Qi Yu

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Qi Yu, PhD

Professor 
Graduate Program Director, School of Information
Director, Machine Learning and Data Intensive Computing Lab

I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, M.E from National University of Singapore, Singapore, and B.S from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. For more details check my CV.

Research interests:

  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Vision and Language Foundation Models, LLM, and Generative AI
  • Uncertainty Quantification in Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Data and Resource Efficient Model Adaptation 
  • Active Learning, few-shot learning, and meta-learning
  • Weakly supervised learning, multiple instance learning
  • Multimodal Data Fusion
  • Bayesian inference

Contact

Phone: 585-475-6929
Email: qi.yu@rit.edu

Office: GOL-2113
Office hours: ISTE-780 (Fall 2024)

Education

August 2008

Virginia Tech (VT), Blacksburg, VA 
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Dissertation Topic: Foundational Framework for Service Query Optimization

July 2003

National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 
M.E., Computer Engineering 
Thesis Topic: Intelligent Data Mining via Evolutionary Computing

July 2001

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China 
B.E., Electrical Engineering

Professional Activities

Area Chair/Senior Program Committee Member

  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Area Chair (2022, 2023, 2024)
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Area Chair (2023, 2024)
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Area Chair (2023, 2024, 2025)
  • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Area Chair (2025)
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Area Chair (2024)
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Area Chair (2025)
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Senior Program Committee Member (2024)

Grant Review Panels

  • National Science Foundation (NSF), 2009, 2013, 2015-2024

Publications

Books and Book Chapters

Journals

Conferences

Teaching

Fall 2022

  • ISTE-780 Data-Driven Knowledge Discovery

Student

Get Involved

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The Mining lab is constantly looking for students passionate in machine learning and AI to join the team.

Please contact Dr. Qi Yu (qi.yu@rit.edu) if you are interested in joining the lab.