News & Accolades
2026
Jul 2-7, 2026
ACL Papers & TrustNLP
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
Open Collaboration
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.
Sep 8-12, 2026
2026
ICLR
2025
2025
🏆 Agent X Competition
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
2025
NAACL
Paper: Localizing and Deleting Toxic Memories in LLMs (Findings).
2025
ICLR
2024
2024
EMNLP
Papers: FLIRT, Attribute Controlled Fine-tuning, Data Advisor, and Self-contradictory Reasoning (Findings).
2024
ACL
Paper: Tree-of-Traversals.
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
EMNLP
Papers: Controlled Generation Evaluation, Faithful Model Evaluation, INVITE (Findings), and Coordinated Replay for Continual FL (Industry Track).
2023
ACL
2023
NeurIPS Workshop
Paper: JAB (Socially Responsible LM Research workshop).
2023
KDD
Paper: FedMultimodal.
2023
ACM FAccT
2023
ICASSP
2023
ICDM Industry Day
Papers: Fairness in Large Scale NLU and Privacy in the Time of LMs.
2023
Interspeech
Paper: Sampling Bias in NLU Models.
2023
IEEE SLT
Paper: Decoding Algorithms and Fairness.
2023
CIKM Workshop
Paper: LLM Steerability toward Personas (Personalized Generative AI workshop).
2022
2022
FL4NLP @ ACL
Invited speaker.
2022
ACL
Papers: Canary Extraction in NLU, Fairness via Prediction Sensitivity, Intrinsic & Extrinsic Fairness Metrics, Multi-VALUE, Gender Bias via Counterfactual Role Reversal (Findings), and DP Decoding in LLMs (TrustNLP workshop).
2022
NAACL
Papers: FL with Noisy User Feedback, Mixed-Domain Translation via FL, FedNLP (Findings), and Controlled Data Generation for NLU (Industry Track).
2022
AACL
2022
ICASSP
2022
EMNLP Industry Track
2020 and Older
2016
USC
🏆 Best PhD Thesis Pitch Award.
2016
IEEE Signal Processing Society
🏆 Travel award to ICASSP 2016.
2015
Interspeech Paralinguistics Challenge
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.