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

I work on developing AI systems that are Safe, Reliable, and Trustworthy. My research addresses fundamental questions that enable AI models to achieve these attributes. A few of the research topics that my group is working on are:

• Language generation, interpretability and explainability, generalization and robustness, open weight model safety, model editing and steering, compositionality, conformal prediction and LLM agents

Recent News

Papers

• Accepted Papers 2025: 2 papers (ICML), 1 paper (ICLR), 1 (EMNLP), 1 (TAIG @ICML), 1 (IJMIR)
• Accepted Papers 2024: 2 papers (NeurIPS), 2 papers (NAACL), 2 papers (EMNLP)
• Accepted Papers 2023: 3 conference papers (NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL), 1 Journal (JMLR), 3 demo papers (AAAI, ACL, EACL)

Talks

• Latent Concept-Based Explanation of NLP Models. Workshop on Decoding Decisions: Explainability in ML & Sequential Decision Making, CVPR (May 2025)
• Navigating Latent Space for Safety, Interpretability and Explainability. New York University Abu Dhabi (May 2025)
• Are LLMs a Good Model of Human Thought? The Challenge of Compositional Learning. Atlantic Canada AI Summit (May 2025)
• Latent Space Exploration for Safe and Trustworthy AI Models. Representation learning for NLP at ACL (Aug. 2024) (Keynote)
• Latent Space Exploration for Safe and Trustworthy AI Models. MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi (Aug. 2024)
• Latent Space Exploration for Safe and Trustworthy AI Models. AI@Thomson Reuters (Apr. 2024)
• 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)

Service

• Area chair @ NeurIPS 2025/24/23, Senior PC @ AAAI 2025, Area chair @ ARR ²⁰²⁴⁄₂₅, Area chair @ EMNLP 2023, Tutorial chair @ EMNLP 2023

Misc

• NeuroX Toolkit on pip: https://pypi.org/project/neurox/