News & Updates
2025 – 2026Presenting "Sustainable Open-Source AI Requires Tracking the Cumulative Footprint of Derivatives" — introducing the Data and Impact Accounting (DIA) framework. Accepted as a Spotlight Position Paper at ICML 2026. Paper →
AI Governance, Safety and Responsible AI panel alongside IBM Research, Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, Kush Varshney, and Francesca Rossi. Workshop →
Information Fusion (2026) — Q1, IF 18.6. Project →
AI Open (2026). DOI →
ACM Computing Surveys (2026). DOI →
Education ×2, Workshops ×1, Posters ×3:
· From Data to CO₂: The Hidden Climate Cost of AI — Education Materials ↗
· Prompting Away Stereotypes? Evaluating Bias in Text-to-Image Models — GenProCC Workshop
· Trust, Risk and Security in Agentic AI — LAW@NeurIPS
· Bias in the Picture: Benchmarking VLMs with Social-Cue News Images — Poster
· LinguaMark: Do Multimodal Models Speak Fairly? — Poster
· HumaniBench: Human-Centric Framework for Multimodal Models — Poster
Research Projects
Active & RecentAIXPERT — EU Horizon
Trustworthy AI for industry. Vector Institute selected as 1 of 3 from 137 global applicants. Grant No. 101214389, €515K.
aixpert-project.eu →FairSense-AI
Comprehensive toolkit for fairness, sustainability, and explainability in large-scale AI systems. Bias auditing, emissions reduction, responsible AI compliance.
FairSense-AI →HumaniBench
Human-centric benchmark evaluating fairness, social bias, and empathy in large multimodal models. Multilingual and adversarial test cases.
arXiv:2505.11454 →VLDBench
Benchmark for evaluating vision-language models on multimodal disinformation detection with regulatory alignment. Published in Information Fusion (IF 18.6).
VLDBench →Green AI & Sustainability
Energy footprint benchmarking of AI models, sustainable LLM training, and carbon reduction research. Spotlight at ICML 2026 (Helmholtz AI Workshop).
GreenBench →UnBias-Plus
Next-generation bias detection and debiasing toolkit powered by fine-tuned LLMs (Qwen3-4B). Detects biased language segments, classifies type and severity, suggests neutral rewrites, and returns a fully rewritten unbiased article — all in one structured output.
GitHub →FairSense-AgentiX
Agentic fairness and AI-risk analysis platform using ReAct reasoning loops with dynamic tool selection and self-critique. Multi-modal bias detection across text, images, and datasets. Production-ready FastAPI + WebSocket streaming + React UI. Funded by EU Horizon AIXPERT.
GitHub →Model Immunization
Techniques for immunizing LLMs against falsehoods and harmful content, improving robustness and factuality. Accepted at IEEE WCCI/IJCNN 2026.
arXiv:2505.17870 →Equity in Public Health AI
Embedding fairness and equitable decision-making in AI systems for public health surveillance. CIHR HSI Fellowship ($175K) + AI4PH Award ($20K/yr).
CIHR Fellowship →Selected Publications
Full list on Google Scholar · 2,889+ citationsShowing recent high-impact work. View all on Google Scholar →
Invited Talks & Keynotes
2023 – 2026Professional Service
Program Committees
- NeurIPS — Main Track + RegML, LAW, SoLaR, GenProCC, Position Paper Workshops
- AAAI · ACL · ICLR · ICML · KDD
- IJCAI · CIKM · ECCV · IEEE Big Data
- AI Governance Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025 — Co-organizer
- AAAI Workshop on Responsible LMs (ReLM 2024) — Co-lead
Editorial Roles
- Springer Discover Computing — Editorial Member (2025–present)
- Elsevier CS Portfolio — Transfer Manager & Scientific Editor (2021–present)
- IEEE Transactions on AI — Review Editor (2023–present)
- Frontiers in Big Data — Review Editor (2022–present)
Journal Reviewing
- Nature · Nature Machine Intelligence
- Lancet Digital Health · Science Robotics
- JAMA Network Open · JAMIA
- BMC Public Health · PLOS ONE
- IEEE Trans. Knowledge & Data Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Grant Review Committees
- CIHR Doctoral Research Awards — Peer Review Committee Member
- National Killam Program — Peer Reviewer