NLP Researcher

Tiago Almeida

Hello! I am a Senior at Stevens Insitute of Technology, pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science. I work under Dr. Yue Ning, studying Agentic AI and model internals for the safe, trustworthy, and robust deployment of AI systems.

Tiago Almeida

News

Aug 2026Our paper is accepted to EMNLP Findings!
Apr 2026I am selected for the AIRS fellowship!
Apr 2026I serve as ICML 2026 Reviewer
Apr 2026My first-author paper is accepted to ACL Findings!

Publications

ACL
Findings
Tiago Almeida*, Zining Zhu, Yue Ning. Conceptual Hierarchies within LLMs.
July 2–7, 2026 · San Diego, CA, USA
EMNLP
Findings
Zhishan Yuan, Tiago Almeida, Shudong Hao, Zining Zhu, Nickolas Elias Dawlabani, Ghazia Pervaiz, Yue Ning. Diagnosis Before Treatment? Investigating Intermediate Variable Reasoning in LLMs.
To appear · October 24–29, 2026 · Budapest, Hungary

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant, CS 135

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, ICML 2026