| Aug. 2025 |  One 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 | One 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 |  I received the New Faculty Mentoring Grant from VT  |
| Mar. 2025 | New preprint on fine-tuning transfer for efficient model development |
| Nov. 2024 | Our lab received a research gift 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 | One paper to appear at EMNLP 2024 on foundational autoraters (FLAMe)! |
| Aug. 2024 |  I 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 | I joined Google DeepMind in Mountain View, CA as a Research Scientist |
| Jul. 2023 |  I successfully defended my PhD thesis!  |