Muhao Chen

Muhao Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, and directs the Language Understanding and Knowledge Acquisition (LUKA) Lab. His research focuses on robust and minimally supervised machine learning for natural language processing, alongside accountability and security challenges in large language models.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• B.S. in Computer Science, Fudan University

His work emphasizes developing trustworthy AI systems through techniques like constitutional alignment, adversarial defense, and multimodal reasoning. Current trends in his publications highlight LLM security, retrieval-augmented generation, and mitigation of hallucinations and jailbreak attacks.

Key collaborations and interdisciplinary applications include geospatial AI, biomedical NLP, and mechanical metamaterial design. He actively contributes to frameworks like MetaScientist for automated design and tools for evaluating radiology models.

• Focus on agentic memory systems (R2D2)
• Advancements in vision-language modeling (QLIP, Adashield)
• Security benchmarks and datasets (MuirBench, VLM-Guard)