Pingbang Hu
Scholar

Pingbang Hu

Google Scholar ID: lPlQpqoAAAAJ
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Machine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
27
 
H-index
3
 
i10-index
1
 
Publications
7
 
Co-authors
3
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Selected as an Anthropic AI Safety Research Fellow
  • - Two papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025, one first-authored and one co-first-authored
  • - One paper accepted by ICLR 2025
  • - Received the Graduate Conference Travel Award from UIUC
  • - Received the NeurIPS 2024 Scholar Award
  • - Excellent Internship Award at National Institute of Informatics
  • - Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Overseas Chinese Student Scholarship
Research Experience
  • - Interned at Susquehanna International Group, Amazon AWS AI Lab, and National Institute of Informatics during his Ph.D. studies at UIUC
  • - Worked on graph neural networks with Jiaqi Ma and fast graph algorithms with Thatchaphol Saranurak
Education
  • - Ph.D. in Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), August 2023 - Present, Advisor: Jiaqi Ma
  • - M.S. in Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), August 2023 - August 2025
  • - Dual B.S. in Computer Science (minor in Mathematics), University of Michigan, September 2021 - May 2023
  • - B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (minor in Computer Science), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, September 2019 - August 2023
Background
  • Research interests include machine learning and artificial intelligence, with a focus on drawing theoretical insights from practical problems and developing algorithms with provable guarantees and desirable properties such as efficiency, robustness, and fairness. Recent research focuses on understanding data, including data attribution, data curation, and data-centric privacy.
Miscellany
  • From Taiwan, enjoys street photography and playing drums in his spare time