Ehsan Kamalloo

My name is Ehsan (pronounced /eh☀️/ or /ih☀️/, or even /e☀️/). I am a Research Scientist in the Conversational Assistant team at ServiceNow Research.

I am broadly interested in building intelligent autonomous systems that are capable of complex reasoning (“TapeAgents”). My research focused on robust evaluation (“LLM-as-a-judge for QA” at ACL’23 and SIGIR’24, “NoMIRACL” at EMNLP’24, “Touché-2020” at SIGIR’24 and “MIRACL” at TACL’23) and data-efficient training methods for distilling a small model from large models (“kNN-KD” at ACL’21 and ACL’22) and training language models.

Prior to this, I was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, hosted by Jimmy Lin. I completed my PhD at the University of Alberta, advised by Davood Rafiei. I was also fortunate enough to collaborate with Charles Clarke and Siva Reddy. I also interned as a researcher at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab in Montreal and worked with Mehdi Rezagholizadeh. Before PhD, I was working as a software engineer.