Adaku Uchendu
Scholar

Adaku Uchendu

Google Scholar ID: A4be1l4AAAAJ
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Natural Language ProcessingMachine LearningAdversarial RobustnessTopological Data Analysis
Citations & Impact
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Citations
901
 
H-index
11
 
i10-index
16
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
17
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Papers accepted to the Undergraduate and High School Symposium at IEEE ICDM 2025, 2026 IEEE Computer journal, among others; Invited to serve as Area chair for IEEE DSAA 2025, Senior Area Chair (SAC) for EMNLP 2025, and more international conferences.
Research Experience
  • Was a Button-Waller Fellow, an NSF Scholarship for Service Scholar, and an Alfred P. Sloan Scholar. Engaged in multiple research projects related to Natural Language Processing and Text Generation Technologies.
Education
  • Earned a B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Statistics from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in May 2018; Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology from The Pennsylvania State University under the guidance of Dr. Dongwon Lee at the PIKE Lab in August 2023.
Background
  • An AI Engineer/Researcher at MIT Lincoln Lab. Research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data mining, particularly in the application domain of Cybersecurity. Specifically interested in NLP (Natural Language Processing), NLG (Natural Language Generation) such as Large Language Models (LLMs), Adversarial Robustness & Adversarial Machine Learning, TDA (Topological Data Analysis).
Miscellany
  • Was a McNair scholar and a member of Pi Mu Epsilon (the Mathematical Honorary Society).