Yongkai Wu
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science, supervised by Dr. Xintao Wu at the University of Arkansas in 2020. Before that, I completed my B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, China in 2014.
My research focuses on advancing AI with particular emphasis on responsible and trustworthy AI. I strive to create AI systems that are not only powerful and efficient, but also transparent, fair, and aligned with human values. By bridging theory and real-world applications, I aim to advance the state of the art in trustworthy AI and foster broad societal benefits from AI advancements.
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News
| Feb 22, 2026 | I will serve as Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). |
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| Feb 01, 2026 | I will serve as Area Chair for KDD 2026, UAI 2026, and SPC for IJCAI 2026. |
| Jan 22, 2026 | Happy to announce that I will serve as Associate Editor of the Journal of Data Science and Analytics. |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Thrilled to announce a new NSF award (Award ID 2520496, \$211,976) for collaborative research on Responsible AI in data-intensive educational research with Temple University and University of Utah! |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Honored to receive the Best Paper Award for “Causally Fair Node Classification on Non-IID Graph Data” at the 4th Workshop on Ethical Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications (co-located with ACM SIGKDD’25). |