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UIUC Professor Secures $1.1M for Trustworthy AI Research

8/6/2025

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Han Zhao, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has secured two NSF awards worth $1.1 million to advance trustworthy machine learning. His groundbreaking research aims to improve the accuracy and interpretability of language models, with results set to enrich academic courses and be released as open-source software, fostering transparency in AI.

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Han Zhao, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has secured two NSF awards worth $1.1 million to advance trustworthy machine learning. His groundbreaking research aims to improve the accuracy and interpretability of language models, with results set to enrich academic courses and be released as open-source software, fostering transparency in AI.