Hi, I’m a PhD Candidate researching LLM safety, evaluation & reasoning robustness. My work at the Computer Science department of UC, Irvine advised by Sameer Singh is generously funded by the Hasso-Plattner Institute.
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360+ citations. Published papers on AI safety, evaluation, and benchmarking, in top-tier NLP conferences (3 first author) and workshops, including a best paper award.
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Ongoing research on using symbolic representations to guide LLM decoding, improving reasoning and enhancing interpretability and robustness.
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Industry data science experience delivering production lead-scoring models and contact-center and sales monitoring systems.
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Extensive community organizing experience spanning reading groups, mixers, advocacy and charity events, and student organizations.
I’d love to connect about:
➤ Industry opportunities
➤ Research collaborations
➤ Community building in Santa Cruz
Papers •
Characterizing Mamba's Selective Memory using Auto-Encoders
AACL 2025. Oral Presentation.
Tamanna Hossain, Robert L. Logan IV, Ganesh Jagadeesan, Sameer Singh, Joel Tetreault, Alejandro Jaimes
MisgenderMender: A Community-Informed Approach to Misgendering Interventions
NAACL 2024.
Tamanna Hossain, Sunipa Dev, Sameer Singh.
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MISGENDERED: Limits of Large Language Models in Understanding Pronouns
ACL 2023.
Tamanna Hossain, Sunipa Dev, Sameer Singh.
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Evaluating the generalisability of neural rumour verification models
Information Processing & Management 2023.
Elena Kochkina, Tamanna Hossain, Robert L. Logan IV, Miguel Arana-Catania, Rob Procter, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Sameer Singh, Yulan He, Maria Liakata.
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COVIDLies: Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media
EMNLP NLP Covid19 Workshop 2020. Best Paper Award
Tamanna Hossain, Robert L. Logan IV, Arjuna Ugarte, Yoshitomo Matsubara, Sean Young, Sameer Singh.
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Blog Posts •
- 2025/02/08 Yet Another DeepSeek Overview
- 2023/08/05 Paper Summary: Whose Opinions Do Language Models Reflect?
- 2022/01/08 Paper Summary: Harms of Gender Exclusivity and Challenges in Non-Binary Representation in Language Technologies
- 2021/11/28 Weird Stuff in High Dimensions
- 2021/11/09 Box Embeddings: Paper Overviews
- 2021/06/28 Orthogonal Procrustes
- 2019/12/25 Five Year Anniversary Trip to Maui
- 2018/11/01 A Brief Introduction to fMRI Analysis
- 2018/05/18 Viz : The Rohingya Exodus
- 2018/05/16 Viz : Drawing [e]
- 2018/02/22 Viz : US Same Sex Marriage Laws
- 2018/02/11 Viz : The Words of Larry Nassar Survivors
- 2017/12/22 Viz : Encoded Photo - An Anniversary Card
- 2017/12/03 Viz : Text Mining Stranger Things (Season 1 vs. Season 2)
- 2017/11/19 Viz : #MeToo Twitter
- 2017/11/19 Viz : #MeToo Twitter