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Yiwei Lu

Yiwei Lu

Assistant Professor and Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute

School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation

Research Supervisor Machine Learning AI Generative Models Large Language Models Machine Learning Trustworthy Machine Learning AI Safety Alignment of Foundation Models

Yiwei Lu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa, and leads the Safe ML lab. He obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Waterloo and is appointed as a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute. His research focuses on trustworthy AI and machine learning, addressing fundamental challenges in AI safety with particular emphasis on understanding how training data impacts model behaviour. He works on building comprehensive, trustworthy machine learning pipelines on foundation models (e.g., Diffusion models, LLMs) and on developing rigorous technical frameworks for AI auditing and governance. His research has been published at prestigious machine learning and computer vision venues, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, TMLR, and ECCV.

Selected Publications