Ran Elgedawy
2026
Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis
Sanjay Das | Ran Elgedawy | Ethan Seefried | Ryan Burchfield | Tirthankar Ghosal
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Sanjay Das | Ran Elgedawy | Ethan Seefried | Ryan Burchfield | Tirthankar Ghosal
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Operational safety in high-stakes domains such as industrial process control, autonomous, and safety-critical systems demand reliable hazard identification. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating safety analysis tasks, single-turn, monolithic inference is brittle: it lacks the self-correction, deliberation, and contextual refinement that safety engineers apply iteratively. In this paper, we introduce HAZDIAL, a framework that investigates whether structured agentic dialogue (multi-agent, multi-turn interactions) improves the quality of NLP-based hazard identification over single-pass baselines. We systematically compare two dialogue modalities: adversarial debate and constructive discussion, and propose an genetic algorithm-based agentic interaction optimization. We evaluate all configurations against a curated golden dataset using standard classification metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, F1) and a novel dialogue metrics. This work advances the intersection of dialogue systems, multi-agent reasoning, and AI safety, providing empirical evidence for dialogue-driven hazard analysis.
REFSafE: A RAG-Enabled Framework for Predictive Risk Analysis and Automated Safety Report Generation in Mission-Critical Environments
Sanjay Das | Ran Elgedawy | Ethan Seefried | Ryan A. Burchfield | Gavin Wiggins | Dana Hewit | Sudarshan Srinivasan | Prasanna Balaprakash | Robert M. Patton | Todd Thomas | Tirthankar Ghosal
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Report Generation via Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG4Reports 2026)
Sanjay Das | Ran Elgedawy | Ethan Seefried | Ryan A. Burchfield | Gavin Wiggins | Dana Hewit | Sudarshan Srinivasan | Prasanna Balaprakash | Robert M. Patton | Todd Thomas | Tirthankar Ghosal
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Report Generation via Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG4Reports 2026)
Operational safety in mission-critical environments requires AI systems that are accurate, interpretable, and resistant to hallucination. We present an agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework, REFSafe, for grounded hazard analysis and automated safety report generation. The system integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with structured operational data, historical incident repositories, policy documents, and external authoritative sources. Through iterative agentic reasoning, the framework retrieves, verifies, and synthesizes evidence prior to generation, enforcing citation-backed outputs with explicit source attribution (documents, links, and prior events) to ensure traceability and trust.To mitigate hallucinations and unsupported claims, all risk assessments and forecasts are constrained to retrieved evidence, with confidence signals derived from retrieval relevance and source consistency. A transparent pipeline enables subject matter experts (SMEs) to validate predictions, and provide structured feedback, forming a continuous performance calibration loop. Preliminary deployment demonstrates improved reliability in hazard detection and safety/vulnerability report generation. This work advances trustworthy, evidence-grounded AI for predictive safety intelligence in mission-critical operations.