About
Olawale Salaudeen is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the AI & Human Systems group at Microsoft Research and an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was previously an AI Center Fellow at Schmidt Sciences and a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT. His research focuses on the scientific foundations of AI systems that have positive societal impact, particularly the valid measurement and prediction of AI capabilities and risks, the mechanisms governing AI behavior and generalization, and methods for improving reliability under changing conditions. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.