James Caverlee

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
infolab
[my_last_name] 'at' tamu.edu

Industry engagement: Google DeepMind Visiting Researcher

About Me: Howdy! I'm a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and a Visiting Researcher at Google DeepMind. With my students and collaborators, we aim to develop trustworthy, resilient, and responsible machine learning algorithms and systems to help people connect to information and to each other. Our group focuses on fairness and bias, efficiency, and personalization in domains like LLMs, recommender systems, conversational systems, and speech. Our work has appeared in major venues like KDD, EMNLP, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, AAAI, RecSys, and more. Our papers have been recognized with the 2022 SIGIR Test of Time Award Honorable Mention, the 2020 CIKM Test of Time Award, plus several Best Paper (Candidate) awards. Our research has been generously supported by an NSF CAREER award, an AFOSR Young Investigator Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, and multiple grants from Google, Amazon, AFOSR, DARPA, and the NSF. I was the General Co-Chair of WSDM 2020 and serve as a Senior Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, as well as the Senior Program Committee of many venues.

Recent News:

  • I'm one of the co-organizers of the Second Workshop on Generative AI for Recommender Systems and Personalization, to be held at KDD 2025. Please consider submitting!
  • Posted a survey and github resource for LLM Inference-Time Self-Improvement.
  • Congratulations to Zhuoer Wang for successfully defending his dissertation on Efficient Methods for Trustworthy Generation with Large Language Models! Zhuoer has joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist.
  • I was delighted to be a Keynote Speaker at the 3rd Workshop on Ethical Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications (EAI@ KDD 2024) and a Panelist at the First Workshop on Generative AI for Recommender Systems and Personalization (GenAI@ KDD2024).
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Or you may prefer: chilling, summertime, quarantine haircut, chilling out (pic by Hongning Wang), Wampa attack, thinking, coffee, guitar, Korean, bike, canoe, rainy, Gandalf, GRRM, dunno, younger me, fancy me, or collaborating (pic by Hongning Wang).

Publications

See also my publications at DBLP, Google Scholar, and at Semantic Scholar. 2007 and earlier

Students

Current and Former PhD Students

Current and Former MS Students

Current and Former Undergrads

Teaching

Courses at Texas A&M

Other Teaching Experience

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Awards