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Yaowei Hu (胡耀炜)

Senior Data Scientist

Walmart Inc.

Member of the People.AI team

About Me: I am a senior data scientist in Walmart Inc. Previously, I got my Ph.D. from the EECS department at University of Arkansas, advised by Prof. Lu Zhang. And I obtained my M.S. and B.ENG. from the college of computer at Sichuan University in China.

Research Interest: Currently, I have been working on retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for LLMs. During my PhD, my research primarily focused on fair machine learning and causal inference. Specifically, I proposed various fairness algorithms to achieve long-term fairness in sequential decision-making. My interests also include generative models, reinforcement learning, natural language processing.

News

Dec 9, 2023 Our paper “Long-term Fair Decision Making Through Deep Generative Models” has been accepted by AAAI 2024.
Oct 28, 2023 Our paper “Striking a Balance in Fairness for Dynamic Systems Through Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted by IEEE Big Data 2023 as a regular paper.
Jun 22, 2023 Our paper “Long-term Fair Decision Making Through Deep Generative Models” has been accepted at 2nd SIGKDD Workshop on Ethical Artifical Intelligence: Methods and Applications.

Selected publications

  1. AAAI
    Long-term Fair Decision Making Through Deep Generative Models
    Yaowei Hu, Yongkai Wu, and Lu Zhang
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
  2. Dissertation
    Towards Long-term Fairness in Sequential Decision Making
    Yaowei Hu
    In University of Arkansas, 2023
  3. Big Data
    Striking a Balance in Fairness for Dynamic Systems Through Reinforcement Learning
    Yaowei Hu, Jacob Lear, and Lu Zhang
    In IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2023
  4. AAAIOral
    Achieving Long-term Fairness in Sequential Decision Making
    Yaowei Hu, and Lu Zhang
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
  5. AAAI
    A Generative Adversarial Framework for Bounding Confounded Causal Effects
    Yaowei Hu, Yongkai Wu, Lu Zhang, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
  6. NeurIPS
    Fair Multiple Decision Making Through Soft Interventions
    Yaowei Hu, Yongkai Wu, Lu Zhang, and 1 more author
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020