| Jan 2024 | Joined ServiceNow Research as a Research Scientist in the Conversational Assistant team. |
| Jul 2023 | HAGRID  , a new dataset for generative search with citations, released. [Paper] [Dataset] |
| May 2023 | MIRACL 🌍🙌🌏 got accepted to TACL. |
| May 2023 | Our paper “Evaluating Embedding APIs for Information Retrieval” got accepted at ACL 2023 Industry Track. [Paper] |
| May 2023 | Our paper “Evaluating Open-Domain Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models” got accepted at ACL 2023 (oral). [Paper] [Code] |
| Apr 2023 | Our paper “Limitations of Open-Domain Question Answering Benchmarks for Document-level Reasoning” got accepted at SIGIR 2023. [Paper] |
| Jan 2023 | Started postdoc at University of Waterloo with Jimmy Lin. |
| Oct 2022 | MIRACL 🌍🙌🌏 dataset and paper released. |
| Sep 2022 | MIRACL 🌍🙌🌏 competition on multilingual retrieval kicked off at WSDM Cup 2023. [Twitter] |
| Sep 2022 | Defended my thesis.  |
| Sep 2022 | FaithDial got accepted to TACL. [Website] |
| Aug 2022 | Our work “Probing the Robustness of Pre-trained Language Models for Entity Matching” got accepted at CIKM 2022. [Paper] [Code] |
| Apr 2022 | Our new benchmark FaithDial released (collaboration with Nouha Dziri and Siva Reddy et al.). |
| Feb 2022 | Guest lecturer for Introduction to Computational Natural Language Processing at McMaster University (topic: Question Answering). [Slides] |
| Feb 2022 | Our “Frozen Phrases” paper got accepted at SIGIR 2022. [Paper] [Code] |
| Jan 2022 | Our work “Glitter  ” got accepted at ACL 2022 Findings. [Paper] [Code] |
| Jan 2021 | Our work on sample efficiency of kNN data augmentation “Minimax-kNN” got accepted at ACL 2021 Findings. [Paper] [Code] |
| Sep 2020 | Started internship at Huawei Noah’s Ark lab, Montreal with Mehdi Rezagholizadeh. |
| May 2019 | Our paper “Augmenting Neural Response Generation with Context-Aware Topical Attention” got accepted in 1st workshop on NLP for ConvAI at ACL 2019. [Paper] [Code] |
| Feb 2019 | Our paper “Evaluating Coherence in Dialogue Systems using Entailment” got accepted at NAACL 2019. [Paper] [Code] |
| Jan 2019 | Passed the candidacy exam. |
| Apr 2018 | Received Graduate Teaching Assistant Award from Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. |
| Dec 2017 | Our paper “Unsupervised Toponym Resolution” got accepted at WWW 2018. [Paper] [Code] |