Paper 'What Makes a Reward Model a Good Teacher? An Optimization Perspective' accepted at NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight)
Paper 'LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?' accepted at NeurIPS 2025
Paper 'Provable unlearning in topic modeling and downstream tasks' accepted at ICLR 2025
Paper 'Transformers Provably Learn Sparse Token Selection While Fully-Connected Nets Cannot' accepted at ICML 2024
Paper 'On the Synergy Between Label Noise and Learning Rate Annealing in Neural Network Training' presented at NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2025)
Dean's Honored Graduate, UT Austin (2023)
26th Place, ICPC World Finals (2022)
Top 100, Putnam Competition (2020, hosted unofficially due to COVID-19)