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Recent announcements and updates
| Aug 20, 2026 | 4 papers accepted at EMNLP 2026—2 Main Conference papers, EST-PRM and Spectral DPO (arXiv coming soon), and 2 Findings papers, Counterfactual Sensitivity Regularization and Grounded Decoding!  |
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| Aug 07, 2026 | 2 papers accepted at BMVC 2026 (A-rank, 27.9% acceptance rate — 404 of 1,448 submissions)! |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Invited to serve as a Program Committee member for AAAI 2027!  |
| Jun 01, 2026 | Serving as Area Chair for ACL ARR May 2026 (EMNLP 2026)!  |
| May 25, 2026 | Invited to serve as a reviewer for WACV 2027 and ACL ARR May 2026 (EMNLP 2026)! |
| May 15, 2026 | 2 journal papers accepted at IEEE T-ITS (IF 8.4) and Journal of Safety Research (IF 4.8)! |
| May 01, 2026 | 2 papers accepted at IEEE ITSC 2026!  |
| Apr 30, 2026 | 4 papers accepted at ICML 2026!  |
| Apr 19, 2026 | Invited to serve as a reviewer for ACM Multimedia 2026 and NeurIPS 2026! |
| Apr 06, 2026 | 4 papers accepted at ACL 2026! 3 at the Main Conference and 1 at Findings. |
| 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  |