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Principal Investigator

Prof. Shangding Gu

Prof. Shangding Gu (顾尚定)

Principal Investigator of SAIL Lab · Tenure-track Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Homepage: PI Homepage
GitHub: SAIL Lab GitHub · Personal GitHub
YouTube: AI Agent Research Channel

Shangding Gu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich (advised by Prof. Alois Knoll) and was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley (working with Prof. Costas Spanos and Prof. Dawn Song) before joining SJTU. His research spans safe reinforcement learning, robot learning, LLM agents, and trustworthy AI. He serves as a youth editorial board member for multiple international journals, a guest editor for IEEE TASE, an Area Chair for NeurIPS and IJCNN, and a chair/organizer of multiple international workshops and seminars. He has also delivered tutorials on safe reinforcement learning at major international conferences, including IJCAI and IEEE SmartGridComm. See his Google Scholar profile for the full publication record.

The Students I Currently Work with

We work with a group of strong, self-motivated, and talented students on safe AI and robot learning.
UC Berkeley
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UC Berkeley
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Lejun Zhang
SJTU
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Sarah Lu-Liang
University of Toronto
UIUC
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Yingxuan Yang
SJTU

Current Collaborators

We are fortunate to work with many awesome collaborators across academia and industry. Due to space limitations, only a few are highlighted here.
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Staff Research Scientist, NVIDIA
Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Professor, Tongji University
Associate Professor, UC Davis
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Alumni / Advised Students

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