About

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I am a Research Manager at MATS, where I guide scholars in shaping their research agendas and achieving program outcomes focused on AI alignment, interpretability, governance and strategy.

I earned my MPhil and PhD in AI at New York University under the mentorship of Dr. Christina Pöpper, supported by the Global PhD Fellowship. My research has been recognized with notable honors, including the Health Equity & Global Health Best Paper Award at ML4H 2023 and runner-up for the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Paper Award at PETS 2024.

Previously, I held roles at the Center for Cyber Security and Spotify Tech Research, where I contributed to projects at the intersection of technical innovation, security, and ethical oversight. Earlier, I attended college at NYU Abu Dhabi with peers from over 100 countries. During high school, I represented Pakistan’s national team in the International Chemistry Olympiad.

Recently

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Nov ‘24: Elevated to IEEE Senior Member in recognition of over 10 years of contributions to the profession.

Aug ‘24: Defended my PhD dissertation, “Towards Responsible AI: Safeguarding Privacy, Integrity, and Fairness.”

Jul ‘24: Awarded runner-up for the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Paper at PETS 2024.

Mar ‘24: Appointed Publication Chair for ACNS 2024 conference.

Dec ‘23: Received the Best Paper Award at Machine Learning for Health conference, co-located with NeurIPS 2023.

Jun ‘23: Engaged with the UN Information Integrity team to address risks of online hate speech.

May ‘23: Served on the Program Committee for SecWeb 2023.

Feb ‘23: Delivered a talk at the Microsoft Research Colloquium, presenting my research on disinformation threat modeling.

Research

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CodexLeaks: Privacy Leaks from Code Generation Language Models in GitHub Copilot
USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, US, 2023.

How Fair are Medical Imaging Foundation Models?
Machine Learning for Health (ML4H), New Orleans, US, 2023.

Global-Liar: Factuality of LLMs over Time and Geographic Regions
In Submission, 2024

Tactics, Threats & Targets: Modeling Disinformation and its Mitigation
Network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, US, 2023.

Detailed list of publications can be found at Google Scholar.