2024:

• Our 2 papers have been accepted for publication at the main conference at The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025, January 19th to 24th).
• 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:

• Our paper “Debiasing should be Good and Bad: Measuring the Consistency of Debiasing Techniques in Language Models” published at The Findings of ACL 2023. [ACL-Anthology] [ArXiv] [Oral Presentation] [News Article] (January)
• Published book chapter “Natural Language Processing: Current Methods and Challenges” in Engineering Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Methods, and Applications. [SpringerLink] [Amazon]
• Awarded the 2023 New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Exploration Grant ($200,000 two-year support). [Brock News Article] (April)
• Invited to speak about my research at the SKEMA AI School for Business, during their AI integration seminar (August).
• Invited to discuss “Navigating the Power and Pitfalls of Pretrained Language Models in the Prompting Era” at the MIT Media Lab (May).

2022:

• Awarded the 2022 NSERC Discovery Grant ($125,000, five-year support) and 2022 Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500). [Brock News Article] (June)
• Published “Interpreting docstrings without using common sense: the private science of very large language models” for Free Software Foundation (FSF): Philosophical and Legal Questions around Copilot, 2022. [FSF]
• Keynote speaker at the International Symposium on “Role of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development” (October).
• Delivered insights on AI integration in a seminar at SKEMA AI School for Business (July).
• Masterclass presentation at SKEMA AI School for Business on “Generalizable, Ethical, and Interpretable Natural Language Processing: Science or Science Fiction?” (June).

2021: Gave a talk titled “Towards Interpretable, Ethical, and Generalizable NLP Models” for a graduate seminar at the Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada (October).

2020: Selected for an oral presentation at the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020) (December).

2019:

• Gave an oral presentation of our research at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019) (July).
• Program Committee member at 2019 ACL Student Research Workshop (SRW).
• Keynote at the Annual Microsoft Research and Mila Collaborative Research Workshop (October).

2018: Presented our awarded outstanding paper at the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (NAACL 2018) (June).