Wazeer Zulfikar — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

PhaseCoder: Microphone Geometry-Agnostic Spatial Audio Understanding for Multimodal LLMs

Artem Dementyev, Wazeer Zulfikar, Sinan Hersek, Pascal Getreuer, Anurag Kumar, Vivek Kumar

ICML 2026poster

Current multimodal LLMs process audio as a mono stream, ignoring the rich spatial information essential for embodied AI. Existing spatial audio models, conversely, are constrained to fixed microphone geometries, preventing deployment across diverse devices. We present PhaseCoder, a transformer-only …

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2024

EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences

Jocelyn Shen, Yubin Kim, Mohit Hulse, Wazeer Zulfikar, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal +1

ACL 2024findings

Modeling empathy is a complex endeavor that is rooted in interpersonal and experiential dimensions of human interaction, and remains an open problem within AI. Existing empathy datasets fall short in capturing the richness of empathy responses, often being confined to in-lab or acted scenarios, lack…

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