Hi, I'm Mohamed :)

github | cv | mohamed at cs dot toronto dot edu
I'm a cognitive science student at the University of Toronto. I'm also a research assistant at the Citizen Lab and in the Department of Computer Science's HCI group. My research interests lie at the intersection of technology and human rights. Below you can find some of my work.

Papers

An Analysis of Censorship Bias in LLMs (Under Review)
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technogies (PoPETS 2025), Issue 4
Mohamed Ahmed, Jeffrey Knockel, and Rachel Greenstadt

Compassionately: Increasing Plurality Awareness Through Community-powered AI
Muslims in ML Workshop, co-located with NeurIPS 2024
Hala Sheta, Mohamed Ahmed, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com
Citizen Lab Report
Jeffrey Knockel, Jakub Dalek, Noura Aljizawi, Mohamed Ahmed, Levi Meletti, and Justin Lau

Extended Abstract: The Impact of Online Censorship on LLMs
Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI 2024)
Mohamed Ahmed, and Jeffrey Knockel

Talks

Compassionately: Increasing Plurality Awareness Through Community-powered AI
Muslims in ML Workshop, co-located with NeurIPS 2024
Hala Sheta, and Mohamed Ahmed

The Impact of Online Censorship on LLMs
Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI 2024)
Mohamed Ahmed

Posters

Compassionately: Increasing Plurality Awareness Through Community-powered AI
Muslims in ML Workshop, co-located with NeurIPS 2024
Hala Sheta, and Mohamed Ahmed