News

  • 12/2024: Dr. Feng serves as Area Chair for 2025 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME-25).
  • 12/2024: Dr. Feng gives a lightning talk at NSF CISE MSI Aspiring PI Workshop.
  • 11/2024: Hanzhi gives a presentation titled "Efficient Small Language Models for Edge Devices via Task-Aware Sparse Attention" at NSF eCAT 2024 Annual Fall Meeting.
  • 11/2024: Mingchen presents a poster titled "Differentially Privacy Preserving via Small Language Model on Edge" at NSF eCAT 2024 Annual Fall Meeting.
  • 10/2024: Rafid successfully defends his master's thesis. Congratulations!
  • 10/2024: Dr. Feng is invited to join the panel discussion for AI EmpowerED webinar "Navigating the AI Frontier: Cultivating Responsible and Ethical AI Practices", hosted by The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB).
  • 09/2024: Dr. Feng is invited to join the panel discussion "Future of AI" as a Safe AI Researcher at Old Parkland, Dallas.
  • 09/2024: Dr. Feng was invited as Guest Lecturer for ME686 Human Robot Interaction, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
  • 08/2024: Dr. Feng serves as Program Committee (PC) Member for WWW-25.
  • 07/2024: Zulfiqar 'Bobby' Shaik, and Kevin Li win Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF). Congratulations!
  • 07/2024: Paper "Efficient Multimodal Semantic Segmentation via Dual-Prompt Learning" has been accepted for publication at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-24) [Paper].
  • 06/2024: Dr. Feng serves as Program Committee (PC) Member for AAAI-25.
  • 06/2024: Paper "DAAP: Privacy-Preserving Model Accuracy Estimation on Unlabeled Datasets Through Distribution-Aware Adversarial Perturbation" has been accepted for publication at The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security-24) [Paper].
  • 06/2024: Hanzhi is selected to participate in 2024 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC-24).
  • 06/2024: Paper "GenFlowchart: Parsing and Understanding Flowchart Using Generative AI" has been accepted for publication at The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM-24) [Paper].
  • 06/2024: Paper "LitAI: Enhancing Multimodal Literature Understanding and Mining with Generative AI" has been accepted for publication at The 7th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR-24) [Paper].
  • 05/2024: Dr. Feng has been named to the inaugural Dallas Innovates AI 75 list, which "honors the most significant people in AI in DFW in seven categories."
  • 05/2024: TAMS students Phoebe and Sripoorna join Computer Science Programs at UT Austin and Purdue University respectively. Congratulations!
  • 05/2024: Gowtham is recognized as an AI Student Scholar at the University of North Texas. Congratulations!
  • 04/2024: Dr. Feng was invited to give a talk "AI In The Workspace: A Dual Perspective" at 2024 Southwest ASSP Chapter Professional Development Conference.
  • 04/2024: Pradhyumna wins the CSE Department Outstanding Masters Student in AI Award 2024. Congratulations!
  • 04/2024: Colton wins the CSE Department Outstanding Undergraduate in Computer Science 2024. Congratulations!
  • 04/2024: Paper "Does ChatGPT Generate Accessible Code? Investigating Accessibility Challenges in LLM-Generated Source Code" has been accepted for publication at The 21st International Web for All Conference (Web4All-24) [Paper].
  • 04/2024: Dr. Feng serves as a reviewer for The 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-24).
  • 04/2024: Paper "S3LLM: Large-Scale Scientific Software Understanding with LLMs using Source, Metadata, and Document" has been accepted for publication at The 24th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS-24) [Paper].
  • 03/2024: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-24).
  • 03/2024: Dr. Luo from Intel gives a virtual guest lecture on HPC to our students in CSCE 5300. Thanks!
  • 03/2024: Paper "CereSZ: Enabling and Scaling Error-bounded Lossy Compression on Cerebras CS-2" has been accepted for publication at The 33rd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC-24) [Paper].
  • 03/2024: Dr. Feng was invited to give a talk "Enhancing Risk Communication with Artificial Intelligence: Strategies for Proactive and Personalized Engagement" at Emergency Management and Disaster Science (EMDS) Colloquium.
  • 03/2024: Dr. Feng is invited to participate in the NSF National Centers of Academic Excellence in AI (CAE-AI) Workshop 2024.
  • 03/2024: Hanzhi wins First Place Award at 2024 UNT Engineering Showcase Poster Presentation. Congratulations!
  • 02/2024: Paper "FractionNet: AI-Driven Insights in Transforming Handwritten Fraction Detection for Teacher Education" has been accepted for publication at 35th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE-24) [Paper].
  • 02/2024: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for 2024 Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM-24).
  • 02/2024: Paper "MNIST-Fraction: Enhancing Math Education with AI-Driven Fraction Detection and Analysis" has been accepted for publication at 2024 ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE-24) [Paper].
  • 01/2024: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for The 48th IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC-24).
  • 01/2024: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for 7th International Workshop on Dependable and Secure Machine Learning (DSML-24) at DSN-2024.
  • 01/2024: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BIGDATA-24).
  • 01/2024: Dr. Feng was invited to give a talk "Exploring the Frontiers of Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges in Research and Applications" at Plano Haggard Library.
  • 01/2024: Our lab receives Google Cloud Research Credits ($5,000) to support our LLM research.
  • 01/2024: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for 2024 IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (MOST-24).
  • 01/2024: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS-24).
  • 12/2023: Dr. Feng wins 2023 IEEE Smart Computing Special Technical Community (SCSTC) Early Career Award.
  • 12/2023: Our lab receives a second Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Grant to support our LLM research.
  • 11/2023: Dr. Feng serves as Program Committee (PC) Member for 2024 AAAI Undergraduate Consortium (AAAI-24-UC).
  • 11/2023: Dr. Feng was invited as Guest Lecturer for ME686 Human Robot Interaction, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
  • 11/2023: Colton Clemmer wins the SIGSPATIAL-23 Travel Grant, Undergraduate Engineering Student Travel Fund, and the Raupe Travel Grant in a row! Congratulations!
  • 10/2023: Paper "PreciseDebias: An Automatic Prompt Engineering Approach for Generative AI to Mitigate Image Demographic Biases" has been accepted for publication at 2024 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV-24) [Paper].
  • 10/2023: Arun Kumar Reddy (master’s student) wins the third place in the Graduate Student Poster Competition in Workshop on Imaging and Data Science at University of Texas Dallas. Congratulations!
  • 10/2023: Dr. Cao from Saint Louis University (in person) visits our lab. Welcome!
  • 10/2023: Dr. Feng joined the Embedding Ethics in Data-Intensive Research panelist and gave a talk "Ethical Concerns and Issues in Generative AI" at 2023 NSF HDR Ecosystem Conference.
  • 10/2023: Paper "Task-Free Fairness-Aware Bias Mitigation for Black-Box Deployed Models" has been accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) [Paper].
  • 09/2023: Our lab wins Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Grant to support our LLM research.
  • 09/2023: Paper "A Multi-granularity Decade-Long Geo-Tagged Twitter Dataset for Spatial Computing" has been accepted for publication at SIGSPATIAL-23 [Paper].
  • 09/2023: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for the IEEE 29th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS-23).
  • 08/2023: Phoebe Kim, Zulfiqar 'Bobby' Shaik, and Colton Clemmer win Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF). Congratulations!
  • 08/2023: Dr. Feng was invited to review content on Artificial Intelligence for CITI Program.
  • 08/2023: Dr. Feng serves as Program Committee (PC) Member for EMNLP-23 - Industry Track, CIKM-23, AAAI-24.
  • 07/2023: Dr. Feng serves as Program Chair for the 8th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication (SmartCom-23).
  • 07/2023: Paper "Towards Fairness-aware Adversarial Network Pruning" has been accepted at ICCV-23 [Paper].
  • 06/2023: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for the First International Conference on AI-generated Content (AIGC-23).
  • 06/2023: Dr. Feng serves as a Guest Editor for a Special Issue entitled "Applications of Deep Learning Techniques" in peer-reviewed journal Electronics.
  • 05/2023: Dr. Feng was invited to visit Google Ads Privacy and Safety in Mountain View, California.
  • 05/2023: Dr. Feng serves as one of UNT's representatives on Ithaka S+R Generative AI project tackling the impacts of generative AI on teaching, learning, and research.
  • 05/2023: Our proposal "MINE: Models for Improved Natural Language Exploration - Applications For Rapid Expansion Of Trait Databases For Food Web Modeling" has been funded by the UNT CENG-COS 23' Seed Grant.
  • 05/2023: Dr. Feng was invited to talk with a group of primary school students from Fraser Valley School in Canada on how AI impacts people. It is great to see that the kids have started to care about Responsible AI.
  • 05/2023: Paper "Probabilistic Error Reasoning on IoT Edge Devices" has been accepted at EDGE-23 [Paper].
  • 04/2023: Paper "Addressing Weak Decision Boundaries in Image Classification by Leveraging Web Search and Generative Models" has been accepted at IJCAI-23 [Paper].
  • 04/2023: Manasa Cherukupally (master’s student) wins TGS R.B. Toulouse Scholarship. Congratulations!
  • 04/2023: Navyasri Meka (master’s student) wins TGS R.B. Toulouse Scholarship. Congratulations!
  • 04/2023: Paper "Investigating Code Generation Performance of ChatGPT with Crowdsourcing Social Data" has been accepted at COMPSAC-23 [Paper].
  • 03/2023: Dr. Zheng from Argonne National Lab (in person) and Dr. Cao from ICL at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (remotely) visit our lab. Welcome!
  • 03/2023: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for the 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM-23).
  • 03/2023: Paper "FZ-GPU: A Fast and High-Ratio Lossy Compressor for Scientific Computing Applications on GPUs" has been accepted for publication at HPDC-23 [Paper].
  • 03/2023: Colton Clemmer (undergraduate student) presents the poster of "MOSIS: Mitigating Occupational Stereotypes in Image Search with Artificial Creativity" at Day of Data Science.
  • 03/2023: Dr. Feng is invited to join the panel discussion "The Real-World Impact of Ethics on AI" along with industry partners from IBM, Deloitte, and USAA at Day of Data Science.
  • 03/2023: Paper "The Impact of ChatGPT on Streaming Media: A Crowdsourced and Data-Driven Analysis using Twitter and Reddit" has been accepted at IDS-23 [Paper].
  • 03/2023: Dr. Feng serves as Web Chair for the First IEEE International Conference on Medical Artificial Intelligence(IEEE MedAI 2023) hosted in Beijing, China, November 18-19, 2023.
  • 03/2023: Pradhyumna Poralla (master’s student) wins a Travel Grant to attend WWW-23 in Austin, TX.
  • 02/2023: Paper "Towards Transferable Targeted Adversarial Examples" has been accepted at CVPR-23 [Paper].
  • 02/2023: Dr. Feng serves as a CAHSI Faculty for Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
  • 01/2023: Dr. Feng serves as Program Committee (PC) Member for the 47th IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC) 2023.
  • 01/2023: Along with Dr. Ji, Dr. Tunc, and Dr. Qiu, Dr. Feng presents "Recent Advances in Security and Privacy" for High School Teachers at Texas CSTA Chapters Conference 2023.
  • 01/2023: Dr. Feng serves as Web Chair for the 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Cloud (IEEE SmartCloud-23) hosted in Tokyo, Japan, September 16-18, 2023.
  • 01/2023: Arun Reddy, Colton Clemmer, Eshaan Singh, Goutham Singh, Grishman Paruchuru, Harshath Budida, Kaij Spencer, Manasa Cherukupally, Navyasri Meka, and Zulfiqar 'Bobby' Shaik join the Responsible AI Lab at UNT. Welcome!
  • 01/2023: Dr. Feng serves as Contributing Faculty for Bachelor's of Science in GIS + CS Program at UNT.
  • 12/2022: Dr. Feng serves as a DEEN Faculty Fellow for UNT Diversity and Excellence in Engineering Network (UNT-DEEN).
  • 11/2022: Kaicheng Li, an undergraduate student at Ohio State University joins the Responsible AI Lab at UNT as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
  • 11/2022: Muneer Ahmed, a graduate student at UMass Amherst joins the Responsible AI Lab at UNT as a Research Assistant. Welcome!
  • 11/2022: Kai Jun Zhuang, an undergraduate student at University of Toronto joins the Responsible AI Lab at UNT as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome!
  • 10/2022: Dr. Feng gives two talks about Responsible Social Computing for Smart City in Urban AI Lab and Center for Housing and Urban Development at Texas A&M University. Thank you for the invitation, Dr. Xinyue Ye!
  • 10/2022: Dr. Feng serves as Program Committee (PC) Member for Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) Symposium 2023 in conjunction with the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium.
  • 10/2022: Dr. Feng gave a seminar talk about Responsible AI in Luddy AI Center at Indiana University Bloomington. Thank you for the invitation, Dr. Dingwen Tao!
  • 10/2022: Dr. Feng gave a lighting talk about Privacy Leakage on Social Media Screenshot at 2022 NSF Cybersecurity Summit.
  • 10/2022: Dr. Feng was invited as Guest Lecturer for CS 458/658 - Introduction to Data Mining, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
  • 09/2022: Dr. Feng gave a talk titled "The Two Faces of Social Media in Big Data Analytics, Mining, and Modeling" at the Brown Bag Meeting in the Department of Information Science at UNT. Thank you for the invitation, Dr. Jiangping Chen!
  • 09/2022: Our proposal "Accessing Social Impacts of Emerging Deep Generative Models through Public Big Data" has been granted by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • 09/2022: Dr. Feng gave a talk in the Intelligent Information Access Lab (IIA) in the Department of Information Science at UNT. Thank you, Dr. Haihua Chen and Dr. Junhua Ding!
  • 09/2022: Vrushabh Desai, Yasmeen Haleem, Nghia (Ted) Dang, Phoebe Kim, Sripoorna Modugula, Pradhyumna Poralla, and Jaideep Janapati join the Responsible AI Lab at UNT. Welcome!
  • 08/2022: Dr. Feng joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UNT as an assistant professor.
  • 08/2022: Dr. Feng serves as Program Committee (PC) Member for the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23).
  • 07/2022: Dr. Feng presented EmojiCloud at the EMOJI Workshop at NAACL-22 [Paper][Slides].
  • 07/2022: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for the 24th IEEE International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-22).
  • 06/2022: Dr. Feng visited Dr. Daniel Romero's group at the University of Michigan, sponsored by the Research University Alliance (RUA).
  • 06/2022: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-22).
  • 06/2022: Dr. Feng serves as TPC for 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM-22).
  • 04/2022: Dr. Feng was invited as Guest Lecturer for CSS 590 - AI for Social Good, University of Washington - Bothell.
  • 03/2022: Two papers have been published at Information Processing & Management (IP&M)[Paper 1][Paper 2][UsaGeoCov19 Dataset].
  • 03/2022: Dr. Feng was invited as Guest Lecturer for M455 - Advanced Digital Merchandising, Indiana University Bloomington.
  • 02/2022: One paper has been presented at WWW-22 [Paper].
  • 02/2022: Dr. Feng gave an oral presentation at AAAI-22 [Paper][Slides].
  • 02/2022: Dr. Feng was awarded University of Washington Strategic Research Fund (SRF) ($4,000).
  • 02/2022: Our research work - "Google’s 'CEO' image search gender bias hasn’t really been fixed" has been featured by [UW News][ACM TechNews][AAAS EurekAlert!].