Machine Learning Safety

Wenjie Ruan is a Senior Lecturer of Data Science at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests lie in the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks, and in machine learning and its applications in safety-critical systems, including health data analytics and human-centered computing. His series of research works on Device-free Human Localization and Activity Recognition for Supporting the Independent Living of the Elderly garnered him a Doctoral Thesis Excellence Award from the University of Adelaide, Best Research Poster Award at the 9th ACM International Workshop on IoT and Cloud Computing, and Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications. He was also the recipient of a prestigious DECRA fellowship from the Australian Research Council. Dr. Ruan has published more than 40 papers in international conference proceedings such as AAAI, IJCAI, SIGIR, WWW, ICDM, UbiComp, CIKM, and ASE. Dr. Ruan has served as a senior PC, PC member or invited reviewer for over 10 international conferences, including IJCAI, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, AAMAS, ECML-PKDD, etc. He is the Director of the Exeter Trustworthy AI Lab at the University of Exeter.