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Dongxiao Zhu is currently a Professor at Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University. He received the Ph.D. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2006). Dongxiao Zhu's recent research interests are in Trustworthy AI and Applications to Social, Health, and Urban computing with focus on adversarial robustness, explainability, fairness, and S&P. Dr. Zhu is the Founding Director of Wayne AI Research Initiative, Inaugural Co-Director, Institute for AI and Data Science, and the Director of Trustworthy AI Lab at Wayne State University. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications and served on program committees (AC/SPC/PC) of flagship AI/Machine Learning conferences (NuerIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, AMIA, MICCAI) and of premier biomedical informatics journals (Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Medical Physics, Small, BMC Genomics, Transportation Research, and Frontiers in Genetics). Dr. Zhu's research has been supported by NIH, NSF and private agencies and he has served on multiple NIH and NSF grant review panels. Dr. Zhu has advised numerous students at undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels and his teaching interest lies in programming language, data structures and algorithms, machine learning and data science. In addition to foundational AI research, Dr. Zhu also pursues use-inspired AI research in life, physical and social science domains. He is passionate about leveraging AI for science and social good. And his recent work in developing robust, fair and explainable AI algorithms and systems to ameliorate spatiotemporal mismatch between housing and employment, future of work, and reducing health disparities have been featured in Detroit PBS, WJR radio and Hour Detroit Magazine, just to name a few, manifesting his continuous efforts in achieving the sustainable development goals such as zero hunger, better cyber-social behaviors, good health and well-being, and reduced inequalities in socially vulnerable regions/groups. Dr. Zhu is also deeply engaged in AI education. As the program’s Founder and Inaugural Director, he led the efforts to launch Wayne State’s M.S. in AI (Algorithm & Software track), regularly teaches foundational AI courses, and actively leads initiatives to increase AI literacy among faculty and students, ensuring that the benefits of AI scholarship and practice extend across disciplines.

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