July 2025: Paper “Know Me, Respond to Me: Benchmarking LLMs for Dynamic User Profiling and Personalized Responses at Scale” accepted to COLM 2025
May 2025: Paper “Multilingual Retrieval Augmented Generation for Culturally-Sensitive Tasks: A Benchmark for Cross-lingual Robustness” accepted to ACL 2025 Findings
March 2025: Paper “Leveraging Domain Knowledge at Inference Time for LLM Translation: Retrieval versus Generation” accepted to KnowledgeNLP Workshop @ NAACL
January 2025: Passed PhD thesis proposal defense
Active in the CS community through mentorship, teaching assistant roles, and conference reviewing
Miscellany
Originally from Irvine, California; lived across both U.S. coasts and in China
Working on improving conversational Mandarin for conferences
Avid runner training for a sub-2-hour half-marathon
Amateur musician: played violin for many years, recently learning trumpet
Favorite Pokémon is Azumarill; hopes it appears in Detective Pikachu 2 (movie now in production)
Owns 2 feathered dinosaurs and hopes to own 4 more