Avoid What You Know: Divergent Trajectory Balance for GFlowNets
Noise-Corrected GRPO: From Noisy Rewards to Unbiased Gradients
CoRe: Collaborative Reasoning via Cross Teaching
Position: Agentic AI Systems Should Be Making Bayes-Consistent Decisions
April 2026 — Awarded an MBZUAI research grant (PI) for advancing GFlowNet research - Co-PI: Nils Lukas.
April 2026 — Accepted invitation to serve as Program Committee Co-Chair for the Frontier AI Systems Workshop (FAISys), Xiamen, China, December 2026.
April 2026 — Accepted invitation to serve as Member, Host Scientific Committee for the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) 2026, and developed a task for the Main Contest.
April 2026 — 2 Papers accepted at ACL 2026:
FinChain: A Symbolic Benchmark for Verifiable Chain-of-Thought Financial Reasoning
SAHM: Arabic Financial Instruction-Tuning Dataset and Models
April 2026 — Paper accepted at Findings of ACL 2026:
Temporal Contrastive Decoding: A Training-Free Method for Large Audio-Language Models
April 2026 — Paper accepted at NETYS 2026:
Byzantine Cheap Talk: Adversarial Resilience and Topology Effects in LLM Coordination Games
On the Privacy Risks of Spiking Neural Networks: A Membership Inference Analysis
February 2025 — Co-PI on the EnergyAI flagship research project (2M AED/year, 18 months) and on the Etihad flagship research project (400,000 USD, 12 months).