FMAL People

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Meng Jiang

Co-director, Foundation Models and Applications Lab, associate professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Meng Jiang’s research fields are data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. His research focuses on Computational Behavior Modeling for applications such as intelligent assistance, recommender system, and question answering. It is at the intersection of user modeling, graph learning, information extraction, text mining, and text generation.

Headhsot of Xiangling Zhang, a smiling woman with dark hair and red glasses, wearing a light striped blazer over a burgundy striped shirt.

Xiangliang Zhang

Co-director, Foundation Models and Applications Lab, The Leonard C. Bettex Collegiate Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science and Engineering

Xiangliang Zhang’s research focuses on machine learning, data mining, and their application in knowledge discovery. She works on challenging problems such as learning from complex and dynamic environments, handling missing or noisy data, understanding risks from adversarial attacks, and discovering new knowledge across domains through representation learning, extraction, and inference.

Headhsot of Ting Hua, a woman with long dark hair, glasses, white turtleneck, and black blazer against a gray background.

Ting Hua

Assistant research professor, Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society

Ting Hua’s research focuses on efficient learning of large language models (LLMs), including model compression, alignment, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and self-training, with applications spanning natural language processing, speech, and multi-modal tasks.

FMAL Faculty Affiliates

  • Ruilan Guo, Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Professor of Engineering
  • Siddharth Joshi, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
  • Taeho Jung, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
  • Tengfei Luo, Dorini Family Professor for Energy Studies and Associate Department Chair
  • Jason Rohr, Ludmilla F., Stephen J., and Robert T. Galla College Professor & Department Chair, Department of Biological Sciences
  • Olaf Wiest, Grace-Rupley Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Jiahong Wu, Professor, Department of Mathematics

  • Zhiyong (Johnny) Zhang, Quantitative Area Director and Professor, Department of Psychology, Fellow at Institute for Educational Initiatives