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Biography

Di Wang is currently an assistant professor of computer science and adjunct srofessor of Statistics. Before that, he got his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering at the State University of New York (SUNY),  Buffalo, his M.S. at in mathematics as the University of Western, and his B.S. also in mathematics at Shandong University. His research areas include privacy-preserving machine learning, interpretability, machine learning theory, and trustworthy machine learning. During his Ph.D. studies, he s invited as a visiting student to the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, and Boston University. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Helsinki, Inria, and the Finnish Center of Artificial Intelligence. His research areas include differentially private machine learning, adversarial machine learning, interpretable machine learning, and robust estimation and optimization. He has received the SEAS Dean’s Graduate Achievement Award and the Best CSE Graduate Research Award from SUNY Buffalo.

Research Interests

Professor Di Wang is interested in trustworthy machine learning and large models. Specifically, he is focusing on making machine learning and generative AI have controllable and editable memorization (such as data, concept, and knowledge).  

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differential privacy privacy-preserving machine learning knowledge editing concept erasing

Education Profile

  • 2020 Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo (U.S.A.) 

  • 2015 M.S. Western University (Canada)  

  • 2014 B.S. Shandong University (China) 

Awards and Recognitions

  • Honorable Mention Paper Award, USENIX Security Symposium 2025 

  • Best Paper Award, AAAI 2025 workshop on Connecting Low-Rank Representations in AI  

  • Best Paper Award, Asian Conference on Machine Learning 2022 

  • Invited to the ACM Transactions on Database Systems special issue on Best of PODS 2022

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Research Areas

  • Computer Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering

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