Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UMass Lowell. Language + Healthcare. Previously at MIT, Harvard, UMD College Park, NUS, and University of Tehran.
See our MSU–IBM joint work on reasoning model “unlearning” presented at @emnlpmeeting, showcasing how unlearning can be leveraged to sanitize sensitive reasoning traces and enhance model safety.
We’ve been running the UCLA NLP Seminar for a while now and realized it’s a waste not to share these amazing talks more broadly.
So here’s our YouTube channel now!
🎥 Watch and subscribe to our channel for past and upcoming sessions:
👉 https://t.co/dbGIRMAAS4
#AI#UCLANLP
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: https://t.co/pjfZsYxSk0
EqualizeIR: Mitigating Linguistic Biases in Retrieval Models with @jialicheng123. We show that IR models are biased by the ling. complexity of queries, and introduce 4 types of weak learners to build robust retrievers. https://t.co/opM47RHn5N
#NLProc#NAACL2025
Today (4/25, 11am EST)! In our final CS Colloquium of this series, @msurd shares how combining symbolic rules with neural models leads to more explainable information extraction. #NLP#ExplainableAI@KCSciences_UML@uarizona
see details👉 https://t.co/oBxm1HYaq5
Thank you so much @amirieb for hosting, amazing visit 🤗
New papers discussed:
QUDsim (discourse similarity): https://t.co/xqvbDvH5v0
Information salience in LLMs: https://t.co/Vi1XGJM4ZZ
Can LLM reason reliably? Join our CS colloquium with Greg Durrett (@gregd_nlp) on Specializing LLMs for Reliability: hallucination, model interpretation, and building reliable AI systems.
Today, 11:00am ET! Details 👉 https://t.co/oBxm1HYaq5
@KCSciences_UML@UTAustin#AI#NLP
We were honored to host Prof. Jiawei Han for an inspiring talk on integrating knowledge graphs with LLMs to accelerate theme-driven scientific discovery. (4/5, 11AM) @dmguiuc@KCSciences_UML
👉 https://t.co/oBxm1HYaq5
Introducing an advanced Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), which goes beyond diagnosis towards treating and managing disease over time, matching clinician performance on multi-visit consultations in a study with patient actors. Learn more at https://t.co/39pfZJVaaM
Join us to learn how NLP can support endangered languages despite limited training data with Emily Prud’hommeaux! Tomorrow (March 7) at 11:00am ET!
@KCSciences_UML@BostonCollege#NLP#AIforGood
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Join us for an exciting talk by @cocoweixu to learn how human judgment & AI-driven automation can improve LLM evaluation and privacy!
Today (Feb 28) at 11:00am ET! @KCSciences_UML@GeorgiaTech@gtcomputing@ICatGT@mlatgt
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Thrilled to share that AdvScore paper has been accepted to NAACL Main 🚀! Looking forward to pushing forward human-centered model evaluation and benchmark creation. Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators! 🎈🌵🏜️ #NAACL2025
Announced by @ACEducation and @CarnegieFdn, @UMassLowell is now officially a Research 1 (#R1) university! This designation is used to identify the nation's top #research institutions. We are so proud and thankful for everyone who got us to this milestone: https://t.co/IF7Up3seIM
Join us for an insightful talk by @radamihalcea on the need for cross-cultural AI that better represents diversity. Tomorrow (Feb 14) at 11:00am ET! Open to all! @KCSciences_UML@michigan_AI
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