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Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Computer Science and Engineering

Title Assistant Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Science & Justice Research Center

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Ethics

Web Site

Primary Office Location Engineering Building 2
347B

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours Tuesdays 5pm-6pm (in E2 399 or E2 347B) and by appointment: https://calendar.app.google/MEA4aWm9FEnfpn6n7

Mail Stop SOE3

Biography, Education and Training

Leilani H. Gilpin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of

Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz.  Her research

focuses on the design and analysis of methods for autonomous systems

to explain themselves.  Her work has applications to robust

decision-making, system debugging, and accountability.  She holds a

PhD in Computer Science from MIT, an M.S. in Computational and

Mathematical Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in

Mathematics (with honors), B.S. in Computer Science (with highest

honors), and a music minor from UC San Diego.  Outside of research,

Leilani enjoys swimming, cooking, hiking, emacs, and org mode.

Awards, Honors and Grants

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP) 2024

Advisees, Grad Students & Researchers Chang, Elias (elochang)
Liu, Li (lliu112)
Wang, Peiyu (pwang95)
Keen, Jack Fox (kekeen)
Huang, Shiyuan (shuan101)
Vakharia, Priyesh (pvakhari)
La Rosa, Mattia (bilarosa)
Zhong, Sijia (szhong16)
Ramos, Esteban (esiramos)
Pawar, Manasi (mspawar)

Courses CSE 240 (Artificial Intelligence)
CSE 140 (Artificial Intelligence)
CSE 246 (Responsible Data Science)
CMPM 118 (Research Explorations - AIEA Lab)