2024:

• Honoured to have recieved the EMNLP 2024 Social Impact Paper Award.

• Our paper, STOP! Benchmarking Large Language Models with Sensitivity Testing on Offensive Progressions has been selected for Oral Presentation at EMNLP 2024.

• A pleasure to be invited to give the convocation address to the Brock University Graduating Class of 2024!

• Our 2 papers have been accepted for publication at the main conference at The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024, November 12-16). Almost all co-authors were undergrads. Way to go! Stay tuned for paper links.

• I’ve been invited to give a talk at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, titled In Search of Digital Truth: How Large Language Models are Shaping Our Reality (And How We are Shaping Theirs!), Friday, November 1, at 7 PM. [Details + Get your tickets!]

• Honored to receive the 2024 Faculty of Mathematics and Science Excellence in Teaching Award (June).

• 3 out of 3 submitted papers accepted at the main conference at The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024, August 11-16). Massive congratulations to all collaborators, of which many were undergraduates and first year MSc’s! Stay tuned for the paper links (May).

• Our paper “EvoGrad: An open-source platform for Winograd Schema Challenge instances” accepted at The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024, May 20-25). [ArXiv] (May)

• Our paper “WSC+: Enhancing The Winograd Schema Challenge Using Tree-of-Experts” accepted as an Oral Presentation at The 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL2024, March 17-22). [ACL-Anthology] [ArXiv] (March)

• Excited to give a talk at the Brock Faculty of Math and Science’s Anthropocene Research Colloquium Series on Friday, March 8: “Large Language Models: Society’s Silent Mirrors” (March).

2023:

Lab Members

Director

Ali Emami, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

MSc Students

• Robert Morabito (2022-2023, Undergraduate; 2024 – Present, MSc)

• Kaige Chen (Fall 2024 – Present)

• Kazi Nishat Anwar (Fall 2024 – Present, Co-supervised with Dr. Nishat)

• Nikta Gohari Sadr (Fall 2023 – Present)

• Sarfaroz Yunusov (Fall 2023 – Present)

Undergraduate Researchers

Invited talks

2024:

• In Search of Digital Truth. Feature Presentation, First Ontario Performing Arts Centre, November. [Details + Get your tickets!]

• Large Language Models: Society’s Silent Mirrors. Brock Faculty of Math and Science’s Anthropocene Research Colloquium Series, March. [Details]

2023:

• Language Models at Scale: Big Models, Bigger Questions. Expert Panelist, Brock University’s Annual AI Day Event, November. [Details]

2025:

• Introduction to Natural Language Processing (COSC 4P84). An advanced course covering algorithms and recent advances in NLP. New course introduced by me. (Fall)

• Essentials of Artificial Intelligence (COSC 1P71). Overview of AI principles, ML models, and their real-world applications. New course introduced by me. (Winter)