Recent News

• 2026-07-17

  We've gotten two papers accepted into AIES 2026. First up is "The Perils of Agency: How Developers Perceive, Prioritize, and Address Risks in Agentic AI Products." This paper investigates how AI develoeprs deal with agentic AI risks in practice. The work was led by Hank Lee during last summer's internship at IBM Research. Next is "Can LLM Code Explanations Adapt to Diverse Problem-Solvers' Needs?" which investigates to what extent LLMs can provide code explanations for people's different problem-solving styles. This work was led by my former colleague Andrew Anderson.

• 2026-02-20

  I have decided on the next step of my career. I'll be a Senior Research Scientist at Alinia, an interesting startup focused on AI safety and compliance. Thank you to everyone who reached out to me during my job search.

• 2025-12-11

  Earlier this month, my entire team at IBM, the Human-AI Collaboration team, and a sister team, the Responsible Technology team, were laid off. About 20 brilliant scientists, engineers, and designers including myself found ourselves suddenly unemployed. I'm now looking for my next role. I'm currently splitting my search between continuing my research in human-centric AI or building on my deep knowledge on AI risks and AI governance. If you'd like to connect, you can reach via my LinkedIn profile.

• 2025-07-25

  I'm excited to report that our journal paper, "Quantitative AI Risk Assessments: Opportunities and Challenges" is one of the top-10 most-downloaded papers from the Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy.

• 2025-02-26

  Our tutorial, "AI Data Transparency: The Past, The Present, and Beyond" was presented today at AAAI 2025. We talked about challenges facing AI data documentation and transparency and featured brief example of how to use FactSheets and Croissant as mechanisms for improving it.

• 2024-09-20

  Our paper "Language Models in Dialogue: Conversational Maxims for Human-AI Interactions," was just accepted to EMNLP 2024. This paper frames shortcoming of LLM-based chatbots through the lens of conversational principles.

• Sr. Research Scientist at Alinia
• HCI, AI Governance and AI Safety