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REAL AI Bootcamp – Photo Gallery

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Here are some snapshots from the REAL AI Bootcamp, three days filled with learning, creativity, and collaboration among bright high school students exploring Artificial Intelligence 🚀

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Gone With the Bits: Benchmarking Bias in Facial Phenotype Degradation Under Low-Rate Neural Compression

Published in ICML 2024 Workshop NextGenAISafety, 2024

Tian Qiu, Arjun Nichani, Rasta Tadayon, Haewon Jeong
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Gone With the Bits: Revealing Racial Bias in Low-Rate Neural Compression for Facial Images

Published in The 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’25), 2025

Tian Qiu, Arjun Nichani, Rasta Tadayon, Haewon Jeong
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Learning to Lie: Reinforcement Learning Attacks Damage Human-AI Teams and Teams of LLMs

Published in ICLR 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Coevolution (HAIC), 2025

Abed Musaffar, Anand Gokhale, Sirui Zeng, Rasta Tadayon, Xifeng Yan, Ambuj Singh, Francesco Bullo
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FAIM: Fair Imputation with Adversarial Training for Mitigating Bias in Missing Data

Published in ICML 2025 Workshop on DataWorld: Unifying Data Curation Frameworks Across Domains, 2025

Rasta Tadayon, Haewon Jeong, Ramtin Pedarsani
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Learning to Lie: Reinforcement Learning Attacks Damage Human-AI Teams and Teams of LLMs

Under review at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

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Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Undergraduate Courses, University of Tehran

  • Formal Languages and Automata with Prof. Hossein Hojjat, Fall’21 & 20/ Spring’20
  • Engineering Probability and Statistics with Prof. Mohammadreza Abolghasemi, Spring’21
  • Advanced Programming with Prof. Ramtin Khosravi, Fall’19 & Spring’20

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Undergraduate Courses, UC Santa Barbara

  • CS9: Intermediate Python Programming with Prof. Richert Wang, Summer’24 & 23/ Fall’23
  • CS130A: Data Structure and Algorithm I with Prof. Subhash Suri, Winter’23
  • CS165A: Artificial Intelligence with Prof. Xifeng Yan, Fall’22

SRA program mentor

Summer Research Academics Program, UC Santa Barbara , 2024

Mentored and guided high school students in the SRA program at UCSB, providing support in conducting machine learning research and coaching them to present their findings effectively.

REAL AI Bootcamp Instructor

Summer Outreach Program for High School Students, UC Santa Barbara , 2025

Teaching at the REAL AI Bootcamp was one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life 🌸
I had the privilege of instructing bright and motivated high school students, introducing them to the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence, and guiding discussions on the exciting possibilities that lie ahead in the field. Find some cool photos here →.