Scholar
Guangtao Zheng
Google Scholar ID: SHMLzswAAAAJ
Accenture; University of Virginia
Citations & Impact
Citations
425
H-index
9
i10-index
8
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - One paper on mitigating reward hacking is accepted @ NeurIPS 2025
- - Our KDD@2025 paper is selected as the Best Paper Award (Research Track)
- - One paper is accepted @ KDD 2025
- - One paper is accepted @ ICML 2025
- - One paper is accepted @ IJCAI 2025
- - One paper on benchmarking spurious biases in Multimodal LLMs is accepted @ NeurIPS 2024’s Workshop on Responsibly Building the Next Generation of Multimodal Foundational Models
- - One paper is published @ NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
- - One paper is accepted @ ECCV 2024
- - One paper is accepted @ KDD 2024
- - One paper is accepted @ IJCAI 2024
- - One paper is accepted @ AAAI 2024
Research Experience
- - Advanced AI Research Scientist, Accenture, June 2025 - Present
- - AI Research Scientist, Accenture, June 2025
Education
- - Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Virginia, advised by Prof. Aidong Zhang
- - Master's degree, University of Science and Technology of China
- - Bachelor's degree, Sun Yat-sen University
Background
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with a main research theme on AI alignment and safety from the perspective of detecting and mitigating spurious correlations. Specific topics include shortcut learning in image/text classification, superficial learning in multimodal models, reward hacking in reinforcement learning, benchmarking superficial learning in AI models, and robust reasoning and planning in agentic systems. Additionally, passionate about application-driven machine learning, leveraging techniques such as self-supervised learning and generative modeling to accelerate knowledge discovery in genomics.
Co-authors