- June 2025: "Joint Imbalance Adaptation for Radiology Report Generation" published in the Journal of Health Informatics Research
- April 2025: REU student Mayira won the best Undergraduate Presentation award
- January 2025: Paper "Examining and Adapting Time for Multilingual Classification via Mixture of Temporal Experts" accepted by NAACL-25
- December 2024: AI and Cyberinfrastructure efforts covered by Memphis Business Journal
- November 2024: Received a grant from ACRE to extend research on LLMs for Agricultural Engineering
- October 2024: Organized a workshop on Trustworthy LLMs
- September 2024: Served on an NSF panel
- August 2024: Assisted in organizing IEEE ICHI 2025
- July 2024: Paper "Time Matters: Examine Temporal Effects on Biomedical Language Models" accepted at AMIA-24
- June 2024: ICHI-24 paper "Chain-of-Interaction: Enhancing Large Language Models for Psychiatric Behavior Understanding by Dyadic Contexts" won the best paper award
- June 2024: Received an NSF award
- June 2024: Project awarded by NAIRR Pilot Program (NAIRR240165) with GPU and other computational resource allocations
- May 2024: Received an NSF travel grant to support student researchers presenting at IEEE ICHI-25
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at UMRF Ventures
- Co-Director of CERTAIN
- NLP project collaboration with St Jude Children's Hospital
- Organizing a workshop on Trustworthy LLMs
- Assisting in organizing IEEE ICHI 2025
Education
- Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Colorado Boulder
- Advisors: Dr. Michael J. Paul and Prof. Robin Burke
Background
- Research Interests: trustworthy NLP, model robustness, and large language models (LLMs)
- Application Areas: health informatics, LLMs for sciences
- Position: Assistant Professor at UMRF Ventures, Co-Director of CERTAIN
Miscellany
- The lab does not accept home edition TOEFL or GRE scores
- Paid research projects available for undergraduate students via NSF REU
- Acquired VR and robotic devices (drones and vehicles)