| Oct 13, 2026 | New paper from my work at Scale AI: From Copying to Composition — a controlled study of how language models develop in-context learning, separating copying a nearby demonstration from composing information across the prompt. 🧩 |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Dr. DocBench is featured as an official challenge track at DocInsights 2026, the Workshop on Document Intelligence and Understanding at EMNLP 2026 (Budapest) 🎉 The expert-level document parsing challenge is live on EvalAI through October 10, 2026. |
| Aug 12, 2026 | New paper from my work at Scale AI: Rubric Dropout — a one-line fix that mitigates reward hacking in rubric-as-reward RL by randomly dropping rubric criteria at every training step. 🎲 |
| Jul 03, 2026 | AlignSAE was accepted to TMLR 🎉 — the action editor recommended “Accept as is”. Grateful to all my co-authors! |
| Jun 15, 2026 | I officially joined Scale AI as an L4 Machine Learning Research Scientist on the Agents team, working on agents and RL environments! 🎉 |
| May 01, 2026 | EchoRL was accepted to ICML 2026 🎉 — reviving advantage-degenerated prompts in RLVR via rollout echoing. Congrats to all my co-authors! |
| Jan 05, 2026 | New chapter: I joined Abaka AI as a Senior Member of Technical Staff! 🚀 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | I graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in Computer Science — summa cum laude (GPA: 4.0/4.0) in just over 2 years, and received the Best Senior Award 🎓 |
| Oct 19, 2025 | We took 2nd place at the Reddit Wildcat Hackathon 2025! |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Honored to earn UA’s Top 10 Undergraduate Research Travel Grant 🎓—headed to my EMNLP oral; see you in Suzhou. ✈️ |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Both of my submissions were accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main (Oral) 🎉 (Acceptance Rate: 22.16%). Grateful to all my co-authors, with special thanks to Profs. Liangming Pan, Mihai Surdeanu and William Wang. |
| Jun 05, 2025 | I will be a research intern at THUKEG, Department of CS in Tsinghua University this summer advised by Prof. Juanzi Li, focusing on reasoning mechanism. |
| May 09, 2025 | Galileo Circle Scholar, University of Arizona — Top 0.8% academic award. |
| Feb 18, 2025 | As President of the AI Club at the University of Arizona, I led the club to raise over $14,000. |
| Dec 03, 2024 | Excited to receive an RAship! I’ll lead a project advised by Liangming Pan and collaborate with William Wang at UCSB NLP Group. |
| Nov 01, 2024 | I’m featured in our department newsletter! Huge thanks to Rishu Singh for the shoutout. |
| Oct 03, 2024 | I’ve joined the Computational Language Understanding Lab (CLULAB)! I’m grateful to be advised by Mihai Surdeanu working on NLP and efficient LLMs. |
| May 09, 2024 | I’m starting a new position as Machine Learning Engineer Intern at CoreTechs! |
| Mar 14, 2024 | I’m starting a new position as AI Engineer in AI Core, the University of Arizona. |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Became a research assistant under the guidance of Dr. Kobus Barnard in the Interdisciplinary Visual Intelligence Lab. |