| Oct 2024 |  WildTeaming and WildGuard got accepted at NeurIPS 2024. See you in Vancouver  |
| Sep 2024 |   New blogpost about AI safety “Current Paradigms of LLMs Safety Alignment are superficial” |
| Sep 2024 |   New blogpost about o1 models and LLMs reasoning “Have o1 Models Cracked Human Reasoning?” |
| Aug 2024 | Super excited that our workshop “System 2 Reasoning At Scale” was accepted to NeurIPS24, Vancouver! Mark your calendar for Dec 15, 2024! |
| Jul 2024 | Check out our  new safety moderation tool WildGuard: a state-of-the-art open tool for assessing safety risks, jailbreaks, and refusals in LLMs. |
| Jul 2024 | New red-teaming method  WildTeaming: an automatic red-teaming framework that discovers novel jailbreaks based on in-the-wild user-LLMs interactions. |
| Jul 2024 | Check out my interview with Science News Magazine about “LLMs reasoning skills” featuring “Faith and Fate” and “Generative AI Paradox”. |
| Jul 2024 | I will serve as a Demo Chair for NAACL 2025. |
| Jun 2024 | I will serve as a Senior Area Chair for ACL 2025 in the area of Ethics, Bias, and Fairness. |
| Jun 2024 | Check out my interview with LeMonde (equivalent of NYT in France) about hallucinations in LLMs. |
| May 2024 | Invited Talk “What it can create, it may not understand: Studying the Limits of Transformers” at the University of Cambridge. |
| May 2024 | I served as an Area Chair for COLM 2024 in the area of Safety in LLMs. |
| Feb 2024 | Featured in TechCrunch talking about why LMs perform better when we “motivate” them or ask them “nicely”? |
| Jan 2024 | 3 papers accepted at ICLR 2024. 1 Oral and 2 posters. See you in Vienna   |
| Dec 2023 | Guest Lecture: “Limits of Generative AI Models and their Societal Implications” for the “Generative AI” course taught by Prof. Adji Bousso at the Princeton University. |
| Nov 2023 | Invited Talk: Presented “Faith and Fate” & “Generative AI Paradox” at LLM evaluation workshop at The Alan Turing Institute. |
| Nov 2023 | Invited Talk: Presented “Faith and Fate” in ILCC CDT/NLP seminar, University of Edinburgh. |
| Nov 2023 | Invited Talk: Presented “Faith and Fate” at SAIL workshop on fundamental limits of LLMs. |
| Nov 2023 | New paper  “The Generative AI Paradox: What It Can Create, It May Not Understand” is out. [Paper] |
| Oct 2023 | New paper “Phenomenal Yet Puzzling: Testing Inductive Reasoning Capabilities of Language Models with Hypothesis Refinement” is out. (ICLR Oral 2024) [Paper][Code] |
| Oct 2023 | Invited Talk: Presented “Faith and Fate” at the University of Pittisburgh |
| Oct 2023 | 2 papers accepted at EMNLP. |
| Sep 2023 | Invited Talk: Presented “Faith and Fate” at the Formal Languages and Neural Networks Seminar [Video] |
| Sep 2023 | 3 papers accepted at NeurIPS. See you in New Orleans  |
| Jun 2023 | New paper “Fine-Grained Human Feedback Gives Better Rewards for Language Model Training” is out. [Paper] [Code/Data] (NeurIPS Spotlight 2023) |
| May 2023 | New paper  “Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers in Compositionality” is out. [Paper][Code][Blog] (NeurIPS Spotlight 2023) |
| Mar 2023 | New paper “Self-Refine: Iterative Refinement with Self-Feedback”  is out. [Paper][Website][Demo] (NeurIPS 2023) |
| Dec 2022 | Defended my PhD successfully  and was nominated for the best thesis award  |
| Nov 2022 | Joined AI2 (Mosaic) as a postdoc. |
| Jun 2022 | Invited Talk: Stanford NLP Seminar. |
| May 2022 | Our work “Evaluating Attribution in Dialogue Systems: The BEGIN Benchmark” got accepted at TACL 2022 [Paper] . |
| Apr 2022 | New Benchmark FaithDial for building faithful information-seeking dialogue systems got accepted at TACL 2022. [Preprint] [Data] [Code] [Project Page] |
| Apr 2022 | Our work “On the Origin of Hallucination in Conversational Models: Is it the Datasets or the Models?” got accepted at NAACL 2022. [Paper] [Data] |
| Jan 2022 | Joined Google Research as a student researcher. |
| Aug 2021 | Our work “Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding” got accepted at EMNLP 2021. [Paper] [Code] |
| May 2021 | Joined Mila as a visiting researcher to work with Siva Reddy. |
| May 2021 | Our work “Decomposed Mutual Information Estimation for Contrastive Representation Learning” got accepted at ICML 2021 [Paper]. |
| Apr 2021 | Passed my PhD candidacy successfully! |
| Apr 2021 | New Benchmark BEGIN about evaluating groundedness in dialogue systems. [Preprint] [Data] |
| Mar 2021 | Invited Talk: DSC Women in Tech Conference about inspiring females to pursue a career in STEM. [Video] |
| Sep 2020 | Invited Talk: Montreal NLP Meetups about conversational AI. |
| Jun 2020 | Interned at Google Research Language team NYC under Tal Linzen and David Reitter. |
| Dec 2019 | Invited Talk: DeepMind Montreal about evaluating consistency in dialogue systems. |
| Sep 2019 | Interned at Microsoft Research Montreal. |
| Sep 2019 | Invited talk at Rasa Developer Summit. [Slides] [Video] |
| May 2019 | Interned at Google Research Language team NYC. |
| May 2019 | Our work “Augmenting Neural Response Generation with Context-Aware Topical Attention” got accepted at ACL workshop NLP4ConvAI. [Paper] [Code] |
| Mar 2019 | Invited to the Amazon Graduate Research Symposium among top student researchers across North America to present my work in Seattle. |
| Feb 2019 | Our paper “Evaluating Coherence in Dialogue Systems using Entailment” got accepted at NAACL 2019. [Paper][Code] |
| Dec 2018 | Presented a poster “Response Generation For Open-Ended Conversational Agent” at NeurIPS Workshop on Women in Machine Learning (WiML), Montreal, Canada. |
| Oct 2018 | Check out my interview with l’Express about my studies at the University of Alberta. |
| Sep 2018 | Attended the Grace Hopper Celebration 2018 at Houston, Texas. |
| Jan 2018 | Our work “Automatic Dialogue Generation with Expressed Emotions” got accepted at NAACL 2018. [Paper] [Code] |