Biography:

Kun Zhang is an associate professor in the CMU philosophy department and an affiliate faculty member in the machine learning department. His research interests lie in machine learning and artificial intelligence, especially in causal discovery and causality-based learning. He develops methods for automated causal discovery from various kinds of data, investigates learning problems including transfer learning and deep learning from a causal view, and studies philosophical foundations of causation and machine learning. On the application side, he is interested in neuroscience, computational finance, and climate analysis.