Mengdi Huai receives National Science Foundation CAREER award

Mengdi Huai, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the highest honor awarded to junior faculty. Dr. Huai’s proposal “CAREER: Enabling Reliable Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making with Unreliable Data” works with conformal inference, a statistical distribution-free and model-agnostic technique that offers statistically rigorous measures of uncertainty for individual predictions, so that it can better handle unreliable data and enhance its effectiveness in real-world uncertainty studies. Dr. Huai is the 9th faculty member of the department to receive this distinction.