| Nov. 2026 |  Invited speaker at INFORMS 2026 |
| Oct. 2026 |  VentureBeat feature on our WikiSkill work  |
| Sep. 2026 |  Serving as an Action Editor (AE) for TMLR |
| Sep. 2026 | Paper to appear at NeurIPS 2026: the master key hypothesis / cross-model capability transfer (spotlight, top 1.3% out of 30.7k submissions) |
| Sep. 2026 | Invited lectures at The New Turing Institute’s GStar Bootcamp |
| Sep. 2026 |  Received Google Cloud credits from Google DeepMind  |
| Sep. 2026 | Serving as an Area Chair (AC) for ICLR 2027 |
| Sep. 2026 | Serving as a Senior Area Chair (SAC) for NAACL 2027 |
| Aug. 2026 | New preprint on WikiSkill (a state-of-the-art skill evolution method) |
| Jul. 2026 | Received the 2026-2027 Amazon - VT faculty research award |
| Jul. 2026 | Received the NSF CISE Future Computing Research (Future CoRe) award |
| Jul. 2026 | Received funding from the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) |
| Jul. 2026 | Papers to appear at COLM 2026: EvoSkill (automated skill discovery) and \(\pi^2\) (a framework for curating reasoning data) |
| Jun. 2026 | Received the Gemini Academic Program award |
| Apr. 2026 | Paper to appear at ICML 2026: LLM self-evolution generalization gap |
| Apr. 2026 | ✈️ Attended ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 |
| Mar. 2026 | Received the College of Engineering Major Grants Initiative (MGI) Scaling Scholarship |
| Feb. 2026 | Received a research gift award from Sentient Labs |
| Jan. 2026 | Paper to appear at ICLR 2026: SealQA (a challenge benchmark for search agents) |
| Oct. 2025 | Lightning talk at the Amazon - VT AI Workshop |
| Oct. 2025 | Received the 2025-2026 Amazon - VT faculty research award |
| Oct. 2025 | Received faculty research awards from Google DeepMind and Google Research |
| Aug. 2025 | Gave two invited lectures at The New Turing Institute’s GStar Bootcamp |
| Aug. 2025 | Paper to appear at EMNLP 2025: alignment transfer (oral, top 4.0% out of 8k+ submissions) |
| Aug. 2025 | Featured invited speaker at the Open AGI Symposium at UC Berkeley |
| Jun. 2025 | Paper to appear at TMLR 2025: large-scale model merging |
| Jun. 2025 | Invited lecture at The New Turing Institute |
| Apr. 2025 | Received the New Faculty Mentoring Grant from VT |
| 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 |
| Sep. 2024 | Paper to appear at EMNLP 2024: FLAMe (foundational auto-raters) |
| Aug. 2024 | Started my professorship at Virginia Tech |
| May. 2024 | Paper to appear at ACL 2024 Findings: FreshLLMs (LLM freshness) |
| Feb. 2024 | Serving as an Area Chair (AC) for ACL Rolling Review (ARR) |
| Jan. 2024 | Paper to appear at ICLR 2024: Flan-MoE (instruction tuning + Mixture-of-Experts) |
| Nov. 2023 | Invited talk at Graph Neural Networks Reading Group, Google |
| Aug. 2023 | Joined Google DeepMind in Mountain View, CA as a Research Scientist |
| Jul. 2023 |  Successfully defended my PhD thesis!  |