Conference talks, invited presentations, panels, and workshops.
Speaker
Presenting our TokSuite paper (OpenReview) as an oral presentation, selected as a spotlight paper.
Seoul, Korea
Panel Speaker
A panel on personal journeys in AI research, the responsibilities of building and deploying AI systems, and bridging the academia–industry gap — alongside panelists Jekaterina Novikova and Aneri Gandhi, hosted by Google Developer Groups (UofT Mississauga) & ACM-W: ACM's Women in Computing at Shopify Toronto.
Shopify, Toronto, ON, Canada
Tutorial Speaker & Panel Moderator
A tutorial covering model merging from its theoretical foundations to state-of-the-art methods and real-world applications — co-presented with my academic Ph.D. advisor Colin Raffel and Marco Ciccone, with a panel featuring Charles Goddard, Sara Hooker, Edoardo Ponti, Alexandra Chronopoulou, and Margaret Li.
San Diego, CA, USA
Speaker
Challenging the assumption that scaling parameters and data is the only path to better LLMs, this talk surveys state-of-the-art data-centric strategies (data mixing, filtering, deduplication) and model-centric approaches (pruning, distillation, quantization, model merging, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and test-time scaling) that achieve strong performance at a fraction of the cost — with DeepSeek as a compelling real-world case study.
Toronto, ON, Canada
Panel Speaker
A panel by female tech leaders for girls in grades 6–8 across the GTA, sharing our journeys in tech to inspire the next generation — alongside Susan Yu, Lada Semakova, and Joyce Zhou.
Toronto, ON, Canada
Keynote Speaker
By Google Developer Groups (GDG) & ACM-W: ACM's Women in Computing
Toronto, ON, Canada
Opening Talk Speaker
Joint event by Women's Initiative for Leadership Success (WILS) and Toronto ACM-W Professional Chapter
Vanguard, Toronto, ON, Canada
Panel Speaker
A panel discussion connecting with the incoming MScAC cohort alongside fellow alumni Sebastian Regalado Lozano, Jyotheeswar Arvind Manickavasagar, Deepkamal K. Gill, and Lydia Chau.
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Panel Moderator & Co-host
Co-hosted with Julien Simon. A discussion on language model efficiency, the trade-off between model size, accuracy, and performance, with guests Jekaterina Novikova (Principal AI Scientist, Vanguard) and Milica Cvetkovic (Applied AI Solutions Lead, Google).
Virtual Event (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Program Co-chair
A workshop addressing the urgent need for ML systems that better understand cognitive and mental health through diverse biomarkers — from speech and EEG to health records and wearables. Brought together experts in multimodal learning, clinical NLP, and AI safety with a focus on robustness, interpretability, and low-resource settings.
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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