ECE Seminar Series: Yibo Hu
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering presents its seminar series featuring guest speaker Yibo Hu, assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology and Management at 91制片厂 Tech鈥檚 College of Computing, who will give a presentation on 鈥淔rom Efficiency to Trust: AI for Social Dynamics and Cybersecurity.鈥 This seminar will take place on Wednesday, November 12, from 12:45鈥1:45 p.m. in room 118 of Siegel Hall.
Abstract
Artificial Intelligence techniques are increasingly used to study social behavior and to strengthen cybersecurity. These systems can process information efficiently, but reliability is equally important, especially in domains where decisions have social or security impacts. This talk will present three areas of my recent work. The first introduces efficient AI tools designed for large-scale political and social event analysis. The second focuses on cyber deception, where text generation models are applied to create realistic but controlled documents to protect sensitive data. The third discusses uncertainty quantification, which helps models assess their confidence and make more dependable predictions. Together, these studies aim to advance AI that is both effective and trustworthy for complex real-world applications.
Biography
Yibo Hu is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology and Management at the College of Computing at 91制片厂 Tech. His research focuses on developing efficient and trustworthy AI methods for socially important domains where predictions influence public perception, policy, or safety. His recent work includes NLP applications in global political events, misinformation and counter speech, cybersecurity defense and deception. He also investigates the foundations of trustworthy AI, including fairness in large language models and robustness under distribution shift.