Shaina Raza, PhD

Award Spotlight

🏆 Responsible AI Leader of the Year

Honored at the Women in AI Summit & Awards 2025 (North America) for leadership in ethical and trustworthy AI, championing fairness, accountability, and transparency.

News & Updates

• October 2025: NeurIPS 2025 — 6 acceptances Education Workshops ×2 Posters ×3
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  • From Data to CO₂: The Hidden Climate Cost of AI — NeurIPS Education Materials · Project
  • Prompting Away Stereotypes? Evaluating Bias in Text-to-Image Models for Occupations — NeurIPS 2025 GenProCC Workshop
  • Trust, Risk and Security in Agentic AI: A Short Survey — LAW @ NeurIPS 2025
  • Bias in the Picture: Benchmarking VLMs with Social-Cue News Images and LLM-as-Judge Assessment — LLM Evaluation Workshop (Poster)
  • LinguaMark: Do Multimodal Models Speak Fairly? — LLM Evaluation Workshop (Poster)
  • Human-Centric Framework for Large Multimodal Models Evaluation — LLM Evaluation Workshop (Poster)
• October 2025: Co-organizer, AI Governance Workshop — policy, risk, and audit for trustworthy AI.
• October 2025: Partner, AIXPERT Project (EU Horizon) — trustworthy AI for industry.
• October 2025: Delivered keynote talks on Responsible AI and Multimodal Fairness across academic and industry venues, including IEEE SMC.
• October 2025: Recognized among the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide (Stanford / Elsevier 2025 Update). Dataset link
• September 2025: Appointed Editorial Member, Springer Discover Computing Journal [link]
• August 2025: Paper accepted at EMNLP 2025 Findings: Responsible Multimodal Benchmarks
• July 2025: Paper accepted at ASONAM 2025: Social Bias Detection in Vision-Language Models
• July 2025: Preprint released: Toward AGI: Human-Centric Perspectives
• June 2025: Winner, Responsible AI Leader of the Year at Women in AI Summit (USA, Canada, Mexico).
• June 2025: Talk at ResearchTrend.AI – “HumaniBench: A Human-Centric Framework for Large Multimodal Models Evaluation” [link]
• June 2025: AIXPERT project launched with EU Horizon (selected as 3 of 137) — partnering with the Vector Institute [project details]
• May 2025: Preprint released: Just as Humans Need Vaccines, So Do Models (Model Immunization to Combat Falsehoods)
• May 2025: Preprint released: HumaniBench: A Human-Centric Framework for Large Multimodal Models Evaluation
• April 2025: Journal publication in Machine Learning: Developing Safe and Responsible LLMs
• April 2025: Green AI project success: Reducing Emissions in LLMs, Sustainable AI Practices
• March 2025: Green AI Benchmark released: Benchmarking Energy Footprints of AI Models
• February 2025: Preprint release: VLBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models