Research Experience
Assistant Professor
Toronto Metropolitan University
2025 – Present
I conduct research on responsible AI, fairness in information retrieval, and neural ranking models, and supervise student projects on bias mitigation and evaluation in search systems.
Research Assistant, LS3 Lab
University of Toronto
2021 – 2025
Worked on debiasing dense neural rankers and query performance prediction, with publications in SIGIR, ECIR, CIKM, EDBT, and MLJ.
Research Scientist Intern
Microsoft Research
2022
Contributed to the IGLU project on multimodal next-action prediction and collaborated on fair ranking methods to mitigate gender bias in neural ranking systems.
Researcher
NSERC Responsible AI
2021 – 2025
Organized and participated in seminars, talks, and panels on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in AI and ML with a transdisciplinary perspective.
NLP Research Scientist
Partdp.ai
2020 – 2021
Worked on summarization, sentiment analysis, emotion detection, and market trend prediction using large-scale text analytics and neural NLP models.