Chenkai Sun




I’m expecting to graduate in December 2024 and am currently on the job market!

I am a final-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working on Natural Language Processing with Prof. ChengXiang Zhai and Prof. Heng Ji. I graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Computer Science and Statistics, where I worked with Prof. H V Jagadish as a research assistant. Previously I worked as a research intern at Google Gemini, Amazon Alexa AI, and Alibaba. Additionally, I worked at Uber's ML Platform, during which I developed on customized evaluation pipeline. I also worked with Prof. Quentin F. Stout on the implementation of Isotonic Regression algorithms, published at CRAN.

My research interest is focused on developing more efficient, personalized, and socially intelligent (multimodal) AI Agents. My work spans several interconnected areas:

My research goal is to enable human-centric agents that are not only powerful in general capabilities but also aware of societal structures to make decisions that benefit society as a whole.



If you are interested in collaboration, feel free to contact me at chenkai5 [at] illinois [dot] edu

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Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2020 - December 2024 (expected)

University of Michigan
B.S. in Computer Science and Honors Statistics, 2016 - 2020

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