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Citations

601

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11

i10-index

12

Publications

20

Co-authors

9

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Contact

Emailchris@cs.vt.edu CVOpen ↗

Publications

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Designing Multi-Robot Ground Video Sensemaking with Public Safety Professionals

2026

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Applying Ground Robot Fleets in Urban Search: Understanding Professionals'Operational Challenges and Design Opportunities

2026

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LAMP: Learning Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Multi-Image Tasks via Pre-trained Models

2026

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SoundBreak: A Systematic Study of Audio-Only Adversarial Attacks on Trimodal Models

2026

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SteerVLM: Robust Model Control through Lightweight Activation Steering for Vision Language Models

2025

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Zero-Shot Fine-Grained Image Classification Using Large Vision-Language Models

2025

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Benchmarking and Mitigating MCQA Selection Bias of Large Vision-Language Models

2025

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Maximal Matching Matters: Preventing Representation Collapse for Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval

2025

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Resume (English only)

Academic Achievements

Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2025 main conference: one on flexible-length discrete diffusion LLM infilling, another on QA bias in VLMs
Two Findings papers accepted at EMNLP 2025 on VLM steering and fine-grained classification
Awarded Google Research Scholar grant (2025) for safer multimodal web agents
Received research grant from Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (2025) for protecting embodied agents against adversarial attacks
Student Hani Alomari’s paper on embedding diversity for cross-modal retrieval accepted to ACL 2025
Led multi-institution collaboration (Virginia Tech, Columbia, UCLA) to create JourneyBench, accepted to NeurIPS 2024
Work on multimodal fine-grained inconsistency detection accepted to EMNLP 2024

Co-authors

9 total