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Shuang Ao (Alumni) 
PhD Research Student
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Ao, S. (2025). Building Trustworthy AI: Uncertainty Quantification and Failure Detection in Large Vision-Language Models. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/102247/.
Ao, S., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A. (2024). CSS: Contrastive Semantic Similarities for Uncertainty Quantification of LLMs. In: 40th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2024), 15-19 Jul 2024, Barcelona, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/100908/.
Ao, S., Rueger, S. and Siddharthan, A. (2023). Two Sides of Miscalibration: Identifying Over and Under-Confidence Prediction for Network Calibration. In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 31 Jul - 4 Aug 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/94356/.
Ao, S., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A. (2023). Empirical Optimal Risk to Quantify Model Trustworthiness for Failure Detection. In: 2023 IJCAI Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety and Safe Reinforcement Learning, AISafety-SafeRL, 21-22 Aug 2023, Macau, China. https://oro.open.ac.uk/94378/.
Ao, S., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A. (2022). Confidence-Aware Calibration and Scoring Functions for Curriculum Learning. In: 2022 15th International Conference on Machine Vision., 18-20 Nov 2022, Rome, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/87157/.







