
Lu Cheng
fairness
large language models
uncertainty
intersectionality
table qa
math qa
parameter efficient fine-tuning
testimonial injustice
kb
socially responsible ai
llm collaboration
tensor parallelism
commonsense qa
few-shot qa
model bias/unfairness mitigation
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presentations
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SHORT BIO
Lu Cheng is an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research interests are broadly in AI and data mining, with a focus on responsible and reliable AI, causal machine learning, and AI for social good. She is the recipient of the Cisco Research Faculty award, 2022 INNS Doctoral Dissertation Award (runner-up), SDM 2022 Doctoral Forum Best Poster, 2022 CS Outstanding Doctoral Student, 2021 ASU Engineering Dean's Dissertation Award, 2020 ASU Graduate Outstanding Research Award, 2019 ASU Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship, IBM Ph.D. Social Good Fellowship, Visa Research Scholarship, among others. She co-authors two books: “Causal Inference and Machine Learning (Chinese)” and “Socially Responsible AI: Theories and Practices”.
Presentations

ConU: Conformal Uncertainty in Large Language Models with Correctness Coverage Guarantees
Zhiyuan Wang and 8 other authors

JORA: JAX Tensor-Parallel LoRA Library for Retrieval Augmented Fine-Tuning
Anique Tahir and 2 other authors

Demystifying Algorithmic Fairness in an Uncertain World
Lu Cheng

Intersectionality and Testimonial Injustice in Medical Records
Kenya Andrews and 2 other authors