Mohamed Aghzal محمد أغزال ⵎⵓⵃⴰⵎⴷ ⴰⵖⵣⴰⵍ
About Me
I am a Ph.D. student at George Mason University, where I have the fortune of being advised by Dr. Ziyu Yao within the George Mason NLP Group.
Broadly, my research interests involve building AI agents that mimic key aspects of human cognition, such as planning and reasoning, while ensuring reliable and safe human-AI interaction.
Research Interests
Planning and Reasoning: Planning and reasoning are crucial components of human intelligence, enabling us to navigate complex environments, make informed decisions, and achieve our goals. A central research inquiry in my work involves exploring ways to leverage foundation models to build systems that can reason and plan.
Causal Inference: A crucial aspect of human intelligence is our capacity to discern cause-effect relationships and construct causal models of the world. This ability allows us to understand, predict, and manipulate our environment effectively and transfer this knowledge into novel situations. My goal is to develop systems that can reason in terms of causal relationships, mirroring this fundamental human cognitive skill.
Human-AI Interaction: As artificial intelligence systems increasingly become integral components of our daily lives, it is important to develop systems that can effectively collaborate with, understand, and augment human capabilities reliably and safely. These are considerations that drive my research explorations.
News
[February 2025] Paper accepted to IEEE/CVF CVPR 2025.
[February 2025] Check out our new survey on the use of LLMs in Planning.
[November 2024] Check out our new preprint
[June 2024] Paper accepted to IEEE CASE 2024.
[March 2024] Paper accepted to LLM Agents at ICLR 2024.
[October 2023] New preprint available on ArXiv.
[April 2023] Presented a poster at MASC-SLL 2023.
Publications
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ArXiv
ArXiv:2502.12435 -
CVPR 2025
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025 (To Appear) -
CASE 2024
IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering -
LLMAgents@ICLR
ICLR Workshop on LLM Agents, 2024 -
Cogn. Comput. 2024
Big Data and Cognitive Computing -
MASC-SLL 2023
The 10th Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL 2023) -
CiST
7th IEEE Congress on Information Science and Technology (CiSt) -
ACLing 2021
Procedia Computer Science -
ICDS 2020
2020 IEEE Fourth International Conference On Intelligent Computing in Data Sciences (ICDS 2020)
Experience
01/2023 - : Graduate Research Assistant at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA08/2022 - : Graduate Teaching Assistant at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA09/2021 - 08/2022: Adjunct Faculty Member at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco06/2021 - 08/2021: Research Intern at Attijariwafa Bank, Casablanca, Morocco06/2020 - 08/2022: Research Assistant at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
Teaching
CS 310 - Data Structures: Graduate Teaching Assistant (Fall 2023)
CS 262 - Introduction to Low Level Programming: Lab Instructor (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
CSC 3326 L - Database Systems: Instructor (Fall 2021)
CSC 1401 L - Computer Programming: Instructor (Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2022)
CSC 2303 - Object-Oriented Programming: Group Tutor (Fall 2019, Spring 2021)
CSC 4399 - Deep Learning: Teaching Assistant (Fall 2018, Fall 2020)
CSC 2302 - Data Structures: Grader (Spring 2019)
CSC 1400 - Introduction to Computers: Grader (Spring 2019)
CSC 1401 - Computer Programming: Grader (Fall 2018)
CSC 2303 - Object-Oriented Programming: Grader (Fall 2018)Services
Reviewer:IEEE CiST 2023 ,IEEE CASE 2024 ,EMNLP 2024
Secondary Reviewer:NeurIPS 2023