News & Accolades

2026

Jul 2-7, 2026
ACL Papers & TrustNLP
Co-organized TrustNLP @ ACL'26. ACL papers: LLM Unlearning, SWAN, ARES, and AutoSUIT Bench.
2026
India AI Summit
Presented Amazon's work on Frontier Safety in AI at IIT Bombay and IIIT Delhi as part of the India AI Summit. Amazon signed the "Frontier AI Commitments" at the Summit; my team is responsible for building the technical foundation for Amazon's AI offerings under these commitments.
2026
Amazon Science
Amazon Science article featuring my team's work: Building trust into AI.
2026
Catastrophic Risk Evaluation
Amazon Science blog: How catastrophic is your LLM?
2026
Trusted AI Symposium
Organized the Trusted AI Symposium 2026 in New York City, an invitation-only event bringing together academic and industry researchers on AI safety and governance.
2026
ICLR
Collaborated on three papers: LLM Deception, Catastrophic Risk, and Jailbreak Generalization.

2025

2025
SemEval Unlearning Challenge
Co-organized the SemEval Unlearning Challenge at ACL.
2025
Nova AI Challenge
My team leads the Nova AI Challenge, supporting 10 universities annually on safety research.
2025
AI Governance Forums
Represented Amazon at the Frontier Model Forum and Partnership on AI.
2025
NeurIPS
Papers: VMDT, Agentic Benchmarks, and LLM Unlearning (workshop).
2025
NAACL
2025
AAAI Workshops
Papers: MUNCH and K-Edit (Preventing and Detecting LLM Misinformation workshop).

2024

2024
ACL
2024
NAACL
Papers: Slang in LLMs, LLM Steerability, Pronoun Tokenization Parity (Findings), MICo (Findings), BELIEVE (TrustNLP workshop), and Debiasing Image Captioning (TrustNLP workshop).
2024
NeurIPS Workshop
Paper: LLM-PIEval (AdvML Frontiers workshop).
2024
ICASSP Workshop
Paper: Partial Federated Learning (Trustworthy Speech Processing workshop).

2023

2023
AI For Open Society @ KDD
Invited panelist.
2023
NeurIPS Workshop
Paper: JAB (Socially Responsible LM Research workshop).
2023
KDD
2023
ACM FAccT
2023
ICDM Industry Day
2023
Interspeech
2023
IEEE SLT
2023
CIKM Workshop
Paper: LLM Steerability toward Personas (Personalized Generative AI workshop).

2022

2020 and Older

2016
USC
🏆 Best PhD Thesis Pitch Award.
2016
IEEE Signal Processing Society
🏆 Travel award to ICASSP 2016.
2015
Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in Southern California
Graduate Study Award scholarship recipient.
2013
Interspeech Paralinguistics Challenge
2010-2014
USC
Provost Fellowship.
2009
Info-USA Exchange Scholarship
Scholarship recipient.