PhD Positions AI/ML/Stats (26/27) | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

I’m recruiting PhD students in AI/ML/Stats (26/27), and also welcome visiting students/interns.

Our research focuses on the next generation of intelligence with causal understanding and actions. Instead of only fitting data, we aim to uncover and leverage the underlying mechanisms behind it, spanning:

• Causality-based Learning / Trustworthy ML
• Foundation models / World Models / Multi-Agent Systems
• Scientific Discovery

We believe truthful understanding is important not only for trustworthiness, but also for efficiency: helping models learn, reason, and plan more effectively, with less noise, hallucination, and reliance on scaling.
More Info: https://yjzheng.com/