Maryam Amirizaniani

Ph.D student at University of Washington

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the Information School, University of Washington, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Chirag Shah. Previously, I completed my Master’s degree at Toronto Metropolitan University under the supervision of Prof. Farid Shirazi.

Maryam Amirizaniani

My research interests primarily focus on Large Foundation Models:

For any discussions or questions, please contact me at amaryam@uw.edu.

Selected Publications

WSDM 2025

How Does Memorization Impact LLMs' Social Reasoning? An Assessment using Seen and Unseen Queries

M Amirizaniani, M Sivachenko, A Lavergne, C Shah, A Mashhadi

Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. (acceptance rate 16.9%)

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WSDM 2025

Mind Over Machine: Evaluating Theory of Mind Reasoning in LLMs and Humans

M Amirizaniani

Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining.

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CIKM 2024

Assessing Human Viewpoints in Theory of Mind for Large Language Models in Open-Ended Questioning

M Amirizaniani

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

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CIKM 2024

Can LLMs Reason Like Humans? Assessing Theory of Mind Reasoning in LLMs for Open-Ended Questions

M Amirizaniani, E Martin, M Sivachenko, A Mashhadi, C Shah

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (acceptance rate 21%)

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CIKM 2024

AuditLLM: A Tool for Auditing Large Language Models Using Multiprobe Approach

M Amirizaniani, E Martin, T Roosta, A Chadha, C Shah

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

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arXiv

Developing a Framework for Auditing Large Language Models Using Human-in-the-Loop

M Amirizaniani, A Lavergne, ES Okada, A Chadha, T Roosta, C Shah

arXiv.

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CHIIR 2023

Representing Tasks with a Graph-Based Method for Supporting Users in Complex Search Tasks

S Sarkar, M Amirizaniani, C Shah

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval.

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