Publications

• Bagheri Nezhad, S., Li, Y. & Agrawal, A. (2026). SymCode: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Mathematical Reasoning via Verifiable Code Generation. Findings of ACL, The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026). (arXiv)

• Bagheri Nezhad, S., & Agrawal, A. (2025). Enhancing Large Language Models with Neurosymbolic Reasoning for Multilingual Tasks. The 19th International Conference on Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2025). (arXiv, PMLR, Poster)

• Bagheri Nezhad, S., Bandyapadhyay, S., & Chen, T. (2025). Polynomial-Time Constant-Approximation for Fair Sum-of-Radii Clustering. The 33th European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). (arXiv, LIPIcs)

• Bagheri Nezhad, S., Bandyapadhyay, S., & Agrawal, A. (2025). Fair Summarization: Bridging Quality and Diversity in Extractive Summaries. The 3rd Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2025) @ NAACL 2025. (arXiv, ACL Anthology, GitHub, Poster)

• Bagheri Nezhad, S., & Agrawal, A. (2025). CROSS: Analyzing the Trade-offs in Long-Context Cross-lingual Retrieval. The Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild @ ICLR 2025.(OpenReview)

• Pokharel, R., Bagheri Nezhad, S., Agrawal, A., & Singh, S. (2025). The Impact of Model Scaling on Seen and Unseen Language Performance. The First Workshop on Scalable and Efficient Artificial Intelligence Systems @ AAAI 2025. (arXiv, Springer)

• Bagheri Nezhad, S., Agrawal, A., & Pokharel, R. (2025). Beyond Data Quantity: Key Factors Driving Performance in Multilingual Language Models. The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages @ COLING 2025. (arXiv, ACL Anthology, GitHub, Poster)

• Agrawal, A., Dang, A., Bagheri Nezhad, S., Pokharel, R., & Scheinberg, R. (2024). Evaluating Multilingual Long-Context Models for Retrieval and Reasoning. The 4th Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL) Workshop @ EMNLP 2024. (arXiv, ACL Anthology, GitHub)

• Bagheri Nezhad, S., & Agrawal, A. (2024). What Drives Performance in Multilingual Language Models? The Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2024) @ NAACL 2024. (arXiv, ACL Anthology, GitHub, Poster)

• Bagheri Nezhad, S., & Agrawal, A. (2023). Exploring the Maze of Multilingual Modeling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.05404. (arXiv)

• Bagheri-Nezhad, S., Mozayani, N., Abdi, E., & Rostami, S. (2021). Smoking prevalence in Covid-19 patients. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.13599. (arXiv)

• Bagheri-Nezhad, S., Abdi, E., Mozayani, N., & Mehrafza, M. (2021). Investigation of the smoking prevalence among critically ill patients with COVID-19. Journal of Control, 14(5), 33-37. (Journal)

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Professional Services:

• Reviewer: IJCNN 2025, Computational Intelligence, SET LLM @ ICLR, LREC-COLING, CALDAM, EMNLP.
• Program Committee: SustaiNLP @ ACL 2023