Ahmed Taha

Machine Learning Researcher · Patent Technology Specialist at Proskauer Rose

Intrigued by the opportunity to apply his technical skills to the legal domain, Ahmed Taha transitioned from serving as a USPTO Patent Examiner to joining Proskauer Rose as a Technology Specialist. He is currently pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at Columbia University, where his research focuses on agentic AI safety/alignment and computer vision for medical imaging.

Publications

First page of SpineFairBench paper

SpineFairBench: A Counterfactual Benchmark for Auditing Demographic Sensitivity in Spinal Radiology VLM Reports

Taha, A., Taeha, A., & Ahmadzada, M.

Preprint, 2026 · Under review · Cited by 0

TL;DRPaired counterfactual benchmark that audits whether nine frozen vision-language models change their spinal-radiology reports when apparent age and sex are edited while target pathology is preserved — measurable recommendation drift in all nine, with management recommendations less stable than diagnostic-label overlap under the same demographic edit.

First page of MedInsider paper

MedInsider: A Benchmark for Documentation Integrity in Medical LLM Agents Under Institutional Pressure

Taha, A., Taeha, A., & Ahmadzada, M.

Preprint, 2026 · Under review · Cited by 0

TL;DRBenchmark and simulated EHR environment of 840 clinical scenarios in 420 matched pairs that tests whether medical LLM agents preserve documentation integrity when institutional context rewards shortcuts — across seven agents, task completion and documentation integrity diverge, and a pre-submission compliance check reduces discrepancies at a measurable cost to task completion (four-reviewer validation, Fleiss' κ = 0.905).

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Education

Work Experience

August 2026 - Present

Patent Technology Specialist

Proskauer Rose LLP · Full-time

Supporting patent prosecution and litigation.

August 2025 - May 2027

M.S. Computer Science (Machine Learning)

Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

(Thesis track)

August 2025 - Present

Research Assistant

Columbia University · Internship

Machine Learning Research

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— Currently developing an RL policy to enhance AI-assisted tumor segmentation for radiation imaging under Dr. Yading Yuan
— Led the development of SpineFairBench and MedInsider; under review as first author

January 2025 - August 2026

Patent Examiner

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office · Full-time

Alexandria, Virginia, United States · On-site

GS-11 Patent Examiner · January 2026 - August 2026
— Evaluated 50+ machine learning and imaging patent applications, determining novelty and patentability through comprehensive prior art searches
— AU: 2613

GS-9 Patent Examiner · January 2025 - January 2026
— Awarded commendation letter from OPQA Director for office action quality

August 2024 - August 2026

M.S. Cybersecurity

Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering

June 2020 - January 2025

Software Engineer

District Hut LLC

Led full-stack development projects generating over seven figures in revenue. Built patient-management systems, auto-dealer platforms, and restaurant applications. Registered trademark for company slogan.

2018 - 2024

B.S. Computer Science

California State University, Sacramento, College of Engineering and Computer Science

August 2017 - February 2021

Sales Manager & Sales Specialist

Metro by T-Mobile

Sacramento, California, United States · On-site

Sales Manager · Full-time · August 2018 - February 2021

Sales Specialist · Part-time · August 2017 - August 2018