Ahmad Beirami | Academic Engagements

Academic Engagements

Ahmad Beirami is an active researcher in AI, with contributions spanning foundational research to practical applications. His work has received multiple best paper awards, and he has delivered keynote talks at major venues. He has also organized workshops and tutorials, and served in leadership roles at leading conferences, including ACL and NeurIPS.

Selected Publications

InfAlign: Inference-aware language model alignment ICML 2025. A. Balashankar,* Z. Sun,* J. Berant, J. Eisenstein, M. Collins, A. Hutter, J. Lee, C. Nagpal, F. Prost, A. Sinha, A. T. Suresh, A. Beirami

Safety alignment should be made more than just a few tokens deep ICLR 2025 — Outstanding Paper Award. X. Qi, A. Panda, K. Lyu, X. Ma, S. Roy, A. Beirami, P. Mittal, P. Henderson

Controlled decoding from language models ICML 2024. S. Mudgal,* J. Lee,* H. Ganapathy, Y. Li, T. Wang, Y. Huang, Z. Chen, H. Cheng, M. Collins, T. Strohman, J. Chen, A. Beutel, A. Beirami

SpecTr: Fast speculative decoding via optimal transport NeurIPS 2023. Z. Sun,* A. T. Suresh,* J. H. Ro, A. Beirami, H. Jain, F. Yu

On tilted losses in machine learning: Theory and applications JMLR 2023. T. Li,* A. Beirami,* M. Sanjabi, V. Smith

Know thy strengths: Comprehensive dialogue state tracking diagnostics EMNLP 2022. H. Cho, C. Sankar, C. Lin, K Ram Sadagopan, S. Shayandeh, A. Celikyilmaz, J. May, A. Beirami

Winning is not everything: enhancing game development with intelligent agents IEEE Trans Games 2020 — Outstanding Paper Award. Y. Zhao,* I. Borovikov,* F. de Mesentier Silva,* A. Beirami,* J. Rupert, C. Somers, J. Harder, J. Kolen, J. Pinto, R. Pourabolghasem et al.

Selected Keynote & Invited Talks

Selected Conference & Workshop Organization

Machine Learning Paper Awards Session at ITA 2025

NextGenAISafety @ ICML 2024 (Workshop on the Next Generation of AI Safety)

TF2M @ ICML 2024 (Workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Foundation Models)

R0-FoMo @ NeurIPS 2023 (Workshop on Robustness of Few-shot and Zero-shot Learning in Foundation Models)

TEACH @ ICML 2023 (Workshop on What’s left to TEACH chatbots?)

Selected Editorial Service

Senior Area Chair, EMNLP/ACL/NeurIPS/AISTATS (2024—2025)

Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Information Theory (2022—2024)