I am a third-year Ph.D. Student in Computer Science at North Carolina State University. I work as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at NC State for CSC 555 Social Computing and Decentralized AI and CSC 520 Artificial Intelligence (Spring 25).
June 2025: Submitted paper, "Theory of Mind in Action: The Instruction Inference Task" to Artificial Intellignece Journal (AIJ).
May 2025: Attended and presented papers in AAMAS 2025 held in Detroit, MI.
April 2025: Received the AAMAS Student Scholarship Award ($1200).
Feb 2025: Workshop paper, ''Navigating Risk: Do LLMs Make the Right Call?" accepted to COINE AAMAS 2025.
Dec 2024: Paper, ''Gricean Norms as a Basis of Effective Collaboration" accepted to Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) main track (2025).
May 2024: Joined the Social AI lab, headed by Dr. Munindar P. Singh.
May 2024: Received the NCSU Graduate Merit Award from College of Engineering ($3000) for outstanding academic excellence.
I work in the Multiagent Systems and Social AI Lab. I have worked in the Innovative Educational Computing (IEC) Lab at NC State from Fall 23 to Spring 24. I was also a Systems and Software Lab (SSL) member at the Islamic University of Technology. My research interests are as follows:
Agentic AI
Multiagent Systems
Norms and Social Computing
Natural Language Processing
Reinforcement Learning
Speech Technologies
Computational Linguistics
Contact: fsaad[at]ncsu[dot]edu