News & milestones

The work beyond the paper.

Research acceptances, presentations, collaborations, awards, and the milestones that shape an academic journey.

Muhammad Umair Danish at Western University convocationMuhammad Umair Danish presenting researchResearch group visit to the University of Waterloo
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Recent updates.

Acceptance · August 2026

Two human-centered XAI papers accepted at IECON 2026

The accepted papers examine cognitive effects of explanation modalities and their influence on trust, understanding, and decision making.

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Milestone · June 9, 2026

PhD Convocation at Western University

Celebrated the completion of a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a dissertation on neural networks and their interpretability for building-energy modeling.

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Research visit · June 2026

Research exchange at the University of Waterloo

Shared ongoing research with peers during a group visit from Western University hosted by the HFES Waterloo Chapter.

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Timeline

Research journey.

Acceptance

Two human-centered XAI papers accepted at IECON 2026

The accepted papers examine cognitive effects of explanation modalities and their influence on trust, understanding, and decision making.

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Milestone

PhD Convocation at Western University

Celebrated the completion of a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a dissertation on neural networks and their interpretability for building-energy modeling.

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Research visit

Research exchange at the University of Waterloo

Shared ongoing research with peers during a group visit from Western University hosted by the HFES Waterloo Chapter.

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Publication

Monotone Delta published in Frontiers

An order-theoretic tournament-graph approach for internal-consistency assessment was published open access.

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Fellowship

Started the Western Postdoctoral Fellowship

Joined Western University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied AI under the supervision of Dr. Katarina Grolinger.

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Award

Best Paper Award at AIxSET 2025

Distributional Feature Separability received the Best Paper Award for explainability research in financial credit evaluation.

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In the room

Research is a conversation.

Presenting an argument, testing it with peers, and refining it through discussion are central parts of the work.

Presentation of neuron-combination regression results
Presenting regression results from neuron-combination analysis.
Presentation on selecting groups of neurons
Explaining the design of a mechanistic-interpretability study.
Western research group visiting University of Waterloo
Research exchange at the University of Waterloo.