Cristina Gârbacea

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago, Data Science Institute, working with Prof. Chenhao Tan and the Chicago Human+AI (CHAI) research group. I have also collaborated with Prof. Victor Veitch. My research focuses on the alignment, evaluation and control of large language models (LLMs).

I earned my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Qiaozhu Mei. My academic background also includes an MSc in Artificial Intelligence (“cum laude”) from the University of Amsterdam and a double BSc in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Transilvania University of Brasov.

Complementing my academic work, I have completed several Research Scientist internships at Google DeepMind (London) and Microsoft Research (Redmond, Montreal, Cambridge) during my graduate studies.

I welcome collaborations on LLM-related topics. If you would like to chat about a research idea, feel free to reach out at garbacea@uchicago.edu or garbacea@umich.edu.