Selected Keynote and Invited Talks (2023–Present)
2026
“Small Language Models for Enterprise Agentic Workflows”
AAAI 2026 — Agentic AI Benchmarks and Applications for Enterprise Tasks
Singapore · January 2026
“Reasoning and Planning in Agentic AI”
AAAI 2026 — PLAN-FM: Bridging Planning and Reasoning in Natural Language with Foundational Models
Singapore · January 2026
2025
“LRM - Large Reasoning Models”
Centaur AI Institute - Centaur Wednesday Seminar
December 2025
“Cyber Security Implications of Agentic AI”
2nd Cybersecurity Symposium, University of Michigan–Flint
Flint, Michigan · October 2025
“LLMs for Reasoning and the Role of Neuro-Symbolic AI”
Northwestern University USA · June 2025
“Reasoning Revolution”
University of Tokyo · May 2025
Keynote — ICSE 2025 (NSE Track)
Ottawa, Canada · May 2025
Keynote — ACMSE 2025
Southeast Missouri State University · April 2025
2024
“Reasoning with LLMs”
AIR University, Pakistan · December 2024
“LLMs & Reasoning: Opportunities and Pitfalls”
LAVA Workshop @ ACCV
Vietnam · December 2024 (Virtual)
“LLMs & Reasoning: Opportunities and Pitfalls”
Purdue AARC · November 2024
“Improving LLMs for Reasoning and Planning”
Mississippi State University AI Club · October 2024 (Virtual)
Keynote — “Foundation Models for Robotics”
ICRA@40 Africa
Johannesburg · September 2024
“Interpretability in AI Governance”
AIGOV Workshop @ IJCAI 2024
“LLM Explainability and Trust”
TrustML Workshop, University of British Columbia · February 2024
2023
“Reasoning with LLMs”
CSR Club, University Cadi Ayyad
Morocco · November 2023 (Virtual)
Dallas AI Meetup
Dallas, USA · November 2023
Keynote — “Generative AI and LLMs”
Pakistan AI Summit · March 2023
Keynote — “Neuro-Symbolic AI for LLMs”
AI Techverse @ IEEE ICAI 2023 · February 2023
Earlier
Keynote — “Advancements in Neuro-Symbolic AI”
IEEE ICAI 2022 · April 2022
Keynote — “Introduction to Neuro-Symbolic AI”
IEEE ICAI 2021 · April 2021
Science Slam — “Safe Reinforcement Learning”
IBM Think Japan · June 2018 (Japanese)