Zico Kolter is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University and also serves as chief scientist of AI research for the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. His work spans several topics in machine learning and optimization, including work in robustness, LLM security, out-of-distribution modeling, equilibirum models, smart grid application, and more. He is a recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award, a Sloan Fellowship, and best paper awards at NeurIPS, ICML (honorable mention), AISTATS (test of time), IJCAI, KDD, and PESGM.

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