Curriculum Vitae

Academic Appointments

Selected Publications

See the full list on the Publications page. Highlights:

1. Abhiraj Bibhar, Lin Chen, Tunde Okafor (2026). Attention-Guided Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Clinical NLP. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).
2. Abhiraj Bibhar, Riya Patel (2025). Human-in-the-Loop Interfaces for Trustworthy AI Decision Support. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
3. Tunde Okafor, Abhiraj Bibhar (2025). A Survey of Explainability Methods for Graph Neural Networks. ACM Computing Surveys.
4. Abhiraj Bibhar, Aditi Singh, Yue Zhou (2024). Low-Resource Adaptation of Large Language Models for Regional Dialects. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
5. Lin Chen, Abhiraj Bibhar (2024). Fairness-Aware Ranking in Multi-Stakeholder Recommender Systems. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

Professional Service

• Program Committee Co-Chair, ACM CHI 2025
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2021–present)
• Department Graduate Admissions Chair (2020–2023)
• Founder, Summer Research Scholars Program (2015–present)