معرفی
Wei Xu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds affiliations with the Machine Learning Center (ML@GT) and the NSF AI CARING Institute. Her work emphasizes ethical AI applications, cultural bias mitigation, and assistive technologies.
Education: Xu earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University, and both B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University.
Research Interests
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a focus on text generation, stylistics, and controllability of ML models
- Machine Learning robustness and ethical implications
- Social media analysis, including misinformation detection and user privacy
- Assistive technologies for reading/writing accessibility
- Cultural biases in large language models (LLMs)
- Human-centered evaluation of AI systems
Key Contributions
Her recent work explores privacy risks in online self-disclosures, LLM responses to implicit misinformation, and regional cultural awareness in AI. She also develops benchmarks like CROSSNEWS for authorship verification and Thresh for text evaluation.
Awards
- NSF CAREER Award (2021)
- CrowdFlower AI for Everyone Award (2021)
- Criteo Faculty Research Award (2021)
- Best Paper Award at COLING'18 (2018)
Grants & Funding
Xu has secured funding from DARPA, IARPA, and the NSF AI CARING Institute. Her collaborations include the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech.
