Hello,

I am Aida 👋

An AI enthusiast dedicated to benefiting humanity and environment through research. Currently, I am pursuing a doctorate degree at Leuphana University Lüneburg (2023 - present) co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Ricardo Usbeck and Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold.

My research focuses on leveraging AI for social and environmental good. I investigate the use of LLMs and knowledge graphs at the intersection of NLP and climate change. Specifically focusing on misinformation and greenwashing detection, enhancing transparency and accountability of corporate climate claims. Additionally, I explore the field of Responsible AI, where we work on understanding better ways to conduct sustainable research and improve research environmental impact.

If you are interested in collaborations in these fields, please feel free to reach out.

You can find more information about me from my resume.

Publications

2025

  • ReportGRI: Automating GRI Alignment and Report Assessment
    Aida Usmanova, Rana Abdullah, Debayan Banerjee, Markus Leippold, Ricardo Usbeck
    Under review
  • The ClimateCheck Shared Task: Scientific Fact-Checking of Social Media Claims about Climate Change
    Raya Abu Ahmad, Aida Usmanova, Georg Rehm
    ACL 2025
  • The ClimateCheck Dataset: Mapping Social Media Claims About Climate Change to Corresponding Scholarly Articles
    Raya Abu Ahmad, Aida Usmanova, Georg Rehm
    ACL 2025
  • Neuro-Symbolic Relation Extraction
    Xi Yan, Aida Usmanova, Cedric Möller, Patrick Westphal, Ricardo Usbeck
    Handbook on Neurosymbolic AI and Knowledge Graphs 2025

2024

  • Structuring Sustainability Reports for Environmental Standards with LLMs guided by Ontology
    Aida Usmanova, Ricardo Usbeck
    ACL 2024
  • Understanding Environmental Posts: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Social Media Data
    Daniyar Amangeldi, Aida Usmanova and Pakizar Shamoi
    IEEE Access 2024
  • Scholarly Question Answering using Large Language Models in the NFDI4DataScience Gateway
    Hamed Babaei Giglou, Tilahun Abedissa Taffa, Rana Abdullah, Aida Usmanova, Ricardo Usbeck, Jennifer D'Souza, Sören Auer
    ESWC 2024
  • TextGraphs 2024 Shared Task on Text-Graph Representations for Knowledge Graph Question Answering
    Andrey Sakhovskiy, Mikhail Salnikov, Irina Nikishina, Aida Usmanova, Angelie Kraft, Cedric Möller, Debayan Banerjee, Junbo Huang, Longquan Jiang, Rana Abdullah, Xi Yan, Dmitry Ustalov, Elena Tutubalina, Ricardo Usbeck, Alexander Panchenko
    ACL 2024

2023

  • Reporting and Analysing the Environmental Impact of Language Models on the Example of Commonsense Question Answering with External Knowledge
    Aida Usmanova, Junbo Huang, Debayan Banerjee, Ricardo Usbeck
    Sustainable AI 2023

News

Jun 25, 2025 I am attending Google I/O Connect in Berlin.
Mar 28, 2025 I am attending Text as Data in Hydrology, Natural Hazards, and Climate Change workshop in Leipzig organized by Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research.
Aug 16, 2024 I am attending ACl 2024 in Bangkok to present a poster at ClimateNLP workshop "Structuring Sustainability Reports for Environmental Standards with LLMs guided by Ontology".
Mar 5, 2024 During the Airbus Innvation Day on March 5th, me and my collegue Rana Abdullah were invited to give a talk about Generative AI and it's application in industry. We also had a tour at the Airbus cybersecurity lab and the Future Industrial Line.
May 30, 2023 I am attending Sustainable AI 2023 in Bonn to present the findings of my master's thesis "Reporting and Analysing the Environmental Impact of Language Models on the Example of Commonsense Question Answering with External Knowledge".
Mar 3, 2023 I was kindly invited by Marin Kohler, the coordinator of Network of Labs, to participate at the LabTalks session - Computer Science 4 Future. There I presented what potential harmful impact AI can have and what practices promote more mindful and sustainable development.

Teaching

  • Mentor at Global AI Hub

    I was invited to join the metorship program fom International Bootcamp organized by Global AI Hub. There I provided necessary guidance and support to participants on the "Python for ML" course during one month. Global AI Hub aims to educate participants for free on AI, robotics and programming.

  • Volunteer mentor at Red Crescent Society of Kazakhstan

    During my time at the Red Crescent Society of Kazakhstan, I attended several workshops on first aid. Afterwards, I participated in the volunteer program to demonstsrate safety regulations and first aid to school students.

The template is by Vasilios Mavroudis. Thanks!