Awarded the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (2025–2026).
Awarded the Amazon AICE PhD Fellowship (2025–2026).
Awarded the IBM PhD Fellowship (2024–2025).
First-authored paper 'LM-Steer' received an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2024 (Aug 2024).
First-authored paper 'LM-Infinite' received an Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL 2024 (Jun 2024).
Published multiple papers at top venues including ACL, NAACL, ICLR, and TMLR, covering topics such as position generalization, in-context learning, and knowledge representation in LLMs.
Work on LM-Infinite and LM-Steer featured in UIUC News (Sep 2024).
Research Experience
Served as a teaching assistant for CS 546: Advanced Topics in NLP at UIUC and gave guest lectures on the science of language models.
Serving as Area Chair for EMNLP 2024 & 2025 Demos.
Co-organized the UIUC-NLP Seminar series (2024–2025).
Organized multiple workshops and tutorials at AAAI 2025, including 'Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models', 'The Lifecycle of Knowledge in LLMs', and 'The Quest for A Science of Language Models'.
Delivered invited talks on 'Towards a Physiology of Language Model Representations' at Northeastern University, Case Western Reserve University, and the UIUC ML Seminar.