Published papers in leading NLP and ML conferences; covered by major media and included in the list of Most Influential ACL Papers; named a Spotlight Rising Star in Data Science; received Amazon Research Award, Cisco Research Award, and 2024 NSF CAREER Award.
Research Experience
Worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Background
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language and Vision-Language Models (LLMs/VLMs), and Machine Learning (ML). Brief Introduction: A tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at UT Dallas.
Miscellany
Interests: Enjoys exploring/building things that are novel and impactful (in research and life)