Feb 21, 2026	Paper accepted at CVPR 2026! Check it out: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08903
Feb 21, 2026	Serving as Area Chair for the ACL 2026 Industry Track!
Feb 13, 2026	Invited to serve as a reviewer for ACL 2026 Industry Track and ICML 2026!
Jan 31, 2026	Joined Amazon as Applied Scientist II! Excited to start this new chapter.
Jan 15, 2026	Left my position at Dallas College. Grateful for the experiences and growth during my time there!
Dec 18, 2025	Honored to receive the Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University!
Oct 03, 2025	Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation in Computer Science at Iowa State University!
Aug 22, 2025	Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2025 on efficient model pruning and reinforcement learning with LLM-derived priors!
Aug 22, 2025	Completed Applied Scientist internship at Amazon, developing Knowledge Graph frameworks and novel embedding models
Aug 10, 2025	Started position as Lecturer at Dallas College, teaching computer science courses
Jul 11, 2025	Paper accepted to ECAI 2025 on self-supervised few-shot learning for quantum spin systems!
Jul 01, 2025	Two papers accepted to IEEE ITSC 2025 on traffic camera analysis and crash narrative classification