Publications

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Conference Papers

HireWatch: Evaluating LLM Compliance with U.S. Employment Law under Contextual Pressure
Huy Nghiem, M. Kostylew, Noam Kolt
NeurIPS 2026, Evaluation & Datasets Track
Huy Nghiem, Sy-Tuyen Ho, Sarah Wiegreffe, Hal Daumé III
COLM 2026, Actionable Interpretability Workshop
Huy Nghiem, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le, Sy-Tuyen Ho, Hal Daumé III
EMNLP 2026
Subtle race-gender evaluative framing in LLM-generated resume summaries undermines hiring fairness.
Huy Nghiem, Advik Sachdeva, Hal Daumé III
ACL 2026
Data-efficient toxicity detection via LLM-based synthetic explanations.
M. Sharma, C. B. C. Zhang, Huy Nghiem, et al.
ICLR 2026
Huy Nghiem, Swetasudha Panda, Devashish Khatwani, Huy V. Nguyen, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Hal Daumé III
ML4H 2025★ Best Paper
Simple and modular iterative frameworks to improve safety of healthcare AI assistants post-deployment via preference optimization
Huy Nghiem, Phuong Anh Nguyen-Le, John Prindle, Rachel Rudinger, Hal Daumé III
EMNLP 2025
How LLMs contextualize socioeconomic factors in college admissions.
Zongxia Li, Xiyang Wu, Hongyang Du, Fuxiao Liu, Huy Nghiem, Guangyao Shi
CVPR Workshop 2025
A survey on Large Vision-Langauge Models.
Refining Input Guardrails: Enhancing LLM-as-a-Judge Efficiency through Chain-of-Thought Fine-tuning and Alignment
M. K. Rad, Huy Nghiem, S. Wadhwa, A. Luo, M. S. Sorower
AAAI 2025, PDLM Workshop★ Outstanding Paper
HateCOT: An Explanation-Enhanced Dataset for Generalizable Offensive Speech Detection via Large Language Models
Huy Nghiem, Hal Daumé III
EMNLP 2024, Findings
Huy Nghiem, John Prindle, Jieyu Zhao, Hal Daumé III
EMNLP 2024
Our empirical results indicate a preference among these models for hiring candidates with White female-sounding names over other demographic groups across 40 occupations

Preprints & Under Review

CAIT: Mitigating and Certifying Counterfactual Sensitivity via Activation Editing
Huy Nghiem, Sy-Tuyen Ho, Sarah Wiegreffe, Hal Daumé III
Under submission, ICLR
Sy-Tuyen Ho, M. Liu, Huy Nghiem, Furong Huang
Under submission

Journal Articles

A Decade of Tweets: Visualizing Racial Sentiments towards Minoritized Groups in the United States between 2011 and 2021
T. Nguyen, J. Merchant, X. Yue, et al.
Epidemiology, 35(1)
A Population-based Study of Mental Health Diagnoses and Child Protection System Involvement among Medicaid-insured Children
E. Putnam-Hornstein, R. Foust, S. Cuccaro-Alamin, J. Prindle, Huy Nghiem, E. Ahn, L. Palmer
The Journal of Pediatrics, 252
Strategies for Constructing Household and Family Units with Linked Administrative Records
S. Cuccaro-Alamin, A. L. Eastman, R. Foust, J. McCroskey, E. Putnam-Hornstein
Children and Youth Services Review, 120
Detecting Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Frauds Using Market and Social Signals
Huy Nghiem, G. Muric, Fred Morstatter, Emilio Ferrara
Expert Systems with Applications, 182
Child Protection Involvement among Homeless Families
R. Foust, Huy Nghiem, J. Prindle, J. Hoonhout, J. McCroskey, E. Putnam-Hornstein
Journal of Public Child Welfare, 14(5)