Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

Leilani H. Gilpin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the design and analysis of methods for autonomous systems to explain themselves. Her work has applications to robust decision-making, system debugging, and accountability. Her current work examines how generative models can be used in iterative XAIstress testing.

PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz

Runner, PhD Student, and baseball fan - but necessarily in that order.

Ph.D. student, UC Santa Cruz

Li is a second-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. His research interests are explaining the model intelligence and their applications in various contexts.

Ph.D. student, UC Santa Cruz

Olivia is a first-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests include but are not limited to Explainable AI, Human-Centered AI,AI for law and public policy, Natural Language Processing (dialogue system etc.)

UC Santa Cruz, Master Student

Kalyana Suma Sree Tholeti is a Masters student advised by Prof. Leilani Gilpin in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the XAI, Responsible data Science, and Generative AI. Her current work is on developing a comprehensive model explanation monitoring framework within the manufacturing domain.

Master Student, UC Santa Cruz

Hi, I’m John and I’m a second-year Masters student working on autonomous vehicle research in Duckietown

Master student, UC Santa Cruz

Sijia is a second-year Master student advised by Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests are explaining the model intelligence.

Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz

Computer Engineering major who likes robotics, rockets, and swords.

Undergradute Student, Major in Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz

Tong is a 4th-year undergraduate student under the guidance of Prof. Leilani Gilpin in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, His research interests are Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing / Large Language Models ,and Computer Vision.

Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Cruz

Nick Wang is a 3rd year undergraduate student studying Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz. He is deeply curious about how machine learning works (hence XAI) and has recently become motivated to improve his understanding of AVs which he will be able to do while working on the driving rules project and the drive sim project.

Alumni, UC Santa Cruz

Brendon is a recent graduate from UC Santa Cruz. He Majors in Cognitive Science with Specialization in Machine Learning and Human Computer Interaction with a Minor in Computer Science. He is interested in the field of AI and is excited to learn more about new ways to utilize AI and more about how to implement them in general. He is currently learning more each day and looking for work.

Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Cruz

Andrew Susanto is a 5th year Undergraduate student studying Computer Science. His introduction into AI and Machine Learning was CSE 140, a Capstone course on Artificial Intelligence instructed by Prof. Leilani Gilpin, the head of AIEA Lab. Since, Andrew has grown a deep interest in the design, concepts, and utilization of AI, particularly within the contexts of XAI, Autonomous Vehicles and Natural Language Processing. Andrew has recently been working under the direction of Ph.D. student Oliver Chang in containerizing MIT’s data-driven simulator, VISTA, using Docker and the Nautilus cluster for cloud-based computations.

Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Cruz

Oliver Lokhandwala is a 4th year computer science undergraduate student advised by Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. His current research focuses on creating an explainable autograder using technologies such as Nautilus and Kubernetes, while working on the backend side of it using Go.

Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Cruz

Shreedhar Jangam is an undergraduate student working under the guidance of Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. His research interests are on the applications of explainable systems, their trustworthiness, and reinfocement learning.

Undergraduate student, UC Santa Cruz

Coen is a third-year undergraduate student working under Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. His research interests are using eXplainable AI to promote transparency in AI and interpretable models

Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Cruz

Raj is a second-year undergraduate student working under Prof. Leilani in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz.

Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Cruz

Camden is a 4th year Computer Science student at UCSC