Lu Cheng
Scholar

Lu Cheng

Google Scholar ID: 9rpkTSkAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, UIC CS
Socially Responsible AICausal Machine LearningData MiningAI for Good
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,400
 
H-index
27
 
i10-index
46
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
34
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for research on reliable and fair language models
  • Recipient of the Google Research Scholar Award for work on uncertainty in LLMs
  • Recipient of the Amazon Research Award (shared with Hua Wei from ASU)
  • Awarded a small grant from UIUC Center for Social & Behavioral Science (CSBS)
  • Awarded NAIRR Pilot Project computing resources
  • Multiple papers accepted to top venues including EMNLP’25, NAACL’25, AAAI’25, COLING’25, COLM’25, IJCNLP-AACL’25, IEEE Big Data’25/24, TMLR, AI and Ethics, Expert Systems with Applications, etc.
  • Survey paper 'Conformal Prediction: A Data Perspective' accepted to ACM Computing Surveys and posted on arXiv
  • Tutorials on responsible generative foundation models accepted to CIKM’25 and ICDM’25
  • Workshop 'SciSoc LLM Workshop' accepted to KDD’25
  • Book 'SOCIALY RESPONSIBLE AI: THEORIES AND PRACTICES' featured in E-Book Collection on AI and Internet of Things 2.0
  • PAKDD’24 paper accepted to IJCAI’25 Best Paper Track