Michael Cardei

My name is Michael Cardei and I am Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where I work under the supervision of Professor Ferdinando Fioretto. As a member of the RAISE lab, my research is focused on Responsible Generative AI and Generative AI for Scientific Applications.
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.
news
Jun 25, 2025 | Paper titled ROADWork Dataset: Learning to Recognize, Observe, Analyze and Drive Through Work Zones accepted to the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). |
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Jun 10, 2025 | Awarded the NSF GRFP Scholarship Award - 2025 |
May 16, 2025 | Starting a new internship at Visa as a Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist. |
May 10, 2025 | Our paper Neuro-symbolic Generative Diffusion Models was awarded a DARPA Disruptive Idea Award (Top 5 Conference Submission). |
Apr 20, 2025 | Paper titled Neuro-symbolic Generative Diffusion Models for Physically Grounded, Robust, and Safe Generation accepted to NeuS 2025 and selected for Oral Presentation! |
selected publications
- Neuro-Symbolic Generative Diffusion Models for Physically Grounded, Robust, and Safe GenerationInternational Conference on Neuro-symbolic Systems (NeuS 2025), 2025
- Constrained Discrete DiffusionarXiv, 2025