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Research publications, awards, presentations, and academic milestones—with direct links to the related work.

2026

Spatiotemporal crisis-response paper at JCDL 2026

Our paper, “Can LLMs Reason Over Where and When? Benchmarking Spatiotemporal Synthesis in Crisis Response,” will appear at JCDL 2026 (October 13–16, Frisco, Texas).

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Ask or Answer accepted at EMNLP 2026

Our decision framework studies when a health-misinformation intervention should ask for clarification and when it should answer directly.

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Three systems at CLEF CheckThat! 2026

SciClaimSeekers, SourceMinds, and VeriFind addressed scientific-source retrieval, citation auditing, and numerical claim verification; VeriFind placed second in Task 2.

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Started my Ph.D. at the University of North Texas

I began the Computer Science and Engineering program, focusing on trustworthy language systems for health and crisis communication.

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2025

Completed my M.S. in Data Science

I graduated from the University of North Texas with a 4.00/4.00 GPA.

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Received the Sinha Scholars Scholarship

Awarded for the 2025–2026 academic year in recognition of academic and research achievement.

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Two projects recognized in the SIG-SM research competition

Multi-Agent RAG earned Runner-Up recognition, and Literacy-Controlled Counterspeech was selected as a Finalist.

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Presented research at COLM 2025 and UNT Research Day

I presented our multi-agent retrieval-augmented framework for evidence-based counterspeech in Montreal and shared related work at UNT.

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Two papers accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2025

The accepted work covers literacy-controlled counterspeech generation and dynamic model fusion for consistent crisis response.

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Received a COLM 2025 travel scholarship

The award supported my participation in the Conference on Language Modeling in Montreal.

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Crisis communication paper accepted at ISCRAM 2025

Dynamic Fusion of Large Language Models for Crisis Communication combines multiple models and retrieval for timely, actionable responses.

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2024

First place at UNT Health Informatics and Data Science Day

Our poster on knowledge-aware counterspeech received first place in the research poster competition.

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