................................................................................................. 28 Limin Jia ......................................................................................................................................................... 29 Bryan Parno ................................................................................................................................................... 30 Corina Pasareanu............................................................................................................................................ 30 Riccardo Paccagnella....................................................................................................................................... 31 Jon Peha ........................................................................................................................................................ 31 Norman Sadeh ............................................................................................................................................... 32 Mark Sherman................................................................................................................................................ 32 Justine Sherry ................................................................................................................................................. 33 Elaine Shi ....................................................................................................................................................... 33 Bryan Wilder .................................................................................................................................................. 34 Wenting Zheng ............................................................................................................................................... 34 2023 CBI Faculty Hosts (not taking new CBI fellows until 2025) ........................................................................ 35 Sauvik Das ...................................................................................................................................................... 35 Aaron Johnson ............................................................................................................................................... 35

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Virginia Smith ................................................................................................................................................. 36 Steven Wu ..................................................................................................................................................... 36

Artificial Intelligence Yuejie Chi Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) Algorithmic foundation of AI+ 2) Design and development of learning algorithms in sample/resource-starved complex environments Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to develop novel algorithms with performance guarantees for reinforcement learning in multi-agent and federated settings, using historically available datasets. Extension and testing of such algorithms in practical/interdisciplinary use cases is encouraged.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/chi-yuejie.html

John Dolan Principal Systems Scientist Robotics Institute Research Areas: 1) Robot autonomy 2) Safe control for autonomous vehicles - with focus on social cooperation Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to develop new approaches and applications to modeling dynamics, behaviors, control, and safety in traffic and pedestrian scenarios.

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Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/dolan-john.html

Dina El-Zanfaly Assistant Professor, Design Research Areas: 1) Human-Machine Interaction 2) Augmented XR 3) Participatory Design of AI Systems Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will expand research on developing and incorporating participatory design guidelines in developing AI systems by focusing on interactive AI-Augmented Reality applications for hands-on skills in manufacturing, such as welding. Through this investigation, we will be able to generate frameworks and guidelines that aim to be generalizable to other human-AI-XR applications.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/el-zanfaly-dina.html

Zackory Erickson Assistant Professor, Robotics Institute Research Areas: 1) AI methods for healthcare and advanced robotic manipulation 2) Physical human-robot interaction, multimodal perception, and physical simulation for HRI. Intention for CBI Fellow: The proposed area of research for the postdoc is AI modeling for multimodal perception and large language model (LLM) generalized control to advance robot manipulation of diverse liquids. Through this investigation, we aim to enhance our understanding of automated interaction with

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liquids, create novel datasets and AI-based perception and manipulation methods, and demonstrate our systems across realworld industries.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/erickson-zackory.html

Motahhare Eslami Assistant Professor, Human Computer-Interaction Institute, Software and Societal Systems Research Areas: 1) AI accountability 2) Social implications of AI Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will work on AI accountability, with a focus on investigating the challenges in AI systems, especially for marginalized communities. The postdoctoral fellow is expected to engage in interdisciplinary work and collaborate with both academic and industry partners.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/eslami-motahhare.html

Fei Fang Associate Professor, Software and Societal Systems Research Areas: 3) LLM-based agents for multi-agent scenarios 4) Game theory 5) Multi-agent reinforcement learning Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will expand research at the intersection of LLMs, game theory, (multi-agent) reinforcement learning. The postdoc will be an expert in at least one of those three areas, with a good understanding of the other two in order to perform research as well as mentor or advise Ph.D. students.

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The focus of the investigation is to develop intelligent agents that can operate in real-world scenarios that feature multi-agent cooperation and competition.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/fang-fei.html

Mayank Goel Associate Professor, Software and Societal Systems and HumanComputer Interaction Institute Research Areas: 1) Sensing and Machine Learning 2) Security and Privacy 3) Healthcare Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will 1) Develop more advanced ML models to identify user behavior; 2) Develop AI agents to deliver personalized interventions; 3) Develop situation and context-aware agents to guide the user in medical situations; 4) Develop data visualization strategies to aid in clinical decision making; and 5) Build robust and scalable systems to facilitate larger field deployment.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/goel-mayank.html

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Evelyn Gong Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Tepper School of Business Research Areas: 1) AI for supply chain and sustainability 2) Reinforcement learning, algorithms and optimization.

Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will use domain expertise to design better artificial intelligent solutions for more sustainable and more efficient supply chains.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/gong-evelyn.html

Pulkit Grover Angel Jordan Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Neuroscience Institute, Biomedical Engineering, Center for Neural Basis of Cognition Research Areas: AI Theory and Development for brain stimulation and sensing Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will work with engineers and biologists to bring AI into brain lab, developing novel algorithms for localized, selective stimulation and sensing of the brain.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/grover-pulkit.html

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Eni Halilaj Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics Institute Research Areas: 1) Human movement biomechanics 2) Hybrid modeling (physics + deep learning) 3) Ubiquitous computing, with a focus on wearables and smartphones Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to advance research in the area of physics-informed deep learning, with applications in computer vision and dynamic simulations of movement.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/halilaj-eni.html

Zakia Hammal Systems Scientist, Robotics Institute Research Areas: 1) Multimodal machine learning 2) Multimodal behavioral modeling from video 3) AI for health sciences and medicine Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would have the flexibility to contribute and expand the scope of research pursued in the group, e.g. in the areas of multimodal machine learning, domain transfer and adaptation, few shot learning, and federated learning for human behavior modeling from video.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/hammal-zakia.html

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Hoda Heidari K&L Gates Career Development Assistant Professor in Ethics and Computational Technologies Research Areas: 1) Fairness in AI 2) Societal implications of AI Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to understand and mitigate unfair disparities by applying machine learning models in socially consequential domains.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/heidari-hoda.html

Laszlo Jeni Assistant Research Professor, Robotics Institute Research Areas: 1) Computer vision 2) Computational behavior science 3) Human sensing 4) Multimodal data synthesis Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will introduce new methodologies to enhance the computational analysis of human sensing, focusing on refining 3D face alignment techniques and human pose estimation under challenging conditions. Their contribution to the development of Social Digital Twins can expand the application of this concept into clinical psychology, education, and affective computing, deepening its practical implications.

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Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/jeni-laszlo.html

Zhihao Jia Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Research Areas: 1) Sparsity in deep learning 2) Large-scale AI 3) ML systems Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would leverage sparse AI techniques and architectures to build a bridge between academia and industry, with focus on domains of interest for Bosch (e.g., manufacturing, engineering, supply chain management, and intelligent services).

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/jia-zhihao.html

Carlee Joe-Wong Robert E. Doherty Career Development Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) Internet of Things 2) Distributed AI for resource-constrained devices Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to advance research in distributed AI by applying theoretical analysis and testbed experiments to industrial use cases.

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Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/joe-wong-carlee.html

Gauri Joshi Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) Distributed machine learning 2) Federated learning Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to expand the scope of ongoing research, addressing pertinent issues in federated learning. Furthermore, the postdoc is expected to help supervise Ph.D. students in the lab.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/joshi-gauri.html

Eunsuk Kang Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems Research Areas: Safety and reliability of AI-driven software systems Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will be involved in the following: (1) developing new techniques for efficiently verifying the robustness of ML-based cyber-physical systems, especially in the context of multi-agent systems (e.g., multi-drone coordination); and (2) data-driven methods for improving the robustness of an existing system by learning from failure scenarios.

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Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/kang-eunsuk.html

Valerie Karplus Professor, Engineering and Public Policy Research Areas: 1) AI and ML for decarbonizing heating requirements 2) Advanced machine learning algorithms Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would develop AI solutions to reveal important dependencies in plant design decisions and inform industry-specific projections of decarbonization strategies.

Such AI solutions will be informed by interviews with industry experts, to which the team maintains broad connections, and by sustainable strategies (e.g., cost effectiveness, equitability). A major focus of this work would be on iron and steel and downstream automotive components manufacturing, but could be broadened.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/karplus-valerie.html

Swarun Kumar Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) Artificial Intelligence for wearable devices 2) Artificial Intelligence for health care Intention for CBI Fellow: The proposed research will not merely be around data analytics but instead work end-to-end: the postdoc will work and speak to clinicians, be involved in user studies with patients, develop hardware and software platforms for sensor technologies as well as the AI/ML tools needed to process sensed data.

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Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/kumar-swarun.html

Christian Lebiere Research Faculty, Psychology Research Areas: 1) Cognitive architectures 2) Cognitive models of human behavior 3) Human-Machine teaming in cyber domains Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to tackle theoretical and practical challenges related to applying cognitive architectures to cyber-security, with a focus on the integration of cognitive models with large knowledge repositories and scalable deep learning algorithms.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/lebiere-christian.html

Philip LeDuc William J. Brown Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering Director, Center for the Mechanics and Engineering of Cellular Systems Research Areas: Basic science and applied research in the intersection of mechanical engineering and biological systems ranging from algae to artificial cells to developmental biology.

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Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will leverage novel approaches in Artificial Intelligence to understand how general principles may apply across diverse nature-based systems.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/leduc-philip.html

Lei Li Assistant Professor, Language Technologies Institute Research Areas: 1) Trustworthy large language models 2) Multilingual NLP and translation 3) AI for science Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will work on safe large language models (LLMs) and authenticity of LLM generation aiming to develop methods to ensure socially compatible, factual and ethical text as well as methods that can easily identify AI generated text versus human written text.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/li-lei.html

Christopher McComb Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Director, Human + AI Design Initiative Research Areas: 1) Human-AI collaboration 2) Physics-informed machine learning 3) Digital twins of sociotechnical systems Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will have the opportunity to work on a broad variety of applications in areas like drone

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logistics, additive manufacturing, hybrid manufacturing, engineering design, and community resilience to climate change, conducting studies that are exclusively computational or also entail human-subjects research.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/mccomb-christopher.html

Axel Moore Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Research Areas: AI for healthcare – Osteoarthritis detection Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will help to develop methods to detect and characterize relationships between in vivo biomarkers and accessible sensor technologies (e.g., fitbit). The Postdoctoral Fellow will have the opportunity to work closely with the PI and engage in human subjects research and work with clinicians, while furthering their development of an independent line of AI research.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/mccomb-christopher.html

Yorie Nakahira Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neuroscience Institute, Robotics Institute Research Areas: 1) Safety in Artificial Intelligence 2) Artificial Intelligence for real-time autonomous systems 3) Adversarial Artificial Intelligence

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Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will leverage novel approaches in Artificial Intelligence to understand how general principles may apply across diverse nature-based systems.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/nakahira-yorie.html

Graham Neubig Associate Professor, Language Technology Institute Research Areas: 1) Open-source large language models 2) Automatic tuning of large language models Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will help to 1) develop endto-end pipelines for effectively retrieving data and models from open-source repositories, generating data for training, and improving final model performance; 2) examine methods that can move beyond the simpler scenario of text-based machine learning models to models that can function over various modalities; 3) examine methods for learning under constraints, including constraints on training time, memory size, inference time, or fairness of the final model outcomes.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/neubig-graham.html

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Guannan Qu Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) AI/ML for real-world engineering systems.

2) Scalable and safe AI/ML solutions for large-scale networked systems (e.g. energy, traffic, edge devices) 3) Learning-based control Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would develop new algorithms and theories. Tentative topics include distributed and scalable multi-agent reinforcement learning for edge devices, learning-based control and decision making in uncertain and timevarying environments, and embedding domain knowledge in model-free reinforcement learning.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/qu-guannan.html

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Aditi Raghunathan Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Research Areas: 1) Robust machine learning 2) Continual learning 3) Foundation models Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would lead projects in the main directions explored in the lab, working with and mentoring students in: 1) continual learning and adaptation to distribution shifts; and 2) leveraging large pre-trained models such as GPT3 and CLIP for improving robustness. The directions are relatively open-ended, requiring strong initiative, leadership and research experience to guide the development of appropriate benchmarks that reflect practically relevant situations, to work with large-scale models and come up with elegant technical solutions to improve performance.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/raghunathan-aditi.html

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Aaditya Ramdas Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science; Machine Learning Research Areas: Differential Privacy Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to work in the area of differentially private statistical inference, applying Bayesian methods and machine learning models to study how valid statistical results can be obtained while guaranteeing minimal loss of privacy.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/ramdas-aaditya.html

Sebastian Scherer Associate Research Professor, Robotics Institute Research Areas: 1) AI for real-world robotics 2) Neuro-symbolic AI Intention for CBI Fellow: The CBI fellow would explore new paradigms in AI and robotics that have potential to fundamentally advance the state-of-the-art towards universal robots while still being grounded in real-world robotics applications.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/scherer-sebastian.html

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Hong Shen Assistant Research Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute Research Areas: 1) Social, ethical and policy implications of algorithmic systems 2) Bias, fairness, social justice and power relations in AI and ML 3) Responsible AI Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will work to 1) bridge the gap between theoretical concepts and practical implementation; 2) foster collaborations between research and industry partners, which can provide valuable datasets, real-world problem statements, and avenues for implementing responsible AI solutions in practical settings; and 3) actively participate in policy discussions, contributing insights into ethical guidelines, regulations, and industry standards related to AI ethics and responsible AI deployment.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/shen-hong.html

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Guanya Shi Assistant Professor, Robotics Institute Research Areas: 1) Machine learning 2) Control theory 3) Safe and structured reinforcement learning 4) Agile robotics Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will join one of the main research directions in the lab, taking an active role in shaping and directing research: 1) Safe robotics control with learned agility; 2) Offline learning and online adaptation; 3) Model-based and model-free reinforcement learning.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/shi-guanya.html

Dimitrios Skarlatos Assistant Professor, Computer Science Research Areas: 1) Computer architectures 2) Operating Systems 3) Security Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will create AI-optimized system primitives for secure and efficient multi-tenancy of AI-specific hardware such as GPUs, TPUs and other data-parallel architectures. With this project, the postdoctoral fellow is expected to enable sustainable and secure AI, drastically improving the utilization of datacenters. The postdoc will actively mentor PhD students and get firsthand experience of how to manage and actively bootstrap a research-oriented lab.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/skarlatos-dimitrios.html

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Ameet Talwalkar Associate Professor, Machine Learning Research Areas: 1) Automated ML (AutoML) 2) Human-in-the-Loop Learning 3) Machine Learning Systems (MLSys) Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would play a crucial role in pushing forward our group’s research agenda, including (but not limited to) leading new research problems, mentoring junior students, leading reading groups, helping with teaching, spawning new collaborations, and disseminating results at conferences, workshops, and additional academic and industry-focused venues.

The specific role will be tailored to the Fellow’s interests and future goals.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/talwalkar-ameet.html

Pingbo Tang Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Areas: 1) Interactive learning for civil infrastructure systems management 2) Infrastructure systems fault prognosis 3) Maintenance-aware operations of infrastructure Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to not only join current efforts in human-machine interactive learning and education, but also to take an active role in shaping and leading new related research directions spanning multiple civil infrastructure operation scenarios.

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Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/tang-pingbo.html

Conrad Tucker Director of CMU-Africa and Associate Dean for International Affairs – Africa; Professor, CMU-Africa, Mechanical Engineering Research Areas: 1) AI for resilient systems 2) Cyber-security via adversarial reinforcement learning Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would join the main effort in the lab, which seeks to create more resilient and secure engineering systems by applying AI-based design. In particular, we seek to address the current need for better benchmark datasets which are more representative of complex engineering systems, and use these new benchmarks to direct impactful, real-world research.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/tucker-conrad.html

Shubham Tulsiani Assistant Professor, Robotics Institute Research Areas: 1) 3D vision 2) Learning for manipulation 3) Physics-based interference Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would work at the intersection of 3D vision with robotics/graphics and build machine perception systems that enable advances in mixed reality/robot manipulation.

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Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/tulsiani-shubham.html

Weina Wang Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Research Areas: 1) Reinforcement learning for operations research 2) Dimension reduction 3) Resource management Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will join the main ongoing research direction in the lab, collaborating with a broader set of researchers from different institutions and taking an active role in pushing and disseminating the foundational work proposed in this grant.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/wang-weina.html

Shinji Watanabe Associate Professor, Language Technologies Institute Research Areas: 1) Speech and Language Processing 2) Conversational AI Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to contribute to research in conversational AI systems, focusing on speech foundation models and investigating how to incorporate multimodal information in such systems.

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Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/watanabe-shinji.html

Osman Yağan Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) Secure and resilient decentralized machine learning 2) IoT security 3) Algorithms for sequential decision-making Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would work on mature research on secure distributed networks, taking it to the next stage to demonstrate its impact across applications.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/yagan-osman.html

Cybersecurity + Privacy Alessandro Acquisti Trustee Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Heinz College Research Areas: 1) Behavioral Economics of Privacy 2) Decision Science 3) Human Computer Interaction

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Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will conduct research at the intersection of computer science, economics, and decision science with a focus on privacy choices and outcomes. The postdoctoral fellow is expected to work in close collaboration with the Faculty Host, co-designing and co-running large scale empirical studies.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/faculty-directory/bios/acquistialessandro.html

Jonathan Aldrich Professor, Software and Societal Systems Director, Software Engineering Ph.D. program Research Areas: 1) Programming languages 2) Formal verification 3) Human computer interaction (for PL) Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to contribute to development of novel, usable programming languages, type systems tools for domains such as IoT applications.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/aldrich-jonathan.html

Lujo Bauer Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Software and Societal Systems Research Areas: 1) Security of AI 2) ML for security and privacy 3) Usability aspects of security and privacy 4) Formal methods

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Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would have the flexibility to contribute to and expand the scope of research we're pursuing in usable security and privacy at the intersection of security and AI, e.g., developing attacks and defenses for ML-based malware classifiers and autonomous vehicle control algorithms; defining realistic threat models for uses of AI. Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/bauer-lujo.html

Cleotilde Gonzalez Full Research Professor of Social and Decision Sciences, Founding Director of Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory, and Co-Director of the National NSF institute for AI for Decision Making (AI-SDM) Research Areas: 1) Dynamic decision making 2) Behavioral cybersecurity 3) Computational cognitive science Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc is expected to work on advanced algorithms and models of human decision processes, expanding on current research with focus on human-machine teaming.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/gonzalez-cleotilde.html

Hanan Hibshi Assistant Teaching Professor, Information Networking Institute Research Areas: Cybersecurity and Privacy Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will work in the broad area of cybersecurity education. Within the scope of this investigation, the postdoc can help advance the field, with the possibility of

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conducting empirical studies by recruiting master-level students, or dive deeper into practical problems like safe code design. The postdoc can also suggest novel topics in the area of cybersecurity and privacy that align with the host's research direction and interests.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/hibshi-hanan.html

Limin Jia Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) Formal methods 2) Security aspects of web-languages, systems, and API 3) Language based techniques for system security Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would have the flexibility to contribute and expand the scope of research pursued in the group, e.g. in area of formal methods, taint tracking, attacks in Javascript systems/Node JS, information flow security for smart home devices.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/jia-limin.html

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Bryan Parno Professor, Computer Science Department, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) Building practical, provably secure systems 2) Formal verification 3) Applied cryptography Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will work to develop provably correct and secure systems at scale by applying, developing, and advancing formal verification tools.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/parno-bryan.html

Corina Pasareanu Principal Systems Scientist, CyLab Research Areas: 1) Safe and robust AI 2) Certifiable compliance and robustness of neural networks 3) Explainable and trustworthy AI Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will play a key role in developing evaluation tools needed for the analysis of end-to-end autonomous systems, as well as developing incremental methods for certifying fine-tuned models.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/pasareanu-corina.html

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Riccardo Paccagnella Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems Research Areas: System and hardware security Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would assist with understanding and mitigating new classes of attacks where an adversary exploits hardware features to leak software’s sensitive data.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/paccagnella-riccardo.html

Jon Peha Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) Privacy aspects of future wireless systems 2) Privacy preserving resource allocation Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will contribute to enhancing the privacy aspects of spectrum sharing in wireless networks. This includes analyzing attacks and proposing and demonstrating novel techniques for privacy preserving resource allocation in sharedspectrum systems and future wireless systems.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/peha-jon.html

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Norman Sadeh Professor, Software and Societal Systems, CyLab Co-Director, Privacy Engineering Program Research Areas: 1) Usable privacy 2) Human assistants for privacy 3) Privacy aspects of IoT systems Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would have the flexibility to contribute and expand the scope of research pursued in the group in the area of design and validation privacy agents for human decisions and assistance and data collection and studying the public policy aspects of such systems.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/sadeh-norman.html

Mark Sherman Technical Director, Cyber Security Foundations, Software Engineering Institute, CERT Research Areas: Media authenticity 1) Deep fake detection, watermarking, camouflage, and deception 2) Cyber-physical sensor and signal analysis Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will develop techniques for deep fake detection or prevention (medium based on interests), build a prototype and measure its effectiveness. The system would be expected to be engineered for qualities associated with good software practices, with an emphasis on deployability, maintainability and quality.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/sherman-mark.html

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Justine Sherry Associate Professor, Computer Science Research Areas: Network security 1) Adversarial inputs 2) Input overload

Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will work to leverage a wide range of techniques to tackle the challenges of security against overload, with new designs that are based on novel hardware, software, and algorithmic innovation.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/sherry-justine.html

Elaine Shi Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) Privacy preserving computation and AI 2) Privacy enhancing technologies (MPC, ZK proofs, PIR) 3) Scalable security Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will be working towards making theoretical and/or practical advances and scalability issues for privacy enhancing technologies (MPC, ZK proofs, PIR) Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/shi-elaine.html

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Bryan Wilder Assistant Professor, Machine Learning Research Areas: 1) AI for decision making in healthcare 2) Fairness in AI 3) Optimization under resource constraints Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will join one of two main research directions: 1) Developing methods that integrate machine learning and optimization to improve decision-making under resource constraints; 2) Leveraging large healthcare-related data to inform epidemic response.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/wilder-bryan.html

Wenting Zheng Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Research Areas: 1) Applied cryptography 2) Privacy preserving computing technology Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will be responsible for advancing the theoretical and practical aspects of privacy preserving computing systems.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/zheng-wenting.html

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2023 CBI Faculty Hosts (not taking new CBI fellows until 2025) Sauvik Das Assistant Professor Human-Computer Interaction Institute Research Areas: 1) Human-centered security and privacy 2) Subversive AI / Anti-surveillance technologies 3) Ethical decentralization / cryptocurrencies Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would have the flexibility to contribute and expand the scope of research pursued in the group in area of privacy aspects human interactive systems such as privacy for surveillance cameras, ambient sensing, data collection systems, and the human aspects of security for web 3 and decentralized systems.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/das-sauvik.html

Aaron Johnson Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Robotics Institute Research Areas: Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Control in real-world and simulated environments Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc would develop novel systems inspired by reinforcement learning, adaptive control and dynamic modeling, with the goal of enabling wheeled/legged robots to operate in challenging environments.

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Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/johnson-aaron.html

Virginia Smith Assistant Professor, Machine Learning, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Areas: 1) Federated learning 2) Data privacy 3) Collaborative learning Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will drive efforts at the intersection of machine learning, privacy, security, and distributed systems, and develop new approaches for private and trustworthy machine learning. Furthermore, the postdoc will interface with other faculty at CMU and with experts at Bosch deploying federated/collaborative learning techniques.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/smith-virginia.html

Steven Wu Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Software and Societal Systems, Machine Learning Research Areas: 1) Differential privacy 2) Fairness + Privacy in AI systems 3) Privacy preserving machine learning 4) Privacy preserving synthetic data generation Intention for CBI Fellow: The postdoc will be responsible for theoretical and applied contributions at the intersection of privacy and AI systems, namely training with differential privacy

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constraints, privacy for model personalization, and differentially private synthetic data generation.

Faculty profile: https://carnegiebosch.cmu.edu/fellowships/facultydirectory/bios/wu-steven.html

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