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Leilani H. Gilpin

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

Interests

  • XAI
  • Safe AI
  • Responsible Data Science
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • AI and Ethics

Education

  • PhD in Electrial Engineering and Computer Science, 2020

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • MS in Computational and Mathematical Engineering, 2013

    Stanford University

  • BS in Computer Science, BS in Mathematics, 2011

    UC San Diego

Projects

  • Automated Ontology and Knowledge Graph Construction
  • Formalism Switching for the Selection of Best Formal Languages
  • Episodic Memory
  • Braille and Place Labels for 3D-Printed Tactile Maps
  • SLuG - Schema Logical Guidance
  • Faithfulness of LLMs as Solvers and Autoformalizers in Legal Reasoning
  • Real-Time Multimodal Agent Grounded in Touch
  • Faithful NeSy Reasoning
  • LayerSkip
  • Propagators
  • Neuron Explanations
  • Learning to Draw ASCII Improves Spatial Reasoning in Language Models
  • Knowledge-augmented LLMs for Logical Fallacy Classification
  • Causality in Autonomous Vehicles
  • Interpretable Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving
  • Camera Guidance for Vision-Language Models
  • Explanatory Grading Guidance (EGG)
  • Abductive Learning
  • AV Ethics
  • Challenge team
  • Dynamic Path Planning
  • Frame-based monitoring
  • Hybrid Note
  • Olelo
  • Self-Explainable Deep Neural Networks
  • Transfer Learning
  • WISPER

Biography

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 XAI stress testing.

She holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT, an M.S. in Computational and Mathematical Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Mathematics (with honors), B.S. in Computer Science (with highest honors), and a music minor from UC San Diego. Outside of research, Leilani enjoys swimming, cooking, hiking, and org-mode.

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