Afaf Taik

Assistant Professor, Université de Sherbrooke

Joined

February 2024

Names

Afaf Taik (Preferred)

Afaf Taïk

Emails

****@mila.quebec (Confirmed)

****@umontreal.ca

****@usherbrooke.ca (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Université de Sherbrooke (usherbrooke.ca)

2025 – 2028

Postdoc

DIRO, Université de Montréal (umontreal.ca)

2022 – 2025

PhD student

Université de Sherbrooke (usherbrooke.ca)

2018 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Golnoosh Farnadi

2022 – 2025

PhD Advisor

Soumaya Cherkaoui

2018 – 2022

Expertise

Algorithmic fairness

2022 – Present

Federated Learning

2019 – Present

Publications

Say It Another Way: Auditing LLMs with a User-Grounded Automated Paraphrasing Framework
Clea Chataigner, Rebecca Ma, Prakhar Ganesh, Afaf Taik, Elliot Creager, Golnoosh Farnadi
- WiML @ NeurIPS 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Differentially Private Clustered Federated Learning
Saber Malekmohammadi, Afaf Taik, Golnoosh Farnadi
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Reality Check: A New Evaluation Ecosystem Is Necessary to Understand AI's Real World Effects
Reva Schwartz, Rumman Chowdhury, Heather Frase, Akash Kundu, Gabriella Waters, Marzieh Fadaee, Tom David, Afaf Taik, Morgan Briggs, Patrick Hall, Shomik Jain, Kyra Yee, Spencer Angus Thomas, Paul M. Duncan, Andrew Thompson, Sundeep Bhandari, Lee Wan Sie, Qinghua Lu, Matthew Holmes, Theodora Skeadas
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2025 Position Paper Track
- Readers: Everyone
A Provably Robust Algorithm for Differentially Private Clustered Federated Learning
Saber Malekmohammadi, Afaf Taik, Golnoosh Farnadi
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
From Representational Harms to Quality-of-Service Harms: A Case Study on Llama 2 Safety Safeguards
Khaoula Chehbouni, Megha Roshan, Emmanuel Ma, Futian Andrew Wei, Afaf Taïk, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Golnoosh Farnadi
- ACL (Findings) 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Promoting Fair Vaccination Strategies through Influence Maximization: A Case Study on COVID-19 Spread
Nicola Neophytou, Afaf Taïk, Golnoosh Farnadi
- AAAI 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Mitigating Disparate Impact of Differential Privacy in Federated Learning through Robust Clustering
Saber Malekmohammadi, Afaf Taïk, Golnoosh Farnadi
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Fairness Incentives in Response to Unfair Dynamic Pricing
Jesse Thibodeau, Hadi Nekoei, Afaf Taïk, Janarthanan Rajendran, Golnoosh Farnadi
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Open RAN Slicing in 6G Networks
Amine Abouaomar, Afaf Taïk, Abderrahime Filali, Soumaya Cherkaoui
- IEEE Commun. Mag. 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Unraveling the Interconnected Axes of Heterogeneity in Machine Learning for Democratic and Inclusive Advancements
Maryam Molamohammadi, Afaf Taïk, Nicolas Le Roux, Golnoosh Farnadi
- EAAMO 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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