Gilpin UCSC homepage

Citation

Leilani H. Gilpin. “Leilani H. Gilpin, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz.” Personal faculty homepage on the UC Santa Cruz people server, publication date unknown (news to December 2024, publications to 2026). https://people.ucsc.edu/~lgilpin/. Read 2026-10-26.

Bottom line

Leilani H. Gilpin is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. She leads the AI Explainability and Accountability (AIEA) Lab.
She holds a PhD from MIT (2020). She was a research scientist at Sony AI, and won an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP) grant in 2023.

Background

Her own homepage, on a UC Santa Cruz server. It has her bio, news, talks, teaching and projects.

Key claims

She is “an affiliate of the Science & Justice Research Center and the Generative AI Center at UC Santa Cruz.” (bio)
“Previously, I was a research scientist at Sony AI working on explainability in AI agents.” (bio)
“My research focuses on the theories and methodologies towards monitoring, designing, and augmenting complex machines that can explain themselves for diagnosis, accountability, and liability.” (bio)
Education: PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2020; M.S., Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford, 2013; BSc, Computer Science and Mathematics, UC San Diego, 2011. (Education)
“December 2023: I was awarded the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP) grant.” (News)
She was general chair of the 19th Conference on Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2025). (News, November 2024)
Projects include “Explaining LLM Failures”, “Faithful Reasoning” for “high-stakes use cases”, and “NeSy Law” for legal applications. (Projects)
She taught CSE 246, Responsible Data Science (Fall 2022). (Teaching)

Evidence and method

A self-published faculty page.

Limits

The news list stops in December 2024.
The page does not mention CalCompute, public compute or policy work for California.