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About me
I am a fourth-year PhD student in the Natural Language Processing Group at Texas A&M University, where I am advised by Professor Ruihong Huang. Before becoming an Aggie, I graduated with a BS/MS degree in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was advised by Professor Shashank Srivastava.
Research Interests
🤖 Large Language Models
Exploring capabilities and applications of LLMs in various domains
📚 Natural Language Processing
Advancing language understanding and generation techniques
🎯 Multi-Modal Learning
Integrating vision and language for comprehensive AI systems
🤝 Multi-Agent Systems
Developing collaborative AI agents for complex problem solving
🎬 Video Understanding
Analyzing and interpreting temporal visual content
🎮 Reinforcement Learning
Post-training and alignment of LLMs with RL-based methods
Background
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Texas A&M University
Natural Language Processing
Advisor: Prof. Ruihong Huang
• Passed Qualification Exam at 98th percentile (2024)
M.S. in Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Machine Learning & NLP
Advisor: Prof. Shashank Srivastava
B.S. in Computer Science & Statistics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Double Major
Professional Services
- Reviewer for Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026
- Reviewer for ACL Rolling Review (ARR) since January 2024, covering ACL/NAACL/EACL/AACL/EMNLP.
- Reviewer for IEEE/CVF WACV 2025
- Reviewer for The Computer Journey
Awards & Recognition
- Outstanding PhD Research Award (one per year), Texas A&M University CSE Department (2026)
- Texas A&M University Graduate School Travel Grant (2026)
- Texas A&M University CSE Department Travel Grant (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
- Ph.D Qualification Exam - 98th percentile (2024)
Invited Talks
- CSCE 470 Information Retrieval, Texas A&M University (Spring 2026)
Industry Experience
Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon, Santa Clara CA
Research Scientist Intern
Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), Sunnyvale CA
Video Understanding with Multi-Modal Multi-Agent System
Mentors: Zhengyu Zhou, Bingqing Wang, Jun Araki, Lukas Lange, Zhe Feng
Research Experience
Research Assistant
Texas A&M University, College Station TX
Natural Language Processing Lab
Advisor: Prof. Ruihong Huang
Visiting Research Assistant
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Machine Reading & Question Decomposition
Advisor: Prof. Benjamin van Durme
Mentors: Yunmo Chen, Orion Weller
Visiting Research Assistant
University of California, Santa Barbara CA
Multilingual COVID-19 Question Answering System
Advisor: Prof. William Wang
Mentor: Alon Albalak
Research Assistant
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC
Learning from Language Lab
Advisor: Prof. Shashank Srivastava
Mentors: Sayan Ghosh, Rakesh R Menon
Recent News
Will be joining Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern in Santa Clara, CA for Summer 2026!
Paper accepted to Findings of ACL 2026: "MMR-GRPO: Accelerating GRPO-Style Training through Diversity-Aware Reward Reweighting" [PDF]
Paper accepted to Findings of AACL 2025: "ENG-DRB: PDTB-style Discourse Relation Bank on Engineering Tutorial Video Scripts" [PDF]
Paper accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2025: "Mitigating Gender Bias via Fostering Exploratory Thinking in LLMs" [PDF] [Code]
Paper accepted to Findings of ACL 2025: "LegalCore: A Dataset for Event Coreference Resolution in Legal Documents" [PDF] [Code]
Paper accepted to NLP4PosImpact: "CliME: Evaluating Multimodal Climate Discourse on Social Media" [PDF] [Code] [Data]
Paper accepted: "UALBench: The First Comprehensive Unusual Activity Localization Benchmark" [PDF]
Passed Ph.D Qualification Exam at 98th percentile
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• 2024 - Joined Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) as Research Scientist Intern
• 2023 - Joined the NLP lab at Texas A&M University
• 2023 - Completed MS in Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill
• 2022 - Completed BS in Computer Science and BS in Statistics at UNC-Chapel Hill