Miao Zhang
miaozhng (at) nyu (dot) edu
I am a fifth year Ph.D. candidate at New York University, advised by Prof. Rumi Chunara. I am a member of ChunaraLab and ViDA. Currently, I mainly work on reliable AI: model generalizability and bias mitigation for my Ph.D. degree. I received my Master degree from Stanford University in CCRMA, when I performed research in federated learning for medical image analysis at QIAI advised by Prof. Daniel Rubin. In my undergrad, I worked with Prof. Dong Wang at Tsinghua University on speech processing and recognition.
I have broad interests in:
Responsible AI: Algorithmic fairness, data debiasing, and out-of-domain generalization.
Computer vision and multimodal: Label efficient representation learning.
Health and environmental science: To adapt pre-trained deep neural networks and foundation models for domain specific applications.
news
| Sep 10, 2025 | Our paper on safe and robust text data augmentation is accepted by Socially Responsible and Trustworthy Foundation Models at NeurIPS 2025 (ResponsibleFM), and it is selected for Spotlight Talk at Responsible Synthetic Data (RSD) workshop at AAAI 2026. |
| Feb 6, 2025 | One paper is accepted by ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies. We collect high resolution satellite imagery to quantify greenspace across city of Karachi, Pakistan. A lightweight and effective augmentation strategy boosts semantic segmentation performance. Check out the project website. |
| Dec 9, 2024 | One paper is accepted at AAAI 2025, presenting a data perspective/solution to unsupervised bias mitigation. See you in Philadelphia! |
| Sep 18, 2024 | Our paper publishes at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). We discuss how big data driven machine learning models can ignore important variables and their effects. We propose a causal framework to improve interpretability and instruct most efficient intervention. |
| Aug 13, 2024 | Very excited to present at Cohere for AI about the paper Common-Sense Bias Discovery and Mitigation for Classification Tasks. Check out the online event. |