Cynthia Chen

Cynthia is a rising senior at the University of Hong Kong. She is deeply passionate about developing AI systems that
are beneficial to society and align with human values. Broadly, she is interested in improving robustness and
reliability in decision-making algorithms.

Cynthia’s research at CHAI primarily focuses on improving imitation learning agents with representation learning
methods. Prior to CHAI, Cynthia has conducted research in Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML) and had her paper
published at a major top conference. She has also spent her undergrad years at Stanford University and Columbia
University as a Visiting Student. Currently, Cynthia is among the Organizing Committee of SafeAI workshop at AAAI and
AISafety workshop at IJCAI, where she hopes to help with growing the AI alignment research field. You can find out
more about Cynthia at her website.