| Feb. 2026 |  New preprint on open meta-agents |
| Jan. 2026 | Paper to appear at ICLR 2026 on SealQA (reasoning over conflicting evidence)!  |
| Oct. 2025 |  Lightning talk at the Amazon-Virginia Tech AI Workshop |
| Oct. 2025 |  Received the Amazon - VT faculty research award  |
| Oct. 2025 | Received research awards from Google DeepMind and Google Research |
| Aug. 2025 | Gave two invited lectures at The New Turing Institute’s GStar program |
| Aug. 2025 | Paper to appear at EMNLP 2025 on efficient model development! |
| Aug. 2025 | Featured invited speaker at the Open AGI Symposium at UC Berkeley, hosted by Sentient |
| Jun. 2025 | Paper to appear at TMLR 2025 on model merging at scale! |
| Jun. 2025 | Invited guest lecture at The New Turing Institute |
| Jun. 2025 | New preprint on a challenge benchmark for LLM reasoning over conflicting evidence |
| Apr. 2025 | Received the New Faculty Mentoring Grant from VT |
| Mar. 2025 | New preprint on fine-tuning transfer for efficient model development |
| Nov. 2024 | Received a research gift award from Adobe |
| Nov. 2024 | ✈️ Attended EMNLP 2024 in Miami, Florida 🌴 |
| Nov. 2024 | Invited talk at Qualcomm Seminar Series |
| Oct. 2024 | Invited talk at Mila / McGill NLP seminar |
| Oct. 2024 | New preprint on model merging at scale |
| Sep. 2024 | Paper to appear at EMNLP 2024 on foundational autoraters (FLAMe)! |
| Aug. 2024 |  Started my professorship at Virginia Tech |
| Jul. 2024 | New preprint on Foundational Autoraters (FLAMe) |
| May. 2024 | FreshLLMs got accepted to ACL 2024 Findings! |
| Feb. 2024 | I am now serving as an Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review (ARR) |
| Jan. 2024 | Flan-MoE got accepted to ICLR 2024! |
| Nov. 2023 | Invited talk at Graph Neural Networks Reading Group, Google |
| Oct. 2023 | New preprint on LLM factuality (FreshLLMs) |
| Aug. 2023 | Joined Google DeepMind in Mountain View, CA as a Research Scientist |
| Jul. 2023 |  Successfully defended my PhD thesis!  |