Yibo Hu Research Group

My group works on reliability and robustness of data-driven and language-based systems.

Several Spring 2026 manuscripts were completed with students who had recently joined the group.

For information about possible research opportunities, please see the Prospective Students page.

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Current Students

Ph.D. Students at Illinois Tech

• Hanyu Su (Incoming Ph.D. student, Fall 2026)

Students at Illinois Tech

• Bharath Raahul Murugesan – political event coding and executable codebooks
• Maroof Kousar – health-related question answering and OTC dosing questions
• Jinsung Han (Undergraduate) – health-related question-answering benchmark construction

Dual Degree Program (Europe)

• Carlota Julbe (UPC, Spain) – subtype robustness and calibration
• Diego Fernandez Arias (UPM, Spain) – workflow-level reliability and process analysis
• Pablo Bote (UPM, Spain) – computational reliability analysis

External Research Students

• Zixuan He (University of Southern California) – computational social-science measurement and behavioral reliability

Alumni

• Suraj Babu Thimma Krishnaram (M.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, 2026) – content moderation workflow reliability
• Karthikeyan Saravanan (M.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, 2026) – content moderation workflow reliability

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Group Pictures