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Jul 03, 2026 AlignSAE was accepted to TMLR ๐ŸŽ‰ โ€” the action editor recommended โ€œAccept as isโ€. 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! ๐ŸŽ‰
May 01, 2026 EchoRL was accepted to ICML 2026 ๐ŸŽ‰ โ€” 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! ๐Ÿš€
Dec 19, 2025 I graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in Computer Science โ€” summa cum laude (GPA: 4.0/4.0) in just over 2 years, and received the Best Senior Award ๐ŸŽ“
Oct 19, 2025 We took 2nd place at the Reddit Wildcat Hackathon 2025!
Oct 17, 2025 Honored to earn UAโ€™s Top 10 Undergraduate Research Travel Grant ๐ŸŽ“โ€”headed to my EMNLP oral; see you in Suzhou. โœˆ๏ธ
Aug 20, 2025 Both of my submissions were accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main (Oral) ๐ŸŽ‰ (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 โ€” 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! Iโ€™ll lead a project advised by Liangming Pan and collaborate with William Wang at UCSB NLP Group.
Nov 01, 2024 Iโ€™m featured in our department newsletter! Huge thanks to Rishu Singh for the shoutout.
Oct 03, 2024 Iโ€™ve joined the Computational Language Understanding Lab (CLULAB)! Iโ€™m grateful to be advised by Mihai Surdeanu working on NLP and efficient LLMs.
May 09, 2024 Iโ€™m starting a new position as Machine Learning Engineer Intern at CoreTechs!
Mar 14, 2024 Iโ€™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.