Michael Cardei

My name is Michael Cardei and I am Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where I am advised by Professor Ferdinando Fioretto. As a member of the RAISE lab, my research is focused on Responsible Generative AI and Generative AI for Scientific Applications. My research is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP).

I completed my BS in Computer Science at the University of Florida, where I performed research under the guidance of Dr. My Thai in the areas of LLM’s, Federated Learning, and XAI. I was part of the 2023 Robotics Institute Summer Scholars program RISS at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where I worked on Computer Vision applications for Autonomous Vehicles under the guidance of Dr. Srinivasa Narasimhan. In the summer of 2022, I was part of the Wake Forest University, Center for Artificial Intelligence summer REU program under the guidance of Dr. Umit Topaloglu researching ML privacy and bias. Most recently, I was a Staff Machine Learning Research Intern at Visa, focusing on generative AI for financial applications.