Weijie Zhao   赵炜捷

I am looking for one PhD student focusing on AI Security, Interpretability and Attribution. PhD Position Fall 2026

Bio

I received my Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Florin Rusu and am hornored to be part of the academic tree from Avi and Raghu. Before joining RIT, I was a researcher in Baidu Research USA. At Baidu, I worked with Ping Li to investigate exciting problems in big data and machine learning systems. I'm working on generative AI, AI security, scalable machine learning systems, approximate nearest neighbor search, scientific data processing, and database systems.

Teaching

• Spring CSCI-637: Machine Learning Systems Implementation in AI Cluster

Students

Ph.D.

• Jun Woo Chung 08/2022 - present
• Huawei Lin 08/2022 - present
• Guo Zhao 08/2025 - present

Publications

[Google Scholar] [DBLP]

Funding

• National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER): Defending Machine Learning Models from Adversarial Threats via Unified Interpretability and Attribution (2026-2031)
• National Science Foundation (NSF SaTC CORE Small): Towards Secure and Trustworthy Tree Models (2023-2026)