Explainable AI
Goal: Making AI systems understandable, transparent, and accountable.
Research Questions
Why did a model make a particular decision?
What internal mechanisms drive model behavior?
How can explanations help users trust AI systems?
Representative Publications
A Counterfactual Explanation Framework for Retrieval Models (ACL 2026)
Dissecting Bias in LLMs: A Mechanistic Interpretability Perspective (TMLR 2025)
The Curious Case of IR Explainability: Explaining Document Scores within and across Ranking Models (SIGIR 2020)
Measuring and comparing the consistency of IR models for query pairs with similar and different information needs (CIKM 2022)