Selected invited talks at conferences, workshops, and academic labs. Slides for some can be shared on request.
Keeping Humans at the Center: Trust, Augmentation, and Measuring AI's Human Impact
Panel · Stanford HAI x Wells Fargo Startup Day, Wells Fargo Innovation Center, Menlo Park, CA
Panelists: Matt Kraning (Menlo Ventures), Nilou Salehi (Across AI), Ahmad Rushdi (Stanford HAI), Sri Ambati (H2O.ai) · Moderator: Chintan Mehta (Wells Fargo)
Transforming Enterprise AI with Tabular Foundation Models
Panel · WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America 2026, San José, CA
Panelists: Tom Palczewski (SAP), Léo Grinsztajn (Prior Labs), Ahmad Rushdi (Stanford HAI) · Moderator: Yaad Oren (SAP)
Ship Fast, Don't Break Trust: Towards a Responsible Development Framework for Agentic AI
Niya Summit 2026, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
Ethical Frameworks for GenAI Detection in User Created Content
International Symposium on Synthetic Media Attribution and Detection (ISSMAD 2026)
From Research to Practice: Industry Perspectives on AI Ethics & Governance
The AI Summit @ Stanford University
Host: Nabila Elassar
When the Model Shouldn't Cite: Calibrated Abstention for Islamic Citation Hallucination
Oral presentation · Muslims in ML (MusIML) Affinity Workshop, ICML 2026, Seoul
Responsible AI in Practice: Examples from Text-to-Image Generation Models
GenAI Developer Workshop Day, virtual
Bias in Text-to-Image Generation Models: Risks, Mitigations, and an Evaluation-Driven Approach
AI for Good Institute, Impact Genius, Stanford University
Applied AI Ethics: Embedding Responsible Practices in Upstream AI R&D
AI for Good Institute, Impact Genius, Stanford University
Language and Vision Foundation Models: Uncertainty Quantification & Model Evaluation
NextGen Hackathon II, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Fostering Excellence in AI and ML Research in North Africa: Challenges and Pathways
Fireside panel · Affinity Workshop of North Africans in ML (NAML), NeurIPS 2023, virtual
Panelists: Merouane Debbah (TII), Kaoutar El Maghraoui (IBM Research AI), Ahmad Rushdi (Stanford HAI) · Moderator: Salim Chemlal
Quantifying Uncertainty in Machine Learning Models for Time Series Classification
SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (SIAM-UQ), virtual