Shuang Ao  

Research Area Responsible AI, LLM and LVLM, Uncertainty Quantification, Automatic Failure Detection

Research Fellow
Responsible AI (RAi) UK,
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

 
Email: s.ao@soton.ac.uk
Curriculum Vitae

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in AI for Good at the University of Southampton, specializing in Safe and Trusted AI, Trustworthy LLMs, Uncertainty Quantification, and Automatic Failure Detection. My research focuses on improving confidence calibration, contrastive semantic similarity, evaluation metrics, safety alignment in LLM fine-tuning to enhance reliability and performance. Currently, I am developing an LLM-based multi-agent system for climate and energy, where domain-specific LLMs debate, engage with humans, and generate insights to support policy-making and decision-making. I have published seven peer-reviewed papers, including works presented at top-tier AI conferences and journals such as UAI, IJCAI and TACL. I hold a Master’s degree in Theoretical NLP from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and have gained industry experience as an NLP Research Intern, Data Science Intern, and Linguistic Specialist. My work has been recognized through several awards, including a student scholarship from the 39th and 40th UAI, a Best Paper Award nomination at AISafety-IJCAI 2023, the Melete Award for PhD students at KMi (OU), and first place in the Judge's Choice at The Open University's 17th Poster Competition. I was also a recipient of The Open University's PhD scholarship. One of my grant applications was shortlisted in the EPSRC-funded TIDAL Network+ Call5, reflecting my commitment to advancing safe and trustworthy AI. My personal social websites are Linkedin | Github.

Shuang Ao is boardly interested in different fields in NLP, such as Neural Machine Translation and sentiment analysis.
Currently, Shuang Ao is working on improving the accuracy of sentiment analysis and the application of attention in NMT.


Projects and Research: Awards and Certificates:
Education:

National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore,
Master of Arts (Language Studies), May 2016

Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist United International College,
Bachelor of Teaching English as Second Language, Dean List, July 2015

Research Experience:

Research on Family Language Policy, including case study on the reasons of different attitudes of treating family language and provide recommandation accordingly
Analysis of vowel system of Singapore English, with linguistic tool PRAAT
Present my paperA comparison of corpus-based frequency lists with a frequency list from Chinese English language textbooks
in the International Conference of SHU 2015 TESOL, May 14-16, Shanghai, China 2015.

Working Experience:

Mar 2017 -- Mar 2020, Team Leader & Bilingual Teacher at Edugrove Mandarin Enrichment Centre, Singapore,
  • Supervised and reported teachers' performance; planed for teacher training.
  • Taught and designed curriculums in bilingual way.
  • Created improvised show based on students language ability and class content.
  • Developing age appropriate lesson plans and conducting one to one class with personalized contents, including dyslexia, ADHD and Autistic children.

May 2016 -- Jan 2017, Language Teacher at Dong's Education, Inner Mongolia, China ,
  • Taught reading and writing module of IELTS, SAT, SSAT, Postgraduate Entrance Exam, CET-4&6 and College Entrance Examination.
  • Taught American history and English literature in bilingual way.
  • Prepared course materials and diagnosed tests, writing curriculum, counselling with parents and providing individual feedback.

Other Interests
  • I enjoy creating learning new things, such as art and handcraft and cooking.
  • I like doing sports and keeping myself active, such as jogging and swimming.

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