Biography

I am a Ph.D candidate of Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University supervised by Dr. David I. Inouye. I have worked in site reliability engineer focusing on abnormality detection at Baidu before my Ph.D. career. My research interests include Trustworthy and Reliable AI/ML, especially from causal perspective.

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Interests
  • Generative Models
  • Robust and Trustworthy AI/ML
  • Distribution Shift
  • Data-Centric AI
Education

  • Ph.D in Computer Engineering, 2019 - Present

    Purdue University

Recent Posts

Open to work
I am currently on the job market in the summer of 2025.
Ruqi Bai
Last updated on Jan 20, 2025 1 min read job
Open to work
ICLR 2024 at Vienna
I will be attending ICLR 2024 at Vienna!
Ruqi Bai
Last updated on Jan 20, 2025 1 min read welcome
ICLR 2024 at Vienna
NeurIPS 2023 at New Orleans
I will be attending NeurIPS 2023 at New Orleans!
Ruqi Bai
Last updated on Jan 20, 2025 1 min read welcome
NeurIPS 2023 at New Orleans
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Selected Publications

Counterfactual Fairness by Combining Factual and Counterfactual Predictions
In high-stakes domains such as healthcare and hiring, the role of machine learning (ML) in decision-making raises significant fairness …
Zeyu Zhou, Tianci Liu, Ruqi Bai, Jing Gao, Murat Kocaoglu, David I. Inouye
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Counterfactual Fairness by Combining Factual and Counterfactual Predictions
Benchmarking Algorithms for Federated Domain Generalization
While prior federated learning (FL) methods mainly consider client heterogeneity, we focus on the Federated Domain Generalization (DG) …
Ruqi Bai, Saurabh Bagchi, David I. Inouye
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Benchmarking Algorithms for Federated Domain Generalization
Towards Characterizing Domain Counterfactuals for Invertible Latent Causal Models
Answering counterfactual queries has many important applications such as knowledge discovery and explainability, but is challenging …
Ruqi Bai, Zeyu Zhou, Sean Kulinski*, Murat Kocaoglu, David I. Inouye
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Towards Characterizing Domain Counterfactuals for Invertible Latent Causal Models
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Personal Life

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Love Climbing!

I am an avid climber.

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Love Running!

I am an marathon runner.

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