My research focuses on designing algorithms for reasoning-intensive prediction in NLP, especially systems that transform latent reasoning into reliable scores, rankings, and retrieval decisions.
Papers
OBLIQ-Bench: Exposing Overlooked Bottlenecks in Modern Retrievers with Latent and Implicit Queries Tchuindjo D., Shah D., Khattab O. Paper. Benchmark. Blog post.
Reasoning-Intensive Regression Tchuindjo D., Khattab O. Paper. Blog post. ACM CAIS '26 (Industry Spotlight).
