Dr. Adel Bibi
Senior Fellow at Oxford University and R&D Distinguished Advisor at Softserve with over a decade expertise in AI, machine learning, Safety, and Security particularly in the space of LLMs, VLMs, and Agentic systems
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
PhD / 2020
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
MSc / 2016
Experience
University of Oxford
Senior Research Fellow / December, 2021 — November, 2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow / October, 2020 — November, 2021
Department of Engineering Science University of Oxford
Senior Researcher in Machine Learning (G9: eqv. spinal point to Associate Professor) / March, 2023 — September
Leading a group of 4-5 PhD students and 1-2 postdocs with a research focus on AI safety provable certication methods against Model Hijacking Fairness among others. Selected Accomplishments: Three of my students have successfully defended their Oxford PhD (Francisco Eiras Csaba Botos and Ameya Prabhu); won the UK AISI Systemic AI Safety Grant (300000) won the Google Gemma 2 Academic Award 2024 (20000); notable Area Chair Award for NeurIPS23; Senior Area Chair at NeurIPS24 chairing an Oral session; 2 best paper awards in 2024; 1 Highlight paper in CVPR23; 1 Oral paper in CVPR24; and 1 spotlight in ICLR23; a total of 17 papers accepted in 2024 in ICML NeurIPS AAAI ECCV and other venues. The total money raised in research funding is 850000 with another 1000000 that is approved and now is subject to contract.
Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning (G8) / December, 2021 — February, 2023
I co-supervised PhD students with Philip Torr on topics spanning robustness and continual learning at scale. I also mentored recently joining postdocs in the group. Selected Accomplishments: Awarded the Amazon Research Award (20212022); selected as an ELLIS member; won the Highlighted Reviewer Award of ICLR 2022 (awarded to 8.7% of 6207 reviewers); 1 Oral paper in AAAI22; nominated as an Area Chair for AAAI23.
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Machine Learning (G7) / October, 2020 — December, 2021
I worked with Philip Torr focusing on empirical robustness and probabilistic certication with randomized smoothing of deep models. Selected Accomplishments: Awarded the prestigious Junior Fellowship at Kellogg College Oxford; awarded the KAUST-Oxford CRG grant (1.05M); published 3 papers in TMLR PAMI and UAI.
Kellogg College University of Oxford
Research Member of the Common Room / September, 2024 — September
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Junior Research Fellow / October, 2021 — August, 2024
This is a prestigious three-years fellowship recognizing the impact of my research
Intel Labs Munich Germany
PhD Research Intern / June, 2018 — December, 2018
PhD Research Intern in Vision and Optimization: I worked on studying the theoretical connection between feed forward layers and stochastic optimization algorithms. One paper published as a result in ICLR19. I gave 2 oral presentations during the internship
Softserve
R&D Distinguished Advisor / August, 2024 — Present
SoftServe is a billion-dollar tech services company. I am building SoftServe’s new research program on Agentic AI. Several products are launched withsignificant revenue.
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