Postdoctoral fellows grow research at Virginia Tech

The Department of Computer Science recently added its first two Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows, JinYi Yoon and Adithya Kulkarni. 

They join the ranks of more than 200 postdoctoral scholars working across every Virginia Tech college and institute to advance the pursuit of knowledge and develop into the next generation of experts in their fields.

In 2022, to support the capacity of postdoctoral fellows to initiate innovative and exciting projects, the university established the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs to serve this important community.

Kulkarni is advised by Dawei Zhou and Lifu Huang, both core faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. As a postdoctoral fellow, he will work on combining the power of graph learning and large language models (LLMs) to develop approaches that enable explainability, interpretability, replicability, and, thus, the general robustness of LLMs. He will also help mentor graduate students and teach introductory computer science courses at Virginia Tech.

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