Kerem Zaman

PhD student at UNC Chapel Hill

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UNC Chapel Hill

NC, USA

I’m currently a third-year PhD student at the UNC-Chapel Hill where I am advised by Shashank Srivastava. My research focuses on interpretable and explainable NLP, AI safety, reasoning, fairness, and robustness. My ultimate goal is to advance safe and transparent AI systems by deepening our understanding of black-box models.

Before PhD, I earned my bachelor’s degree from the Department of Computer Engineering Boğaziçi University, where my thesis advisor was Pinar Yanardag.

news

Jun 3, 2025 Paper accepted into ACL 2025! “INTERACT: Enabling Interactive, Question-Driven Learning in Large Language Models” [pdf] [github]
May 23, 2025 I started my internship at MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Model!
Sep 23, 2024 Paper accepted into EMNLP 2024! “Fuse to Forget: Bias Reduction and Selective Memorization through Model Fusion “ [pdf] [github]
Nov 15, 2023 New preprint! “Fuse to Forget: Bias Reduction and Selective Memorization through Model Fusion” [pdf]
Oct 7, 2023 Paper accepted into EMNLP 2023! “MaNtLE: Model-agnostic Natural Language Explainer “ [pdf]