Aoqi Zuo Ph.D. Student UoM Causal Learning & Reasoning Group School of Mathematics and Statistics The University of Melbourne Address: 206 Old Geology Building South, Parkville, VIC, Australia Email: azuo AT student.unimelb.edu.au

Biography

I am a final year Ph.D. student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of Melbourne (UoM). I received my B.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Sichuan University in 2018 and M.S. degree in Data Science from University of Melbourne in 2020. My research mainly focuses on causal inference and its applications to fair and trustworthy machine learning. In addition, I am also interested in exploring large language models (LLMs) through the lens of causal reasoning.

Education Background

• Ph.D. student, 2021.02 - Ongoing
  The University of Melbourne, Australia, advised by Dr. Mingming Gong and Dr. Susan Wei.

• Ph.D. visiting student, 2024.02 - 2024.10
  The University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, advised by Dr. Sara Magliacane in AMLab.

• M.S. Data science, 2019.02 - 2020.12
  The University of Melbourne, Australia

• B.E. Computer science and technology, 2014.09 - 2018.07
  Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Publications

^* Indicates equal first-author contribution.

• CausalAbstain: Enhancing Multilingual LLMs with Causal Reasoning for Trustworthy Abstention
  Yuxi Sun^*, Aoqi Zuo^*, Wei Gao, Jing Ma
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) (Findings).
  

• Interventional Fairness on Partially Known Causal Graphs: A Constrained Optimization Approach
  Aoqi Zuo, Yiqing Li, Susan Wei, Mingming Gong
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024).
  

• Counterfactual Fairness with Partially Known Causal Graph
  Aoqi Zuo, Susan Wei, Tongliang Liu, Bo Han, Kun Zhang, Mingming Gong
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022).
  

Honors and Awards

• Melbourne Research Scholarship, 2021-2024.

• ICLR 2024 Scholar Award, 2024.

• NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award, 2022.

• Science Abroad Travelling Scholarship (SATS), 2022

• Dean's Honours List - Faculty of Science, 2021.

Training

• Attended the course: Business Analysis in the era of Big Data, 2017.07 - 2017.08
  National University of Singapore

Talks

• Institute for Mathematical Statistics – Asia-Pacific Rim Meeting (IMS-APRM), The University of Melbourne, 2024.01

• Frontier and Innovation: International Conference for PhD Students, Renmin University of China, 2023,07

Academic Service

• Conference and Journal Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, UAI, TMLR etc.

Tutoring Roles

• MAST90083 - Computational Statistics & Data Science.

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