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Jun 18, 2026 Excited to share our new preprint “AgentFinVQA: A Deployable Multi-Agent Pipeline for Auditable Financial Chart QA” (with Shaina Raza), currently under review. AgentFinVQA achieves +7.68 pp over zero-shot baselines on FinMME while maintaining full auditability and on-premise deployability. Check it out on arXiv!
Jun 15, 2026 Serving as Technical Lead for the Machine Learning Applications (MLA) Program hosted by the Vector Institute for sponsor companies, delivering applied ML curriculum and technical mentorship.
Jun 01, 2026 Serving as Technical Lead for the Interpretability in LLMs and Agents Bootcamp organized by the Vector Institute for sponsor companies, covering mechanistic interpretability, explainability tools, and agentic AI diagnostics.
May 31, 2026
Our paper “From Features to Actions: Explainability in Traditional and Agentic AI Systems” has been accepted to the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2026! This work compares attribution-based explanations with trace-based diagnostics across static and agentic AI settings. arXiv Project Page
Feb 28, 2025
Our paper “VLDBench: Evaluating Multimodal Disinformation with Regulatory Alignment” has been accepted at Information Fusion (Elsevier)! VLDBench is a 62K-sample benchmark for multimodal disinformation detection across 13 categories, curated from 58 news outlets and aligned with AI governance frameworks. Paper Project
Jan 14, 2025 Currently working as an Applied AI Intern at the Vector Institute since Jan 2025, where I’m developing evaluation frameworks for multimodal large language models.
Jul 22, 2024 Presenting a poster at the 2024 Toronto Robotics Conference! :sparkles: :smile:
May 01, 2024 Started as a Research Assistant at the Laboratory for Applied Informatics Research (LAIR) working with Prof. Javed Mostafa
Apr 15, 2024 Started as a Computer Vision Intern at the Neural Robotics Lab working with Prof. Brokoslaw Laschowski