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Jun. 2025 :page_facing_up: One paper to appear at TMLR 2025 on model merging at scale! :tada:
Jun. 2025 :speaking_head: Invited guest lecture at The New Turing Institute
Jun. 2025 :page_facing_up: New preprint on a challenge benchmark for LLM reasoning over conflicting evidence
Apr. 2025 :moneybag: I received the New Faculty Mentoring Grant from VT :pray:
Mar. 2025 :page_facing_up: New preprint on fine-tuning transfer for efficient model development
Nov. 2024 :moneybag: Our lab received a research gift from Adobe :pray:
Nov. 2024 ✈️ Attended EMNLP 2024 in Miami, Florida 🌴
Nov. 2024 :speaking_head: Invited talk at Qualcomm Seminar Series
Oct. 2024 :speaking_head: Invited talk at Mila / McGill NLP seminar
Oct. 2024 :page_facing_up: New preprint on model merging at scale
Sep. 2024 :page_facing_up: One paper to appear at EMNLP 2024 on foundational autoraters (FLAMe)! :tada:
Aug. 2024 :briefcase: I started my professorship at Virginia Tech
Jul. 2024 :page_facing_up: New preprint on Foundational Autoraters (FLAMe)
May. 2024 :page_facing_up: FreshLLMs got accepted to ACL 2024 Findings! :tada:
Feb. 2024 :briefcase: I am now serving as an Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
Jan. 2024 :page_facing_up: Flan-MoE got accepted to ICLR 2024! :tada:
Nov. 2023 :speaking_head: Invited talk at Graph Neural Networks Reading Group, Google
Oct. 2023 :page_facing_up: New preprint on LLM factuality (FreshLLMs)
Aug. 2023 :briefcase: I joined Google DeepMind in Mountain View, CA as a Research Scientist
Jul. 2023 :mortar_board: I successfully defended my PhD thesis! :tada: :champagne: