• [November 4th, 2025]: Our new paper in NeurIPS25 on evaluating progress in AI safety evaluations has been featured by The Guardian and NBC News.
• [November 3rd, 2025]: Featured on Globo TV’s “Digital Minds” segment — watch on Globoplay for our work on AI Safety. Globo is the largest media group in Latin America.
• [September 18th, 2025]: Three Papers accepted to NeurIPS25.
• [September 4th, 2025]: Our new work, paper/video, about hijacking agentic systems and demonstrating AI worms has been featured by the Scientific American.
• [July 28th, 2025]: My department, Engineering Science at Oxford University, has awarded me the Excellence Award for outstanding performance throughout 2024/2025. This comes with a nice monetary gift.
• [June 10th, 2025]: Our recent work on hijacking AI agents and creating an AI worm was featured on YouTube by Sabine Hossenfelder, a channel with over 1.7 million subscribers. More importantly, one that I watch frequently.
• [May 1st, 2025]: One paper accepted to ICML 2025.
• [April 3rd, 2025]: I was awarded the Systemic AI Safety grant (~$250,000) by the UK AI Security Institute. This was awarded to 20 applicants of a 451 (~4% acceptance rate).
• [March 12th, 2025] I was interviewed by Al Ekhbariya Channel, which was broadcast on TV and radio, highlighting my recent state-of-the-art research and my academic journey that began at KAUST in Saudi Arabia; Watch interview on X.
• [February 11th, 2025]: Four papers accepted to ICLR 2025; one paper of which as spotlight.
• [September 25th, 2024]: Five papers accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
• [September 20th, 2024]: I received the Google Gemma 2 Academic Program GCP Credit Award ($10,000).
• [August 18th, 2024]: I joined Softserve as an R&D Distinguished Advisor.
• [July 8th, 2024]: One paper accepted to MICCAI 2024.
• [June 3rd, 2024]: One paper accepted to ECCV 2024.
• [June 3rd, 2024]: Four papers accepted to ICML 2024. Special congrats to all students' lead authors. One accepted as Oral.
• [May 28th, 2024]: Kumail Alhamoud is visiting me and Phil for 3 months this summer. Welcome, Kumail!
• [May 23rd, 2024]: I am selected to serve as a Senior Area Chair for NeurIPS4.
• [May 14th, 2024]: I was invited by the Rt Hon Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden to be part of the official British Delegation (GREAT FUTURES) to Saudi Arabia on a trade expo towards improving collaborations on all fronts between the two nations.
• [May 11th, 2024]: Media Coverage: Our recent paper on No “zero-shot” without exponential data has been covered and featured by Computerphile (~2.5 million subscribers) one youtube; see video here. Moreover, Sam Altman of OpenAI has also commented on reddit on our paper saying OpenAI is exploring similar directions. See details here.
• [April 19th, 2024]: I was invited to give a number of talks in MBZUAI and the Oxford Robotics Institute.
• [February 15th, 2024]: I gave a talk to TAHAKOM on AI Safety Research.
• [February 13th, 2024]: I gave a talk at the AI Safety meeting in the Said Busienss School in Oxford in our work on AI Safety.
• [February 7th, 2024]: Our paper SynthCLIP: Are We Ready for a Fully Synthetic CLIP Training? on training CLIP with only synthetic data was advertised on TLDR News which has over 1M subscribers.
• [January 21th, 2024]: Three papers accepted to ICLR24 (one as spotlight).

~~ End of 2023 ~~

• [December 16th, 2023]: Our paper When Do Prompting and Prefix-Tuing Work? A Theory of Capabilities and imitations received the Entropic Paper Award at the NeurIPS 2023 Workshop: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better (ICBINB): Failure Modes in the Age of Foundation Models.
• [December 12th, 2023]: Received a Notable Area Chair Award in NeurIPS23 (awarded to 8.1% of 1223).
• [December 9th, 2023]: One paper (SimCS: Simulation for Domain Incremental Online Continual Segmentation) accepted to AAAI24.
• [November 2nd, 2023]: I gave two talks on trustwrothy AI to Kuwait University and Intematix, a startup based in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
• [September 21st, 2023]: One paper on Language Model Tokenizers Introduce Unfairness Between Languages has been accepted to NeurIPS23.
• [September 5th, 2023]: Invited by Dima Damen to give a talk at Bristol University.
• [July 18th, 2023]: One robustness paper is accepted to TMLR.
• [July 11th, 2023]: Our paper on Provably Correct Physics-Informed Neural Networks received the outstanding paper award in the Formal Verification Workshop in ICML23.
• [July 14th, 2023]: One paper on online continual learning is accepted to ICCV 2023.
• [July 11th, 2023]: Our paper Provably Correct Physics-Informed Neural Networks received an outstanding paper award at WFVML ICML23 workshop.
• [June 23rd, 2023]: One paper accepted to DeployableGenerativeAI (ICML23 Workshop).
• [June 20th, 2023]: Three papers accepted to AdvML-Frontiers (ICML23 Workshop).
• [June 18th, 2023]: Invited to give a talk at the CLVision workshop in CVPR23. I was also part of the panel discussion.
• [April 24th, 2023]: One paper accepted to ICML 2023.
• [March 29th, 2023]: Four papers accepted to CLVision (CVPR23 Workshop).
• [March 9th, 2023]: Media coverage by DOU, a Ukrainian development community focused on technologies, frameworks, and code, for my work with Taras Rumezhak.
• [March 1st, 2023]: I am promoted to a Senior Researcher (G9) in Machine Learning and Computer Vision at Oxford.
• [February 28th, 2023]: I will serve as an Area Chair for the NeurIPS 2023.
• [February 27th, 2023]: Two papers accepted to CVPR 2023. One of the two papers is accepted as a highlight (2.5% of ~9K submissions).
• [January 23th, 2023]: I will serve as an Area Chair for the ICLR 2023 Workshop on Trustworthy ML.

~~ End of 2022 ~~

• [December 9th, 2022]: I will serve as a Senior Program Committee (Area Chair/Meta Reviewer) for IJCAI 2023.
• [November 3rd, 2022]: Joined the ELLIS Society as a member.
• [October 11th, 2022]: One paper accepted to WACV23.
• [October 10th, 2022]: Recieved an Amazon Research Award.
• [September 14th, 2022]: Our paper N-FGSM accepted to NeurIPS22.
• [August 28th, 2022]: Our paper ANCER was accepted in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
• [August 15th, 2022]: Our paper on Tropical Geometry was accepted to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).
• [July 11th, 2022]: I will serve as a Senior Program Committee (Area Chair/Meta Reviewer) for AAAI23.
• [May 26th, 2022]: Three papers accepted to the Adversarial Machine Learning Frontiers ICML2022 workshop! Papers will be coming on arXiv soon.
• [May 16th, 2022]: Our paper titled Data Dependent Randomzied Smoothing is accepted to UAI22.
• [April 22nd, 2022]: I was selected as the Highlighted Reviewer of ICLR 2022 and received a free conference registration.

~~ End of 2021 ~~

• [Dec 1st, 2021]: I got promoted to a Senior Research Associate (G8) in machine learning of the Torr Vision Group (TVG) at the University of Oxford.
• [Dec 1st, 2021]: Two papers, Combating Adversaries with anti-adversaries and DeformRS: Certifying Input Deformations with Randomized Smoothing, are accepted in AAAI22.
• [Nov 18th, 2021]: We were awarded KAUST’s Competitive Research Grant with a total of > 1.05M$ (one million USD). This is a 3 years collaboration between KAUST and Oxford.
• [Oct 15th, 2021]: Rethinking Clustering for Robustness is accepted in BMVC21.
• [June 22nd, 2021]: Anti Adversary paper is accepted in Adversarial Machine Learning Workshop @ICML21.
• [June 13th, 2021]: I have been elected as a Junior Research Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Appointment starts in October 2021.
• [March 28th, 2021]: ETB robustness paper is accepted in RobustML Workshop @ICLR21.

~~ End of 2020 ~~

• [November 8th, 2020]: New paper on robustness is on arXiv.
• [November 8th, 2020]: New paper on randomized smoothing is on arXiv.
• [October 15th, 2020]: I joined the Torr Vision Group working with Philip Torr at the University of Oxford.
• [July 2nd, 2020]: Gabor layers enhance robustness paper accepted to ECCV20 arXiv.
• [June 30th, 2020]: One paper is out on new expressions for the output moments of ReLU based networks with various new appliactions arXiv.
• [June 24th, 2020]: New paper with SOTA results, backed with theory, on training robust models through feature clustering arXiv.
• [March 31st, 2020]: I have sucessfully defended my PhD thesis.

~~ End of 2019 ~~

• [Dec 20th, 2019]: One paper accepted to ICLR20.
• [Nov 11th, 2019]: One spotlight paper accepted to AAAI20.
• [Sept 25th, 2019]: Recognized as outstanding reviewer for ICCV19. Link.
• [August 5th, 2019]: I was invited to give a talk about the most recent research in computer vision and machine learning from the IVUL group at PRIS19, Dead Sea, Jordan. I also gave a 1 hour long workshop about deep learning and pytorch. Slides1/Slides2/Material.
• [July 6th, 2019]: I was invited to give a talk at the Eastern European Conference on Computer Vision, Odessa, Ukraine. Slides.
• [June 28th, 2019]: I gave a talk at the Biomedical Computer Vision Group directed by Prof Pablo Arbelaez, Bogota, Colombia. Slides.
• [June 15th, 2019]: Attended CVPR19.
• [June 9th, 2019]: Recognized as an outstanding reviewer for CVPR19. This is the second time in a row for CVPR. Check it out. :)
• [May 26th, 2019]: A new paper is out on derivative free optimization with momentum with new rates and results on continuous controls tasks. arXiv.
• [May 25th, 2019]: New paper! New provably tight interval bounds are derived for DNNs. This allows for very simple robust training of large DNNs. arXiv.
• [May 11th, 2019]: How to train robust networks outperforming 2-21x fold data augmentation? New paper out on arXiv.
• [May 6th, 2019]: Attended ICLR19 in New Orleans.
• [Feb 4th, 2019]: New paper on derivative-free optimization with importance sampling is out! Paper is on arXiv.

~~ End of 2018 ~~

• [Dec 22nd, 2018]: One paper accepted to ICLR19, Louisiana, USA.
• [Nov 6th, 2018]: One paper accepted to WACV19, Hawaii, USA.
• [July 3rd, 2018]: One paper accepted to ECCV18, Munich, Germany.
• [June 19th, 2018]: Attended CVPR18 and gave an oral talk on our most recent work on analyzing piecewise linear deep networks using Gaussian network moments. Tensorflow, Pytorch and MATLAB codes are released.
• [June 17th, 2018]: Received a fully funded scholarship to attend the AI-DLDA 18 summer school in Udine, Italy. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend for time constraints. Link
• [June 15th, 2018]: New paper out! “Improving SAGA via a Probabilistic Interpolation with Gradient Descent”.
• [April 30th, 2018]: I’m interning for 6 months at the Intel Labs in Munich this summer with Vladlen Koltun.
• [April 22nd, 2018]: Recognized as an outstanding reviewer for CVPR18. I’m also on the list of emergency reviewers. Check it out. :)
• [March 6th, 2018]: One paper accepted as [Oral] in CVPR 2018.
• [Feb 5, 2018]: Awarded the best KAUST poster prize in the Optimization and Big Data Conference.

~~ End of 2017 ~~

• [Decemmber 11, 2017]: TCSC code is on github.
• [October 22, 2017]: Attened ICCV17, Venice, Italy.
• [July 22, 2017]: Attened CVPR17 in Hawaii and gave an oral presentation on our work on solving the LASSO with FFTs, July 2017.
• [July 16, 2017]: FFTLasso’s code is available online.
• [July 9, 2017]: Attended the ICVSS17, Sicily, Italy.
• [June 15, 2017]: Selected to attend the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS17), Sicily, Italy.
• [March 17, 2017]: 1 paper accepted to ICCV17.
• [March 14, 2017]: Received my NanoDegree on Deep Learning from Udacity.
• [March 3, 2017]: 1 oral paper accepted to CVPR17, Hawai, USA.

~~ End of 2016 ~~

• [October 19, 2016]: ECCV16’s code has been released on github.
• [October 8, 2016]: Attended ECCV16, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• [July 11, 2016]: 1 spotlight paper accepted to ECCV16, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• [June 26, 2016]: Attended CVPR16, Las Vegas, USA. Two papers presented.
• [May 13, 2016]: ICCVW15 code is now avaliable online.
• [April 11, 2016]: Successfully defended my Master’s Thesis.
• [March 2, 2016]: 2 papers (1 spotlight) accepted to CVPR16, Las Vegas, USA.

~~ End of 2015 ~~

• [November 20, 2015]: 1 paper acceted to ICCVW15, Santiago, Chile.
• [June 8, 2015]: Attended CVPR15, Boston, USA.