Publications

TamperBench: Systematically Stress-Testing LLM Safety Under Fine-Tuning and Tampering
KDD 2026 Oral

TamperBench: Systematically Stress-Testing LLM Safety Under Fine-Tuning and Tampering

Stress-testing how easily fine-tuning and tampering can strip safety from open LLMs.

Bringing Equity to Classification: Domain Generalization for Domain-Linked Classes
TPAMI 2025

Bringing Equity to Classification: Domain Generalization for Domain-Linked Classes

Fairer domain generalization for classes that appear in only one training domain.

Diagnostic Accuracy of an Automated Classifier for the Detection of Pleural Effusions in Patients Undergoing Lung Ultrasound
AJEM 2025

Diagnostic Accuracy of an Automated Classifier for the Detection of Pleural Effusions in Patients Undergoing Lung Ultrasound

AI that detects fluid around the lungs on ultrasound, tuned for different clinical settings.

SafeTuneBed: A Safety Assessment Framework for Harmful Finetuning Defenses
AIA @ IJCAI 2025

SafeTuneBed: A Safety Assessment Framework for Harmful Finetuning Defenses

A unified benchmark for fairly comparing defenses against harmful LLM fine-tuning.

LangDA: Language-guided Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation
AFM @ NeurIPS 2024 Best Vision Paper, CVIS 2024

LangDA: Language-guided Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation

Adapting image segmentation models to new domains using language descriptions of scenes.

Domain-Guided Spatio-Temporal Self-Attention for Egocentric 3D Pose Estimation
KDD 2023

Domain-Guided Spatio-Temporal Self-Attention for Egocentric 3D Pose Estimation

Estimating 3D body pose from head-mounted camera video despite fisheye distortion and self-occlusion.

Are All Classes Created Equal? Domain Generalization for Domain-Linked Classes
DistShift @ NeurIPS 2023

Are All Classes Created Equal? Domain Generalization for Domain-Linked Classes

Generalizing classes seen in only one training domain to new, unseen domains.

Implicit Stylization for Domain Adaptation
DG @ ICLR 2023

Implicit Stylization for Domain Adaptation

Adapting models to new domains via lightweight feature alignment instead of costly image stylization.

Building Spatio-temporal Transformers for Egocentric 3D Pose Estimation
Ego4D @ CVPR 2022 Oral

Building Spatio-temporal Transformers for Egocentric 3D Pose Estimation

Transformers that use past video frames to estimate 3D body pose from head-mounted cameras.

In the Press

Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
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Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?

MIT Technology Review, 2026

“My reason for optimism is that it’s a very active area of research, and a lot of people are trying to come up with new and better methods.”
Major security weaknesses found in leading open AI models
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Major security weaknesses found in leading open AI models

University of Waterloo News, 2026

“The defences available today don’t yet appear strong enough to guarantee that a publicly released model will remain safe once it’s in the hands of anyone who chooses to modify it.”
Tests raise fears open AI models could be ‘used at scale for harm’
Research Featured

Tests raise fears open AI models could be ‘used at scale for harm’

Waterloo Engineering News, 2026

BME undergraduate student received Honorable Mention for Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
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BME undergraduate student received Honorable Mention for Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

University of Waterloo Systems Design Engineering News, 2025

Talks & Panels

Translational Pathways in Biomedical Engineering: From Lab to Clinic
Panelist

Translational Pathways in Biomedical Engineering: From Lab to Clinic

CUBEC, 2026

Augmented Reality for Guided Lung Ultrasound Acquisition
Guest Speaker

Augmented Reality for Guided Lung Ultrasound Acquisition

Ibtikar Seminar Series, 2025

Enhancing AI Testing: The Power of Metadata Hydration
Key Speaker

Enhancing AI Testing: The Power of Metadata Hydration

Kolena Webinar, 2024

Mastering RAG Systems for LLMs: From Pitfalls to Performance
Panelist & Slide Author

Mastering RAG Systems for LLMs: From Pitfalls to Performance

Kolena Webinar, 2024

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Feature Extraction
Presenter

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Feature Extraction

Physiological Computing Hands-On Workshop, Waterloo, 2022