About Me
I am a Research Lead and Sr Staff Research Scientist for Safety and Security of Agents at ServiceNow AI Research, and I am also an Adjunct Faculty member at the School of Computer Science, McGill University. My research focuses on building robust and safe AI agents: agentic harnesses, defenses against adversarial and unsafe behavior, reliable agent evaluation, and multi-agent security and privacy.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, UK, where I was advised by Prof. Mirella Lapata and Prof. Frank Keller. Prior to joining ServiceNow, I worked at Amazon AI and Alexa AI for six years. I have also worked as a visiting researcher at Meta AI Research and Microsoft Research Redmond and India.
I’ve organized workshops and shared tasks, and served as Area Chair and Program Committee member at major NLP/ML conferences.
Research Interests
- Robust & Safe Agents: Building reliable autonomous agents; defenses against adversarial, unsafe, and out-of-distribution behavior
- Agentic Harnesses & Evaluation: Benchmarks, tooling, and guardrails for evaluating and deploying agents safely
- Multi-agent Security & Privacy: Security and privacy in multi-agent systems
News
- 2026: Will be presenting PrivacyAlign, MosaicLeaks, and Loose Lips at HAIPS@COLM
- 2026: Budget-Constrained Web Agents accepted at EMNLP 2026 (main conference)
- 2026: VectorGym accepted at EMNLP 2026 (main conference)
- 2026: MosaicLeaks: our paper on how deep research agents leak private information through their open web queries is out
- 2026: Organizing the Lifelong Agents workshop at COLM 2026
- 2026: Presenting a tutorial on Multimodal Agents at EACL 2026 — slides
- 2026: CUA-Suite released — a suite of benchmarks and tools for evaluating computer use agents
- 2026: GroundCUA and DrBench accepted at ICLR 2026
- 2026: StarFlow: Generating Structured Workflow Outputs From Sketch Images accepted at EACL 2026 as main conference paper
Selected Publications
See my Google Scholar for a complete list.
Joan Rodriguez, Haotian Zhang, Abhay Puri, Aly Shariff, Meng Lin, Xiaoqing Xie, Tianyang Zhang, Haoran Dai, Rishav Pramanik, Darsh Kaushik, Marco Terral Rodriguez, Sai Rajeswar, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Marco Pedersoli
EMNLP 2026 [paper] [code] [dataset]
Aarash Feizi, Shravan Nayak, Xiangru Jian, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Kaixin Li, Rabiul Awal, Xing Han Lù, Johan Obando-Ceron, Juan A. Rodriguez, Nicolas Chapados, David Vazquez, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Reihaneh Rabbany, Perouz Taslakian, Christopher Pal, Sai Rajeswar, Spandana Gella
ICLR 2026 [paper] [website] [code] [dataset]
Contact
Feel free to reach out via email or connect on LinkedIn!