Han Zhao
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Education
- Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Tsinghua University, 2013
- Master of Mathematics, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 2015
- Doctor of Philosophy, Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 2020
Academic Positions
- Long-Term Visitor, Modern Paradigms in Generalization, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, August 2024-December 2024
- Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, August 2021-Present
- Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, August 2021-Present
Research Interests
- Neuro-symbolic AI
- Trustworthy Machine Learning
- Post-training & Alignment of Large Language Models
Research Areas
Research Topics
- AI Algorithms
- AI Theory
Other Outside Service
- Amazon Scholar, Amazon, May 2022 - Present
Honors
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, 2026
- Outstanding Paper Award, EMNLP, 2025 (2025)
- NSF CAREER Award, 2025 (2025)
- Google Research Scholar Award, 2024 (2024)
- AAAI New Faculty Highlights, 2024 (2024 )
- Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2023 (2023)
- Teacher Ranked as Excellent, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Fall 2021 (Fall 2021 )
- Facebook Research Award (Statistics for Improving Insights, Models, and Decisions), 2021 (2021 )
- Alumni Gold Medal Award, University of Waterloo, 2015 (2015)
- Distinguished Graduate of Tsinghua University, 2013 (2013)
- Liu Jimin Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2012 (2012)
- Google Excellence Scholarship, 2012 (2012)
Recent Courses Taught
- CS 442 - Trustworthy Machine Learning
- CS 446 (ECE 449) - Machine Learning
- CS 498 ML3 (CS 498 MLG, CS 498 MLU) - Trustworthy ML
- CS 591 MLR - Machine Learning Reading Grp
- CS 591 MLR - ML Reading Group
- CS 598 FDS - Foundations of Data Science
- CS 598 HAZ (CS 598 HOF) - Transfer Learning