Niloofar Mireshghallah
Assistant Professor (Beginning Fall 2027)
Studies privacy and security of language models, including memorization and contextual privacy.
Niloofar Mireshghallah's lab at CMU works on large language models. 15 papers since 2023, 11 at top venues, mostly ICLR and ACL. 4 PhD students and 7 master's students. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 73%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 7
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 8 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 1
- 3 papers2024 · T1 3
- 2 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICLR, ACL, ICML, EMNLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models8 papers
- privacy4 papers
- contextual2 papers
- memorization0 papers
- technologies institute0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20268 papers
- ICML MemFM WorkshopAlignment Whack-a-Mole: Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)CIMemories: A Compositional Benchmark for Contextual Integrity of Persistent Memory in LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Operationalizing Data Minimization for Privacy-Preserving LLM Prompting (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)PRIVASIS: Synthesizing the Largest "Public" Private Dataset from Scratch (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Reinforcement Learning Improves Traversal of Parametric Knowledge in LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- TAE Workshop at NeurIPSReinforcement Learning on Benign Facts Amplifies Leakage of Memorized Private Data (opens in a new tab)
- ICML GenBio WorkshopSMDD-Bench: Can LLMs Solve Real-World Small Molecule Drug Design Tasks? (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Spectrum Tuning: Post-Training for Distributional Coverage and In-Context Steerability (opens in a new tab)
20252 papers
20243 papers
- ICML (T1)A Roadmap to Pluralistic Alignment (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Can LLMs Keep a Secret? Testing Privacy Implications of Language Models via Contextual Integrity Theory (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Privacy-Preserving In-Context Learning with Differentially Private Few-Shot Generation (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
- Fee
- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
Confirmed on the program page.
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