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.

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.