Azal Ahmad Khan

Minneapolis, MN

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I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. At UMN, I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Ali Anwar. My research is funded by the Amazon ML Systems Fellowship and Departmental GAGE Fellowship. Prior to joining UMN, I spent four beautiful years completing undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India.

During my undergraduate studies, I worked with Dr. Debanga Raj Neog on my Bachelor Thesis on Large Language Models (LLMs). I also worked with Dr. Ali Anwar on Personalization and Optimization in Federated Learning, and with Dr. Rohitash Chandra on ML and Optimization.

My current research focuses on LLMs Agents, Reasoning, and Systems.

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News

Feb 27, 2025 Paper on LLM Agents out on arxiv. LADs🎊.
Jan 1, 2025 Received the Amazon ML Systems Fellowship🎊.
Dec 19, 2024 Paper on Federated Learning accepted at IEEE IPDPS 2025🎊.
Dec 9, 2024 Paper on Sycophancy in LLMs and Personlized Federated Learning accepted at IEEE BigData 2024 as short papers🎊.
Aug 2, 2024 Started PhD journey at Department of Computer Science at UMN and recieved departmental GAGE fellowship🎊.
Feb 9, 2024 Paper on Federated Learning accepted at ACM EuroSys 2024🎊.
Feb 2, 2024 Attended Google Research Week 2024 at Google Research India, Bengaluru.