Yao Qin

Yao Qin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, affiliated with the Department of Computer Science. Meanwhile, she is also a senior research scientist at Google Research. She obtained my PhD degree at UC San Diego in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Garrison W. Cottrell. During her PhD, she was very fortunate to intern under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton, Ian Goodfellow and many others. Her research interests primarily focus on robustness in machine learning, such as adversarial robustness, out-of-distribution generalization, and fairness. In addition, she is highly passionate about developing reliable AI-driven models tailored for healthcare, with a particular focus on diabetes management.