Ni Lao

Researcher, Google

Joined

October 2017

Names

Ni Lao

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@mosaix.ai (Confirmed)

****@apple.com (Confirmed)

****@utexas.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2021 – Present

Researcher

Apple (apple.com)

2020 – 2021

Chief Scientist

mosaix.ai (mosaix.ai)

2018 – 2020

Research Scientist

Google (google.com)

2012 – 2018

PhD student

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (cs.cmu.edu)

2006 – 2012

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

William W. Cohen

Present

Expertise

statistical machine learning

Present

Publications

GeoBS: Information-Theoretic Quantification of Geographic Bias in AI Models
Zhangyu Wang, Nemin Wu, Qian Cao, Jiangnan Xia, Zeping Liu, Yiqun Xie, Akshay Nambi, Tanuja Ganu, Ni Lao, Ninghao Liu, Gengchen Mai
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Cautious Weight Decay
Lizhang Chen, Jonathan Li, Kaizhao Liang, Baiyu Su, Cong Xie, Chen Liang, Ni Lao, qiang liu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
GAIR: A Multimodal Geo-Foundation Model with Geo-Aligned Implicit Representations
Zeping Liu, Zhangyu Wang, Junfeng Jiao, Ni Lao, Gengchen Mai
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
LocDiff: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space
Zhangyu Wang, Zeping Liu, Jielu Zhang, Zhongliang Zhou, Qian Cao, Nemin Wu, Lan Mu, Yang Song, Yiqun Xie, Ni Lao, Gengchen Mai
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
LocDiffusion: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space
Zhangyu Wang, Jielu Zhang, Zhongliang Zhou, Qian Cao, Nemin Wu, Zeping Liu, Lan Mu, Yang Song, Yiqun Xie, Ni Lao, Gengchen Mai
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
SSIF: Physics-Inspired Implicit Representations for Spatial-Spectral Image Super-Resolution
Gengchen Mai, Zeping Liu, Ni Lao, Weiwei Sun, Yuchi Ma, Jiaming Song, Chenlin Meng, Hongxu Ma, Jinmeng Rao, Qian Cao, Nemin Wu, Zhangyu Wang, Stefano Ermon
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
TorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning
Nemin Wu, Qian Cao, Zhangyu Wang, Zeping Liu, Yanlin Qi, Jielu Zhang, Joshua Ni, X. Angela Yao, Hongxu Ma, Lan Mu, Stefano Ermon, Tanuja Ganu, Akshay Nambi, Ni Lao, Gengchen Mai
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MC-GTA: Metric-Constrained Model-Based Clustering using Goodness-of-fit Tests with Autocorrelations
Zhangyu Wang, Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Ni Lao
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MC-GTA: Metric-Constrained Model-Based Clustering using Goodness-of-fit Tests with Autocorrelations
Zhangyu Wang, Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Ni Lao
- ICML 2024
- Readers: Everyone
RARR: Researching and Revising What Language Models Say, Using Language Models
Luyu Gao, Zhuyun Dai, Panupong Pasupat, Anthony Chen, Arun Tejasvi Chaganty, Yicheng Fan, Vincent Y Zhao, Ni Lao, Hongrae Lee, Da-Cheng Juan, Kelvin Guu
- 06 Oct 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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