Service
Teaching
- Adjunct Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University — Jan 2026 – Present
Tutorials
- Multimodal Large Language Models for Human-AI Interaction: Foundations, Agents, and Inclusive Applications — EACL 2026
Workshop Organizer
- Lifelong Agents @ COLM 2026
- New in ML @ ICML 2025
- Vision Language Models For All @ CVPR 2025
- Workshop on Multilingual Multimodal Learning @ ACL 2022
- Workshop on NLP for Medical Conversations @ ACL 2021
- Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) — 2018, 2019, 2020
- ACL Student Research Workshop — 2017
- Shortcomings in Vision and Language — 2018, 2019
Academic Service
Diversity & Inclusion Chair EACL 2023, EMNLP 2026
Senior Area Chair ACL 2022
Area Chair NAACL,EMNLP, AACL, Women in Machine Learning, AFAA (ICLR 2026)
PC Member Africa NLP 2020 Integrating Generic and Contextual Knowledge (GeCko) 2020 Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text (W-NUT) — 2020, 2021 Workshop Beyond Vision and LANguage: inTEgrating RealWorld kNowledge (LANTERN) — 2019, 2020 Methods for Optimizing and Evaluating Neural Language Generation Workshop (NeuralGen) — 2019 Ethics in NLP — 2017, 2018 Generalization in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing (GenDep) — 2018 Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media — 2016-2018
Reviewer (2011-Present) TACL, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, IJCAI, COLING, EACL, IWSLT, *SEM, WiML, ALTA
Mentoring
Students and collaborators I’ve mentored:
| Mentee | Years | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Clea Chataigner | 2026 | McGill, Mila (Comp 767 Project Supervision) |
| Thomas Rivasseau | 2026 | McGill (Comp 767 Project Supervision) |
| Eric Qiu | 2026 | McGill (Comp 767 Project Supervision) |
| Evan Jiang | 2026 | McGill (Comp 767 Project Supervision) |
| Sabyasachi Sahoo | 2026 | University of Laval, Mila |
| David Dobre | 2026 | University of Montreal, Mila |
| Manveer Singh Tamber | 2026 | University of Waterloo → MATS Fellow |
| Sina Hajimiri | 2025-26 | ETS, Mila |
| Xiaoxiang Wang | 2025-26 | University of Montreal, Mila |
| Charbel El Feghali | 2025-26 | McGill, Mila |
| Soumya Sharma | 2025-26 | McGill, Mila |
| Ada Tur | 2025 | McGill, Mila → UIUC, NSF Fellow |
| Amirhossein Abaskohi | 2024-25 | University of British Columbia |
| Amrutha Varshini | 2024-25 | University of British Columbia |
| Suyuchen Wang | 2025 | UdeM, Mila → Now at Alibaba Qwen |
| Juan A. Rodriguez | 2024-25 | ETS, Mila → Founder of Quiver AI |
| Zichao Li | 2025 | McGill, Mila |
| Ahmed Masry | 2024-25 | University of York |
| Shravan Nayak | 2024-25 | UdeM, Mila |
| Aarash Feizi | 2024-25 | McGill, Mila |
| Xiangru Jian | 2024-25 | University of Waterloo |
| Rabiul Awal | 2024 | UdeM, Mila |
| Tianyu Zhang | 2024 | UdeM, Mila |
| Mahsa Massoud | 2024 | McGill, Mila → Now at Microsoft AI |
| Nicholas Meade | 2022-2025 | McGill, Mila |
| Mert Inan | 2022 | Northeastern University |
| Chao Zhao | 2022 | UNC, Chapel Hill → Now at Google DeepMind |
| Prakhar Gupta | 2022 | CMU → Now at Google DeepMind |
| Lisa Bauer | 2021 | UNC, Chapel Hill → Now at Amazon AGI |
| Sashank Santhanam | 2021 | UNC, Charlotte → Now at Apple |
| Arjun Akula | 2019 | UCLA → Now at Google DeepMind |
| Lifu Tu | 2019 | TTIC → Now at Salesforce Research |
| Shruti Palaskar | 2019 | CMU → Now at Apple |
| Sailik Sengupta | 2019 | ASU → Now at Amazon AI |
Career Support: Several junior research engineers and scientists (ServiceNow AI Research, CoreLLM-ServiceNow, Amazon AI), Deep Learning INDABA, high school/young university students (AI for Good Lab, Mila Quebec), WiML mentor.