Scholar
Eli Chien
Google Scholar ID: N3BuEnYAAAAJ
Visiting Researcher, Google
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,261
H-index
17
i10-index
20
Publications
20
Co-authors
22
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Received the Yushan Young Fellow award from the Ministry of Education, Taiwan in September 2025; Two papers accepted to NeurIPS'25 in September 2025; Will present work on LLM unlearning evaluation at ICML main conference and work on AI copyright at MemFM and R2FM workshop in July 2025; Started as a visiting researcher at Google (Fremont, SEA), working with Peter Kairouz and Zheng Xu in June 2025; Published preprint 'Privacy Amplification in Differentially Private Zeroth-Order Optimization with Hidden States' in June 2025.
Research Experience
- Incoming Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University (Electrical Engineering); Visiting Researcher at Google, hosted by Peter Kairouz; Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, working with Prof. Pan Li; Interned at Amazon Search, working with Wei-Cheng Chang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Jiong Zhang, Jyun-Yu Jiang, Hsiang-fu Yu, and Inderjit Dhillon; Interned at Nokia Bell Labs, working with Antonia Maria Tulino and Jaime Llorca.
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Olgica Milenkovic; B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, advised by Prof. I-Hsiang Wang.
Background
- Research interests lie in the field of Regulatable AI, particularly privacy and graph-related machine learning. Currently focusing on machine unlearning, differential privacy, AI copyright infringement, and their application to graph ML. Other works include geometric learning, including general (hyper)graph neural networks, active learning on (hyper)graphs, and classification in hyperbolic/product spaces.
Miscellany
- Personal interest includes origami art.
