Robert Sim

Senior Principal Research Manager

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- Exploring How LLMs Capture and Represent Domain-Specific Knowledge
  
  Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Camille Couturier, Daniel Madrigal, Ankur Mallick, Anastasios Kyrillidis,, Robert Sim, Victor Ruehle, Saravan Rajmohan
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication
- Privacy-Preserving In-Context Learning with Differentially Private Few-Shot Generation
  
  Xinyu Tang, Richard Shin, Huseyin Inan, Andre Manoel, Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Zinan Lin, Sivakanth Gopi, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, Robert Sim
  
  ICLR 2024 | May 2024
  
  Publication Publication Github Project
- Privately Aligning Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
  
  Fan Wu, Huseyin Inan, Arturs Backurs, Varun Chandrasekaran, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, Robert Sim
  
  ICLR 2024 | May 2024
  
  DOI Project
- Hybrid LLM: Cost-Efficient and Quality-Aware Query Routing
  
  Dujian Ding, Ankur Mallick, Chi Wang, Robert Sim, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Victor Ruehle, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  ICLR 2024 | February 2024
  
  Publication
- Sweeping Heterogeneity with Smart MoPs: Mixture of Prompts for LLM Task Adaptation
  
  Chen Dun, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Guoqing Zheng, Ahmed Awadallah, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Robert Sim
  
  ArXiv | October 2023, Vol abs/2310.02842
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- Project Florida: Federated Learning Made Easy
  
  Daniel Madrigal, Andre Manoel, Jialei Chen, Nalin Singal, Robert Sim
  
  | July 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Synthetic Text Generation with Differential Privacy: A Simple and Practical Recipe
  
  Xiang Yue, Huseyin Inan, Xuechen Li, Girish Kumar, Julia McAnallen, Huan Sun, David Levitan, Robert Sim
  
  ACL 2023 | July 2023
  
  Publication
- Federated Multilingual Models for Medical Transcript Analysis
  
  Andre Manoel, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Tal Baumel, Shize Su, Jialei Chen, Dan Miller, Danny Karmon, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning | June 2023
  
  Publication
- FedJETs: Efficient Just-In-Time Personalization with Federated Mixture of Experts
  
  Chen Dun, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Guoqing Zheng, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Robert Sim, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  June 2023
- Analyzing Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information in Language Models
  
  Nils Lukas, Ahmed Salem, Robert Sim, Shruti Tople, Lukas Wutschitz, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin
  
  2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | May 2023
  
  Publication PDF DOI Project
- TROJANPUZZLE: Covertly Poisoning Code-Suggestion Models
  
  Hojjat Aghakhani, Wei Dai, Andre Manoel, Xavier Fernandes, Anant Kharkar, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, David Evans, Ben Zorn, Robert Sim
  
  January 2023
  
  Publication
- Understanding questions that arise when working with business documents
  
  FARNAZ JAHANBAKHSH, Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White, Adam Fourney
  
  Human-Computer Interaction | November 2022
  
  Publication
- Heterogeneous Ensemble Knowledge Transfer for Training Large Models in Federated Learning
  
  Yae Jee Cho, Andre Manoel, Gauri Joshi, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  IJCAI-ECAI'22 | August 2022
  
  Publication Project
- UserIdentifier: Implicit User Representations for Simple and Effective Personalized Sentiment Analysis
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Milad Shokouhi, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'22) | July 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Privacy Leakage in Text Classification: A Data Extraction Approach
  
  Adel Elmahdy, Huseyin Inan, Robert Sim
  
  June 2022
  
  Publication
- FLUTE: A Scalable, Extensible Framework for High-Performance Federated Learning Simulations
  
  Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Daniel Madrigal, Andre Manoel, Robert Sim
  
  March 2022
  
  Preprint Github Project
- Membership Inference Attacks Against NLP Classification Models
  
  Virat Shejwalkar, Huseyin Inan, Amir Houmansadr, Robert Sim
  
  NeurIPS 2021 Workshop Privacy in Machine Learning | September 2021
  
  Publication
- Stereotyping Norwegian Salmon: An Inventory of Pitfalls in Fairness Benchmark Datasets
  
  Su Lin Blodgett, Gilsinia Lopez, Alexandra Olteanu, Robert Sim, Hanna Wallach
  
  ACL-IJCNLP 2021 | August 2021
  
  Publication
- Privacy Regularization: Joint Privacy-Utility Optimization in Language Models
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Huseyin Inan, Marcello Hasegawa, Victor Rühle, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim
  
  2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021) | June 2021
  
  Publication
- On Privacy and Confidentiality of Communications in Organizational Graphs
  
  Masoumeh Shafieinejad, Huseyin A. Inan (huinan), Marcello Hasegawa, Robert Sim
  
  May 2021
  
  Publication
- MeetingCoach: An Intelligent Dashboard for Supporting Effective and Inclusive Meetings
  
  Samiha Samrose, Daniel McDuff, Robert Sim, Jina Suh, Kael Rowan, Javier Hernandez, Sean Rintel, Kevin Moynihan, Mary Czerwinski
  
  CHI 2021 | May 2021
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- Training Data Leakage Analysis in Language Models
  
  Huseyin A. Inan, Osman Ramadan, Lukas Wutschitz, Daniel Jones, Victor Rühle, James Withers, Robert Sim
  
  February 2021
  
  Preprint
- Leveraging Structured Metadata for Improving Question Answering on the Web
  
  Xinya Du, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Paul Bennett, Claire Cardie, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  AACL 2020 | December 2020
  
  Publication
- Proactive Suggestion Generation: Data and Methods for Stepwise Task Assistance
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White
  
  Proceedings of the 43 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020) | July 2020
  
  Publication
- Conversations with Documents: An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance
  
  Maartje ter Hoeve, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Maarten de Rijke, Ryen W. White
  
  2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
  
  DOI Publication Project
- Step-wise Recommendation for Complex Task Support
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White
  
  2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
  
  PDF DOI
- Toward Activity Discovery in the Personal Web
  
  Tara Safavi, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Marcin Juraszek, Shane Williams, Ned Friend, Danai Koutra, Paul Bennett
  
  The 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) | February 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Task Completion Detection
  
  Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, Robert Sim
  
  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019) | July 2019
  
  Publication
- Multi-device digital assistance
  
  Ryen W. White, Adam Fourney, Allen Herring, Paul Bennett, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Mark Encarnación
  
  Communications of the ACM | July 2019
  
  Publication
- Domain Adaptation for Commitment Detection in Email
  
  Hosein Azarbonyad, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
  
  Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’19) | February 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Supporting Complex Tasks Using Multiple Devices
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
  
  Task Intelligence Workshop @ WSDM 2019 Conference | January 2019
  
  PDF Project

- Exploring How LLMs Capture and Represent Domain-Specific Knowledge
  
  Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Camille Couturier, Daniel Madrigal, Ankur Mallick, Anastasios Kyrillidis,, Robert Sim, Victor Ruehle, Saravan Rajmohan
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication
- Privately Aligning Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
  
  Fan Wu, Huseyin Inan, Arturs Backurs, Varun Chandrasekaran, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, Robert Sim
  
  ICLR 2024 | May 2024
  
  DOI Project
- Privacy-Preserving In-Context Learning with Differentially Private Few-Shot Generation
  
  Xinyu Tang, Richard Shin, Huseyin Inan, Andre Manoel, Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Zinan Lin, Sivakanth Gopi, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, Robert Sim
  
  ICLR 2024 | May 2024
  
  Publication Publication Github Project
- Hybrid LLM: Cost-Efficient and Quality-Aware Query Routing
  
  Dujian Ding, Ankur Mallick, Chi Wang, Robert Sim, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Victor Ruehle, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  ICLR 2024 | February 2024
  
  Publication
- Sweeping Heterogeneity with Smart MoPs: Mixture of Prompts for LLM Task Adaptation
  
  Chen Dun, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Guoqing Zheng, Ahmed Awadallah, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Robert Sim
  
  ArXiv | October 2023, Vol abs/2310.02842
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- Project Florida: Federated Learning Made Easy
  
  Daniel Madrigal, Andre Manoel, Jialei Chen, Nalin Singal, Robert Sim
  
  | July 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Synthetic Text Generation with Differential Privacy: A Simple and Practical Recipe
  
  Xiang Yue, Huseyin Inan, Xuechen Li, Girish Kumar, Julia McAnallen, Huan Sun, David Levitan, Robert Sim
  
  ACL 2023 | July 2023
  
  Publication
- Federated Multilingual Models for Medical Transcript Analysis
  
  Andre Manoel, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Tal Baumel, Shize Su, Jialei Chen, Dan Miller, Danny Karmon, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning | June 2023
  
  Publication
- FedJETs: Efficient Just-In-Time Personalization with Federated Mixture of Experts
  
  Chen Dun, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Guoqing Zheng, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Robert Sim, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  June 2023
- Analyzing Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information in Language Models
  
  Nils Lukas, Ahmed Salem, Robert Sim, Shruti Tople, Lukas Wutschitz, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin
  
  2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | May 2023
  
  Publication PDF DOI Project
- Heterogeneous Ensemble Knowledge Transfer for Training Large Models in Federated Learning
  
  Yae Jee Cho, Andre Manoel, Gauri Joshi, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  IJCAI-ECAI'22 | August 2022
  
  Publication Project
- UserIdentifier: Implicit User Representations for Simple and Effective Personalized Sentiment Analysis
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Milad Shokouhi, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'22) | July 2022
  
  Publication Project
- FLUTE: A Scalable, Extensible Framework for High-Performance Federated Learning Simulations
  
  Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Daniel Madrigal, Andre Manoel, Robert Sim
  
  March 2022
  
  Preprint Github Project
- Membership Inference Attacks Against NLP Classification Models
  
  Virat Shejwalkar, Huseyin Inan, Amir Houmansadr, Robert Sim
  
  NeurIPS 2021 Workshop Privacy in Machine Learning | September 2021
  
  Publication
- Privacy Regularization: Joint Privacy-Utility Optimization in Language Models
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Huseyin Inan, Marcello Hasegawa, Victor Rühle, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim
  
  2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021) | June 2021
  
  Publication
- On Privacy and Confidentiality of Communications in Organizational Graphs
  
  Masoumeh Shafieinejad, Huseyin A. Inan (huinan), Marcello Hasegawa, Robert Sim
  
  May 2021
  
  Publication
- Training Data Leakage Analysis in Language Models
  
  Huseyin A. Inan, Osman Ramadan, Lukas Wutschitz, Daniel Jones, Victor Rühle, James Withers, Robert Sim
  
  February 2021
  
  Preprint
- Leveraging Structured Metadata for Improving Question Answering on the Web
  
  Xinya Du, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Paul Bennett, Claire Cardie, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  AACL 2020 | December 2020
  
  Publication
- Proactive Suggestion Generation: Data and Methods for Stepwise Task Assistance
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White
  
  Proceedings of the 43 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020) | July 2020
  
  Publication
- Step-wise Recommendation for Complex Task Support
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White
  
  2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
  
  PDF DOI
- Conversations with Documents: An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance
  
  Maartje ter Hoeve, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Maarten de Rijke, Ryen W. White
  
  2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
  
  DOI Publication Project
- Toward Activity Discovery in the Personal Web
  
  Tara Safavi, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Marcin Juraszek, Shane Williams, Ned Friend, Danai Koutra, Paul Bennett
  
  The 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) | February 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Task Completion Detection
  
  Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, Robert Sim
  
  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019) | July 2019
  
  Publication
- Multi-device digital assistance
  
  Ryen W. White, Adam Fourney, Allen Herring, Paul Bennett, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Mark Encarnación
  
  Communications of the ACM | July 2019
  
  Publication
- Domain Adaptation for Commitment Detection in Email
  
  Hosein Azarbonyad, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
  
  Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’19) | February 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Supporting Complex Tasks Using Multiple Devices
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
  
  Task Intelligence Workshop @ WSDM 2019 Conference | January 2019
  
  PDF Project
- Privately Aligning Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
  
  Fan Wu, Huseyin Inan, Arturs Backurs, Varun Chandrasekaran, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, Robert Sim
  
  ICLR 2024 | May 2024
  
  DOI Project
- Heterogeneous Ensemble Knowledge Transfer for Training Large Models in Federated Learning
  
  Yae Jee Cho, Andre Manoel, Gauri Joshi, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  IJCAI-ECAI'22 | August 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Privacy-Preserving In-Context Learning with Differentially Private Few-Shot Generation
  
  Xinyu Tang, Richard Shin, Huseyin Inan, Andre Manoel, Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Zinan Lin, Sivakanth Gopi, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, Robert Sim
  
  ICLR 2024 | May 2024
  
  Publication Publication Github Project
- Synthetic Text Generation with Differential Privacy: A Simple and Practical Recipe
  
  Xiang Yue, Huseyin Inan, Xuechen Li, Girish Kumar, Julia McAnallen, Huan Sun, David Levitan, Robert Sim
  
  ACL 2023 | July 2023
  
  Publication
- Analyzing Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information in Language Models
  
  Nils Lukas, Ahmed Salem, Robert Sim, Shruti Tople, Lukas Wutschitz, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin
  
  2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | May 2023
  
  Publication PDF DOI Project
- TROJANPUZZLE: Covertly Poisoning Code-Suggestion Models
  
  Hojjat Aghakhani, Wei Dai, Andre Manoel, Xavier Fernandes, Anant Kharkar, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, David Evans, Ben Zorn, Robert Sim
  
  January 2023
  
  Publication
- Privacy Leakage in Text Classification: A Data Extraction Approach
  
  Adel Elmahdy, Huseyin Inan, Robert Sim
  
  June 2022
  
  Publication
- FLUTE: A Scalable, Extensible Framework for High-Performance Federated Learning Simulations
  
  Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Daniel Madrigal, Andre Manoel, Robert Sim
  
  March 2022
  
  Preprint Github Project
- Privacy Regularization: Joint Privacy-Utility Optimization in Language Models
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Huseyin Inan, Marcello Hasegawa, Victor Rühle, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim
  
  2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021) | June 2021
  
  Publication
- On Privacy and Confidentiality of Communications in Organizational Graphs
  
  Masoumeh Shafieinejad, Huseyin A. Inan (huinan), Marcello Hasegawa, Robert Sim
  
  May 2021
  
  Publication
- Training Data Leakage Analysis in Language Models
  
  Huseyin A. Inan, Osman Ramadan, Lukas Wutschitz, Daniel Jones, Victor Rühle, James Withers, Robert Sim
  
  February 2021
  
  Preprint
- Understanding questions that arise when working with business documents
  
  FARNAZ JAHANBAKHSH, Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White, Adam Fourney
  
  Human-Computer Interaction | November 2022
  
  Publication
- MeetingCoach: An Intelligent Dashboard for Supporting Effective and Inclusive Meetings
  
  Samiha Samrose, Daniel McDuff, Robert Sim, Jina Suh, Kael Rowan, Javier Hernandez, Sean Rintel, Kevin Moynihan, Mary Czerwinski
  
  CHI 2021 | May 2021
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- Multi-device digital assistance
  
  Ryen W. White, Adam Fourney, Allen Herring, Paul Bennett, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Mark Encarnación
  
  Communications of the ACM | July 2019
  
  Publication
- Supporting Complex Tasks Using Multiple Devices
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
  
  Task Intelligence Workshop @ WSDM 2019 Conference | January 2019
  
  PDF Project
- Federated Multilingual Models for Medical Transcript Analysis
  
  Andre Manoel, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Tal Baumel, Shize Su, Jialei Chen, Dan Miller, Danny Karmon, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning | June 2023
  
  Publication
- UserIdentifier: Implicit User Representations for Simple and Effective Personalized Sentiment Analysis
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Milad Shokouhi, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'22) | July 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Stereotyping Norwegian Salmon: An Inventory of Pitfalls in Fairness Benchmark Datasets
  
  Su Lin Blodgett, Gilsinia Lopez, Alexandra Olteanu, Robert Sim, Hanna Wallach
  
  ACL-IJCNLP 2021 | August 2021
  
  Publication
- Privacy Regularization: Joint Privacy-Utility Optimization in Language Models
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Huseyin Inan, Marcello Hasegawa, Victor Rühle, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim
  
  2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021) | June 2021
  
  Publication
- On Privacy and Confidentiality of Communications in Organizational Graphs
  
  Masoumeh Shafieinejad, Huseyin A. Inan (huinan), Marcello Hasegawa, Robert Sim
  
  May 2021
  
  Publication
- Training Data Leakage Analysis in Language Models
  
  Huseyin A. Inan, Osman Ramadan, Lukas Wutschitz, Daniel Jones, Victor Rühle, James Withers, Robert Sim
  
  February 2021
  
  Preprint
- Leveraging Structured Metadata for Improving Question Answering on the Web
  
  Xinya Du, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Paul Bennett, Claire Cardie, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  AACL 2020 | December 2020
  
  Publication
- Supporting Complex Tasks Using Multiple Devices
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
  
  Task Intelligence Workshop @ WSDM 2019 Conference | January 2019
  
  PDF Project
- MeetingCoach: An Intelligent Dashboard for Supporting Effective and Inclusive Meetings
  
  Samiha Samrose, Daniel McDuff, Robert Sim, Jina Suh, Kael Rowan, Javier Hernandez, Sean Rintel, Kevin Moynihan, Mary Czerwinski
  
  CHI 2021 | May 2021
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- Proactive Suggestion Generation: Data and Methods for Stepwise Task Assistance
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White
  
  Proceedings of the 43 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020) | July 2020
  
  Publication
- Step-wise Recommendation for Complex Task Support
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White
  
  2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
  
  PDF DOI
- Conversations with Documents: An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance
  
  Maartje ter Hoeve, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Maarten de Rijke, Ryen W. White
  
  2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
  
  DOI Publication Project
- Toward Activity Discovery in the Personal Web
  
  Tara Safavi, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Marcin Juraszek, Shane Williams, Ned Friend, Danai Koutra, Paul Bennett
  
  The 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) | February 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Task Completion Detection
  
  Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, Robert Sim
  
  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019) | July 2019
  
  Publication
- Domain Adaptation for Commitment Detection in Email
  
  Hosein Azarbonyad, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
  
  Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’19) | February 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Supporting Complex Tasks Using Multiple Devices
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
  
  Task Intelligence Workshop @ WSDM 2019 Conference | January 2019
  
  PDF Project

- Exploring How LLMs Capture and Represent Domain-Specific Knowledge
  
  Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Camille Couturier, Daniel Madrigal, Ankur Mallick, Anastasios Kyrillidis,, Robert Sim, Victor Ruehle, Saravan Rajmohan
  
  April 2025
  
  Publication
- FedJETs: Efficient Just-In-Time Personalization with Federated Mixture of Experts
  
  Chen Dun, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Guoqing Zheng, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Robert Sim, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  June 2023
- TROJANPUZZLE: Covertly Poisoning Code-Suggestion Models
  
  Hojjat Aghakhani, Wei Dai, Andre Manoel, Xavier Fernandes, Anant Kharkar, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, David Evans, Ben Zorn, Robert Sim
  
  January 2023
  
  Publication
- Training Data Leakage Analysis in Language Models
  
  Huseyin A. Inan, Osman Ramadan, Lukas Wutschitz, Daniel Jones, Victor Rühle, James Withers, Robert Sim
  
  February 2021
  
  Preprint
- Sweeping Heterogeneity with Smart MoPs: Mixture of Prompts for LLM Task Adaptation
  
  Chen Dun, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Guoqing Zheng, Ahmed Awadallah, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Robert Sim
  
  ArXiv | October 2023, Vol abs/2310.02842
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- Multi-device digital assistance
  
  Ryen W. White, Adam Fourney, Allen Herring, Paul Bennett, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Mark Encarnación
  
  Communications of the ACM | July 2019
  
  Publication
- Privately Aligning Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
  
  Fan Wu, Huseyin Inan, Arturs Backurs, Varun Chandrasekaran, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, Robert Sim
  
  ICLR 2024 | May 2024
  
  DOI Project
- Privacy-Preserving In-Context Learning with Differentially Private Few-Shot Generation
  
  Xinyu Tang, Richard Shin, Huseyin Inan, Andre Manoel, Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Zinan Lin, Sivakanth Gopi, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, Robert Sim
  
  ICLR 2024 | May 2024
  
  Publication Publication Github Project
- Hybrid LLM: Cost-Efficient and Quality-Aware Query Routing
  
  Dujian Ding, Ankur Mallick, Chi Wang, Robert Sim, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Victor Ruehle, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  ICLR 2024 | February 2024
  
  Publication
- Synthetic Text Generation with Differential Privacy: A Simple and Practical Recipe
  
  Xiang Yue, Huseyin Inan, Xuechen Li, Girish Kumar, Julia McAnallen, Huan Sun, David Levitan, Robert Sim
  
  ACL 2023 | July 2023
  
  Publication
- Federated Multilingual Models for Medical Transcript Analysis
  
  Andre Manoel, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Tal Baumel, Shize Su, Jialei Chen, Dan Miller, Danny Karmon, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning | June 2023
  
  Publication
- Analyzing Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information in Language Models
  
  Nils Lukas, Ahmed Salem, Robert Sim, Shruti Tople, Lukas Wutschitz, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin
  
  2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | May 2023
  
  Publication PDF DOI Project
- Understanding questions that arise when working with business documents
  
  FARNAZ JAHANBAKHSH, Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White, Adam Fourney
  
  Human-Computer Interaction | November 2022
  
  Publication
- Heterogeneous Ensemble Knowledge Transfer for Training Large Models in Federated Learning
  
  Yae Jee Cho, Andre Manoel, Gauri Joshi, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  IJCAI-ECAI'22 | August 2022
  
  Publication Project
- UserIdentifier: Implicit User Representations for Simple and Effective Personalized Sentiment Analysis
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Milad Shokouhi, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
  
  2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'22) | July 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Membership Inference Attacks Against NLP Classification Models
  
  Virat Shejwalkar, Huseyin Inan, Amir Houmansadr, Robert Sim
  
  NeurIPS 2021 Workshop Privacy in Machine Learning | September 2021
  
  Publication
- Stereotyping Norwegian Salmon: An Inventory of Pitfalls in Fairness Benchmark Datasets
  
  Su Lin Blodgett, Gilsinia Lopez, Alexandra Olteanu, Robert Sim, Hanna Wallach
  
  ACL-IJCNLP 2021 | August 2021
  
  Publication
- Privacy Regularization: Joint Privacy-Utility Optimization in Language Models
  
  Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Huseyin Inan, Marcello Hasegawa, Victor Rühle, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Robert Sim
  
  2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021) | June 2021
  
  Publication
- MeetingCoach: An Intelligent Dashboard for Supporting Effective and Inclusive Meetings
  
  Samiha Samrose, Daniel McDuff, Robert Sim, Jina Suh, Kael Rowan, Javier Hernandez, Sean Rintel, Kevin Moynihan, Mary Czerwinski
  
  CHI 2021 | May 2021
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- Leveraging Structured Metadata for Improving Question Answering on the Web
  
  Xinya Du, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Paul Bennett, Claire Cardie, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  AACL 2020 | December 2020
  
  Publication
- Proactive Suggestion Generation: Data and Methods for Stepwise Task Assistance
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White
  
  Proceedings of the 43 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020) | July 2020
  
  Publication
- Step-wise Recommendation for Complex Task Support
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White
  
  2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
  
  PDF DOI
- Conversations with Documents: An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance
  
  Maartje ter Hoeve, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Maarten de Rijke, Ryen W. White
  
  2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval | March 2020
  
  DOI Publication Project
- Toward Activity Discovery in the Personal Web
  
  Tara Safavi, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Marcin Juraszek, Shane Williams, Ned Friend, Danai Koutra, Paul Bennett
  
  The 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) | February 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Task Completion Detection
  
  Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, Robert Sim
  
  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019) | July 2019
  
  Publication
- Domain Adaptation for Commitment Detection in Email
  
  Hosein Azarbonyad, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
  
  Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’19) | February 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Supporting Complex Tasks Using Multiple Devices
  
  Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White
  
  Task Intelligence Workshop @ WSDM 2019 Conference | January 2019
  
  PDF Project
- Project Florida: Federated Learning Made Easy
  
  Daniel Madrigal, Andre Manoel, Jialei Chen, Nalin Singal, Robert Sim
  
  | July 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Privacy Leakage in Text Classification: A Data Extraction Approach
  
  Adel Elmahdy, Huseyin Inan, Robert Sim
  
  June 2022
  
  Publication
- FLUTE: A Scalable, Extensible Framework for High-Performance Federated Learning Simulations
  
  Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Mirian Hipolito Garcia, Daniel Madrigal, Andre Manoel, Robert Sim
  
  March 2022
  
  Preprint Github Project
- On Privacy and Confidentiality of Communications in Organizational Graphs
  
  Masoumeh Shafieinejad, Huseyin A. Inan (huinan), Marcello Hasegawa, Robert Sim
  
  May 2021
  
  Publication