Pengtao Xie

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Medicine

Affiliated Faculty, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute in the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, AI Group in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Center for Machine-Intelligence, Computing and Security, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, and Institute for Genomic Medicine.

University of California San Diego

I obtained my PhD from the Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests mainly lie in machine learning inspired by humans' learning skills (especially classroom learning skills), such as learning by self explanation, small-group learning, learning by teaching, etc., and their applications in Large Language Models, Foundation Models, Healthcare, and Biomedicine. Here is a summary of research outcome. I received an NSF Career Award in 2024 and an NIH MIRA Award in 2025.

https://pengtaoxie.github.io/ 

p1xie@ucsd.edu


I am looking for highly-motivated PhD students, postdocs, and master students to join my group. I am also looking for research interns.

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