Hassan Sajjad

Associate Professor

Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

About me

I am a Faculty member in the Faculty of Computer Science and Director of HyperMatrix at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. I am an AI researcher with domain expertise in Natural Language Processing and Safe and Trustworthy AI. Moreover, I am a consultant and a mentor blended with entrepreneurial interests.

Research Interest

NLP, Deep learning, Safe and Trustworthy AI – language generation, interpretability and explainability, generalization and robustness, social and safety alignment, model editing

Recent Talks

Latent Space Exploration for Safe and Trustworthy AI Models. AI@Thomson Reuters (Apr. 2024)
Neuron Interpretation of Deep NLP Models. ITU, Lahore, Pakistan (Dec. 2023)
Latent Concept based Explanation of Deep Learning Models. MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi (Nov. 2023)
Latent Concepts in Transformer Models of NLP. UKP, TU Darmstadt, Germany (Jun. 2023)
Knowledge Manifolds in Transformer Models of NLP, National Research Council (NRC), Canada (Apr. 2023)
Knowledge Manifolds in Transformer Models of NLP, University of Ottawa, Canada (Apr. 2023)
Analyzing Latent Concepts in Deep Neural Network Models of NLP. STCI Microsoft, India (Jun. 2022)
Analyzing Latent Concepts in Deep Neural Network Models of NLP. Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, (Jun. 2022)
Exploiting Redundancy in Pre-trained Models for Efficient Transfer Learning, Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium, Qatar (Mar. 2021), Facebook, US (Feb 2021) and National Research Council, Canada (Nov. 2020)
Interpreting Deep NLP Models, University of Edinburgh, UK (April 2020)
Summarizing Research on Interpreting Machine Translation Models, University of Sheffield, UK (Mar 2020)
Efficient Transfer Learning of Pretrained Model, 7th International Conference on Language and Technology, Pakistan (February 2020)
Analyzing Individual Neurons in Deep NLP Models at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Salesforce and Bosch, US (April 2019)
Hidden Linguistics in Deep NLP Models, Symposium on Natural Language Processing, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (March 2019)