Kareem Ahmed

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Department at University of California, Irvine hosted by Sameer Singh. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where I was fortunate to be co-advised by Guy Van den Broeck and Kai-Wei Chang.

My research interests lie broadly in artificial intelligence and machine learning. My aim is to exploit the unprecedented capabilities of current architectures, such as transformers and large language models, to learn from data while endowing them with logical reasoning capabilities to yield trustworthy and explainable systems. I thus view machine learning systems as inducing probability distributions over output spaces and develop sound and tractable algorithms to reason about them.

Email: ahmedk [at] cs [dot] ucla [dot] edu

Research Interests:

  • Neuro-Symbolic AI
  • Trustworthy AI
  • Tractable Probabilistic Modeling
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

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