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Machine Intelligence and Data Science Lab

Director: Professor Chuxu Zhang


School of Computing, College of Engineering
University of Connecticut (UConn)
352 Mansfield Rd, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
chuxu.zhang@uconn.edu



About
The Machine Intelligence and Data Science (MINDS) Lab conducts cutting-edge research in machine learning, deep learning, and data mining to advance our society. The lab specializes in areas such as graph machine learning, large language models, and multi-modal learning, applying these techniques to address societal challenges in public safety, healthcare, social media, science, and others. Current research efforts are centered on developing foundational models (graph neural neteworks and large language models), designing resource-efficient learning algorithms (from both data and model perspectives), and ensuring safe learning practices that are robust, fair, and interpretable. The lab's works are primarily published in leading conferences for machine learning (e.g., ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, TMLR), data science (e.g., KDD, WWW, WSDM, ICDM, CIKM, SDM), artificial intelligence (e.g., AAAI, IJCAI, UAI), and natural language processing (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL).


News/Updates
Pin: Our lab has multiple PhD student positions available at UConn SoC, starting on Spring/Fall 2026. Please read THIS for detailed student recruitment information.
Aug 2025: We received an NSF Core grant on on AI for Tackling the Food Insecurity.       
Jul 2025: We are organizing the Resource-efficient Learning workshop at KDD'25. Please check the workshop website for detailed schedule.
May 2025: Papers accepted to ICML 2025 (X3), ACL 2025, IJCAI 2025.
Jan 2025: We are organizing the Resource-efficient Learning workshop at WWW'25. Please check the workshop website for detailed schedule.
Jan 2025: Papers accepted to TMLR (X2), NAACL 2025.
Dec 2024: Papers accepted to KDD 2025, CSUR, WSDM 2025 (X3).
Aug 2024: We received an NSF grant on promoting community resilience for teenagers and young adults.       
Aug 2024: We are organizing the Resource-efficient Learning workshop at KDD'24 on August 25. Please check the workshop website for detailed schedule.
May 2024: Papers accepted to KDD 2024 (X2).
Feb 2024: Prof. Zhang received The NSF CAREER Award
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