My research focuses on LLM post-training and agentic AI safety, multimodal deep learning, and natural language processing. Below is a list of my publications and patents.
Ehsani, S., et al., 2026. The Poisoned Toolbox: Backdoor Attacks and Defenses for Tool-Using Agents in Open-Weight LLMs. Under review at NeurIPS 2026.
Hindsbo, N., Ehsani, S., and Mishra, P., 2026. SCOPE: Real-Time Natural-Language Camera Control on the Edge. In ACM/IEEE HRI 2026.
Ehsani, S., Pallakonda, B., and Mishra, P., 2025. Mapping the Storm: Geospatial Impacts of Severe Weather on LEO Network Performance. In ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025.
Ehsani, S., Pan, F., Hu, Q. and Liu, J., 2025. BiDepth Multimodal Neural Network: Bidirectional Depth Deep Learning Architecture for Spatial-Temporal Prediction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08411.
Buynitsky, A., Ehsani, S., Pallakonda, B., and Mishra, P., 2025. Camera Control at the Edge with Language Models For Scene Understanding. In IEEE ICCAR 2025 Proceedings.
Ehsani, S., and Liu, J., 2024. From the Depths to the Surface: Navigating Spatial Temporal Data with DeepShallow Network. In CIE51 Proceedings.
Ehsani, S. and Liu, J., 2024. Elevating Textual Question Answering with On-Demand Visual Augmentation. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.
Ehsani, S., Sergeeva, E., Murdy, W. and Fox, B., 2024. Predicting the Skies: A Novel Model for Flight-Level Passenger Traffic Forecasting. arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.03397.
Amir, M., Baruah, M., Eslamialishah, M., Ehsani, S., Bahramali, A., Naddaf-Sh, S. and Zarandioon, S., 2023. Truveta Mapper: A Zero-shot Ontology Alignment Framework. In OM-2023: 18th International Workshop on Ontology Matching, ISWC 2023.
Ehsani, S., Reddy, C.K., Foreman, B., Ratcliff, J. and Subbian, V., 2021. Subspace Clustering of Physiological Data From Acute Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: Retrospective Analysis Based on the PROTECT III Trial. JMIR Biomedical Engineering, 6(1), p.e24698.
Robotic control using natural language commands. U.S. Patent 12,289,517. (Issued 2025, with Mishra, P.K., Buynitsky, A.)
Natural language statistical model with alerts. U.S. Patent 12,086,557. (Issued 2024, with Mishra, P.K.)
Time series data to statistical natural language interaction. U.S. Patent 12,067,041. (Issued 2024, with Mishra, P.K.)
Natural language statistical model with workspaces. U.S. Patent Application (pending). (with Mishra, P.K.)
Systems and methods for ontology matching. U.S. Patent Application 20240087687 (pending). (with Marcjan, C.A., et al.)