Aleem Khan

Hi! I’m a fifth year PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing and the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. I am advised by Nicholas Andrews and Benjamin Van Durme.

My main research interest is in understanding and developing efficient and precise methods for controlling generation from language models. I’m currently most interested in controlling for diversity in generation with applications to improving synthetic data quality and fine-grained style transfer (e.g. writing in the style of Aleem). Previously I’ve worked on developing robust user representations for author verification and retrieval.

I’m also an applied research scientist at the Department of Defense, where I apply (and scale) my research to real world problems.

When I’m not at my desk, you can find me running, playing softball, or doing something else fun outside!