Daniel Agyei Asante

Daniel Agyei Asante

I build efficient, reliable, and trustworthy AI systems. Research interests: LLMs/NLP, agentic AI, on-device AI, interpretability, inference and training optimization, privacy, adversarial machine learning.

I am a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Iowa State University, advised by Prof. Yang Li. Before Iowa State, I earned my BSc in Computer Science from the University of Cape Coast, where I graduated as valedictorian of the 55th congregation.

Updates

  • ACL Rolling Review (ARR) reviewer.
  • Volunteering at ACL 2026 in San Diego, July 2-7.
  • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) reviewer.
  • Two papers accepted to Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026.
  • Paper accepted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2025.
  • Paper presented at IEEE ICOSTE.